Software Room 101

[MyUserName]

Ubuntu works fine on the current laptop I'm using and on the last one I put it on.

Maybe it is just you.

Works fine doing what? Running silverlite? Or plugging in headphones?

[darmstadt]

Ubuntu.

At the time I made the mistake of trying to use it:

No support for SilverLite or WPF or any accepted equivalent so I was not able to play the PluralSite courses I wanted to play but that did not matter because ....

Plugging the headphones in did not mute the speaker and muting the speaker also muted the headphones. Hence I could not watch DVDs or listen to music on the train to work. The headphones work fine and so does the socket (I have dual installed Windows since) - it was just Ubuntu.

Ubuntu works fine on the current laptop I'm using and on the last one I put it on.

Maybe it is just you.

WSES

The majority of all our desktops (1000+) and all external systems, PCs, laptops and tablets (thousands of them) here are Ubuntu, albeit locked down and customised all work perfectly fine.

[MyUserName]

WSES

The majority of all our desktops (1000+) and all external systems, PCs, laptops and tablets (thousands of them) here are Ubuntu, albeit locked down and customised all work perfectly fine.

They run silverlite? The problem with the headphones was a known issue at the time, there were various conversations about it on the forums.

Either way I just installed it and it was as it was, i did not change anything. Either it was a bag of droppings or the installer was a bag of droppings.

Although I still use it as my requirements have changed and I am happy with it doing what it is doing now. It drove me mad for a few months when I was commuting by train.

[darmstadt]

They run silverlite? The problem with the headphones was a known issue at the time, there were various conversations about it on the forums.

Probably not as its a MS application but if they do and like all the other Windows and MS application then Citrix or a VM is used. Ubuntu is primarily an end user system. My previous gig I had Debian as a desktop and although I had to faff around a lot, I got most things working on it. Tried Ubuntu 13 today in a VM and deleted it after 10 minutes as I didn't like it

[Freamon]

ServiceNow, because it has a million fields that nobody understands and hence they misuse them and put metadata into ticket descriptions. It encourages bad user behaviour. And it's stupidly expensive for what it does.

[vetran]

Remedy - apparently the cure is a disease. Doesn't refresh, the search page remembers weird fields randomly so when you enter search with a ticket number you can't find it.

If you think SAP is bad (It does exactly what it says in subsection 303, page 47 paragraph 15 of the manual), try Oracle it seems to have a mind of its own.

Lotus Notes was doing fine until it went Blue, they put it to sleep. If they had pushed forward we may well have been all running Notes.

Anything bought by Symantec or CA seems to morph into unusable tosh. Backupexec - well just read some of the advisories. Norton AV a triumph of marketing over technical merit.

Openview was actually quite good 15-20 years ago. Now it may be ropey.

[TykeMerc]

Yep. Anyone old enough to use DOS will remember how essential Norton Utilities were.....

Hell yes, as a young field and tech support engineer Norton Utilities were the dogs danglies, the appalling mess that are "tools" carrying the Norton name since god knows when Peter Norton stepped aside are truly dreadful, you can't even un-install the buggers cleanly.
Room 101 is far too good for the disaster with the Norton moniker largely because of the epic fall from stellar wonder to cluster of something beginning with F.

[Boney M]

ServiceNow, because it has a million fields that nobody understands and hence they misuse them and put metadata into ticket descriptions. It encourages bad user behaviour. And it's stupidly expensive for what it does.

WHS

[NigelJK]

MS-DOS 0.9c. This was the first 'commercial' ship of the product that made MS. Bench tested against a BBC Micro 'B' proved itself 10x slower (on the occasions that it was actually stable enough to finish the bench tests). How this 'got through the net' is beyond me. The rest as they say is History.

[SussexSeagull]

Adobe Reader - Why does a program that reads PDF files constantly need updating? Don't get me started on reboots.

iTunes - A rare example of a program that gets worse with every release.