Long time Mac user here. One utility that I just can't live without is Alsoft's Disk Warrior. I have Drive Genius and MacTools Pro, but neither one "just works" as well as Disk Warrior. A month or so ago, my wife's iMac was behaving wonky, so I gr...
You get to a point where you can no longer hold back. It is like that bad uncle with the Comb-over who is not fooling anyone. Your software sucks. It is a shitty UI, it looks like technicolor vomit erupted on the screen. It is so unusable, that pe...
I am doing a market analysis to help us decide where we want to spend our next development dollars on. To accomplish this, I really need to get a good idea of their revenue. Top down, I took the bible, the accepted research. I also took the number...
My wife has a touch of OCD. When we are traveling, she will close the hotel door. Then check to see it is locked. Then invariably, she will go back 5 seconds later to check it again. When shopping, after using the remote to lock the doors of the c...
I exercise by walking or running on public roads. I do this everywhere I travel, and even at home. In my "pounding the pavement" I have come across a lot of things, credit cards (returned), drivers licenses, cash (once I found a $50 bill.. It pays...
It has been a poorly kept secret that I have had an alter ego, the snarky, White Russian drinking league bowler known as the PM Dude. Created to be an outlet for some truly bad management from above, and with a high level of snark, it was catharti...
Sigh, tough place to be today. I manage a few websites, and one that is for a non-profit that I volunteer at. My personal stuff is all hosted at MediaTemple, and they have been awesome. But, I "picked" GoDaddy for the big site. It was pretty cheap...
As a Product Manager for a scientific instrument, part of our system is a "controller". This is nothing more than asimple PC that can run our software and doesn't have any conflicts with our system. Recently, the system we used went end of sales (...
I know that Windoes 7 can be ultra stable and reliable. I have used it for mor than 2 years, and it was rock solid. Now I know that it can be made to be unreliable, unstable, and glitchy. Where I work, there are all kinds of additions. Full disk e...
Continuing on the theme of bad UI, this week's hall of shame goes to VMWare. Sad, because they used to "get it", or so it seemed to me. Background: I have long been a VMWare user. I have (purchased) a license for Workstation and Fusion, the deskto...