When you're accessing four different machines from your own, that's a kind of nonsense. Funny nonsense, but still nonsense. When you experience running a virtual machine from another machine that you're accessing over remote desktop connection from your own machine, then you'll know nonsense. It's a moment where you sit and the only thought in your mind is, "what the hell?" And it's not like dealing with stupidity or even nonsense born out of stupidity. That sort of thing makes you mad, frustrated, or even just numbs you. Real nonsense is that moment of clarity where you realize that whatever you're doing or just did is completely absurd, and not because of something you or someone else did. It just is.
My current foray into nonsense-world is what inspires the title for this post. Consider the following:
1) A license manager software that is 10+ years old and made for Windows NT Server and Windows 3.11 and 95 clients, being set up for 2) the latest version of a particular research software, released in late 2008, installed on 3) a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 4) that I am accessing by Remote Desktop Connection, 5) and which requires a USB license dongle 6) that is connected to a completely different server 7) located in a different building on a different campus 8) that I am accessing over the network 9) via a piece of software that creates a virtual USB hub and shares the dongle to that virtual hub.
Short version, I'm installing a 12 year old license manager on a Windows platform that is ~4 versions beyond it on a machine that technically doesn't exist using a usb device that technically is not connected to it.
...the hell?
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You of course are forgetting to point out that the whole reason for this non-sense is because a) management doesn't want to fork over money for another dongle and b) someone is also using that dongle which is probably technically pirating the software.
I should also point out that this house of cards is set to collapse the moment any one of those precarious components breaks in some way.
Not quite. If those two points were true, then this would be stupidity, not nonsense.
Your second comment though, yea, pretty much spot on. Hell, it's already breaking to a degree. Can't get the license manager to consistently work after restarts.
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