I Like To Rant

Right, I got an iPhone last night, and after dropping 300 quid on it, I cant really rant about it. It is an awesome bit of equipment… except for the fact I cant have customize ring tones, but that’s cool… actually, no it aint cool, its retarded!

So what’s my beef today? Crappy Software!!

As the wonderful iPhone doesn’t take SIM cards, I needed to import my contacts from Outlook to the iPhone. Well I didn’t have any contacts on Outlook… in fact I didn’t even have Outlook.

Outlook wasn’t a problem, I installed this from a CD I had laying around.

Next, I needed to get my contacts off my Sony Ericsson on to Outlook, so I had to download Sony PC Suite, what a load of crap that is. After the third attempt I finally got it working and it was able to download the drivers it needed.

I then plugged my iPhone into iTunes and was greeted with a nice message telling me that I needed more software to get the iPhone to work. So I tried downloading the latest iTunes.. And then I tried again… and then again… and then finally… it didn’t work. So I just plugged my iPhone back in and it worked. GRRRR

So now my iPhone is all up and running. But Sony crappy PC Suite is being gay and not allowing me to uninstall the sh*tty software.

Why must all Sony software be so sh*t, seriously, everything I have tried has never worked easily. Sonic Stage being a prime example.

Fair enough im using Vista, but its over a year old now, and these software makers need to pull there fingers out!!

Submitted by Peter Kerr

I used to work in IT as a systems analyst.

What used to really frustrate me is that many people would assume that because you work in IT you automatically know how to solve every single technical problem that has ever existed.

Furthermore, they believe that after spending all week in front of a computer that you would like nothing better than to do more technical stuff on the weekend - actually this one might be true.

But anyway, Wakeup people. IT is like any other industry with specialist functions. A systems analyst is no more able to fix your hardware problems than a car washer is able to overhaul a engine.

Something that really gets on my nerves is when people ask questions to other people instead of looking for the answer themselves.

Fair enough if you ask a question about teeth to a dentist or something like that. But when I get asked a general question, where im not really expected to know the answer, but people ask me because they know I will find the answer for them, it is just annoying. 

In today’s world the Internet plays a large part in everybody’s life. Everybody, surely, has access to the internet in some shape or form. So why cant they fcuking use it. The internet has information about anything and everything and its pretty simple to use.

So come on people, start using it. 

Well I’ve had enough now… my response to any one who now asks me stupid questions like; “how do I get from A to B”, is “GOOGLE IT”. That’s all I do, so start doing it yourself.

Rant over.