11:30 Friday, still at work

[dreamshark]

This sucks. I've been trying to successfully complete an installation of this particular product configuration every Friday for the past month, and I still can't get it to work. Sometimes it's my fault, sometimes it's obvious bugs, and sometimes... I just don't know what's wrong. I get a little closer each time. I'm up to the last 3 steps. But a crucial interface WILL NOT come up. I don't know if somebody changed the cabling or if there's a bug. I never intended it to get this late - I just kept trying one more thing, and now I'm running tests on the almost-finished system.

I'm having a harder and harder time believing in this product.

Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

At least you missed the gamers, she says helpfully.

K.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Too bad you missed Greta and Rich and Don Bailey, who all came to the games. (And I would have liked to say hello, too.)

What is this product that's giving you such headaches? What is it supposed to do?

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not important. All the products I work on are like this. It's an overly ambitious pile of software that runs simultaneously on a cluster of Linux hosts and makes them act like one big computer. It's typical geek-to-geek software: invented by geeks for other geeks.