Downloadophobia Part Deux
There are times when I could cheerfully murder.
I wrote a nice cheerful piece today about Garmin and how they had an update for my SatNav.
I happily wrote about how the wankers in Garmin have never heard of Linux so I had to go into Windows.
I told you all about how fucking slow Windows is.
I gave a sunny account of how it takes around five fucking hours to download a simple update to a SatNav.
I gleefully told you how Windows Live Writer then wouldn’t work as there was an update to that too, and it took ages to download and then the fucking program wouldn’t run.
With a smile on my face, I wrote out a long sunny essay on the above topics. It was a clever article, full of sharp wit and observations.
When I finished the article, I read it through and then published it.
Only the fucking first fucking line in the whole fucking thing was published and the rest has been fucking erased.
I fucking hate computers.
Fuck!
Maybe you should run it by The Other Fellow.
He is worse than useless. Spends his day sleeping in his chair. Sad to say but he is well past his sell-by date.
Yeah, I got the Garmin Update e-mail too. A bit pricey too, GD. For a few quid more I could buy a nice new shiny one. As for computers, I hate bloody PC’s. I used to have a Mac once. It was the dog’s. In a moment of madness I changed to PC, software was cheaper then Mac. Now I regurlarly suffer bouts of screaming in frustration when the bugger freezes, tells me it has to index the Hard Drive or somthing,
download updates or a myriad of other head wrecking messages. I spend more time fixing the fucker ‘cos The Kaspersky Anti Virus gets fucked by some hacker’s shite on the net. I had The Blue Screen of Death a few times. Oh Jasus, I nearly fucked it through the window after hours of getting the bastard to work again.
I am frequently tempted to fix modern technological gagets wit my 7lb persuader.
http://www.dcrblogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ball-peen-hammer-783.jpg
“A bit pricey too” I only went for it because it was free [first update].
Now I never thought I would ever sink so low as to say this, but have you thought of trying Linux? No BSODs, no anti-virus, updates quietly with no fuss or reboots and is about ten times faster [and it’s free]. I switched about ten months ago and hate having to go back to Windows to deal with a company that doesn’t deal in Linux software. Luckily, that is very rare.
GD, you seem to know more about computers than you let on.
I have become so frustrated that sometimes I want to gouge out my eyes, blow up the planet and use my 7lb persuader on the infernal machine.
However, it is far superior to an Abacus.
Hah! As TT says, I leave it all to The Other Fella. He does my Puter work, even if he is a dosey bollix.
All computers cause heartache in the end, try one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/images/0749547960/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=266239&s=books
There’s a Gemini thing going on there then. The evil twin gets out every now and then.