They do it on purpose!!!

[old.AlAkarn]

A while ago I upgraded my home computer to Windows 2000. Once finished I discovered that I needed new drivers for my ISDN card, Sound Card and my new DVD Drive. As my modem was still working I logged onto the internet I search of these new drivers only to discover that they hadn't been released yet. After a day of try alternate drivers to see if they worked, I reverted back to Windows 98. The next day when I logged onto Barrys World I was informed in one article that all three drivers had just been released. Can you believe it, the next bloody day!!!!!!

Well it's happened again. This weekend and bank Holiday, myself and my work colleagues worked all weekend from 8am upto 4am the next morning upgrading our systems to a new version of PC Docs and Office 2000. To do this we used Norton's Ghost Multicasting. The reason we had to work so late however was that after you rebuilt the clients you have to add them all individually to the domain again. Even after spending the weekend doing this we have just finished them all today, anyway I looked on Symantec's site just now to find they have just released a patch which will lets ghost automatically add the machines to the domain after it's built them.

Is this just my bad luck or do other people suffer from this to.

 

[old.ZeD[TOP]]

Yup they're all out to get us. But then again look at it from the other side, as long as it's tricky us tech support people should always have a job, Bit crap that re-adding to the domain! Did your keep the same NetBios names? Also why use W2K at home? I don't think it was ever designed for games was it? mind you I seppose in the future when games start to take advantage of it's true multi tasking OS.....

 

[old.mad12]

And you think you have it bad.
I was asked at work to set up a demo environment of a well known ERP product (similar to SAP). Because we had a global license they would send us the software and keys, my only requirement was an NT or unix server with personal oracle running.
I needed to update my web server so I bought an NT server, moved across IIS and all the web files. After 3 weeks a copy of Oracle 8i turned up (which I had used before and preferred). I installed the Oracle 8i and configured it to my environment.
Then I started installing the ERP software. Phase 1 went OK, then Phase 2 wouldn't accept the version of Oracle.
I called the tech support and asked them why 8i wasn't recognised. They simply laughed and said the product supported any version of Oracle except 8i....
Why not?
Because it doesn't work with 8i.
I then proceeded to shout and scream and also suggest that maybe if they had told me this in the first place it could have saved me weeks of work.
They agreed.....
To add insult to injury, the first phase of the installation of the ERP screwed up all my SQL paths which meant none of my ODBC stuff worked anymore, and all of my data driven web pages couldn't log in to the sql server. Even uninstalling the product didn't help.
Cue reinstall of the whole thing.
As for Oracle, I bought a unix box instead

mad