Oh $#!+

• March 7th, 2006 • • computers, meandering •

Ug, ug, ug and UG.

As previously mentioned, the new computer is great. Little Pearl happily pulls her weight and everything goes so smoothly.

BUT. (Note the big, huge BUT.) For some bizarre reason Dreamweaver MX 2004 will not run on my operating system, Tiger 4.5. I install everything ok, it sits there and hangs when I try to start the program. Macromedia/Adobe has offered up a few “patches;” sadly one of the patches I installed locked up while it was installing. (Even worse, this is an issue with the newest version of the program, DW8.)

In both the DW forums and Apple forums, people are well aware of this problem. The best advice several had to offer was, “You have to decide which is more important: DW or Tiger.” Another stated that he called up Macromedia/Adobe’s tech support and was given the ol’ song and dance of “We are currently working to resolve these issues.” Well, good thing I didn’t waste any money calling them up.

There are two reasons this made me beyond angry last night: 1) I cannot do work for a small company I was going to revamp a website for. This is after me convincing them they needed a make-over badly. 2) Gallery work for the Epicycloids has come to a grinding halt. I’ve considered completely forgetting about DW, and trying to do the site in iWeb, Blogger or MSWord. Sadly, I like the way my website looks and functions much too much for that. (And I just figured out how to make .ASP headers and footers! Gimmie a break!)

I’ve mused that this is some divine sign telling me to get the hell out of the house and do a big, messy painting and take a break from neat and tidy watercolored ink drawings. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. What frustrates me is I am still not sure what to do about the situation. The Internet has really become my own personal gallery, and right now it’s as if there has been some metal dome clapped over my means of sharing art (albiet in sporadic upgrades).

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