Jeremiah Hoyet

Although I don’t have class until 5pm tomorrow night, I feel like I should have been in bed hours ago.  I’ve been up all night writing that paper I mentioned in a previous post. I attempted to use the introduction to help average people related to such a tech-heavy topic, but it was a definition paper, so I didn’t need to do much more than hook the reader by helping them relate before I laid on the Free Software philosophy and such.

I had my car looked at today by this cool old guy who lives down the street. He said something about a coil or something overheating, but I really just took the car up there so my parents would get off my back about it. I just want to trade this heap in as a down payment on another heap, one that doesn’t die all the time of course, and hopefully something better on gas. Although, I can’t say I’ll be picking up a fuel economy car for sure. I couldn’t pass up the chance to test drive a Mustang or a newer Camaro, and I know I wouldn’t want anything else after doing so.

Anyways, I’ll end this randomness. I think it’s about time to hit the rack.

Open Source is a term familiar to anyone who has a good bit of technology know-how under their belt, but what does the term mean to the average person? Why would they even care about the concepts behind Open Source and Free Software?

These are a few questions I’m aiming to answer in a definition research paper I’m writing for my Expository Writing class. I’m not sure, yet, how I’m going to convey the definition of Open Source/Free Software in terms that would apply to the average person or make the definition of my term even matter to my audience (my classmates).

Maybe the economical advantages will be the key to having my audience understand Open Source, but in turn, I don’t want them to think of Open Source software as “Freeware”.

If you’re reading this, what does Open Source mean to you?

So I started community college yesterday. Yeah, I know, I should be going to a university, but I can’t afford the tuition. Anyways, the classes I took aren’t exactly tough. I ended up placing in a remedial math course, which I could have easily tested out of, but I decided to stick with it in case I’m not as knowledgeable on the subject as I had thought.

Since I’m going to college for computer science, I have to take all the prerequisite computer courses to get into the other, high-knowledge computer classes. This means that I’m really one easy street, because the two computer courses I had to take are basically “How to use the start menu” classes. Of course there are some fundementals of computer hardware, but my track record with building computers and troubleshooting hardware problems in my personal time makes me very confident that the courses will be a breeze.