Too funy!

[Joel Hammer]

They won't suffer for this. After the code red or whatever thingee if anyone
was going to dump MS for bad software, it would have happened. Let's face
it, MS users have nowhere to go.  They are stuck with MS, and both they and
MS know it. This is when the big guy says to bend over.

Just two examples from the trenches of a big (really big) organization
which is an all MS shop, more or less.

I recently called the IS help desk to get help on importing images
automatically into a powerpoint presentation. I was dutifully given a
"ticket number." We have a huge IS department spread over six hospitals
and  a large administrative center. I went into my basement and worked out
the solution using an entirely novel tool (for me) visual basic, and the
incredibly confusing  (for everyone) object models of powerpoint slides.
I am still waiting to hear from IS.

Today I was puzzling over some Excel spreadsheets looking at data graphs
supplied by one of our sister hospitals and a supplier of laboratory
reagents. We eyeball the data a lot to figure out what is going on in
changing reagent lot numbers. (Medicine is still an art.)  Imagine my
surprise when I saw that Excel in Office 97 had dropped at least 1/2
the data points (30 of 60) from two different graphs when they were
displayed in the spread sheet. Making the graphs larger didn't help.
These spreadsheets had been viewed and commented upon by our reagent
supplier and half a dozen managers in our organization. Obviously, this
makes eyeballing the data hard. There was no apparent rhyme or reason for
which data points got dropped, either. If I hadn't been  using GNUplot,
I would never have realized it, either. Who woulda thunk it?

Joel


On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:35:51AM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2003 10:29:45 -0400 (EDT)
> Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> > It gets better.  At least two of Microsoft's Exchange mail servers
> > (maila.microsoft.com & mailb.microsoft.com) are bouncing all mail with
> > the errors:
> > Out of memory
> > Out of disk space
> > 
> 
> I love it. M$ created the whole virus thing with shoddy software, so I
> couldn't think of a nicer thing to happen than for them to suffer from
> the beast they created.
> 
> -- 
> Collins Richey - Denver Area
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