[Cialug] Stupid Software; Feature Don't Work!

[Nathan C. Smith]

I feel your pain.

I *think* the workaround for your Outlook issue is to delete the offline cache and have it rebuild itself.

BTW, have you ever looked at the Gimp, Inkscape, Audacity, or Tex?  Not exactly a hand-holding experience.

I think bad software (and I'm not saying the software above is bad) or a tough learning curve is easier to put up with when the software is free.  It is the difference in philosophy: FOSS: "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit" and commercial+proprietary: "I paid for this pile of crap, it had better work".  Glass half full/glass half empty+pockets completely empty.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Todd Walton
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:27 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] Stupid Software; Feature Don't Work!
>
> Microsoft Outlook, using Exchange, will download emails and
> appointments and the like for offline use.  You're online... it
> downloads.  You're offline... it uses the cache.  I fired up my work
> laptop last night and got into my work email using Outlook.  It
> successfully started in offline mode, and started to tell me about
> past meetings and appointments that had happened weeks ago.  Reminders
> I had dismissed weeks ago were coming back, because I hadn't dismissed
> them *while in offline mode*.  And then, the email I searched for
> could not be found.  I *know* what this email had in it, and I type in
> a few keywords that I *know* were in the email, it doesn't find it.
> Now that I'm at work I search on the same keywords and they're there.
> This email is over a week old, Outlook supposedly syncs the offline
> cache continuously.
>
> This is retarded.  These are the little razors that slice my skin when
> I come to work every day.  I'm trying to be reasonable, but this just
> reaffirms my animus for all things Microsoft.  Can someone please tell
> me something stupid that a high profile open source program does?  I
> need to know.  It's okay for a program to be not so efficient or to
> not have certain features.  But having a feature that doesn't work is
> just retarded.  Does Lotus Notes do stuff like this?  Now that I'm
> thinking about it, Evolution wasn't the most straightforward of
> applications.
>
> Yes, yes.  I could end the pain and get a real job, right?  A job that
> doesn't require self-flagellation?  I'm working on it.
>
> -todd
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