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Colorado Man Ends Battle With Computer by Shooting it 8 Times

posted by mrcoolbp on Wednesday April 22 2015, @06:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the dagnabbit-stupid-freaking.... dept.

Grishnakh writes:

A 37-year-old Colorado Springs man was cited for discharging a weapon within city limits after shooting his Dell computer 8 times with a 9mm handgun. The police report said that he "was fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months" and shot it in a back alley behind his home. What was not mentioned is exactly why he was so "fed up" with his computer. Could this senseless and violent tragedy have been avoided if his PC were running Linux instead?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @08:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @08:45AM (#173884)

    I concur. At the moment, I've got a Linux HTPC, which for some reason loses the X server at every single boot-up, and I need to reboot to make it go. Can't work out why.

    Worse than that, for some reason music (mp3, flac, and so forth) will play just fine after I unmute the system (which mutes at every boot-up), but videos will not play with sound unless I start a music track, start a video track, and then kill the music track.

    Then, sometimes skipping ahead or back, stopping, or pausing, will cause the sound to disappear and I need to run the music track.

    Motherfucking computers.

    I wish I had a handgun.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by cafebabe on Wednesday April 22 2015, @10:23PM

    by cafebabe (894) on Wednesday April 22 2015, @10:23PM (#174140) Journal

    You're possibly experiencing the joy of PulseAudio. I deleted it from my system without consequence because most applications requiring sound connect to ALSA (the next tier down in the software stack) if PulseAudio is not found.

    I wish I had a handgun.

    You're not the first person to say that after encountering Lennart Poettering's software.

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