Things that bug us

I’m compiling a list of junk that Erick and I run across that make us crazy. In some particular order, and warning: profanity follows…

1. Western Digital MyBooks
2. Maxtor drives
3. Backup software not backing up
4. Backup software not backing up because your stupid MyBook keeps unmounting itself
5. Best Buy’s crappy prices and inventory
6. That Best Buy sucks so bad we actually miss CompUSA
7. Circuit City
8. Altex
9. The disturbing lack of a Fry’s Electronics store in San Antonio
10. Yahoo not offering IMAP access to mail clients besides the iPhone
11. Configuring email on a Blackberry
12. Dell printers
13. Gas prices
14. Ill-informed AppleCare reps
15. Tech-support phone monkeys who don’t listen, who assume they’re dealing with ignoramuses, and who keep insisting that you need to archive and install
16. No CalDAV support on iPhone
17. DSL
18. Best Buy’s upping the price on DSL modems — Fuckers!
19. Having to buy a modem at Best Buy because the know-nothing, knee-biting AT&T rep installed a crappy 2Wire wireless router even though the client had a router sitting right there.
20. AT&T
21. 2Wire
22. AT&T’s damn DSL setup CD, which a client unsuspectingly inserted in their server, only to have it change the server’s network settings and screw up their whole operation.
23. Lack of copy-paste on the iPhone
24. Black iPhones shipping with white accessories
25. Entourage (though admittedly less so these days, but don’t tell Microsoft I said so)
26. Windows Windows Windows
27. Windows Me
28. Windows Vista
29. Windows XP
30. Windows 2000
31. Microsoft Small Business Server
32. Mac OS X Server (yeah, it’s on the list of Things We Dig, too)
33. Printer/scanner manufacturers with poor driver rollouts for OS X
34. Stupid fucking Jar Jar (I just had to)

Author: jjmarcus

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