On 1/18/06, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I work in a M$ house
Me too. I work in a medical billing company that literally prides itself on being 100% MS where possible. Windows XP, Exchange, Outlook, IE, the whole nine yards. This is the kind of place where the firewall is set to a pure whitelist of what domains it will allow access to. I'm in a special situation where there's one special website I need access to (me and the three other people in my department) that doesn't work with IE, due to it blocking some JavaScript or ActiveX or some crap like that. So the IT guy (we have one) is going to install Mozilla on my computer. I'm frickin' salivating waiting for that, but he's got a few other issues that are higher priority right now. Letting me install it myself isn't on the table. And while I'm on the issue... There are a couple of vertical apps I use that piss me off! These things are So. Damned. Retarded. They're kind of like ncurses apps: somewhat clickable, but mostly keyboard usable. And completely text. And the commands aren't mnemonic friendly. These programs are completely something out of the 60s, but this is the noughts! They only allow "command" inputs at certain points, and only certain commands at certain points. The fields are just sprayed all over the place. There are different "modes" you can put the software in. You can't look up insurance company information if you're in DATA mode, even though DATA mode is exactly when you need insurance information. You need to exit DATA mode (losing the work you've already done) and then enter EIC mode to find out an insurance company's address and phone number. Write it down on a note pad, re-enter DATA mode, reload the account you're working on, and enter the info you wrote down. And this is leading edge! It's not that my company skimps on software procurement! They're not using the software just because they're too cheap to upgrade. Nay! There's actually a company that supports this crap, and this is their latest product! When you make vertical apps, you don't have to compete and develop quality software! But all this is is a highly customized front-end to a database. There is *no* excuse for this mind-numbing and counter-productive interface. None. Anyway. Let's all return to our regularly scheduled programming. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
