Still distracted by Windows
How much do I miss being at work? Actually, I do not. Some things that I did on a day-to-day basis have not been part of my routine for almost a decade period time goes by fast. However, certain part of our lifestyle have been with us for too long. Among others, windows. With a capital W. The operating system that has taken over the western world. And it has bugs. Which never seemed to go away. They just change places so that when you go to find them again you have to rethink the system. We managed to pick up some kind of an aggravation to our DNS service. In through one of those cracks in the wall, we ended up being re-directed to some spam page. And, we’ve been fighting our way out of that swamp for months. Today in one of my more stubborn motions I removed the network services tab from the system profile. If you have never gone there do not. All of my information is two operating system versions old. I made it all the way to seven and I think we’re now on 10. The names are similar but you have to dig deeply to find what you’re looking for. And since I cannot read the screen I have to give clues to someone else and let them go through the weeds. Right now the main desktop computer in the house seems to be back in business. Probably not for long because this is something that we do not know where the bug came from. But I am less cautious than I used to be and I’m willing to go down pass I would normally have only taken if I could see where I was going. That option is gone. What it means is that I am thankful with a capital T to be no longer in the workplace. What I took as routine back then is now something I only have to worry about every decade or so. If I live long enough I will see other versions of the operating system and I remain confident that somewhere underneath will be the same machine that was presented to the world back in 1985. Something like that. For those who say why not just move to a different operating system you must realize that we have a lot of time and energy invested in what we have. And when it works we are content. Collectively. Reformatting the machine and reinstalling the operating system is not among my options for right now. I have moved my focus to a tablet and it’s only when we go back to the desktop machine that we’re worried about things like does the DNS respond properly. I told you I would be talking code. Among other events, the new snow tires are installed and the vehicle inspection has been done.
