Feeding The Machine » Microsoft http://www.feedingthemachine.com Gotta keep the fires burning so those gears will keep on turning. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:51:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 We were inverted http://www.feedingthemachine.com/2007/09/we-were-inverted/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-were-inverted http://www.feedingthemachine.com/2007/09/we-were-inverted/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:47:00 +0000 q http://www.feedingthemachine.com/?p=115 This somewhat tongue in cheek look at “making the switch” from *nix to Windows is good for a laugh. Mostly because his sentiments largely echo my own.

I’m having a bad Windows day. It seems like everything I try to do is getting hindered by some stupid Windows quirk. It’s like the damn thing is just an accumulation of work-arounds for poor design choices that were made 15 years ago. Nobody in the Windows world ever seems to really fix problems at their root, it’s always some sort of hackish lame-ass dodge that invariably introduces some obnoxious unintended consequence. I have to believe this is due to sales / marketing induced time-line / legacy pressure. The alternative, that they aren’t smart enough to realize what they are doing is lame, would just do too much damage to my already shaky faith in humanity.

]]> http://www.feedingthemachine.com/2007/09/we-were-inverted/feed/ 0 Of all the places to screw this up. http://www.feedingthemachine.com/2007/09/of-all-the-places-to-screw-this-up/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=of-all-the-places-to-screw-this-up http://www.feedingthemachine.com/2007/09/of-all-the-places-to-screw-this-up/#comments Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:37:00 +0000 q http://www.feedingthemachine.com/?p=114 So, my company just entered into a Volume Licensing Agreement with Microsoft. All of their MVLS and MSDN sites seem to have invalid or expired SSL certificates. Give me a freaking break. If anyone should get this right, MS should. I remember running into this when I evaluated some VL stuff over a year ago and assumed that their little licensing wizard hoobajoo I was running through was just broken. Nope, turns out it’s all their sites. Good job guys, way to lead by example. Losers.

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