User: Steve Simmons

It's been a problem for a long time

On: If The Problem Persists, Reboot The Car

It's nice to see this issue getting more attention; I live in the Auto Zone and could tell some second-hand horror stories, but none are significantly different than what you see here.

For my own semi-prophetic writings on the topic, see this article, originally published March 1989 in Datamation.

Advice to the nerdy self?

On: Advice You Would Give to Your 12 Year-Old Self?

You're right, just keep on keepin' on.

Castle Systems - No Visible Trace of Quality

On: ORB drives are claimed to be shipping

I tried to read their web page. Broken links
and dead java, right and left. Tried to write
postmaster and webmaster. Both bounced, with
cutesy error messages. Looked up their site with
whois, sent messages there. Bounced.

So all the glitz works, but none of the basics.
And they're claiming 300,000hr MTBF on a tech
that won't ship until 3rd quarter 1999.

Right. Forget this one, folks.