Weird, this post didn't start with "Folks"; I'm not even sure this is the real Greg Keogh ...
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Another thing I lost when upgrading my domain was my several hundred rated > songs in Media Play (V9 or V10, I can’t remember). I rated the songs over a > period of two years or so. In the old player there was a Ratings tree node > that open out to 1,2,3,4,5 stars with lists inside. > > I found the old WMDB file on my old hard drive. I renamed the current one > buried deep under the Users folder and tried to trick the player into using > the old one with the same name. WMP V12 opens up empty, and the UI has > changed utterly, leaving me hopelessly bumbling around in it trying to > figure out why the library navigation tree is tiny and where all the files > are. I know it’s an attempted hack, but it fails confusingly and utterly. > The V12 UI is a stinking incomprehensible abomination. > > This is just another misery I add to my whiteboard which contains a growing > list of complete f**k ups following the domain changeover. I have ISAPI > filters broken; domain groups being ignored; NTFS permission problems; > application settings reset to defaults; SQL Server authentication problems; > tedious recreation of ASP.NET apps; etc (and I’ve not even listed the misery > my wife is having with dozens of her app settings being reset). > > In the last few days I’ve lost about 24 man-hours in unpaid time trying to > get our office network back to a productive state. Is this the future of > computing? Nah, the future of computing is quantum! :) (well, that, or some appropriate learnings from that applied to current computing; to be more boring). > I can’t see it getting any better. As each year passes and I > upgrade machines and networks, the apocalyptic tangle of versions, products, > compatibility issues and inter-dependencies just gets worse and worse. The > Windows operating systems and all of the tools, products, kits, drivers, > devices and options that hang off it have passed critical mass and I’m > getting radiation burns. Surely I’m not alone. At least complaining makes me > feel better. > > Greg -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > Fancy a quantum lunch? http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."
