>
>> This proves to a good degree what I've been stating for some
>> time: The managers are incompetent, and the cyber-todlers are uploading
>> their latest untested coding into the server and expecting us to test it
>> for them.
>
>This is standard modern process management.
>
>Large networking equipment manufacturers and software houses do exactly
>the same thing. Fine if you're a large multinational, you have large
>amounts of buffer $ to burn doing the vendors quality assurance, but
>little companies like us just get burned - it takes a year or 3 of
>contract maintenance or managed service income to recover from this.
>
It may take that long for this one. As of this morning, it is not fixed.
Damn!
I have looked into DSL for home, but the cost simply is not worth it.
Fine if you're downloading movies and browsing high-end web pages, but if
you're just reading text emails and other low-end items it's severe overkill
and a waste of money.
I don't live for using the internet, but I cannot deny that I like using
it to stay in touch with people and examine other people's approaches to
photography and electronic design. If I want to look at a high-end web page, I
just bookmark it and do so when I have a wifi connection while at the coffee
shop. I'd much rather spend my time cycling, hiking, or something else that
promotes health, socialising, or intellectual pursuits.
The incompetence of evilBay is an exception, as it is essential for
finding parts that I'm in need of for restoring bicycles, and occasional camera
equipment or electronics parts.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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