The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

Go figure.

Monday, February 21, 2022

This will take some time

Belial, the annoying Mac Laptop proved to be too annoying to use last week, so I left it off to do some actual work on Friday. I set aside today just to do updates, and the first thing was to install the developer tools, per the popup message when I tried running the C compiler. The initial time estimate to download and install the developer tools? 104 hours—over four days. In reality, the estimate kept bouncing up and down quite a bit—Apple certainly took a lot of notes from Microsoft—and it ended up taking a few hours. But hey, the process is the process, and we must process the process to ensure the process has been processed, right? Right.

Next up was Microsoft Teams. We use it for meetings and it refused to run on the new Mac laptop until its been updated. Of course. So let that run its course over a few more hours and hurrah! It runs! So now I can attend meetings on Belial, the annoying Mac Laptop. Hurrah?

I also had to update some security software running on the box. I swear, it seems like my job is to just update the corporate laptops.

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