Ten Tech Things that I Hate In Selfish, 852 days ago

FTP: people with a little tech skill (but above average) thinks that THIS is the real file trasfer protocol. Please, FTP, die.
Modern Mobile Phones user interface: fancy and useless for the most part. You have a BIG screen, with SMALL estate… it sucks
There is not a reliable system to share data between two computers (with computer I mean every peace of hardware with a cpu and a file storage in it)
GNU/Linux performances as a desktop computer: I keep growing my RAM time by time… the more RAM I add the more the system became unresponsive after a relatively small period of time
Proprietary (not free) software: beside the natural consideration and advantages of free software, I have to recall the extreme difficulty to retrieve every small piece of information about that shitty DBMS (put here a name of your choice). You need to know how to configure an Unix ODBC client? Well, first read on some fucking useless colorful commercial brochure…
Self inducted digital divide: if you can use IE 6, why are using IE 5?
Batteries: their gain in performance in time is well far behind the Moore law, but batteries ARE part of our computing experience…
Wires! We don’t need wires! Stop using wires!
Hard disks: their (adaptive) technology is 20 years old… where are the solid state ones? I don’t want to listen at those ‘clicketiclick… death” anymore…
ebooks and who try to sell them: they suck hard… a book is a book. I don’t even think to read something bigger than a VI quick reference on my PDA (or something like that). Not to talk about DRM, of course…

Comments

saint said:

And what would you use to transfer files (not counting scp :) ) ?
Or do you appreciate sending large files as e-mail attachments ? :)

Posted on 08/02/06 12:19 PM #
Claudio said:

sftp, or http! Lot of people that have access to a docroot and could also write plain .htaccess file, still uses FTP…

Posted on 08/02/06 12:28 PM #