Old News (from eNews)

Sunday, February 21, 1999, at 10:49AM

By Eric Richardson

Progress is starting to get on my nerves. Why do I constantly have to upgrade half my system just to compile a library? Everytime I turn around, something new is requiring a new version of something else, which in turn requires you to upgrade something else, which then causes your old apps to require recompiling in order to link with the new libs... and by the time you're done there's a whole new version out that requires you to do the same fscking thing all order again. I know... it's the price you have to pay for being at the cutting edge, but it's getting old really fast.

Maybe I'm just in a bad mood... I ordered a 4.3gig hard drive and a SCSI adaptor for our home machine a while ago, and when it came (a month or month and a half ago), the SCSI adaptor (an actual adaptor between the drive and the cable, not the card itself) burned up (literally). I finally got the replacement for the adaptor about a week ago, and when I go to install it today I find that when the adaptor burned it must have fried the drive too. Why me? Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to try, the computer's just going to find a way to screw me up.

I better leave before I get mad and break something...