software: October 2004 archives
The X Windows Disaster
[ rakaur on Mon Oct 04 at 06:49 AM // category: health, life, software, technology, unix ]
I hate X.
Saturday, the picture tube in my monitor finally decided to shit the bed and died. It’d been doing wacky things like turning off and resetting itself for the last two weeks.
So, I go out and get a new one. Same size, same brand, same specs. I plug it in and lo and behold, all of my fonts in X are gargantuan for no reason. Now, please, someone explain to me why changing my monitor fucks up my fonts in X. Everything is still fine and dandy in Windows. So I redo my XF86Config and they’re still borked. Recompile fontconfig and they’re still borked. Recompile X and XFT and they’re still borked. Recompile GTK and they’re still borked. I don’t get it. I’m going to have to reinstall my entire OS because X won’t display my fonts correctly.
But wait, I can’t do that, either! A quick (ha!) scan with badblocks reveals that it is indeed my primary hard drive that randomly clicks and spins down and won’t spin up again for hours. Swift! I’m just going to wipe this computer and either a) sell it or; b) let it sit until I can afford a hard drive so big that by the next time I’d need a bigger one they’ll have holographic storage workly properly.
I swear to God I should just get a Mac.
On an unrelated note my back is worse than ever. I don’t know what the hell I did to it but I could hardly move at all last night. A night’s rest on a heated waterbed seems to have done some good, but I don’t expect that to last all day.
Hopefully I can make it through class.
-- rakaur // 2004.10.04 @ 06:49 AM
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