Journal StandardDeviant's Journal: ... but windows sucks more 1
So I'm hacking along on some work. Computer starts acting flaky (yeah, like an xterm, small xserver, and a browser window represents a crushing load). Thankfully I take the time to save what I was doing (on the server). I reboot... and now it's saying that several important windows files (like HIMEM.SYS, DBLBUFF.SYS, IFSHLP.SYS, and WIN.COM) are gone. Oh, and some of the directories and files in c:\windows are just binary-gibberish for names now... Thanks, Bill! I was afraid I might get some work done today, but once again your products came to the rescue.
Bored bored bored (Score:2)
I didn't see you on geekaustin yesterday afternoon when I was on, and I just hit upon the capital idea of replying to your journal to get your attention.
Oh my freakin' sweet jesus [Obacronym: OMFSJ!, or is OMSFJ! better?], I've been working on pine since about 1pm yesterday. That's 16 hours of pine lovin' with a couple of food breaks (the typical grab-your-food-and-sit-at-the-computer), and surprisingly little web surfing. I spent about 4 hours banging my head against a '('/'}' mismatch that led to it building for Red Hat 6.2 but not Red Hat 7.1 - I was afraid I'd hit upon some sort of insane Gnumake Heisenbug. In these 16 hours I've built pine for five platforms, until the exact same source tree built on all five perfectly all at once, with all hacks fully active.
I can't wait to get on the bus, go home, and fall asleep. There is no frickin' way I'm coming back into work today.
</rant> (have you noticed that <rant> is implicit, catching the reader unaware until he realizes he's being ranted at? sorta like real life, isn't it?)