Sick to death of unreliable operating systems and tools.

This is ridiculous. I get a .psd forwarded to me, so I fire up Photoshop
on my Vista box, wait a few minutes for the splash screen to go away,
and drag and drop the .psd into it.

Both the Photoshop window and the Explorer window with the .psd file
hang as soon as the mouse pointer hits the Photoshop window, and
*before* I let go of the mouse button.

I wait five minutes. No recovery. I wait another five. Status quo.

So I decide to kill the Photoshop process and restart Photoshop to try
again, maybe this time using the tedious method of File->Open and
navigating a file browser dialog to find the stupid .psd file.

Only nothing happens when I End Task Photoshop in Task Manager. I go to
Processes, find it there, End Process -- also no effect.

OK, this calls for the big guns. Pull up ProcessExplorer. Find
Photoshop. End process.

No dice.

WHAT THE ****, MAN?!

That's at least FOUR separate bugs in various tools, TWO of which are
Microsoft's, ALL of them seemingly conspiring to stop me either viewing
this ****ing .psd file OR cancelling out of the attempt.

1. The Photoshop hang. Bug in Photoshop CS2. Applications should never
hang. If Photoshop doesn't like the .psd file for whatever reason
it should give a sensible error message rather than die like that.

2. The Explorer window hang. Bug in Microsoft Explorer. Applications
should never hang.

3. Task Manager silently fails to end the Photoshop process, even when
used from the Administrator account. Bug in Microsoft Task Manager.
When logged in as Administrator someone should be able to terminate
any process they ****ing well please and it should succeed
immediately and 100% of the time.

4. Bug in SysInternals' ProcessExplorer. Same reasoning.

Time to reboot this ****ing box for probably the fifth time or so today,
god****ingdammit.

I'm getting sorely tempted to switch to Linux. If that is there is a
usable port of Photoshop to that OS.

--
public final class JSnarker
extends JComponent
A JSnarker is an NNTP-aware component that asynchronously provides
snarky output when the Ego.needsPuncturing() event is fired in cljp.

On 15/06/2011 1:02 PM, Paul wrote:
> javax.swing.JSnarker wrote:
>> [weeks-old litany of woe deleted]
>>
>> Time to reboot this ****ing box for probably the fifth time or so today,
>> god****ingdammit.
>>
>> I'm getting sorely tempted to switch to Linux. If that is there is a
>> usable port of Photoshop to that OS.
>
> Linux uses "GIMP" - Takes a bit of learning curve

Translation: not a *usable* port...

--
public final class JSnarker
extends JComponent
A JSnarker is an NNTP-aware component that asynchronously provides
snarky output when the Ego.needsPuncturing() event is fired in cljp.

javax.swing.JSnarker wrote:
> This is ridiculous. I get a .psd forwarded to me, so I fire up Photoshop
> on my Vista box, wait a few minutes for the splash screen to go away,
> and drag and drop the .psd into it.
>
> Both the Photoshop window and the Explorer window with the .psd file
> hang as soon as the mouse pointer hits the Photoshop window, and
> *before* I let go of the mouse button.
>
> I wait five minutes. No recovery. I wait another five. Status quo.
>
> So I decide to kill the Photoshop process and restart Photoshop to try
> again, maybe this time using the tedious method of File->Open and
> navigating a file browser dialog to find the stupid .psd file.
>
> Only nothing happens when I End Task Photoshop in Task Manager. I go to
> Processes, find it there, End Process -- also no effect.
>
> OK, this calls for the big guns. Pull up ProcessExplorer. Find
> Photoshop. End process.
>
> No dice.
>
> WHAT THE ****, MAN?!
>
> That's at least FOUR separate bugs in various tools, TWO of which are
> Microsoft's, ALL of them seemingly conspiring to stop me either viewing
> this ****ing .psd file OR cancelling out of the attempt.
>
> 1. The Photoshop hang. Bug in Photoshop CS2. Applications should never
> hang. If Photoshop doesn't like the .psd file for whatever reason
> it should give a sensible error message rather than die like that.
>
> 2. The Explorer window hang. Bug in Microsoft Explorer. Applications
> should never hang.
>
> 3. Task Manager silently fails to end the Photoshop process, even when
> used from the Administrator account. Bug in Microsoft Task Manager.
> When logged in as Administrator someone should be able to terminate
> any process they ****ing well please and it should succeed
> immediately and 100% of the time.
>
> 4. Bug in SysInternals' ProcessExplorer. Same reasoning.
>
> Time to reboot this ****ing box for probably the fifth time or so today,
> god****ingdammit.
>
> I'm getting sorely tempted to switch to Linux. If that is there is a
> usable port of Photoshop to that OS.
>
Linux uses "GIMP" - Takes a bit of learning curve