Earlier this summer, I had the pleasure of setting up a simple wireless home network. I connected a network-ready inkjet printer to the router, saw to it that the client's laptop could print, and all was well. Until I was asked to make it so that the husband's computer could also print off the network. No problem, just download the drivers from HP, right?
The download flaked and failed many times. And this is on a braodband connection. GetRight to the recscue... So once isntalled, the setup file had to extract itself. It's the same compression tool used to package Adobe Reader. So that took 2 hours plus. Not a joke. The computer was a P3 IBM laptop, running Windows 2000. Once extracted, the setup took close to half hour to copy all the files.
Why was this so frustrating?
The owner of this laptop is the founder and chairman of a MAJOR IT consulting firm. Not huge but around 9,000 employees. I can't begin to describe their wealth. And even with a whole IT company behind him and countless millions, he has an obscenely slow and poorly configured computer. And God forbid that I say anything, let alone actually try to clean it up or optimize it.
The download flaked and failed many times. And this is on a braodband connection. GetRight to the recscue... So once isntalled, the setup file had to extract itself. It's the same compression tool used to package Adobe Reader. So that took 2 hours plus. Not a joke. The computer was a P3 IBM laptop, running Windows 2000. Once extracted, the setup took close to half hour to copy all the files.
Why was this so frustrating?
The owner of this laptop is the founder and chairman of a MAJOR IT consulting firm. Not huge but around 9,000 employees. I can't begin to describe their wealth. And even with a whole IT company behind him and countless millions, he has an obscenely slow and poorly configured computer. And God forbid that I say anything, let alone actually try to clean it up or optimize it.
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