I final­ly got my Security in Computing exam out of the way. Basically, every line that I read in the text­book was worth­less. There were only four long answer ques­tions on the final, and each one was a prac­ti­cal, as opposed to the­o­ret­i­cal, ques­tion that we nev­er learned. I had to learn how to do all the math right in the exam. At least it was open book. For some rea­son I start­ed get­ting fucked up answers when try­ing to find the mod­u­lus with my cal­cu­la­tor. Calculating the mod­u­lus of any­thing about 10^100 results in inac­cu­ra­cy, I’m guess­ing. At first I thought it was my cal­cu­la­tor giv­ing me some odd val­ues that did­n’t cor­re­spond with my writ­ten ones. When I got home, I checked Pita’s cal­cu­la­tor, and got the same answer. Then I checked the built-in cal­cu­la­tor on my com­put­er, and it came to the same answer as what I did by hand. So now I have no idea if any of my val­ues are com­plete­ly fucked. Whether I pass or fail depends com­plete­ly on how lenient the giv­ing of part marks is. I’m slight­ly wor­ried, some­thing that does­n’t usu­al­ly hap­pen when I fin­ish with a course.

I trad­ed in two games, and used two EB gift cer­tifi­cates yes­ter­day, to pick up The Legend of Zelda for my GBA. It end­ed up cost­ing me $2.50.

I’m get­ting all psy­ched up for the LAN par­ty tomor­row. The atten­dance is sup­posed to be around 10 peo­ple, but Thom’s proces­sor fried yes­ter­day, so he might not be able to go.