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[Jopax]

Trying to download MS Office to install on a fresh copy of Windows, it wouldn't start the download, so my parents start panicking about how they need it (I offer them to use my laptop for whatever they need writing but they won't hear of it for some reason) and demand an explanation, naturally them being completely averse to modern technology makes it an ordeal not worth having, so I just tell them I'll handle it somehow and that they should stop pestering me about it. And of course my mother gets all bitchy while my father wants to know if he can take it to the shop to get it installed and I'm still trying to figure out why the fuck it won't work and during all that the rage gets so intense that I start headdesking until they leave me alone (mother still bitching, just on the other side of the door).

And two fucking minutes ater, my head hurts and the problem is solved, fucks sake, if they just listened it would have all been fucking fine, but no, it immediately has to turn into a fucking shitstorm.

God I hate being the only tech savvy person in the house, I really do.

[Jopax]

That's way easier to handle, you can charge those bastards, I can't do the same because this is my family and I'm not enough of a bastard to do that :C

[majikero]

When do computer classes start in USA anyways? I remember starting computer classes during 4th grade.

[Telgin]

I've never really liked Java or Eclipse, but today really just makes me loathe them.

I've been "working" on graduate research related to this DSP thing for many months now.  And by working, I mean I'm supposed to be but have had so little time to devote to it that I really haven't done much of anything.  I have to physically be at the computer the DSP card is installed in, otherwise I can't compile and run the code.  The reason for this is that it's all done through Eclipse, and I have only SSH access which doesn't allow me to use the GUI.  I know of no way around this.  That means I've been able to code some from home when I had time, but I haven't been able to build and run anything in about five or six weeks.

Whatever.  I took the time today to drive 25 minutes to campus so I could actually compile, run and debug some changes to this awful dead end of a project.  I planned to spend 8 or more hours here if I needed to get something done.  It's Sunday.  I shouldn't have to worry about anyone else using the computer or anything getting in the way today.  Parking is even free today.

Guess what?  Eclipse magically stopped working at some point during the last month.  I have no idea why.  Trying to start it from a terminal like I always have just causes it to crash immediately and spew out an error about it exiting with code 13.  Oh, code 13.  I can fix that.  That's totally obvious.

Whatever.  I look it up and apparently that means the JVM doesn't match versions with Eclipse.  Great.  I check, and sure enough this is a 32-bit install of Eclipse and a 64-bit JVM.  I wonder how that happened?

Whatever.  I look around and find the instructions on how to configure Eclipse to use a specific JVM.  I set that up with the 32-bit JVM that shipped with the freaking installation, and now it just dies silently.  Exit code 0, which means everything was just fine, which it clearly isn't.

I would install another 64-bit copy of Eclipse and be done with it, but I can't do that.  The compilers for this DSP make a lot of changes to Eclipse, so I have to use this one, and I have no idea how to correctly tell it which JVM to use.  I would try installing another 32-bit JVM in my home directory and pointing to that, but there are so many environment variables and paths and other ridiculous configuration stuff that frankly at this point I'm just not doing it.

This is just stupid beyond words.

I am never going to get anything done on my research.  The one chance I have time to work on it, I have utterly stupid technical problems preventing me from spending that time on it!  Since it's Sunday, there's nobody here who can even help try to diagnose and debug it.  I sure as heck am not going to try to play system admin and fool around with the main JVM install even though I have sudo access, because I'd probably manage to screw up the configuration even more.

Screw it.  I'm going home where I can work on another project that I can at least get something accomplished on.  Maybe it will lead into something I can use in my dissertation, because at this point I don't think I'll ever even get a topic for it, much less finish it.

[Redzephyr01]

When do computer classes start in USA anyways? I remember starting computer classes during 4th grade.

For me, it started in 9th grade.

[Darvi]

Tenth grade here. Depending on what you define "Computer Classes" as.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I got a class on how to use a computer and the internet in either 3rd or 4th grade.

[Flying Dice]

It was the same for me, around third grade. Of course, the computers were IBM boxes older than us, and all they bothered to do was stick us in the lab and give us a keyboarding exercise, which 90% of us promptly ignored in favor of slooooowly messing about on the internet. Oh, and I mistakenly got put into a computer class in my freshman year of HS, but that was one of those "Both we and you know that you're going to drop out and not go to college, so we'll try to teach you how to type and use Excel" classes.

[Dutchling]

I have a sister who kicks her pc when it doesn't "listen to her".

She is twenty years old.

[penguinofhonor]

My brother gets viruses on computers like it's his job, and then he usually throws his laptop when it isn't working. I'm glad he's getting a desktop next.

[Graknorke]

I have a sister who kicks her pc when it doesn't "listen to her".

She is twenty years old.

Voice recognition software is still awful. Seriously don't use that.

[Jopax]

I got most of my stuff either from my cousin, at the local computer shop where I was taking practical lessions (basically third and fourth grades of highschool you have to find a place where you work for nothing for four hours a week, I got this local shop which had some cool dudes in it which taught me a bit) and everything after that was googling how to do something, because that's the easiest thing to do these days

[Darvi]

Percussive maintenance, breaking your shit even worse since forever.

[Frumple]

Hey, percussive maintenance works. It makes the problem go away, one way or another.

[Graknorke]

Percussive maintenance, breaking your shit even worse since forever.

I've had a few electronic devices where percussive maintenance was actually pretty good. I think one was a shitty freeview box. A few violent shocks into the internal workings seemed to make it stop refusing to work.