Planet Geek

Eve Crankiness

Geekitude , Life. Don't talk to me about life.

It's mighty frustrating when your chief distraction / addiction starts being totally unuseable.

Grrr.

And, in the rant department, I really detest 'debugging' Windows problems, as I've had to do twice today. Windows gives you NO feedback on what's going on. It either works, or it doesn't, and the process for 'fixing' the problem involves playing whack-a-mole with driver versions, tools, and clicky-clicky interfaces. Except the mole is invisible, and the big bell is broken. You may fix the problem, but you won't know it until you try again. And then it might work, it might not, or it might work on the next reboot, or, you may be blessed with your fix working, but may stop next time you reboot, or run an update, or move your mouse, or whatever.

I'm boggled by how people can call this platform 'maintainable', when the chief answer seems to consistently be "Doesn't work? Reboot! If that doesn't work, reinstall from scratch!"

*takes grumpy self off to bed*

Posted by dbs at August 24, 2007 12:27 AM