(OT rant) I have HAD IT with computers!

[gkhouston]

So I needed to upgrade my PDF viewer. No biggie, right? Wrong. It's one of those cascading disasters where the latest release of software means I have to upgrade or acquire and install a dozen other packages just to make the first one work. And the IT "help" who partitioned the drive on this disk made my /usr partition so small it's already 99% full so now I need to shove stuff out to a different part of the drive and do a lot of juggling to make space and fix broken links because things aren't where they're supposed to be. If I ever finish this chapter of Software Hell, I'm going to reformat this damned drive so I can have enough room to do things. Did IT think I wasn't ever going to need new software? :banghead:

Why do I do this for a living?

on edit: I forgot to add that every package comes with some obscure bug that I have to Google around to see if anyone's encountered it before... and that's usually when I find out there's two or three other packages than need to be added/upgraded. :grr:

[SharonRB]

1. I feel your pain, GK

We're getting ready to upgrade to InDesign CS2 from PageMaker and also upgrade my Illustrator and Photoshop and I'm terrified of how it will go.

[gkhouston]

2. at least I have plenty of disk space

just not in the right partitions. :eyes:

Good luck with your upgrades.

[Syrinx]

3. now you know how us Linux users feel

:D

[gkhouston]

4. I *am* a Linux user

and this is a bigger pain in the ass than building a new kernel (which I've done)... at least for that, there are online step-by-step kernels-for-dummies guides. This, I only find out I need to upgrade X, Y, Z software -- and in a particular order -- when something goes splat.