Saturday, January 03, 2009

Software Scratch

Before I delve into the new year, these software issues are irritating me beyond belief:
  • Ubuntu linux updates on my old PC are consistently broken and have been for over 8 months - the system will only run a very old version (<8.04)
  • I added a memory card to my flash MP3 player, but the extra card results in instability in the player - constant restarts, and it can never remember what song I was listening to when restarting (really important when listening to those hour long podcasts). The expandable memory is one of the reasons I bought this player. Nice.
  • Left4Dead is unplayable right now - I have black textures on screen that are horrendous and render the game unplayable. The demo worked? Great?
  • I get GTAIV - unfortunately it requires Service Pack 3 to play - SP3 renders my machine inoperable - another brick in the wall.
At the minimum, it looks like I need a PC upgrade. Unfortunately, that will only solve some of the problems.

Right now I'm playing a game that's over 10 years old. The company no longer exists. At least the game works.

This invective goes out to all software programmers - get off your lazy asses and write some decent code you bottom feeding twits.

3 comments:

klipper said...

Hey, don't forget to include the assistant vice presidents, project managers, and 'software architects' who are more worried about ship-dates than quality. They're the ones whipping their coders along. Curse them all!

bllius said...

That may really affect commercial dev, but open source like linux?

bllius said...

Tribes