Cry of Frustration

In the interest of getting our appalling equipment at work up to speed, someone thought it would be a good idea to get into open source software. Guess who (with no training what so ever) gets to lead this new, arbitrary initiative?

I really don't like it. I'm used to an operating system that does everything for you in the background. Sure it costs money, but you pay for the ease of double-clicking a file and having it open for you instead of going through a terminal command prompt, changing permissions on the file, changing the way it opens, opening it through some obscure string of code and then finally having it tell you it is incompatible with your OS. It's almost as if it can't decide whether it's DOS or a Mac.

We've tried Kubuntu and SuSE and I'm not jumping on the Linux-is-great-Windows-is-the-devil bandwagon. The directory system is enough to put me off, as is the difficulty I've had with updating things like Firefox or Konqueror.

I've used Open Office at home and that was fine. Not as fancy as Word 2003 but I would use it if I didn't have the cash for Microsoft's word processor. I'm not entirely against open source software but if I have the choice then I'm very likely to sway towards the corporate giants' way. I even had a nightmares about Linux last night, not that I could sleep very well.

In other news my bike is in for its 5,000 mile service. I should be picking it up this afternoon. And on the topic of bikes, Kawasaki seem to have decided that burnt-candy-orange wasn't the right colour for the Versys and have gone for Ninja-lime-green on their website for it. Why? Are all Kawasaki bikes going to be lime green now? The only alternative apart from suicide-black now is some kind of electric blue which is even more vomit-provoking.