Why I Hate Technology
It’s a pain to deal with.
I tried setting up Gallery on my personal blog, thinking that it would do a much better job of keeping my photos straight than whatever basic script I had written up/stolen and mercilessly hacked from some tutorial site.
For the record, I find Gallery to be one of the most clumsily set up and evidently bloated scripts, ever. The installation was comprised of something like 15 different tabs, each of which one had to review in the case that it had some required setting or something that was simply incorrectly detected. I get through it, though, and come upon the ugly template I apparently selected.
No matter, I can change it, just as soon as I log in.
But I can’t log in. It doesn’t like my admin password, and it tells me the admin user doesn’t exist when I tell it to e-mail me my password.
This is a problem when the script tells me it’s set up a user called admin and I otherwise have no means of accessing the backend of my gallery.
So using my shell, which conveniently enough lags like nothing else because I’m SSHing into Sweden, I reset the admin password however many times, and rerun through the setup. I change a couple settings, move a few files, all in hopes that it’ll matter and fix something. But no dice.
Why oh why doesn’t this stuff just work?
I eventually gave up with Gallery 1.4, and tried out the G2 alpha 4 release. Despite the warnings that there will likely be no way to upgrade it cleanly to the beta releases, it’s something I’ll have to deal with given it’s the only way I could get it to run.
G2, by the way, is much cleaner than its predecessor. Not as much fun to work with as WordPress is, but it works. Now if only there was a quick and easy way to ignore all views by site admins, I’d be pleased. That along with a mass edit mode. Though I will say the Gallery Remote program is nearly a godsend, or at least would be if editing were a tad easier.
But the biting issue remains, and I’m faced with using an alpha product on a production site with no way to upgrade it. Such as life?
In similar news, I downloaded the A02 ROM update for my Axim X50v, and dutifully installed it. And while I haven’t seen any problems with the unit itself (I suppose it’s a bit zippier in general, though there are third party drivers that still boast superior GAPI performance), ActiveSync goes far in showing how awful Microsoft’s whole implementation of that waste of CPU time is. There is no simple way of setting the unit back up after a ROM upgrade unless you want ActiveSync thinking you’re using a different device, and I don’t really want to know my device now as AximX50v2.
I’d like to say I’m confident that ActiveSync 4.0 will fix at least some of this, but for some reason my hopes aren’t high.