Re: I'm giving up computers if this is the future.

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Date: 09/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:31:45 GMT

In article <41425D5B.67F8EB40@comcast.net>, David J Dachtera <djesys.nospam@comcast.net> writes:
>VAXman-, @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>
>> Would anyone be wanting a 1U rack mount Pentium III before I decide to take
>> a lead pipe to it in order to relieve my frustration with it?
>
>How much you want for it?

Sorry my good VMS and c.o.v friends but friends do NOT let friends
do Weendoze!

Anyway, everytime I am forced into a corner with one of these ***
boxes nothing goes smoothly and I need to vent. It was either post
here or put my fist through the wall again. The choice was obvious
because I couldn't find any plasterboard space that hadn't already
meet with a Weendoze frenzied accelerated fist. ;)

>> 2 freaking days already of trying to get reflection's file transfer protocol
>> to work.
>
>What's it not doing?
>
>Because it relies on the underlying link (just as would X/Y/Zmodem or
>Kermit), there's a lot of little things that are usually not an issue,
>but become big issues when you;re trying to transfer files over the
>equivalent of a serial link.
>
>> Their support droids are useless.
>
>Depends. Get the right one, and he/she is like gold. Get the wrong one,
>and - let's see, what was the word you used? Oh yeah - ***!!!

I finally got one to call me and she walked me through all sorts of
click here/double-click there/left click/right click/scroll-down to/
drill down to/ competely non-obvious and non-intuitive *** and the
transfer now functions.

NEVER I tell you, NEVER in a million years would I have had the in-
tuition -- even if I had beat myself around the head with that lead
pipe -- to click ad nauseum with the myriad variations of the theme
that she had me do. I wish I had some way to have what she had me
do logged so I could playback all of the insanity. 

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