Now you may think that it cannot possibly be as bad as I claim, but let me assure you my dear reader, that it is as bad as (if not worse than) I claim (all the way down to the computer physically struggling with me via it's disk drive). Now if you just happen to have reader some of my earlier posts (you know the ones with the writing even worse than these ....I know I can hardly believe it myself, but my current writing may actually be an improvement over something else) you may recall this particular post where I vented my rage at dell over their shoddy hardware. Well... you may (or may not) be suprised to hear that I similar (though not exact) situation occured yesterday.
Now as I may have mentioned in an earlier post (honestly i can't remember if I have or not) for the last month I've been taking an online course in MATLAB through my school (Villanova) and yesterday happened to be the day of my final exam (you may see where I'm going with this) and during the course of said exam, I was using MATLAB (naturally) and firefox (no surprise there) now ... somehow I ended up getting MATLAB stuck in an infinite loop, which slowed down my entire comp (including firefox) a quick look at taskmanager showed that both MATLAB and firefox where using up vast amounts of my CPUs processing power, so I ended the processes, my computer was still acting wonky, so I shut it down. I turn it back on, and before it even makes it to the boot menu, it shuts down (just my luck) I try a few more times to make sure it's not just a fluke but it's to no avail. So I contact my professor, and I arrange to take the test at a later date after my computer is repaired.
So, this morning, I took off from work and head down to Villanova so that I can get tech support to help me out with this, when I get there..... the damn thing boots, no problem (except for a prompt asking if I want to start windows normally or in safe mode or something)
I swear it's like the singing frog, from the cartoons, when no one's around it just attracts problems like electrons to protons, but when others are looking, there's no problem. I really do wonder though if windows and dell really do have it out for me, I mean it's only when running windows that I run into these kinds of issues (which is why I support OSS), and only on dell hardware that things just keep breaking (which is why I hate it) whereas most of the people I know are just fine and dandy no problems. Hell even firefox acts screwy under windows, always getting to the point that it gobbles up vast amounts of system resources forcing me to shut it down.
It's things like these that makes me hate the fact that Villanova implemented a laptop program, we're stuck with the hardware they decide, and the software they force on it and then dependent on their tech support ('cause it's not like any of us are masochistic enough to try dell's support line) I think I'm going to rename my computer Michigan J. Frog, I feel it's woefully appropriate. You may remember me mentioning that I'm probably going to switch to computer science, if I do, I'm going to make sure to contribute what I can to the Open Source movement. Because I've seriously had enough with windows, if it weren't for the fact that there are certain software I need to use that runs only on windows, I'd probably just erase it from my drive completely.
I'm sure that you're all sick and tired of hearing me rant about my hatred for shoddy hardware, and shoddy proprietary software. So I'll just end it here.
Inn case you're not cool enough to know about Michigan J. Frog (or just need a refresher), take a look at this youtube video, titled "One Froggy Evening" it was Michigan's debut:
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