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[Banter] What is the worst software you have used for its price?
eugene:
I don't know what the worst program is, but I'll bet it requires a subscription license.
free_electron:
ooh. i got another one. LabWindows on Solaris.
Install it. make small program that contains endless loop.
how do we stop it ? consult manual . hit ctrl-alt-delete ... the manual provided was for the windows version... there was no manual for the sun version ... oopsie.. so what now ?
find the process id. kill ..... doesn't work ... kill -9 ... doesn't work.. call tech support .... "uh, we don't know . Very few people use the Solaris version, we have no experience with this. Can't you just power cycle the machine ?" (The machine was in the middle of some simulations that had been running for a while...)
i will never forget the sysadmins look on his face, just as i will never forget what happens to a CD-ROM when you fold it in half. Broken cd-rom , ripped apart manual went back to national instruments with an accompanying letter containing very colorful verbage and threats of inserting said broken CD into the back orifice of whoever wrote the thing and the statement : keep that shit out of my computer room !
Bud:
Linux.
Messtechniker:
Keysight Benchvue. Much to convoluted. :scared:
Too many background tasks slowing things down.
Can't say much about the UI, because I quickly
un-installed this huge thing, to put it politely.
bd139:
--- Quote from: Bud on May 20, 2022, 05:08:27 am ---Linux.
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Particularly the boot process and desktop.
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