Ooookay

[patgund]

(crossposted to my LJ and techsupport

Network technician here at my (soon to be ex- in 14 days) employer, complaining that an application (Intermapper) that has run fine for over a year, is now corrupted due to hard drive failure:

"I don't understand why we run everything on such buggy, virus-prone, and unrelibable OS's like Unix, Linux, Solaris, and OS X. Anything Unix-based is a pile of crap and can't be trusted. Why the hell can't we run our servers, clients, and everything else on something proven and rock-solid, like WindowsXP and Windows Server??"

All he knows is Cisco and Windows, and is cranky because he's surrounded by Unix, Linux, and OS X people.

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[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

I am now at the point that, if it were possible, I would go computer-less!! My machine was running slugishly and my printer wouldn't print, despite reinstalling the drivers 3x so I sent it to a PC clinic and $50 later the printer STILL doesn't work but now I get runtime errors and about half a dozen OTHER programs don't work, some of them critical to my work! BTW, the important programs hang up when initializing, even after being removed & installed.

Go ahead, get me started...I'll go on a 5-10 min rant of g-d d-d effing computers! Of course that won't help get the work out that I CAN'T DO... :P

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Whew. Well, after that rant I worked on it some more and at least managed to get the one, most critical program working. Now I can get my report out at least. But I'm gonna leave a strictly worded message with that PC Clinic sometime soon... -_-;