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I have a PowerBook. I recently rebuilt it, as things were succumbing to entropy and being eminently hatable. So, copy stuff to an external disk, reinstall, copy things back. Everything worked great. Even HotSyncing my replacement palm -- HotSyncing had broken ages ago; at least six or eight months, but that didn't matter as the Palm was broken too. But I got a replacement, one of the same model that a coworker was no longer interested in. Anyways, rebuilt the laptop, copied over my Documents folder, and Palm Desktop saw all of my PDA "users" for various gadgets I've had over time, I told it this one was the palm, and lo! it synched everything back up just dandy. Until yesterday, when it mysteriously broke. Now, I press the HotSync button, the palm initiates the connection, HotSync Manager pops up the "connecting" dialogue ... and then immediately pops up "Unexpected error [-1]." Oh, it's an *unexpected* error, is it. That clears everything up. (And that -1 means a lot, too. Very helpful. Appreciate that.) Grrrr. So what do I do, but start poking around, looking for things that might have changed. Okay. Mutter mutter fucking Oracle Calendar fucking sync conduits must have fucking broken it[0], surprise surprise, mutter mutter. Disable the conduits. Pull out the only Oracle-looking thing from Palm folder. Click on Conduit Manager, thinking that that's the configurator thingy, discover that that pops up the "Preparing to synchronize..." dialogue. Hit the HotSync button on the cradle ... hey, it's working! Watch it sync, and exit normally. Think, okay, it's substandard but at least it's a possible way to get it working. Try repeatedly and *completely* *fail* to perform whatever goat-sacrifice under a new moon whilst painting symbols on self with the blood of a virgin and snail slime magic resulted in it working at all. Even try to reproduce the interval of time between clicking Conduit Manager and thinking "Oh, it's that; I should hit the button" and actually hitting the button. Of course it doesn't work. That it ever worked at all was only to taunt me. Hate. Portable digital fucking overgrown portable Minesweeper. Gadget. hatefully, --s. 0 - I'm *SURE* it's not Oracle Calendar's fault. After all, it's such a stunningly well-done piece of -- gritting teeth -- software that it couldn't possibly have managed to fuck up all of my HotSyncing just by dropping in a couple of conduits. Oh, no. Oracle Calendar is certainly above reproach. Not that it makes me want to change my password to "IFUCKINGHATETHISPIECEOFSHITandIHOPEYOUCRACKTHISPASSWORDSOYOUKNOWITTOO" or anything, but that's so long and any time you make an error typing your password and hit backspace, it helpfully erases the entire fucking string because you couldn't possibly know that you only fucked up the last one or two characters and only actually need to erase back that far. No, I *love* Oracle Calendar. It's beyond reproach. Really.
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