Either that, or its a bloody warm day for March…
Tag: computers are evil
Not cool, Android. Not cool.
I had a notification of an OTA upgrade to Android KitKat for my phone. Yay, thinks I. I run the installer, everything goes well, until I notice that half of my apps have been quietly uninstalled. WTF??
Grumpy cat on coding…
Mad hax0r skillz
It takes a certain amount of skill to write a 3 line shell script like this:
#!/bin/bash source [FILE THAT DOESN'T EXIST] service [EXECUTABLE NOT CONFIGURED AS A SERVICE] start
It takes an ever greater amount of still to have this as part of a well known, large-scale code project, where the controller scripts can point to possibly conflicting (or sometimes empty!) configuration files.
The nightmare continues.
Geek quote of the day
We could write a Kafkaesque (*) novel for IT people about this software installation…
(*) Basically it describes a nightmarish situation which most people can somehow relate to, although strongly surreal.
Ranty, rant, rant!
I’ve been trying to synchronize two 1TB external hard drives. I found out yesterday that Mac OS X can’t natively mount NTFS for writing. I brought them home to use the home (windows) laptop to do the job. It was going to take 20 hours, so I let it run overnight. This morning, I wake up and checked on it, to be cheerfully informed by windows that it installed a new update, and rebooted. Wasn’t it a good boy?? Wasn’t it helpful??
I give up for today
I’ve been trying to download A 3.4 GB file all day. I ain’t happening. I officially give up for today.
I have also learned that my work mac can mount and read an NTFS drive, but can’t write to it. This is rather useless.
Sometimes, computers are just haunted.
Every network/system support person has had occasion to believe that the only plausible explanation had to be demonic possession…
Grumble, grumble, stoopid computers
My blog posts are being cross posted to Facebook, which is good, but nothing is showing up in my friends pages, which is annoying as feck. I tried flushing the connections, so see what happens.
What have I done?
The oldies’ computer was dying a horrible, horrible death so we replaced it with a Samsung tablet and I reinstalled the laptop with Ubuntu. What’s worse, they’re now on FACEBOOK!!!
Oh, the horror!