Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

XXXX you, Apple. XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX you, Apple!

No, seriously, you can go XXXX yourself, Apple.

The backup [1]? Went smooth. And way faster than I expected. The upgrade to El Presidente de Por Vida [2]? It took longer than the 30 minute estimate it gave, but eh, I can live with that. And my files were still there. That's good.

Less good? Oh, let's see … I had statically set the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the Mac and Apple blew that setting away. Good one! I had a VPN (Virtual Private Network) configured for work, operational word there being **had**. Apple blew those settings away.

[DELETED-Apple also deleted everything I had under /usr/local/bin.

XXXX you, Apple.

So there went my only OS X compiled version of Synergy [3].

Have I told you to XXXX off yet, Apple?

No?

XXXX off.

I still had the source, but guess what?

>

```

source='CArch.cpp' object='CArch.o' libtool=no \

depfile='.deps/CArch.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/CArch.TPo' \

MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.2 depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../../config/depcomp \

g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../lib/common -g -O2 -g -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Werror -DSYSAPI_UNIX=1 -DWINAPI_CARBON=1 -D_THREAD_SAFE -c -o CArch.o `test -f 'CArch.cpp' || echo './'`CArch.cpp

In file included from CArch.cpp:16:

In file included from ./CArch.h:25:

In file included from ./IArchString.h:19:

../../lib/common/BasicTypes.h:78:10: fatal error: '/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Headers/../Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/MacTypes.h' file not found

#include </System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Headers/../Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/MacTypes.h>

^

1 error generated.

make[3]: *** [CArch.o] Error 1

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make: *** [all] Error 2

```

Yeah! Screw backwards compatability! That only leads you to legacy hell ala Microsoft [4].

To be fair, even if I had the executable it probably wouldn't have worked, but man … that is a serious blow to my work flow here at Chez Boca. Not only the ease of sharing a keyboard and mouse between two computers of differing operating systems, but cut-n-paste! Cut-n-paste between the two operating systems!

I did download the latest version [5] (although you won't find that link on the main Synergy website) but it requires some manual “fixes” to the source code [6] that have yet to be checked in (really? Seriously, what the XXXX?) and of course it requires yet another build system [7] (really? You can't even make cross-platform Makefiles? It's not that hard. Tedious, I'll give you that, but that's like a one-time thing. XXXX!) and a large “cross-platform portability library [8]” and XXXX me, this means it probably isn't backwards compatible with the version on my Linux system and I'll have to upgrade that too because of CADT [9] XXXX me XXXX me XXXX me XXXX me XXXX me XXXX me XXXX me XXXX me XXXX me XXXX!