The Root Cause, pt. 3
11 04 09 - 16:48 Category: .
Have you ever thought to yourself "this is what will eventually drive me crazy"? I do, and somewhat frequently. It's kind of like the "something will kill me, might as well be X" statement, only a little better.
They're the moments of mundane suffering that you can do nothing about and that repeat themselves to the point that your brain wants to fold in on itself and die. I'm going to go batty someday, the cause is still up for vote. I've decided to keep a list, and here is the latest installment:
First, I had an “Oh hells yeah!” moment at work today. When I imported a client's trial balance into our software I was only out of balance $1. KICK ASS. Update, I'm now out of balance by $535, but it was exciting at the time.
I’m running Excel, IE, Outlook, Engagement (our TB software) and ProSystems (our tax software). Engagement eats computers alive. The program itself is obese, and then each document you open within it is an additional Microsoft Office document. So effectively when working I’m running that list plus 1-3 more Excel documents.
Our systems are pretty nice, they’re running 2.12gHz Intel 6400 duel cores. But they’re running these with one gig of RAM (DDR2 at least). Engagement alone recommends a 2.8gHz processor and 2 gigs of RAM AND explicitly states “Additional memory improves performance and may be required to run additional applications simultaneously.” One gig is the minimum requirement. I've gotten "not enough memory" messages multiple times. I hate sitting here while my computer locks up for ONE program.
Internet Explorer. We've been explicitly told for security reasons we have to use IE, and cannot use Firefox. Yes, I laughed. Coupled with my gimped PC, it's unbearable trash. The tab functionality is slow to the point of causing me physical pain.
Today, it decided to enter some degenerative loop of continually opening tabs, consequently continually freezing itself up. It was glorious in the most hellish of ways.