.....Greg has taken his medication and is feeling much better. You may emerge from your hiding places under your desk.
/and no, he still does not like his computer very much.
Friday, July 10, 2009
I F-ing hate my F-ing PC
My PC (a Dell some-kind-of-horrible-pile-of-crap laptop) is my main interface to work. It is my portal to all things that I need to fulfill my job requirements and it is also the main impediment keeping me from doing so many days!!!! IT'S SO ANNOYING I WANT TO SHOUT!!
Need to undock and go to a conference room? Ok, but you're taking a lot of chances. Want to re-dock? Oh, that's a near guaranteed seizure waiting to happen. The 3.5 gig RAM limit in XP? Oh, heck, nobody needs more than 640k anyway. (and don't mention Vista as a solution here - Vista regularly craps itself with less than 4 gigs of RAM because it's bloated to the point it's little more than a dead animal with built-up gas inside.. go a head and poke around in there.. you'll puke.)
I swear this to be ture before God and all humanity: the day that Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS from Seattle Computer Products and hired Tim Patterson is the day I can clearly define as the beginning of a long and horrible saga of making computers less useful than they could be.
Want to know why computers can't do crap? Microsoft. Don't get me wrong, they make a fine suite of office software, clearly the leader in the field when you really examine applications side-by-side with their competition. But operating systems? They have NEVER made a decent OS. The best chance they had one making a good one was OS/2. Microsoft knew it was superior and it would not allow them to monopolize the PC market so they stopped development and released the absolte crapfest that began with Windows 3.0 and went to ME.
NT? Don't get me started. Ripping the multitasking guts of VAX MVS does not a great operating system make. XP? Crap. Vista? Worse. WHY IN GOD'S HOLY NAME DO WE STILL HAVE A REGISTRY?!?!? WHY?
People. You have options. Better options. OS X and Ubumtu alone make more sense than this. Have 'mission critical applications' that only run on M$? Start searching for a solution now.
Garbage OSes loaded onto cheap-ass computers is not a wonderful solution.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THIS!
Need to undock and go to a conference room? Ok, but you're taking a lot of chances. Want to re-dock? Oh, that's a near guaranteed seizure waiting to happen. The 3.5 gig RAM limit in XP? Oh, heck, nobody needs more than 640k anyway. (and don't mention Vista as a solution here - Vista regularly craps itself with less than 4 gigs of RAM because it's bloated to the point it's little more than a dead animal with built-up gas inside.. go a head and poke around in there.. you'll puke.)
I swear this to be ture before God and all humanity: the day that Microsoft bought the rights to QDOS from Seattle Computer Products and hired Tim Patterson is the day I can clearly define as the beginning of a long and horrible saga of making computers less useful than they could be.
Want to know why computers can't do crap? Microsoft. Don't get me wrong, they make a fine suite of office software, clearly the leader in the field when you really examine applications side-by-side with their competition. But operating systems? They have NEVER made a decent OS. The best chance they had one making a good one was OS/2. Microsoft knew it was superior and it would not allow them to monopolize the PC market so they stopped development and released the absolte crapfest that began with Windows 3.0 and went to ME.
NT? Don't get me started. Ripping the multitasking guts of VAX MVS does not a great operating system make. XP? Crap. Vista? Worse. WHY IN GOD'S HOLY NAME DO WE STILL HAVE A REGISTRY?!?!? WHY?
People. You have options. Better options. OS X and Ubumtu alone make more sense than this. Have 'mission critical applications' that only run on M$? Start searching for a solution now.
Garbage OSes loaded onto cheap-ass computers is not a wonderful solution.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SETTLE FOR THIS!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Good times
I've been having a hell of a lot of fun with my new camera and now that I've got my UV filter, tripod and remote I can now try some longer exposure night shots. I live in practically a perfect place for that kind of thing with a man-made river complete with small waterfalls running through the middle of the complex but there is a problem.
Apparently management does not really care for people taking pictures. Really. The security folks (nice people, by the way) stopped me last night and told me I had to have a special contractor's badge if I wanted to take pictures and they are dispensed on a by-project basis and only for short times.
Well I think that stinks to high heavens though I can understand the policy. They don't want someone coming in and doing a MAXIM shoot on the grass in front of the Lucky Strike tower. Ok, I get that. At the same time I think there should be a permission for a wanna-be photographer to snap some pics.
I could, on one hand, get in and ask for permission. But I'd likely be denied by policy. Then I could not longer (lie lie lie) claim ignorance. On the other hand I could just keep taking pictures.. that is until a security guard warns me who has warned me in the past. So I'm not exactly sure what to do.
I'll probably have to venture out beyond the comfort of American Tobacco and go out into Durham proper.
Apparently management does not really care for people taking pictures. Really. The security folks (nice people, by the way) stopped me last night and told me I had to have a special contractor's badge if I wanted to take pictures and they are dispensed on a by-project basis and only for short times.
Well I think that stinks to high heavens though I can understand the policy. They don't want someone coming in and doing a MAXIM shoot on the grass in front of the Lucky Strike tower. Ok, I get that. At the same time I think there should be a permission for a wanna-be photographer to snap some pics.
I could, on one hand, get in and ask for permission. But I'd likely be denied by policy. Then I could not longer (lie lie lie) claim ignorance. On the other hand I could just keep taking pictures.. that is until a security guard warns me who has warned me in the past. So I'm not exactly sure what to do.
I'll probably have to venture out beyond the comfort of American Tobacco and go out into Durham proper.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Rest in Peace, Darius Xavier Poteat
This is Darius Xavier Poteat. I didn't know Darius that well, not past a "hey, what's up?" or a wave hello. He always seemed quick with a smile and seemed to have an immediate and positive effect on those around him. Yet, inside, it appears Darius was a troubled man. Darius ended his life yesterday and I'm sad that I didn't get to know him better and now I'll not have the chance to do so.
Darius, you will be missed, by your family, the people you worked with as well as people who didn't even know you that well. People like me. I wish I could have done something for you.
Goodbye, Darius. Godspeed.
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