When I got up this morning I had one piece of crisp bread and a glass of milk. After that I had some fun with chatting some on IRC while doing situps now and then. In total I did 70 situps and IRC’ed for about one hour. I had a good feeling when I left for work. The feeling did not last. I keep wondering what it is that fills me with such anger about my work. Today I’ve been (as the Pointy Hairy Boss says it in Dilbert) ‘tasked’ with the not so trivial job of getting gcc to work propperly on a machine that does not work propperly at all. The only things that work on the sorry piece of sh*t is the system it’s suppose to run, it’s just, it needs to be updated, until it’s put out of service in a month or so (well, atleast acording to a certain boss it’s suppose to be replaced by the end of january 2005).

There’s no reward in looking at endless amounts of gcc errors scrolling by on the screen hour after hour. Thus I’ve tried to dig into the source and look what may have gone wrong. The problem is that as the system is still in production I can’t really mess too much with it. One thing that I have found is that gcc will not work propperly because glibc were replaced with an incorrect version some two years ago. Yay for that. I think I’ll just have to sit duck and wait for things to crash so I can claim victory when moving everything over to another system. The only problem is that, when, not if, this sh*t decides to crash, I will be blamed for that too. Fun eh?

I guess I need some lunch now *sigh*.