I work on computers daily. Sometimes they cooperate, but I have noticed I get more resistance from SUN machines. Granted we have machines that were built 8 years ago, but I can’t imagine they were any easier to use back then. For instance upgrading the OS from Solaris 8 to 10 seems to be a feat that only superhumans can achieve or my co-worker….whom by the way dislikes inappropriate use of ellipses….but I digress.
I recently found a box of RAM in one of our storage rooms and decided to “upgrade” our junky (SUNky?) ancient machines. The installation was fairly painless. I also salvaged 2 CPU’s from a really dead machine and installed them into the machine. So now it has a whopping 4gb of memory and 4 Ultra-sparc II processors. Whoa, that sounds like a great improvement, the benefits must surely outweigh any faults during the install process, right? The time and effort saved with be incalculable. If only that were true….
What did my efforts buy me? I can now go from zero to really frustrated a lot faster than before. Thanks SUN.
See, this is what happens when companies decide that instead of following a standard, they’re going to develop their own kind of booting mechanism.
Comment by Lee Hinman — February 1, 2008 @ 12:20 am