10 Dirty Little Secrets

[Carol Haynes]

I quite enjoyed this article: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=546

[Deozaan]

Interesting article.

I'd just like to take a moment and rant: I hate sites like this that make you click every single comment you want to read. Why not just show them all? Or show 50 at a time or something? 

[Carol Haynes]

Can't you click on "View all posts" (immediately above the post tree)? You do have to register with the site to use that though.

[justice]

3.) Veteran IT professionals are often the biggest roadblock to implementing new technologies
Which is excellent 

[iphigenie]

#9 - incorrect! Most people first think they did something wrong when errors occur - even when it is a bug.
They still think it is IT's problem to fix it, though.

#5 - always managed to make it work the other way around 

#3 - some veteran IT grow stuck and old, but many mostly grow cynical about the new technologies... possibly because they have seen said technology concept come and go 3 times in their career.
Not all new technology is worth implementing, except perhaps to add a tick to your CV - but thats what you do when you play around when things are quiet, not something you deploy on mission critical projects.

[Carol Haynes]

#3 ... rule of thumb ... if you want a quiet life stay at least one generation (and preferably two or three) out of date. Windows XP is just becoming mature - give Vista another 5 years and people will have stopped wondering what the fuss was about - and all the old unsupported software and hardware will have gone the way of the dodo and the generation of incompatibilities and irritations will have emerged!

[Deozaan]

You do have to register with the site to use that though.

That's another complaint/rant. The good news is I just got BugMeNot working again.

[zridling]

[Carol]: #3 ... rule of thumb ... if you want a quiet life stay at least one generation (and preferably two or three) out of date.

So true, Carol. I think that's already happening with Vista-SP1, since except for one remote hardware glitch, it smoothed out many of its rough edges.