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[Banter] What is the worst software you have used for its price?

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MK14:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on May 21, 2022, 08:48:41 pm ---DRM would probably be the worst software concept to be invented. The end users don't want it, the content producer thinks it benefits them, the pirates get a market for the pirated content.

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The following video, seems to detail some/one of those sad, DRM (for a CD) things:

rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: madires on May 21, 2022, 04:55:46 pm ---The Acronis versions before 2012 or so were great. After that they went downhill.

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As for backup solutions, the Connected Backup is a complete P.O.S. that passed many hands since its original owner Iron Mountain. Now it is owned by a company named "micro focus" (one more MBA-concocted meaningless name) and support is non-existent.

m98:
No mention of LabView yet? I almost always get the urge to stab my eyes out once I have to debug some vi's which could also double as full-page microfiche maps of the forbidden temple.

free_electron:

--- Quote from: bd139 on May 21, 2022, 06:00:22 pm ---For ref you can put the address bar back at the top in the settings.

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i know. but why on earth change it after what ? 10 years ? somebody was bored and had nothing to do ? let me move the search bar . that'll create a stink...


--- Quote ---As for the scroll direction, you can also configure that. I have a Logitech MX master 3 which has a utility that allows it to use the opposite scroll direction to the system settings which is handy.

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i know. but programs can still override it !

I have two macs and several ios devices. For anything electronics i use a windows machine. for day to day surfing , banking , word , excel etc all mac.

free_electron:

--- Quote from: m98 on May 21, 2022, 11:20:49 pm --- LabView

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i can't even type that without throwing up. so i had to wait for someone to post so i could hit "reply"

That thing should have its installer media and manuals sent through a shredder, doused in gasoline, set on fire , the ashes put in an asbestos lined lead container. that container stored in a titanium housing  and that housing entombed in a cubic metre of reinforced concrete. Bury that block in an old , deep mine , backfill it and collapse the entrance. plant a forest on top of that.

I loved going to their demo shows and turning on the SRQ ability of some connected equipment and watch it come crashing down. they never figured out how to properly handle a GPIB SRQ.

I did something similar at lecroy booths. take the timebase knob, spin it fast left, fast right, fast left and repeat that like 10 times. Then walk away while the scope goes nuts zooming in and out and displaying that dreaded "triggering..." with the slowly crawling progress bar at the bottom. It was fun on their DDA running win2K. many would bluescreen after several minutes.

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