Open source just can't compare to the quality fit and finish of proprietary applications.

[reddragdiva]

[19:48:29] >Diva< vertical market software. doesn't need to do mundane things like, ooh, reread its config file on a -HUP like everything else in the world.
[19:48:41] [leeann] ick
[19:48:48] >Diva< no, you need to go into the graphical control app and press *this* button. fuck knows what it sends to the daemon.
[19:49:04] [leeann] truss is your friend
[19:49:17] >Diva< no, it would just tell me things man was not meant to know.
[19:49:27] [leeann] and your point is?
[19:49:33] >Diva< just whining :-)
[19:49:44] [leeann] poor dear
[19:49:53] * leeann hands you the stapler
[19:49:55] >Diva< I should rant about it in a livejournal post, I haven't written any decent work whines lately

Most annoying thing at work yesterday: back into NOTHING TO DO mode, from about eleven (I get in at ten) until six. Except showing a user how to use the Solaris file picker around two. But could I leave, to meet cyberneph off the train, and so get home earlier and out to B-Movie earlier? Bah.

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[damerell.livejournal.com]

There are advantages to having a boss in the USA in terms of skipping out a tad quicker from time to time.

Thank you very much for putting me up at short notice (mind you, it was Neph who asked you the second time. :-)

[reddragdiva]

Ha! She just decided my bed looked better than the couch :-)

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I thought that too, although I hope you'll forgive me if I decline to take steps towards sleeping in it. :-)