Ranting about the tech world.

[cookin chef]

Just in advance, this a little long, but I built up alot of frustration lately.

Sometimes I wonder if it is really worth to continue working in the tech world or even owning a computer system anymore. When customers buy a computer they are happy at first, then later they get mad or feel disappointed because they are usually computer incompetent. Right now, the tech market in North America is at a crawl. INTEL is promoting P4's with such a faulty marketing scheme. They 1st sell P4's with expensive RIMM's, those actually helped with P4's performance. Now, they are promoting it with a new intel 845 chipset that only uses SDRAM which will cause the p4 to slow down in performance. Then in the 2nd quarter next year, they'll change the p4 platform again to support DDR ram. P4's aren't worth using win9x on. Only NT 4, LINUX, win2k, win xp, and others really use its' potential.
Not too impressed with Micro$oft's scheme either, XP with its' product activation plan.
LINUX is a nice alternative, but M$ has me and many others brainwashed into their grasp.
Linux has yet to move an inch into the desktop market.
Intel is sueing Via again for failing to obtain a P4 chipset license from them.
PCI bus is being maxed out, INTEL beats out AMD for manufacturing the next bus standard called 3 GIO????
Amd cpu's run too hot!!!! But they really run windows really good!!!!
INTEL doesn't want us to really buy their newer p3's like the coppermine-t or Tutalin.
Celeron's will still be out performed by Durons.
Apple still alive????
New OS 10 for them, yippieee, bring out the apple ale!!!!!
Virus's just won't go away. People's computers have been Sir CAM sized or Attacked by Sir Camelot's evil army.
US gov. and Microsoft discovered another bad one nearly 3 months ago. Code RED ALERT!!! I repeat, go to Code RED ALERT!!!
Too many power brownouts, replacing too many power supplies and other related damaged parts. This doesn't just happen to the computers we sell, but to other ones made by compaq, hp, other clones as well. Making alot of money in service and parts charges though. Surge protectors do not protect computers from a power brownout. You need an APC power unit for something like this!!!
Computers are not a time saver, just a time consumer.
Okay, I'm done ranting now.

[CinderElmo]

Let me start by saying that since technology is here to stay, there isn't really much we can do but suck it up (this is what we train for people!). However, I would like to add to your list a feeling I have gotten recently in my IT experience.

I support about 30 users in a relaxed environment with standard PC equipment...but my feeling is that this job is so unsatisfying it makes me sick. I mean who cares if I can go around and fix PC's all day long -- what difference does it make? I go home and feel like I did NOTHING all day long (actually I surf a lot )...I mean if I didn't show up tomorrow nothing would change. I am just a tool in the machinery of this organization. My only consolation is that I am not working on an assembly line or some other thankless, mindless task.

Anyway, technology can be a cold profession. That is my observation anyway.