‣ 2007-10-20


It's official, I don't like computers. My iMac just hung on me for the umpteenth time. I like programming, I just don't like computers.

Or maybe it's computer reliability and complexity? I switched from Linux to Mac around 9 years ago because I became fed-up with the need to know a substantial amount about, say, how USB worked to be able to plug in a USB mouse. My available time had shrunk and my experience had increased to the point where the time spent doodling around with Linux wasn't rewarded with learning anything interesting. Maybe this has changed now, I don't know, because I've been out of that game, at least at home, for a while.

This is the crux of my problem, I think. At home, I want everything to work. I don't want my cpu stretched, I just want it to bloody well work. I do not want to be a sysadmin at home. Ever, Again.

Where can you run to when your Mac starts failing? This is surely the little island of 'it just works' that everyone just knows Apple excel at. Surely? Bollocks it is.