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I’d highly recommend you not bother reading this post, as it’s just fury-inspired ranting, full of gratuitous foul language.

If there are any of you out there who actually read this nonsense I write here with regularity, you’ll remember I’ve ranted before about how much I hate computers.

I have a house guest who’s been here for a week. I love the guy, but he talks too much. One of the things he loves talking about is how great the Macintosh is. I’d rather stick hot pokers in my eyes before switching back to a Mac. And yet he goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on about how great System 10 is. And one of his constant refrains is that you plug any peripheral into it and it automatically recognizes it. He’s an older guy, in his early 60s, and he loves that old time rock ‘n’ roll. So I spent an hour ripping a bunch of CDs from my collection that I wanted to burn onto a writable disk for him.

For whatever reason, I have never gotten into the whole MP3 craze. I like normal music CDs. You pay for it, like you pay for a book or other intellectual property, put it in a CD player and listen to it. No hassle. So I don’t often burn CDs. Can’t remember when the last time I did so. Months ago. But of course I have a CD burner, so I dusted it off, plugged it in and booted up. Last time I used it, worked fine. No problem. This time:

0xc000221 error. “usbu2a.sys file not found.”

What the fuck?

Here’s what Google recommends for a search of “0xc000221.” Please, bite me!!! You want me to read all that and figure out what the hell is wrong?

So I’ve spent the last two hours trying to troubleshoot this to the best of my ability with my feable little pea-sized brain, to no avail because apparently I’m just too stupid to use this equipment I’ve paid thousands of dollars for… I know what’s going to happen. I’m going to have to call Nero and screw around for hours with tech support rebooting my computer 100 times. And then I’ll have to end up reinstalling Windows or just buy another CD burner in dispair, like I had to do with my printer last fall, last time I ranted about how much I hate fucking computers.

I’ve been using computers for 20 years. Twenty miserable, hate-filled years. I had my first computer, an Apple II Plus (a piece of shit), in 1983. Yet a colleague informs me tonight that the problem is with me. I’m apparently just too stupid to be trusted with these machines.

Phonographs work. Cassette players work. Televisions work. Telephones work. Newspapers work. Typewriters work. Bread machines, microwaves, beds, bricks and many, many other things simply work. Why the hell don’t computers just fucking work?!

And the worst of it is I’m going to have to listen to my house guest in the morning harangue me about if I only had a Mac, I wouldn’t have any such problems. Aside from the hot pokers in my eyes….

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