I hate

[TdC]

OUTLOOK. everything about outlook is bad, poorly designed and poorly implemented. because the program designers who dreamed up the program are such MORONS, you can't even search for a partial name in the tables. yes kids, searching for "Services" in "General accounting services" will FAIL.

I'm a well known lotus notes hater, but outlook is so close to LN on my hate list they may well be bum-buddies.


RAAAH

 

[throdgrain]

GEEK!"!!!1111

 

[TdC]

*spank throd*

I'm not a geek, I'm just extremely frustrated because the tools I'm given to work with FAIL MISERABLY at teh simplest tasks

 

[Trem]

The tool that makes you a geek is working great though Teedles.

 

[TdC]

cheers glad you noticed I shaved and lotioned it this morning

 

[.Wilier.]

Outlooks great, I have several hundred contacts in mine (at work) all starting with MECH !!



Shave it Teed's, the stubble burns

 

[TdC]

but I'm smooth all-over?


yeah mate, mine all start with ICT- in fact, to make things easier, some of the older ones start with ITC-. there are hundreds

 

[babs]

hate something
change something
make something better

advertising has no effect on me

 

[TdC]

sadly in bigcompany's case changing it costs -too much energy -too much energy -too much aggro I fear. telling one of the several mail departments that the mailing-list name syntax is badly thought out and poorly implemented will get me the reaction "we know, thanks". I know it sounds really shitty, but I do not have the time or energy to sit and bitch at people until it is changed. also, due to the nature of outlook, and the myriad departments of which bigcompany is built, it will fail anyway.


ml-operations-it-unix-sun-support
ml-operations-it-unix-sun-*
ml-operations-it-unix-*
etc.

 

[TdC]

arrrrr me hearties!! I've discovered another application here at workies that I hate!!

and the (loser) app is......our change management tool!! yes! this wonderful tool (programmed about 50 million years ago on a mainframe in a programming language so bad it's inventor castrated himself with a wooden spoon and a brick before tearing out his eyes and jumping in front of a bus) is so utterly crap that it makes me want to cry! let me list it's many features:

• it's important fields are unrelated! this means I have to type in key data several times!
• I can deadlock the app without an error message by accidentally picking dissimilar items from a list (like network software and server software in the same change) causing the app to fail in the final save forcing me to input everything again!
• even though the apps' maintainers can retire configuration items from the tables (without telling me mind you) I can still pick them causing the app to fail in the final save!
• it will hard-save certain data like priority scheduling making it unchangable! forever! even if it's wrong!
• it won't save the entire input untill the very end, the final save so to speak. so......if anything at all is wrong and the app crashes all....ALL is lost.
• you can't search all the tables, just some of them. this means there are good odds you can search a table with 10 server entries but you can't search the 140000 item table with all the config management items! such brilliance! this means that if you don't know your item's name you will have to scroll through a zillion million barfillion entries. it's enough to make your eyes bleed!!
• it's text fields are all 'mainframe-esque' fixed length. this means that the 31st char in a 30 char field will cause your terminal to hang. you'll have to reset it. do this twice and all your data is GONE!! see the point above about not saving until the end! oh the humanity!!

that's about it. my brain refuses to come up with more :/ I can barely restrain myself from running into the server bunker and peeing in the Z-series' air intake slots

 

[sibanac]

arrrrr me hearties!! I've discovered another application here at workies that I hate!!

and the (loser) app is......our change management tool!! yes! this wonderful tool (programmed about 50 million years ago on a mainframe in a programming language so bad it's inventor castrated himself with a wooden spoon and a brick before tearing out his eyes and jumping in front of a bus) is so utterly crap that it makes me want to cry! let me list it's many features:

that's about it. my brain refuses to come up with more :/ I can barely restrain myself from running into the server bunker and peeing in the Z-series' air intake slots

cobol ?

And dont pee on the Z-series, they are lovely machines !

BTW my award for crapiest shite ever goes to Siebel and outlook.
second place is PICK, some pre historic accounting software that runs on windows in some sort of unix VM. the whole app including the DB is writen in tcl.

 

[xane]

If you need a really sexy e-mail search tool, try X1, it's been doing the rounds at my company.

 

[old.user4556]

I use Remedy for incident and change management - it's ok, but a ROTTEN interface.

 

[yaruar]

cobol ?

And dont pee on the Z-series, they are lovely machines !

BTW my award for crapiest shite ever goes to Siebel and outlook.
second place is PICK, some pre historic accounting software that runs on windows in some sort of unix VM. the whole app including the DB is writen in tcl.

Personally the nastiest thing i've ever had to work with is SAP. Never again. Closely followed with anything to do with SQL, damn buggy, memory leaking piece of arse.

 

[old.user4556]

SQL or the query app?

Straight forward SQL queries against Oracle shouldn't be "buggy", unless your SQL was piss-poor and took forever to run .

 

[Ukle]

Like a lot of systems they are only as good as the people who configure them. SAP and Remedy just mentioned are great systems but if you get people who know fuck all about configuring them they will be shit.

As to the worst applications I ever worked with, loads of them all based on old ICL mainframes

 

[DaGaffer]

OMG, I've wandered into an arcane IT discussion.FOR THE LOVE OF GOD GET ME OUT OF HERE!

 

[Bodhi]

I don't understand a fucking word any of you ***** have said on this entire thread.

 

[Gray]

Wrong forum ffs

...

Or somethin

 

[Lazarus]

I use Remedy for incident and change management - it's ok, but a ROTTEN interface.

feck! someone else who uses that pos!

 

[Lazarus]

Personally the nastiest thing i've ever had to work with is SAP. Never again. Closely followed with anything to do with SQL, damn buggy, memory leaking piece of arse.

lol yar.

Unfortunately SAP is the system that I have been working on for the last 7 years

 

[TdC]

explains alot Lazman

we use tivoli for incident and problem management. it's crap imo. every single large system we use is crap tbh, because too many people have had a chance to faff about with it, and in large companies no dept will ever pass up a chance to faff.

the tivoli backend database went down about 5 minutes into the maiden production run a couple of years ago. "oh nos, we never realized how much load we'd be generating" was the excuse. that's why we only got one RS/6000 with two cpus and 4 gigs ram! oh, and the tiny budget. sorry!
oh yeah? what the fuck have you been doing for the past nine months then? breaking the product so badly that we'll never be able to get it to run properly again? ever? I have to go cry now :/

 

[Insane]

I remember SAP from one of my jobs, they were still exporting production off the RS6000 machine 4 years after they started...

and we had just stuck new barcode scanners and label printers on to the RS6000 systems as well

zebra label printers were the thorn in my side, i spent months fixing the buggers just for them to die horribly the next day after putting out a couple hundred labels for the genset production

currently battling with a poorly built access database system ( ) which originally started out as an accounting package, and now is used for client information... and it likes to corrupt itself every evening when someone leaves it open during backup processes!

IT is a hazardous job, we could be the next axe wielding maniac!

 

[TdC]

it's not the gamer-nutbag you should fear....it's the quiet, well-spoken IT expert who will be chasing you down the hall with a home-made tazer while screaming "get out of my teeth"!!

 

[old.user4556]

SAP and Remedy just mentioned are great systems but if you get people who know fuck all about configuring them they will be shit.

Yes, Remedy is decent; just the interface sucks.

 

[Embattle]

I went back to Outlook after trying Thunderbird for a while, tbh I find Outlook fine for what I need although I don't tend to need it to do anything that complicated.

 

[Sar]

I use T-bird atm for mail, although I do have one niggly prob with it:

Images in mails - they won't show up at all! All I get is a blue box surrounding a placeholder.

Any ideas how to fix it?

 

[Mazling]

In thunderbird, to get images back: tools|options|advanced|privacy ...
It's a good feature imho

 

[Sar]

Nah, I have that unchecked - still no images...

:S

 

[Bodhi]

hotmail 0wnz j00.