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Nov. 9th, 2009 11:29 pmI've been very lazy. When I only had three days here (in September), I had to hit the ground running. Since I got here, er, nearly three days ago, I've done precisely nothing except a bit of shopping for provisions (thus discovering that the French for wet-look gel or mousse is neither gel nor mousse, which are other things entirely) and get mad at my computer for being so out-of-date. I knew that I shouldn't have hung on for the second GBP250 voucher from Stars.
I've sorted out the laptop with a few irritating exceptions. I can't get PostgreSQL to connect at all, which means I can't run Hold Em Manager. And Party Poker just eats up the CPU on this ancient beast. At Stars they have better programmers, and the tables run perfectly smoothly. I vaguely attempted to get 50FPPs on Party as part of the Gladiator challenge, but all it cost me was about $50 in disconnections at inconvenient times. Well, not disconnections as such -- I could see my QQ, I remained connected, I heard the sounds. But the screen remained resolutely frozen and unresponsive to my mouseclicks or keyboard actions. Most annoying when the flop came KQ4!
Anyhoo, enough is enough for the laziness. Tomorrow is Birks up early, get to bus stop and wait for a number 200, book in hand (or, at least, in shoulder bag) for long bus ride to Cannes. "Avoid rush-hour", the guide book says, without actually saying when the rush-hour actually is. A bit like Microsoft time and those bars indicating "progress" when you are installing updates and the like. When will someone tell these morons that a bar that moves half-way across in 10 seconds, and then doesn't move for half an hour, is not really much use to anyone? I also noted that Microsoft ALWAYS puts after any update that "after you have installed this update, you may have to restart your computer". Now, surely, sometimes it's going to be "it's unlikely, but vaguely possible", while other times it's gong to be "more likely than not". Putting EXACTLY the same sentence at the end of each update description is a sign of, well, I don't know what, really, but I know it when I see it, and it has Microsoft IT written all over it. Laziness (see the unimaginary error messages you always get) bureaucracy, "job-for-life" mentality, and an abysmal lack of imagination.
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I've sorted out the laptop with a few irritating exceptions. I can't get PostgreSQL to connect at all, which means I can't run Hold Em Manager. And Party Poker just eats up the CPU on this ancient beast. At Stars they have better programmers, and the tables run perfectly smoothly. I vaguely attempted to get 50FPPs on Party as part of the Gladiator challenge, but all it cost me was about $50 in disconnections at inconvenient times. Well, not disconnections as such -- I could see my QQ, I remained connected, I heard the sounds. But the screen remained resolutely frozen and unresponsive to my mouseclicks or keyboard actions. Most annoying when the flop came KQ4!
Anyhoo, enough is enough for the laziness. Tomorrow is Birks up early, get to bus stop and wait for a number 200, book in hand (or, at least, in shoulder bag) for long bus ride to Cannes. "Avoid rush-hour", the guide book says, without actually saying when the rush-hour actually is. A bit like Microsoft time and those bars indicating "progress" when you are installing updates and the like. When will someone tell these morons that a bar that moves half-way across in 10 seconds, and then doesn't move for half an hour, is not really much use to anyone? I also noted that Microsoft ALWAYS puts after any update that "after you have installed this update, you may have to restart your computer". Now, surely, sometimes it's going to be "it's unlikely, but vaguely possible", while other times it's gong to be "more likely than not". Putting EXACTLY the same sentence at the end of each update description is a sign of, well, I don't know what, really, but I know it when I see it, and it has Microsoft IT written all over it. Laziness (see the unimaginary error messages you always get) bureaucracy, "job-for-life" mentality, and an abysmal lack of imagination.
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