Friday, 2024-11-12

Working in the gaming industry

Well, my job may not be the must fun one in the world, but at least I'm not working in the gaming industry.

Disenchantment

Yesterday I realised that both the Stinkpad at home and the Ultra5 at work were running OpenBSD 3.4, 2 point releases behind the current release. Browsing through the upgrade minifaq I found that the time-honoured procedure of updating by compiling the source tree is deprecated.

So now I have to find a floppy and a serial cable for the Ultra, and try to find out which PC-card that I can use to upgrade the Stinkpad. Then I have to get the install floppy, upgrade the userland, then upgrade /etc, and finally re-install ports.

Sigh.

I'm so tired of this. No offense to the OpenBSD team, but I can't be bothered anymore. But I also don't want to go the Debian way on the lappy and lose all my customisations (X, desktop stuff, Terminal font.... the list goes on and on).

Maybe it's time to get a Mac.

Men and Spiders

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge.

An absolutely brilliant SF novel, with the right mix of hard science and sense of wonder. If it has a fault, it's that the central love story is a bit weak. But the aliens are well realised, and the apparent anthropomorphism in the beginning of the novel is really part of the plot.

What am I reading now? The reading list has been updated.