Macintosh...how I hate thee
Feb. 18th, 2005 11:54 amMust destroy Apple Inc. People say that Microsoft is evil and such, but at least they make a product that works!!! Not so w/ Apple. Or at least the ones in our frigging lab.
They run slow as cold molasses, they freeze inexplicably, you can delete the system library and fuck everything up, and they suck.
Seriously, was trying to open a ".gel" document (a picture of a gel I ran. The program just has to be contrary and name it something that no photoshop except one sold by a specific company will open...but that one is encountering unretrievable errors so i'm forced to the macintosh photoshops since someone insists on looking at their excel spreadsheets of their colonies on the pc), but the old ass mac that always does it right has a fucked monitor now because people wanted the G4 (read spawn of satan here) to have the one that worked and you could see differences in grey. So couldn't tell for sure if i'd get the image prettified enough so i emailed it to myself so I could open it on the G4 (since that computer refuses to communicate w/ any of the others in the lab).....but wait, what's this....the new macintosh operating system won't open a file that the old ass operating system would.
Arrrrggghh. Of course, I 'm sure its due to someone in this lab fucking it up. You'd think that in a lab full of 12 postdocs that at least half would know how to operate a computer (be it pc or mac) w/out fucking it to hell. But no, we have 2 post doc who can do that and 2 grad students....I thought that the chinese were supposed to be advanced of us in science and math...apparently no one teaches them the finer points of DON'T SCREW W/ THE SYSTEM FILES OF A COMPUTER EVER GORRAMIT!!!
Sigh, okay, really looking forward to that beer now.
They run slow as cold molasses, they freeze inexplicably, you can delete the system library and fuck everything up, and they suck.
Seriously, was trying to open a ".gel" document (a picture of a gel I ran. The program just has to be contrary and name it something that no photoshop except one sold by a specific company will open...but that one is encountering unretrievable errors so i'm forced to the macintosh photoshops since someone insists on looking at their excel spreadsheets of their colonies on the pc), but the old ass mac that always does it right has a fucked monitor now because people wanted the G4 (read spawn of satan here) to have the one that worked and you could see differences in grey. So couldn't tell for sure if i'd get the image prettified enough so i emailed it to myself so I could open it on the G4 (since that computer refuses to communicate w/ any of the others in the lab).....but wait, what's this....the new macintosh operating system won't open a file that the old ass operating system would.
Arrrrggghh. Of course, I 'm sure its due to someone in this lab fucking it up. You'd think that in a lab full of 12 postdocs that at least half would know how to operate a computer (be it pc or mac) w/out fucking it to hell. But no, we have 2 post doc who can do that and 2 grad students....I thought that the chinese were supposed to be advanced of us in science and math...apparently no one teaches them the finer points of DON'T SCREW W/ THE SYSTEM FILES OF A COMPUTER EVER GORRAMIT!!!
Sigh, okay, really looking forward to that beer now.