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So, I haven 't been sleeping well at all for like the past week, despite resuming Ambien. I'm so tired that my everything is exhausted -- including my damned eyeballs. And my eyelids. My eyes keep uncfocusing on me for no apparent reason.
And yet despite all that, I still can't sleep. I don't know if it's just the stress of moving (read: packing, preparing to resign from job, preparing to move to a 100% new place where I know no one except a flaky aunt and an uncle with many and varied substance addictions) getting to me or what.
So instead of fretting, or doing anything useful, or sleeping, I broke down and bought the PC version of Dragon Age.
I have a dual boot of Vista (yes, yes, I know. I call her 'the Orichalcum' because she's ugly and heavy but she runs WoW and DA) and Mint 9 Isadora (sweet-ass OS, my primary system now; her name is jumpKick).
I installed DA on the Orichalcum, but all my music and interesting things are over on jumpKick now, and I do have a fucking awesome version of WINE, so I decided I wanted to at least try it on jumpKick. In went the DVD. Turns out it's... difficult... to install anything from a DVD with Mint, because Mint tries so very hard to be stable and secure and idiotproof. Every time I try to install it from the DVD, it bitches that 'setup.exe' isn't marked as executable, and naturally I can't change the permissions on a DVD because read-only.
So I decided to take a shortcut (rather the same shortcut I took with WoW): I just C&P'd the files from the Oricalchum's Program Files (x86) folder into my gaming folder over on jumpKick. Everything seems to be working just fine. I copied the DirectX directory from the DAO disc into my WINE's "C:/ drive" and the installation is running smoothly.
Now we'll see if DA is as buggy on Mint as some people say it is.
And yet despite all that, I still can't sleep. I don't know if it's just the stress of moving (read: packing, preparing to resign from job, preparing to move to a 100% new place where I know no one except a flaky aunt and an uncle with many and varied substance addictions) getting to me or what.
So instead of fretting, or doing anything useful, or sleeping, I broke down and bought the PC version of Dragon Age.
I have a dual boot of Vista (yes, yes, I know. I call her 'the Orichalcum' because she's ugly and heavy but she runs WoW and DA) and Mint 9 Isadora (sweet-ass OS, my primary system now; her name is jumpKick).
I installed DA on the Orichalcum, but all my music and interesting things are over on jumpKick now, and I do have a fucking awesome version of WINE, so I decided I wanted to at least try it on jumpKick. In went the DVD. Turns out it's... difficult... to install anything from a DVD with Mint, because Mint tries so very hard to be stable and secure and idiotproof. Every time I try to install it from the DVD, it bitches that 'setup.exe' isn't marked as executable, and naturally I can't change the permissions on a DVD because read-only.
So I decided to take a shortcut (rather the same shortcut I took with WoW): I just C&P'd the files from the Oricalchum's Program Files (x86) folder into my gaming folder over on jumpKick. Everything seems to be working just fine. I copied the DirectX directory from the DAO disc into my WINE's "C:/ drive" and the installation is running smoothly.
Now we'll see if DA is as buggy on Mint as some people say it is.