games: April 2006 archives
On Moving Data, Losing Data, a Short Essay on Why Finder Sucks, Deleting Data, and Gaming, Mostly as an Excuse to Use This Ridiculously Long Title
[ rakaur on Wed Apr 26 at 02:27 AM // category: apple, games, software, technology, unix ]
And so it is done. Mostly.
I gave Gentoo a big “fuck you, Gentoo Linux, you suck.” I now have Windows XP on daedalus, and it is now my gaming machine. And I am happy. This was not easy, though.
You see, being my main machine until now, daedalus had the biggest hard drive I had laying around, which is 200GiB, to store all my stuff like video and music. This was on a 160GiB partition under ReiserFS. This was bad. I had to transfer everything off my 200GiB hard drive onto various places on my network (including my mom’s computer proteus, my server cyndane, my laptop praxis, and my iPod ePod). Along the way, my entire collection of Red vs Blue and The Elegant Universe Nova series seems to have up and disappeared. I transferred it back to daedalus under Windows, it was there, and now it’s just gone like it never existed. And I am sad. I think it’s because Finder crashed a few times while relocating stuff.
And—let me digress for a moment—that’s another thing. Why does the Finder suck so bad? So far my experience has gone something like this:
- Apple’s hardware — Pissing me off with the retarded MBP issues, noises, AirPort retardation, but not pissing me off as much as PC hardware.
- Apple’s customer support — If you badger them into acknowledging the actual existence of a problem, which is not an easy thing to do short of screaming “stop ignoring me like a million people have this issue stop acting like you have no idea what I’m talking about you fucking moron,” not so bad, really.
- Apple’s software — So great. The honeymoon is not yet over.
So why does the Finder suck such a multitude of cocks? It sucks just as bad as Explorer, and in just about the same ways. It randomly crashes and disappears and relaunches ten seconds later. It randomly refuses to do things because “the file is in use” until you log out and back in (restarting it is not enough). It randomly refuses to do things over the network that it was doing yesterday just fine. Even if I turn on the “Prevent .DS_Store creation over network” option it STILL shits .DS_Store files in every single directory you view, and as a result my entire media partition on daedalus is infested with these. I’d expect this if I was using 10.0, but this is 10.4.6. Yeah that’s great add stupid and spectacularly useless shit like Dashboard, but completely ignore how much Finder blows.
Anyway, as I was saying.
One of the good things about having to relocate 100+ GiB of data is that it kind of sets your priorities on what you need and what you’ll never ever look at ever again ever. I wound up deleting more than half the stuff I was going to save.
So now, daedalus has XP on it, and I am playing games, and I am happy. My original plan was to install X on cyndane, and I might yet, but not until the need arises. Until then, I’ll be playing some games.
-- rakaur // 2006.04.26 @ 02:27 AM
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