Blaming the tools
Nov. 8th, 2011 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI've passed a deeply ineffective day, wasting time I didn't really have to waste, trying to get my desktop system into a semi-usable state after the support people upgraded to Red Hat 6. To be fair, it wasn't so much the upgrade to RHEL6 that did the damage — although I noticed a few of my existing tools had been struck down by 64bit disease — but the switch over to the GNOME desktop.
Despite the limited range of my standard set of applications — emacs, firefox, xterm, mutt — it took me an hour or so to get things into a semi-usable state. And then something like that again to duplicate the most heavily used — and hardwired into muscle memory — keyboard shortcuts. All of which served to put me in a less than delightful mode.
But on the plus side, I've realised just how much garbage has accumulated in my setup over the year. I'm starting to wonder whether now might not be a good time to declare configuration file bankruptcy and, instead of trying to copy everything forward, just to copy the stuff that I really can't live without. That alone should be enough to keep me out of mischief for the next month or so...
Despite the limited range of my standard set of applications — emacs, firefox, xterm, mutt — it took me an hour or so to get things into a semi-usable state. And then something like that again to duplicate the most heavily used — and hardwired into muscle memory — keyboard shortcuts. All of which served to put me in a less than delightful mode.
But on the plus side, I've realised just how much garbage has accumulated in my setup over the year. I'm starting to wonder whether now might not be a good time to declare configuration file bankruptcy and, instead of trying to copy everything forward, just to copy the stuff that I really can't live without. That alone should be enough to keep me out of mischief for the next month or so...
