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Mon 18 Aug 2003

Breaking a few rice bowls

Category : Commentary/ricebowl.txt

"Love these guys" who leave their two cents worth in versiontracker.

Great idea, and good functionality, but I'm stumped over the instructions ie: "Enter the server's URL". What URL? What Server? The instructions seem to assume that I have an Airport network, and don't explain how to set this up without one. Please, just a little more info.

Okay, so I did go back and try a bit harder on the documentation, but do they realise how subversive this whole effort really is? It may break a few rice bowls, as the Chinese like to say.

To follow this trend of thought, read Robert X Cringely, who asks the popular question, "Why aren't Apple Macintosh computers more popular in large mainstream organizations?" As MacDailyNews sums it all up, "IT Hates Macs because Macs reduce IT head count."

Posted at 10:38AM UTC | permalink

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