My “work” yesterday consisted almost entirely of dealing with faulty software.
The 4 year old PC that I have at work had ground to a halt and needed a complete reinstall of the operating system. Then I found that I couldn’t get hold of drivers for the video card, that had worked previously, that let me rotate my screens to portrait mode.
My daughter’s car needs to be driven miles to the main dealer because the airbag light is on, which would make it fail its MOT. The local mechanics can’t clear fault codes for such new cars. It’s 6 years old. (The airbag light is a real case of using “safety” as an excuse for dangerous and dishonest business practices). The dealers are suggesting £120 as a starting figure.
The slide scanner at home turns out not to work on Macs or under Windows 7, so more, perfectly good, hardware will end as landfill because the software is lousy. That, and the Epsom printer that is just the wrong age to understand the Epsom control codes from our accounting software.
