What annoyed you about your tech today?

[KenONeill]

Like the popular "What annoyed you when you were driving?" topic, but for tech, including operating systems and software.

 

I'll start with Mickeyshaft telling me that "my file may be unsafe because its format was different to that specified in the extension". There are several issues with this argument:-

1. Said file doesn't actually have an extension. Accordingly, you can't know that it's not a particular type of file.
2. It's plain ASCII text; no danger to anyone or anything unless it's also program source or an A Mess DOS script and you're loading it into an interpreter, compiler, or DOS shell.
3. If file extensions are so important, why are they hidden by default?

Edited 16 August, 2013 by KenONeill

[Aspman]

What's the text limit in this field?

[Titanium_Man]

The fact that I am at work, an international company with way over 10k employees and I am still using WINDOWS NT and Microsoft Word '97 PLUS IE6 which means I have to turn JS off to make it run at any decent speed.... I have to keep switching it on and off depending on what the site is ARRGH!!!!

[gadgetman]

Why does all my tech get slower and slower?

[slider]

mini drop outs on BT Infinity crashing my VPN links and the Vodaphone SureSignal.

[jgcsteve13]

new virgin router / modem plug & play my @rse virgin man spent 45 mins sorting it out . at last internet again .  no winging kids

happy happy happy at last

[trundlenut]

The new Windows 8 PC that landed on my desk at work.  Windows 8 - why, just why?

[TeflonTom]

Just about anything that runs windows annoys me, maybe they should place that old blue screen of death with a picture of bill gates swimming in a sea of dollar bills or something.

[fabdavrav]

Bloody stupid printer that will not print in black only ................................

 

as although I have a full black cartridge two of the colour cartridges are empty so it refuses to do anything until I replace those!!!...........  ................

[Neo_VR]

All of it. 

 

[GentleGiant]

An Acer tablet.

 

No matter how much water I use, I just cant seem to swallow it.

[djswivel]

A bug in third party software that meant all users of said software got a pop up telling them the date/time is wrong. Not so bad, except for the 23 phone calls and 37 emails all telling me they had the same problem...

[Tigger25]

The touchscreen on my IPhone 4S not working properly. Ordered new one.

[KenONeill]

The fact that I am at work, an international company with way over 10k employees and I am still using WINDOWS NT and Microsoft Word '97 PLUS IE6 which means I have to turn JS off to make it run at any decent speed.... I have to keep switching it on and off depending on what the site is ARRGH!!!!

A company well known for make stuff that carries shooty things perchance?

[KenONeill]

The new Windows 8 PC that landed on my desk at work.  Windows 8 - why, just why?

According to my company's resident Mickeyshaft fanboi, "If you don't like W8 it's because you're a bad user, and not because it was designed for soutch screens rather than WIMPS".

[KenONeill]

In A Mess DOS, "move file(s) $location" only works if the file name doesn't exist in the new location.

 

In Windoze File Mangler, you can only move drag and drop files singly if the file names exist in the new location!

[Aspman]

If I say PSN CoCo then hold my head in my hands and cry?

 

Anyone else dealing with that crap

[DanGum]

iPhone opens up an app then goes back to main screen why oh why

[sniperpenguin]

The new Windows 8 PC that landed on my desk at work.  Windows 8 - why, just why?

www.classicshell.net .... sorted

[AlphaPapa]

Wait for it... 

 

 

I quite like Windows 8 *runs*

 

Its not too bad if you give it a chance!

[Titanium_Man]

A company well known for make stuff that carries shooty things perchance?

Nope, a massive insurance company

[MaZvRSTSI]

My pen and paper....... My pen stopped working, even though it had ink in it and my paper stuck together after i spilt my water on it.......

[Aspman]

I work with a lot of high tech kit but write with a fountain pen and have a mechanical watch.

 

I find a lot of IT guys don't really like a lot of the new technology developments because they're all made to stop you tinkering with them.

[MaZvRSTSI]

I work with a lot of high tech kit but write with a fountain pen and have a mechanical watch.

 

I find a lot of IT guys don't really like a lot of the new technology developments because they're all made to stop you tinkering with them.

 

Yep. Nothing beats good old tek....It took me enough years to get a smartphone and now i barely use half the functions, my laptop is a 4 year old machine with an ssd to make it work a tad faster and so on....

[Aspman]

My 'smart phone' has 4 apps that I've put on. One is a task killer,  a file browser, wifi scanner and Kindle. If I could be bothered to get it rooted I'd remove the rest of the crap put on there by Samsung.

 

My laptop is 7yr old and runs a 60Gb SSD. Faster than SWMBOs i5 and it has a proper keyboard and a square screen so I can type and work on it faster than she can on her new Dell too.