10:43 PM

I think I’ve lost whatever computer sense I had. The path to the dark side is so easy!

I know I said I’d wait until November to upgrade Arbonne to Fedora Core 3. I know that there’s no absolute pressing need to upgrade. I know Fedora Core 2 let me down, and the constant upgrade path bit me in the ass before. (Actually, now that I think about it, most all the entries in this category are from disasters along the upgrade path. Damn hamster wheel!) I know all of this.

But all of that pales before the simplicity of editing /etc/yum.conf to point to the Fedora repositories, running yum -y upgrade a few times to find all the dependencies, rpm -e to all the dependencies, and then yum -y upgrade one last time. Wait a few hours, or maybe a day or two to download everything, and realize that a watched upgrade doesn’t finish. The excitement! What new things will I get? Will it work? Will I need to rebuild my system? Will I leave a smoking hole in my office? I don’t know, but it’s fantastic!

Whatsa meesa doing?