technology fails me again
Sep. 30th, 2002 11:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanI so hate this. I have got to get me a real, functional computer for home.
So yesterday I finish the transcript of Buffy "Two to Go." I try to download one of my older transcripts off Psyche so I can snag the HTML from it. But when I do "save as" from Netscape on my Mac, it doesn't save the HTML code for some reason. I just get the formatted text. Okay, so I try "view source." Netscape tries to open the source in SimpleText but it complains that the file is too big, so no dice. I should mention that there were several crashes mixed in there. My Mac, with its nice little G3 accelerator card, crashes a lot. Sigh. (I speculate that it's because there isn't much disk space left. It only has one gig... sigh.)
So after several rounds of rebooting, trying again to download off Psyche, crashing and rebooting again, etc., finally I decide, okay, I give up, I'll just slap the transcript text up on my temp FTP directory, grab it when I get in to work, and do the HTMLing from there. So of course my FTP program crashes a few times, but *finally* I get it to run and upload the thing, in both text and Word-doc format.
So today, I FTP the files down and try to get it done. But the text version is incomplete -- it stops halfway through a sentence, about 90% of the way through the episode -- and the doc version refuses to open. Word complains that "the filename or path is invalid," which is obviously false since I'm double-clicking the damn thing. I'm trying to open it in WordPad, but it has now been sitting there for about fifteen minutes with a little hourglass -- not crashed to "not responding" yet, but sure as shit not opening the document either.
I fucking hate Microsoft.
So now the transcript's not going to be up till tomorrow, obviously. I'll have to try to email myself the HTML code, and then hope the damn Mac will stay up long enough to code the new transcript tonight. Argh!!!
I would love to get a brand new spiffy Mac, but given my current state of finances, I'll probably have to go for a Windoze machine simply because it's cheaper. Now if only I could find somewhere to get one with Win98. Or W2K. I just don't want WinXP, dammit.
Fuck you, Bill Gates. Fuck you to hell and back.
I hate Mondays too.
So yesterday I finish the transcript of Buffy "Two to Go." I try to download one of my older transcripts off Psyche so I can snag the HTML from it. But when I do "save as" from Netscape on my Mac, it doesn't save the HTML code for some reason. I just get the formatted text. Okay, so I try "view source." Netscape tries to open the source in SimpleText but it complains that the file is too big, so no dice. I should mention that there were several crashes mixed in there. My Mac, with its nice little G3 accelerator card, crashes a lot. Sigh. (I speculate that it's because there isn't much disk space left. It only has one gig... sigh.)
So after several rounds of rebooting, trying again to download off Psyche, crashing and rebooting again, etc., finally I decide, okay, I give up, I'll just slap the transcript text up on my temp FTP directory, grab it when I get in to work, and do the HTMLing from there. So of course my FTP program crashes a few times, but *finally* I get it to run and upload the thing, in both text and Word-doc format.
So today, I FTP the files down and try to get it done. But the text version is incomplete -- it stops halfway through a sentence, about 90% of the way through the episode -- and the doc version refuses to open. Word complains that "the filename or path is invalid," which is obviously false since I'm double-clicking the damn thing. I'm trying to open it in WordPad, but it has now been sitting there for about fifteen minutes with a little hourglass -- not crashed to "not responding" yet, but sure as shit not opening the document either.
I fucking hate Microsoft.
So now the transcript's not going to be up till tomorrow, obviously. I'll have to try to email myself the HTML code, and then hope the damn Mac will stay up long enough to code the new transcript tonight. Argh!!!
I would love to get a brand new spiffy Mac, but given my current state of finances, I'll probably have to go for a Windoze machine simply because it's cheaper. Now if only I could find somewhere to get one with Win98. Or W2K. I just don't want WinXP, dammit.
Fuck you, Bill Gates. Fuck you to hell and back.
I hate Mondays too.
