August 2007
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Teaching in South Korea
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Posted by Kathryn on 27th August in
GRUB has been whipped into submission. I now have a fully functional, triple booting laptop. It was hard getting to this point. Typos are the worst. But I found one on my own and my tutor found the other one. For the curious, my grub.conf looks like this. I removed my name for privacy. # [...]
Posted by Kathryn on 26th August in
I wasn’t happy with just having my laptop dual booting between Ubuntu and Vista. Nah. I had given up on the XP/Vista/Ubuntu triple boot idea mostly because the XP Pro CD I have doesn’t have the right drivers for my SCSI hard drive. In working through the terminal stuff with Eric, he sort of turned [...]
Posted by Kathryn on 21st August in
Just a quick note to say I’m back home. After 10 days of IV antibiotics the doctor judged my chest sufficiently better enough to let me go. That’s not to say everything is hunky dory. I have to go back on Thursday for a follow up. Hopefully my lungs will behave and have improved even [...]
Posted by Kathryn on 9th August in
I was doing a lot better by Sunday afternoon. My cough had pretty much gone away and I was sleeping a lot better. By Monday evening, I was back to square one. I think a big part of it is all the dust from the renovations at the school. I can smell something odd on [...]
Posted by Kathryn on 5th August in
Your Korea Word of the Day is… Uisa (we-sah) In English… Doctor Going to the doctor here can be hit or miss if you don’t speak Korean. When I lived in Yangsan, there was a health clinic right across the street from the school. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a regular staff, just rotating doctors from PNU [...]