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Moving a Dell monitor from its default base to a dock integrated monitor stand is a thirty second operation, if you're moving slowly. It involves pushing a button to unlock it, removing the monitor from the base, putting it on the dock stand and making sure the button popped (indicating it locked in place properly).

Moving an HP monitor from the stand it shipped with to an integrated dock/monitor stand? It seems I'll need tools to remove the monitor, attach it to the arm on the dock stand and then attach the arm to the base. This involves using multiple sized allen wrenches and hex screws/nuts.

Why? Why does HP insist on making its hardware difficult, non standard, and just generally annoying to deal with? Compaq lives on in HP's gutters, it seems.

Moving a Dell monitor from its default base to a dock integrated monitor stand is a thirty second operation, if you're moving slowly. It involves pushing a button to unlock it, removing the monitor from the base, putting it on the dock stand and making sure the button popped (indicating it locked in place properly).

Moving an HP monitor from the stand it shipped with to an integrated dock/monitor stand? It seems I'll need tools to remove the monitor, attach it to the arm on the dock stand and then attach the arm to the base. This involves using multiple sized allen wrenches and hex screws/nuts.

Why? Why does HP insist on making its hardware difficult, non standard, and just generally annoying to deal with? Compaq lives on in HP's gutters, it seems.

Fuck you Sun. Fuck you too, NetApp. You can both die in a fucking fire.

Go to Hell, don't come back.

...To stop fucking with Java. I have this NetApp that is administered via Java applets, most of which don't even pretend to work with versions of Java six months prior to whatever release of ONTAP you're using on your NetApp. I've spent the last while building a VM that I will not patch, and can only hope the NetApp will feed me whatever Java version it works with when I connect to it. If it sends me to Sun, I'm going to jump off the fucking balcony. Or, better yet, I'll throw the fucking NetApp off the balcony.

I'm not sure who I hate more, Sun for breaking shit with every subsequent Java release, or vendors who rely on this fucking shit and make my job impossible without it (there's a lot I can do from the command line on this thing, but some things can ONLY be done via the Java GUI that of course doesn't even pretend to try and work).

...To stop fucking with Java. I have this NetApp that is administered via Java applets, most of which don't even pretend to work with versions of Java six months prior to whatever release of ONTAP you're using on your NetApp. I've spent the last while building a VM that I will not patch, and can only hope the NetApp will feed me whatever Java version it works with when I connect to it. If it sends me to Sun, I'm going to jump off the fucking balcony. Or, better yet, I'll throw the fucking NetApp off the balcony.

I'm not sure who I hate more, Sun for breaking shit with every subsequent Java release, or vendors who rely on this fucking shit and make my job impossible without it (there's a lot I can do from the command line on this thing, but some things can ONLY be done via the Java GUI that of course doesn't even pretend to try and work).

Is something my machine here at home lacks. Ever since I replaced the failed Radeon HD 2900 with the 9800 GTX+, things have been...odd. I'm thinking about a reinstall from scratch as maybe there's some old ATi cruft still hiding somewhere that's causing problems, although I'm severely tempted to replace the motherboard as well, since my video card is PCI-e x16 2.0, and my current motherboard only does PCI-e x16 1.x. Although it looks suspiciously like my DDR2 800 RAM won't work in any of the newer PCI-e x16 2.x motherboards, which is irritating.

The video card in my machine at home dying yesterday.

This is only the second hardware failure I've had in a machine that wasn't memory or a hard drive over the last 15 years.

The video card in my machine at home dying yesterday.

This is only the second hardware failure I've had in a machine that wasn't memory or a hard drive over the last 15 years.

I hate them.

Apparently the BES is afraid I don't have anything else to do after having been gone for just shy of two weeks.

Please die in a fire.

No Love,

J