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Still no power chord..

Personal

Although my new adapter has arrived, the power chord is still not here (those were out of stock but should have been mailed to me yesterday). Major suckage.

Productivity halted

Personal

The past days I've seen a surge in my productivity. At work I've been developing and bugfixing with the greatest of ease, while my personal Capsi.com project has seen major progress while hacking away at the pub (haven't uploaded anything though, most of the features are within the user accounts for which registration is not yet possible anyway).

But major progress is not going to happen today: the adapter of my laptop stopped working which means working on someone elses workstation. Sure, I can get certain things done. But definitely not as fast as I could have using my own desktop, interface settings, scripts, bookmarks, and so on. Reading e-mail through a webmail client is also nowhere as efficient as a proper desktop application, especially not when the hosting provider seems to have fewer clues about uptime and high availability than, for example, the boons at MySpace.

Next time I buy a new laptop I'll make sure to order a spare adapter in advance.. because honestly today has been hell so far.

Laptop upgrade horror story

Software

Last week I decided to upgrade the software on my laptop. I had been running an old version of KDE for quite a while and ignored the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" rule by jumping into FreeBSD's ports system. Quick summary of that adventure: I broke it. For some reason kdeinit hang indefinitely because DCOPserver had some problems with ICE. I'm sure I could fix it if I really wanted to, but for some reason I've been dying to get back to Slackware anyway.

So, I'm currently downloading the lastest Slackware torrents while uploading my personal files and configuration settings to a backup drive. Hopefully my system is up and running again before midnight. And hopefully I won't have to spend all Monday making a new build of the development repository we use at work. I probably will though: we use Perl and Perl is a language, not a platform. To do anything useful with it one has to navigate through dependency hell a few times. (Sometimes the mere number of "use this" and "use that" includes are a bigger part of a module than actual code, go figure.)

Wish me luck.

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