MOTM

The creators of any application that requires you to edit the Registry
manually should be shot dead. That's absolutely unbelievable.

I'm not saying that I don't spend three hours a week poking around in the
Registry ANYWAY, but you're not 'supposed' to, and it's unthinkable that
those who wrote that program couldn't figure out how to automate those
changes. I have a sick feeling they don't understand Windows programming at
all. At least we know *they* didn't write the ILOVEYOU virus.



 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...] 
Sent:	Friday, 12 May, 2000 2:20 AM
To:	MOTM listserv
Subject:	[motm] A very BAD day

Remember the Color Computer, or the VIC20 or the Sinclair where you booted
up in 1 second,
never hade a page fault, never had to reset unless you dicked NMI?

I spent 14 HOURS STRAIGHT trying to install 1 "upgrade" of my big pcb
autorouter. I have never
IN 27 YEARS seen a bigger pile of s**t in my life as the horror these C++
loving, JAVA-writing, RAM-sucking,
I-need-300MB-on-your-drive, so called programmers at Cadence have come up
with including:

a) having to run TCP/IP even if you are NOT on a network!

b) *requiring* you to edit the Registry manually

c) Installing the software in a path (and I'm not making this up)

C:\Program Files\Cadence Design Systems\Cadence Design License
Manager\License File\Bin\Programs\Data

and *requiring* you to type this in 6 FRIGGIN TIMES in various setup screens

d) the Installation Guide is (I'm not making this up) 67 PAGES LONG

and after all this, zip. Page crashes. Was on the phone 6 HOURS with tech
support . NADA! My autorouter is dead.

So, sad to say ZERO MOTM will ship tomorrow (or today)   :(    Sorry Sorry
Sorry. Nothing I can do. I HATE computers.
The single worse thing to happen to programming is the introduction of the
64K DRAM. Anyone remember
NightRanger pinball for the Apple? 1,872 BYTES!!! THE WHOLE )(#$*%*#$%
PROGRAM!!

Paul S.
signing off, apoligies to Celeste