peeps, hope everyone's doing well.
moonshineshadow: I wanted to finish my report for work so that I don't need to do it next week during the conference.
Therefore I need to run my simulation to generate some graphics. I am using a free circuit simulation software which has been developed by another university two years ago and which is quite good.
Since of course the software was not installed on my laptop, I went to the website to download it again.
Yeah but it is not free anymore.. which they are not telling you directly on the website... so I downloaded, installed and tried to use it... but you can not run simulations, they tell you to get a licence. After finally finding out what that is all about, I find a very hidden price list... They now charge over 1000 Euros for a licence o.O
So I tried to find an old version... but the internet did not want to help me... finally I remembered that I might have copied the old installer on my usb stick since I regularly backup files from work there... so lucky me, the installer was there...
Installed and tried to run my simulation... but no, tons of errors... after a while I found out, that the Java I have on this laptop is too new... so I needed to deinstall and get an old version... so finally it is working now.... But I just wasted 1,5h because of this shit -.-
On a more serious note - I feel for you, I find this sort of things pretty irritating myself.
AgentBirdnest: Silly blob! There are three things that you never ask a lady! 1) Her age... 2) Her weight... and most importantly 3) NEVER ask if they are pregnant. My brother found that last one out the hard way, which ended in the poor woman getting a box of chocolates from him as an apology :-D