Howard Young

Guess what? On May 1, 2008 your Quicken 2005 will become NFG when you can’t access your financial accounts anymore.  Now of course, if you enter all your records by hand, you don’t have to worry. Perfectly great software going down the drain.

Please, someone at Intuit tell me why?  The last time I had to upgrade from Quicken 2002 to Quicken 2005 was because Intuit changed the QIF API to OFX.   I loved 2002 with a very natural UI and hated 2005 with it’s new UI.  Took me months to get used to it.

After I upgrade to Quicken 2008 and find out that Intuit didn’t change the API or put a stupid Office 2007 UI, guess what, I’m not going to upgrade to Quicken 2011 in three years.

Simply put, one of our computers crashed and I’m not too happy about it. Old Faithful, PLMS1 Linux file and email server, RIP. Now instead of enjoying my weekend, I’m going through the process of restoring email, Perforce and whaever else was lingering on that file server.

I’ve been planning to retire PLMS1 this year, trying to go green and virtualize servers on a multi-core workstation. Another 6 months and PLMS1 would have been decommissioned and moved over to a Virutal Ubutu server.

So now, some of my development projects are put on hold right now. God, sometimes I just hate computers.