IT Hell

Building emacs22 to replace emacs21, so I can install yasnippet, so I can install scala-tool-support, because I can’t install Eclipse since it requires Mac OS 10.5 and I only have 10.4 because Apple doesn’t support Java 6 on 32-bit Macs…

Sitting on a couch in the lobby at work, because my spiffy i7 Dell desktop runs the dual head configuration with graphics speed reminiscent of the 1980s. RHEL5 seems to have problems with the ATI PCI-Express card, and even our otherwise very knowledgeable Linux IT system administrator is having problems…

Reading some papers that took forever to print because one of the two huge LaserJets is getting a paper jam with every page, and it seems to be impossible to just print to the one that works…