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I can't believe I spent most of the day working on computers. I was mainly updating programs, patching OS's (Window, obviously) and Browsers (IE, of course) but also got dragged into working on my brother's computer as well: cleaning up the hard drive, removing viruses, mal-ware, installing and configuring his software firewall and other fun internet related problems. Also helped him narrow his choices on new hard drives, an mp3 player (he's a bit anti-iPod, not that I blame him), and a flat screen monitor for his available budget. Still, it was kind of fun, in a computer geek kind of way.

I've decided that when I've enough money saved up to buy a new computer I'll either convert my old desktop to a Linux box or I'll simply have the new computer be a Linux box in the first place. I thought about a Mac, which are very nice computers but most of the programs I use in engineering don't have Mac support or there are no programs of equivalency for a Mac. Besides, I'm also more familiar and comfortable with Linux. I'll just have to decide which Linux version I'll use.