Rebuilding The Night Away

My replacement hard drive arrived yesterday, which is good. It was delivered to the shop on the corner because I was out - I looked up the signature on the ParcelForce delivery tracking service, then looked up the name in the phone book. I think I would make a good detective, apart from all of the paperwork, I don't think that would suit me. I see myself as more of a rebellious yet stylish LA cop who busts drug lords and slave traders and child pornography rings while dealing out my trademark catch phrases and having a witty repartee with a convicted fraudster who I have broken out of jail to help me solve my cases, all the time firing hundreds of rounds from my revolver with pin-point accuracy, but with none of them hitting anyone because this is a family show.

On Monday I had also asked my dad to send me my Windows 2000 cd - his package arrived today, and contained 'Sony M-crew for Windows 2000'. That is not my operating system, it is the software to control my usb hifi that is at home. Oh well, he tried! So now I will have to laptop it and wait until I go home next week, then I can also pick up driver and application cds (oh yes, and the games).

In the mean time, I am very tempted to install some linux distro like Ubuntu, but... I can't be bothered. I can't be bothered to sort out hardware issues using dodgy non-manufacter-supported patches so that I can work in 1600x1200, or get sound working, or get onto the internet. I can't be bothered to faff about with wine so I can run my work programs and games slower than my expensive computer should. I can't be bothered with dual-booting, kernel patching, source compiling, back porting, dealing with package or library conflicts, software that just won't compile, or working with non-standardised laggy and buggy UIs. So I will not be wasting a day installing an inferior operating system that I will wipe off next week. I have work to do. Right after I finish this entry...

Comments

NoVisAnima

But but but the compiling the entire system to run slowly is the entire fun of linux. The bugs are the charm of the entire thing. The bugs are there so you can be geeky and fix them.

Mark S

Ohh dear - clearly a student with Far Too Much Time ;)

I want my OS to just work - install, update, BANG, fire up a game, check my mail. Or at work, I want nice and easy: if my system goes down it gets rebuilt from a nice image, and I only have to install my apps. OK, you can image Linux, but then I would have problems running Oracle X, Y and Z on it.

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