Low Bandwidth 101

I hate when weird things happen. Like right now I comprehend less of the calculus that was taught in my class last week when I was sick and had severe issues with maintaining consciousness than I do know. Derivitives no longer seem to make any sense whatsoever after the first step and it blows. I mean it really blows. I need a good math grade and to understand this shit. I am going for my god-dammed engineering degree, aren't I? gah!

I also don't advise trying to compileGAIM in windows. I keep getting errors on this "silc.c" file and don't have an fing clue as to how to fix them without doing a full install of Cygwin, etc and don't want to put the effort into it, but kinda have to. why can't things just work, dammit?!?!?