Category Archives: Hall of Shame

Software Quality? What’s that?

I’ve seen some dumb software in my travels and Mercury Quality Center is no exception; however this one has got me scratching my head. Mercury Quality Center “provides a web-based system for automated software quality testing and management”. It uses … Continue reading

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Objective 7 Error Logging: Access Denied

Objective is an Enterprise Content Management system from Objective that uses a Win32 client that plugs into Office and can also be used as a stand-alone application for access to documents. I’m not a user of the application so I … Continue reading

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Bentley Redline Requires Admin Privleges

Bentley Redline is a viewer for DGN and DWG files that requires that users have write access to the application folder for the licensing component to work. Genius, pure genius: Here’s a quote from a discussion list I found on … Continue reading

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There’s a Hole in the Firewall, Dear Liza

I think that this icon says a lot about the WatchGuard Firebox..

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Hey IBM, it’s 2006!

If you’ve ever downloaded a SCSI or RAID driver for an IBM server from the IBM web site, you’ll have probably come across the DOS based executable (yes it’s a 16bit executable) that unpacks the driver to a floppy disk … Continue reading

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