DippoNazdor's Journal: argh!

ahhh!!!! i hate possible user/software errors! i hate windows xp too! but don't tell anyone i know that... they think i'm windows loyal... anyway, on the 21st of april, my internet gave out on me. every other computer in my house had the net, EXCEPT FOR ME! and i can't live without my daily 3-5 hours of internet a night! i barely survived. but finally my dad got sick of me using his computer for internet and he called compaq support. the dude walked us through random stuff and then finally took us through some program in xp that makes your computer go back to what it was on the day you select. now, when my internet was dead, i installed my age of empires, and my tribes 2. on my old crap computer (395 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive) tribes 2 did not work when i installed xp. ain't that special! nothing i had on my old computer was compatible with xp, that's why i started researching linux. anyway, i get my new computer and it's special (1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 80 GB hard drive, GeForce 2 video card, 17" flat screen monitor). i was fine without T2, because i thought it wouldn't work with xp. finally, once my net dies, i decide to try it since i had nothing better to do. it worked beautifully. i was better than ever in the solo & lan part. i couldn't wait to get back online and frag like crazy! i might even become l33t! we set my computer back 2 weeks, and T2 is gone! this happened thursday night. my dad told me that i might have gotten a virus and he doesn't want me to do anything (install/download) that might make the virus return to life. so i haven't done anything for 3 days... I NEED A T2 FIX!!! I WANNA GET BACK TO THE T2 WAY OF THINGS!!!! WAHHH!!! ya, anyway... i also want to download linux (hopefully mandrake like i think i said) and dual boot it with xp or 98 so i can run my games and still be able to learn perl. i learned that i needed unix or linux to learn perl just a few hours ago. i have a tutorial for perl on perlmonks.com saved and i was gonna start learning tonite, but learned that you need linux. don't make fun of me, i said i was new to the linux idea and everything else beyond just HTML and windows. you know what... i'm gonna install tribes 2 anyway and go play! gosh dang... ya, i don't cuss either... anyway... i can't wait until i graduate high school so i can move out, go to college and do my computer science learning stuff and finally be able to install linux without my parents trying to bring me back to windows. but i'm only a freshman, so i have to wait... grrr.... Dippo