Dear Synopsys

I really thought that this time would be different, that you were better then Cadence. And after the install of both the license manager package and the hspice package, I was pretty happy and thought that my biggest worry would be fighting off requests from $ee_prof to "just install all of it."

( And people wonder why my previous job viewed drinking as sport, therapy and serious business at the same time.... )

So here we are. Wednesday. I've spent all day Thursday and Friday fighting to figure out what the hell we have licensed, and what we need to have installed, Monday hunting down (most of) the packages on your FTP site and downloading them, and yesterday and probably all day today trying to figure out how to configure this whole mess so that people can actually use it.

At this point, I'm officially afraid of the Agilent box that's been sitting in my office.