Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

12 Dec 2001, 12:23 p.m.

Expression of dismay and frustration. This morning, my computer…

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2001 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

Expression of dismay and frustration. This morning, my computer developed an incomprehensibly sudden dysfunction in booting up and automatically starting X. Thus, I spent a bunch of time futzing around with X-related files (many props to Leonard for patiently working the tech support gig) and then, once it became evident that I'm stuck in Command-Line World for now, I spent a bunch of time being defeated by ppp. So now I'm on campus in the OCF so I can type this and check my email.