Am 06.06.2011 10:28, schrieb Invisible:

> I prefer the old days of the Amiga, where software almost always did
> what it was supposed to. (Or else failed to work completely.) None of
> this "sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't" nonsense. (Or "if works
> if you press the buttons in this order, but no other order".)
>
> This kind of thing seems to be endemic to Windows (and now Linux). For
> example, when I was setting up our old file server, I discovered that
> the only way to make the tape drive work was some long, complex routine
> (which I eventually wrote down) where you uninstall and reinstall the
> hardware drivers multiple times, rebooting in between, in just the exact
> right sequence, and then it works perfectly. If you don't do this, the
> device just refuses to function. WTF?

Increase in system complexity, anyone?

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