M$ rantiness

[thorfinn]

So. I have acquired ADSL as part of the new job... Two nights ago, I took the new laptop (yay for work-bought laptops) home, and tried to hook it up to the ADSL modem... 3 hours later, and several Win98 reboots later, including much attempting to read and understand the various "help" files, I had a fucked network configuration, and still no joy authenticating to anything.


I gave up for the night, then last night, went home, and plugged the ADSL modem into the debian Linux computer:

# apt-get install pppoe
... wait about 2 minutes for the package to download via the normal modem
# vi /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
... (put in username and password details)
# vi /etc/ppp/peers/adsl-provider
... (put in the username)
# vi /etc/ppp/resolv/adsl-provider.conf
... (put in DNS details)
# pon adsl-provider.
... watch the blinky lights on the ADSL modem flicker briefly.

10 minutes, and I was up and running. Bah. Feh. Yeah, I have a religious hatred of Microsoft, and I wish to declare jihad upon them, in the name of Quality Of Software.


It shouldn't take several reboots just to get a new network device to happen. It's wrong. And the world is convinced that this is "acceptable". That somehow, it's okay if the computer is shit, and crashes regularly, and requires regular downtime.
I can't think of any other consumer product where the consumer is so willing to put up with stuff that is just shit.

This isn't anything I haven't said before...

Comments

[thorfinn]

I wouldn't, 'cept that the ork desktop environment is, and I'll have to support it, partly, anyway.