I meant to post this a couple weeks ago when I first saw it...its hilarious, and spot-on

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-3513_11-202392.html?tag=nl.e099.dl052808&tag=nl.e099

6/10/2008 4:16:57 PM

haha @ author

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"iTunes is a music player the size of a fat-bottomed whale that gobbles resources like krill."

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"But Reader's incessant updates (demanding you reset your computer — why?), thundering great list of modules to load, and hour-glass-provoking pauses for thought have given Portable Document Format a reputation for being as welcome as a flatulent camel in the kitchen."

6/10/2008 4:24:08 PM

double post

[Edited on June 10, 2008 at 4:25 PM. Reason : oh shit its the matrix218327eu]

6/10/2008 4:24:32 PM

spot on indeed

6/10/2008 4:28:57 PM

hes pretty on except for outlook. As far as mail clients goes its pretty much the best. Especially 2007.

Although if hes still looking at email as the most critical app in business, he's pretty dumb. And gmail for enterprise is pretty lol. Maybe for a group of 10 people who cant afford exchange, but in the enterprise Exchange is king. Even Notes is better.

6/10/2008 4:31:37 PM

Exchange is KING!!1!

6/10/2008 4:50:37 PM

I will be migrating my 250 notes users to our parent company's like 20000 user exchange setup Thats going to be a blast.

6/10/2008 5:09:39 PM

i say spot-on and good show

6/10/2008 7:19:24 PM

^^notes blows

and..have fun with that. i'm doing my damned'est to get my company to let me switch them over to Exchange. The problem being that a. none of them have ever used it before so they don't understand the benefits and b. the president (aka guy that gets to approve it or not) knows just enough about computers to think he knows every fucking thing when he really doesn't know much more than the average person. same guy that thinks a hub and switch are the same thing..

so, makes it really difficult to talk them into it

[Edited on June 10, 2008 at 7:38 PM. Reason : asdf]

6/10/2008 7:38:01 PM

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"hes pretty on except for outlook. As far as mail clients goes its pretty much the best. Especially 2007. Although if hes still looking at email as the most critical app in business, he's pretty dumb. And gmail for enterprise is pretty lol. Maybe for a group of 10 people who cant afford exchange, but in the enterprise Exchange is king. Even Notes is better."

You're a fucking fool if you don't think email is the most mission critical application for any business.

Email = communication.

Without communication you don't get things done.


Exchange is bloated, just like dude described. It's poor at indexing, it sucks when you're trying to connect through a VPN, the rules never fucking work, server side or client side.

There's no reason to think something like Gmail for enterprise couldn't overtake Exchange in the next few years, especially if sold as a locally hosted package. The feature set alone makes it more appealing than the Exchange/Outlook combo, nevermind the speed.


Just because Exchange and outlook dominate the landscape doesn't mean that they're the best solution.

6/10/2008 9:20:06 PM

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"same guy that thinks a hub and switch are the same thing.."

you talking about evan?



[Edited on June 10, 2008 at 9:35 PM. Reason : .]

6/10/2008 9:29:16 PM

^^

damn right.

Email is so mission critical for my organization that we're the only part of the company not on Exchange-- too much downtime.

what do we use as an MTA? Sendmail

6/10/2008 9:35:08 PM

our exchange cluster has never been unavailable except for scheduled maintenance

i rather like it

push email is a great thing

6/10/2008 10:16:34 PM

lotus notes sucks.

6/10/2008 10:21:19 PM

funny article though.

6/10/2008 10:26:08 PM

there are way way better communication methods than email. Collaberation is the one thing Notes does better than everyone else. I laugh at how dependent on email companies are. SMTP is unreliable and ancient. As a notification system? Fine. Use email. But for communicating data its a joke.

6/11/2008 9:51:00 AM

ahahah that is all true

6/11/2008 3:05:07 PM

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"because other lightweight PDF readers seem to manage perfectly well"

amen...i intentionally uninstall adobe and install foxit whenever i come across it

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"slipping us stealth copies of Safari under the cover of important version updates to iTunes and Quicktime — what is this, Make Microsoft Look Good day?"

why anyone would use safari on a windows machine is beyond me...shoot, why anyone would use apple software AT ALL on a windows machine is beyond me...apple has yet to create a windows version of their software that doesn't suck huge donkey balls

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"And now that we've stopped you doing whatever it was you were doing (like we care), shall we go ahead and install them now, or would you rather be interrupted yet again later?"

disable automatic updates FTW?

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"If this software turned up at your door, you'd call the police."

how is real still around? cue the "buffering" pic...it's all that's needed

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"Java doesn't do anything by itself. It's a programming language. Programming languages are like sewage plants: if the average user becomes aware of them, something's gone wrong. "

aha

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"And talking of Yahoo. Please stop. Please stop trying to take over my email, my search engine, my home page. Please stop 'updating' your IM client to include more emoticons, animations, noises and whatnot — or at least have the good grace to produce a grown-ups' edition I can use at work without feeling like I should still be reading Smash Hits. And yes, when I ask to exit the software, that's because I really want to, not because I'm having a crisis of doubt. "

aha, qft

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"Performance- sapping, space-hogging, noisy, irritating and prone to inducing just as many problems as they purport to solve, these horrible, ineffective, expensive lumps of digital thuggery keep entire platoons of support engineers in business and home users in tears. We know. We get the phone calls. "

honestly, i've never used a version of symantec that wasn't corporate 9 or older, and so i haven't really experienced this

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"Notebook makers are the worst, and Sony the king of them all: the first job for any new Vaio owner is to strip out the layers of desktop 'enhancements', media 'managers' and system 'control software' that serve only to get in the way of doing things the way you know how to do them, interfere with other software packages and suck up such enormous amounts of resources on start-up that two weeks after you've bought one, you're still not sure whether it's broken or not."

i quite literally spend half a day removing software for every consumer-grade laptop we purchase...i hate them all for hawking their sub-par wares

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"Then there's Microsoft's Outlook. Things have been getting better for those whose corporate upgrade strategy allows it, but with major updates happening every four years or so that's a long time to be looking at a non-threaded, licence-restricted storage- squeezed, treacle-slow-searching email system."

outlook on its own sucks, hands down...thunderbird is the only thing that any "normal" computer user should use and i refuse to allow outlook on any computer i have domain over...that said, i've never used exchange

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"In fact, Flash-based web sites are quite possibly one of the most useful pieces of network technology around. Like heroin or microlights, they ensure that those who think it's a good idea aren't around to annoy us for too long."

i'm sure opinions differ on this, but there is virtually no reason whatsoever to have a entirely flash-based website...it's pretty, but not for consumption in large doses

[Edited on June 11, 2008 at 3:39 PM. Reason : .]

6/11/2008 3:34:59 PM

I'll agree with them on the first seven items on the list. He was trying a little hard on the last three. Guess he had to fill his top 10 list somehow.

6/11/2008 3:44:23 PM