Computing Fails - Revision history

ViciousCarnivore: /* Confirmed Fails */

2026-05-19T11:19:43Z

Confirmed Fails

ViciousCarnivore: /* Windows 11 Incompatibility */

2026-05-19T11:17:01Z

Windows 11 Incompatibility

ViciousCarnivore: /* IPv6 Is Badly Designed */

2026-01-19T07:34:03Z

IPv6 Is Badly Designed

ViciousCarnivore: /* Confirmed Fails */

2025-06-27T17:47:29Z

Confirmed Fails

ViciousCarnivore: /* Potential Fails */

2025-06-26T19:50:41Z

Potential Fails

ViciousCarnivore: /* Potential Fails */

2025-06-26T19:50:04Z

Potential Fails

ViciousCarnivore: /* Windows 11 Incompatibility */

2025-06-26T19:48:42Z

Windows 11 Incompatibility

ViciousCarnivore: /* Windows 11 Incompatibility */

2025-06-26T19:48:07Z

Windows 11 Incompatibility

ViciousCarnivore: /* OAuth */

2025-06-26T19:47:52Z

OAuth

ViciousCarnivore: /* Inconsistent flag usage for common commands: chown / scp and the recursive flag */

2024-12-20T21:07:38Z

Inconsistent flag usage for common commands: chown / scp and the recursive flag

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	* CrowdStrike - Boy, this really "Striked, the IT Crowd / Made the IT Crowd Strike"... Get it? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages] If there's one thing they could've changed, it might be to do 'staggered rollouts' instead of all machines at once.		* CrowdStrike - Boy, this really "Striked, the IT Crowd / Made the IT Crowd Strike"... Get it? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages] If there's one thing they could've changed, it might be to do 'staggered rollouts' instead of all machines at once.
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		+	* SaaS. This is similar to managed services. Evil. No customer wants SaaS, but they don't always have a choice. Compare a mechanic to the insurance companies. One does active work for things that break. The other one takes in a paycheck whether things break or not.

	==Potential Fails==		==Potential Fails==

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	https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-does-windows-11-still-not-support-my-cpu-chips/e2bd3cab-43ca-4f1c-821b-0825ca597666		https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-does-windows-11-still-not-support-my-cpu-chips/e2bd3cab-43ca-4f1c-821b-0825ca597666
	[[File:Priceless.png\|300px\|thumb\|right\|How to Create Landfill Waste]]		[[File:Priceless.png\|300px\|thumb\|right\|How to Create Landfill Waste]]
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		+	==Quickbooks==
		+	Quickbooks is an interesting story of what can go wrong with software. A number of things have gone wrong over time, though when it was first introduced, it was indeed a valuable program to have.
		+	* Online activation required (which breaks old editions)
		+	* Move to SaaS model/online (antagonistic to the customers. uses a slower web browser interface)
		+	* Potential forced move to cloud servers
		+	* Never ending software (it's entirely possible to make an accounting software that is a finished product and then people can move onto solving other problems, but developers seem to be interested in making a lifetime occupation out of a 5-10 year project).
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		+	It's fascinating and horrific just how bad the accounting software situation is. Evil stuff.

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	It's been said, but if they had made ipv4 5 octets from the start, ip addresses would not have run out for decades. Maybe not ever.		It's been said, but if they had made ipv4 5 octets from the start, ip addresses would not have run out for decades. Maybe not ever.
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		+	Also consider that mac addresses are easier to read than IPv6, and much higher than 4 billion combinations (16 ^12, according to: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44873804/will-mac-address-ever-run-out-of-combinations) It's 48 bits. This brings up the question: What is the best way to represent ip addresses (ipv4, ipv6, mac address, or other), and what is the appropriate number of bits to designate to it.

	==Hidden Files==		==Hidden Files==

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 * ARM on cellphones. Millions (billions?) of devices that are unusable after 5 years. Landfill.
-* CrowdStrike - Boy, this really "Striked, the IT Crowd / Made the IT Crowd Strike"... Get it?  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages]
+* CrowdStrike - Boy, this really "Striked, the IT Crowd / Made the IT Crowd Strike"... Get it?  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_outages] If there's one thing they could've changed, it might be to do 'staggered rollouts' instead of all machines at once.
 ==Potential Fails==

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 * systemd. While it works, it is practically no better than the previous solutions, and is a mess of LOCs.
-* wayland. This may end up making a whole lot of work for people, or it may fix what was wrong with X. See dedoimedo's thoughts on this. I don't know enough to comment.
+* wayland. This may end up making a whole lot of work for people, or it may fix what was wrong with X. See dedoimedo's thoughts on this. I don't know enough to comment. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xlibre.html https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wayland-2024.html
 ==Too Much==

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 ==Windows 11 Incompatibility==
-This link is priceless. I took a screenshot since the internet archive 'somehow failed' to save the page. Basically, a logical and sane person asks why his top of the line workstation doesn't work with Windows 11. Imagine paying 5 grand for a GPU CAD workstation only to have to buy another one in 7 years. He is told to use 'rufus', by 'unofficial' support.
+This link is priceless. I took a screenshot since the internet archive 'somehow failed' to save the page. Basically, a logical and sane person asks why his top of the line workstation doesn't work with Windows 11. Imagine paying 5 grand for a (typically GPU CAD) workstation only to have to buy another one in 7 years. He is told to use 'rufus', by 'unofficial' support.
 https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-does-windows-11-still-not-support-my-cpu-chips/e2bd3cab-43ca-4f1c-821b-0825ca597666
 [[File:Priceless.png|300px|thumb|right|How to Create Landfill Waste]]

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	[[File:Dilbert.gif\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Computers get worse]]		[[File:Dilbert.gif\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Computers get worse]]
	"We need to make it more difficult for users to get their data" - gmail and office365 email monopoly collusion		"We need to make it more difficult for users to get their data" - gmail and office365 email monopoly collusion
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		+	==Windows 11 Incompatibility==
		+	This link is priceless. I took a screenshot since the internet archive 'somehow failed' to save the page. Basically, a logical and sane person asks why his top of the line workstation doesn't work with Windows 11. Imagine paying 5 grand for a GPU CAD workstation only to have to buy another one in 7 years. He is told to use 'rufus', by 'unofficial' support. Priceless.
		+	https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/why-does-windows-11-still-not-support-my-cpu-chips/e2bd3cab-43ca-4f1c-821b-0825ca597666
		+	[[File:Priceless.png\|300px\|thumb\|right\|How to Create Landfill Waste]]

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 There should be an unwritten standard where lower case is used for the most common
 operations. kind of like how there is an unwritten standard for commands to give
-help when you type command -h or --help. Nut there is none. Cases are all over the
+help when you type command -h or --help. But there is none. Cases are all over the
 place. it's a mess. simple things. How many millions of moments have been lost to people
 typing the wrong -r or -R. It adds up over billions of man hours. It's a fail.
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 Someone really screwed up here.
-A solution, would be for flags to be case insensitive. Is there any reasonable use case
+One solution, would be for flags to be case insensitive. Is there any reasonable use case
 where you'd want to be able to use both -r and -R for different things in the same program?
 It's just confusing.