Mac OS X Tiger: "It Just Works"

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From: Steven Smolinski
Subject: Mac OS X Tiger: "It Just Works"
Date: 04:09 on 04 May 2005
I thought I was immune, but I drank the Kool Aid.  I entered the  
Reality Distortion Field.  Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" is my Saviour.   
Resistance is useless.  So I upgraded.

And everything broke.

Garageband now beachballs when I use "Save As..." and I can't record  
a podcast anyway because JackOSX  doesn't work with Tiger.  And when  
I drag a plist file to gvim to take a look to see if I can help, gvim  
refuses to start.  Gvim. Refuses. To. Start.[0]  It gives me the  
sweats just thinking about it.[1]

None of these things tell me they're broken.  They either beachball  
or silently do nothing.

So I open up iChat to tell a friend it won't work.  He's on panther-- 
we get bullshit errors about "not enough bandwidth".  Okay, the  
Internet confirms that panther <=> tiger voice chats don't work and  
give confusing error messages.  So I skype him to tell him I can't  
hear in iChat.  And Skype just disconnects with a "Misc Error".  Even  
on the latest version.  Even with both of us on the latest version.

Oh, I love upgrading.  I just fucking love it.

Meanwhile my debian boxes just upgraded libc (minor upgrade) and  
everything works.  And I only installed it once.  Ever.  I sigh and  
think I'm better off with debian/PPC.  Then I remember that I  
couldn't even get the fucking podcast to work at all on linux because  
linux audio software sucks donkey balls.

Then I remember I chose software development as a career *on purpose*  
and *while I was sober* and I just want to cry.  Or smash.  Or  
something.

But I have a shiny new Dashboard.  Fuckers.

Steve

Note 0: At least gvim works now, on the latest version.  I forgot to  
upgrade it.  My bad.

Note 1: So I open up an xterm to paste in the path to the plist file  
and find that the shiny new X11 that apple shipped with tiger STILL  
DOESN'T USE CUT AND PASTE PROPERLY.  It's their own system and their  
own X11 and they can't get X11 to fucking work?!  WTF?

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