Re: Idiot (I know that's redundant) spammer
From: Paul Sture (p_sture_at_elias.decus.ch)
Date: 08/03/03
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Date: 3 Aug 03 10:48:17 +0200
In article <20030802154724.3895.qmail@gacracker.org>, Doc.Cypher <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> writes:
> On 2 Aug 03, p_sture@elias.decus.ch (Paul Sture) wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>For a long time (more than 10 years now) I have suspected that M$ does
>>well out of deliberately making things difficult. This is done by getting
>>the user sufficiently involved in fighting the system that they think they
>>have achieved something useful and are then willing to share their new
>>found knowledge with family and friends to give themselves some status.
>>
>>Pathetic for those of us who know better, but unfortunately true.
>>
>>Here's something to consider. When I installed Win98 plus the WordPerfect
>>Office suite it took me about 4 hours and 11 reboots, and I wasted several
>>weeks of effort trying to get it to talk to my ISP.
>>
>>In contrast, on the same machine, NT 4.0 took only 50 minutes and about 2
>>reboots, and I was connected to my ISP at the first attempt.
>
> I've been fiddling with installing XP Pro. The machine was a build to order
> box, so I have a collection of install disks for things like a cordless
> rechargeable mouse.
>
A cordless rechargeable mouse? LOL. What BS next? Surely it needs a cord
for the rechaarging bit.
> Now, I must be getting old, because I do remember when computers came with
> manuals. Manuals with indices you could find things in. Nowadays you get a
> crappy booklet that encourages you to sit at the keyboard and "have a go".
> All the while there's this little nag box saying register. Well, I will, when
> I've finished getting a good install and a #$%&ing backup I can work from.
>
Which reminds me of my Apple iBook. The rather slim manual that came
with it (French, German take your pick) is little more than a sales
pamphlet telling me what great things the major applications can do.
It then starts talking about the Command and Option keys. Yep, the English
words used in both languages. NOWHERE on the keyboard, nor in the docs,
is there any indication of which keys these actually are.
Very few guidelines as to what those keys do either. A simple half side
of A5 instructions would have done, but no, nothing.
And the Swiss Gereman keyboard is a total joke. I have to switch to US layout
and touch type to get # | [ ] and so on, which is pretty sick for a unix based
system (thankyou to whoever made VMS recognise <> for directories).
Not to mention that accidentally hitting the accented character keys freezes
the keyboard when in the Terminal (CLI) application until you hit the spacebar.
> Honestly, the stack of CDs that came with the system is thicker than the
> documentation. It sure ain't "intuitive". VMS on the other hand... I sat
> down, read a few pages of a book, stuck the CD in, and had a working system in
> under an hour, and at the first attempt.
>
>From my NT days, I can seriously recommend getting hold of the Server Resource
Kit. At 150 UKP it was not cheap, but gave me the manuals I thought should have
come with the product, plus various useful utilities. Amongst other gems
it told me that a reboot every 14 days was a good idea :-), but seriously
the SRK was worth the money.
At (IIRC) a third of the price, the Workstation equivalent wasn't worth buying.
The server edition CD contained the Workstation documentation as a help file
amyway (hah - couldn't print that out in one go either).
> Microsoft - Making life difficult since Windows 3.1.
>
As I implied before, make life hard enough for the users that they get
committed to the product and start discussing it outside normal working hours
and you've got 'em.
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