A bad day at work

I came to work early this morning, after a relaxing weekend, prepared to have a productive week. I needed a source control for a small project I am working on with 2 other coworkers. Recently, I noticed that most major open source projects such as Apache Software Projects and Hibernate, have switched over to Subversion. So I decided to give it a try. Documentations are well written and installation is a breeze. The only road block I ran into is the loader having trouble reading config files with the UTF-8 BOM marks. I edited one of the config files with Textpad and it automatically added the BOM mark causing the config loader to complain about "Section header expected".

Anyway, after I came back from lunch, I noticed a BSOD showing on my Windows machine. I tried rebooting the machine couple times with different start up options, but still fail. I figured at this point, it is a hardware failure which I can't fix. I contacted IT, 4 hours later (now), I am still waiting for the guy to show up at my cube.

Luckily, I have a freebsd box with KDE installed, which I have never used before, sitting next to my feet. I decided to fire Konqueror up and do some blogging while waiting for the IT guy to show up. But I am really disappointed with KDE. I couldn't finish this blog because in less than an hour, Konqueror crashed 3 times on me. Then I decided to write my blog in KWrite and copy over. In a short while, KWrite crashed on me as well. I sure hope the IT guy can fix my machine early in the morning tomorrow so I can get out of this KDE nightmare.