I recently purchased a SRW208L managed switch from Linksys. On paper, it sounds great: 1000/100/10 speed, 8 port switch with PoE and VLAN capability and a nice port mirroring feature. Unfortunately, when I unpacked it and pointed my Safari browser at it, I got only a background colour without any menus. Same for Firefox. I have only Mac and Linux machines available in the place where this switch will be used and configured so its really annoying that they cant get a simple embedded web server to work.
A search of Linksys's own forums found lots of angry owners with the same problem. Unlike Linksys's other products, this one's web interface is written by morons and somehow does not display anything on standards compliant browsers. Their engineers must have worked really hard to make it only work in IE.
I had an online chat with a Linksys rep who empathised with my dissatisfaction but kept returning to the line that 'it says on the spec it works best in IE6'. 'Best'! Ha! 'Best implies that SOMETHING would work in other browsers. After I explained that I am using a Mac, he suggested using their 'workaround' which involved installing 'IE Tabs' in Firefox. Riiiiigght, not quite sure what a Mac is, are we matey? My argument is that it claims to have a HTTP interface. My browser does HTTP, yet it does not work. I want a refund, they said 'no'. This is just total incompetence from their software developers and is totally indefensible in today's IT world.
I use Zip250's to carry work from home to the office. I have a number of Zip250 disks become corrupted, possibly by dust or mechanical shock. Sometimes they become completely unreadable, other times only some files are corrupted. I think the design of the sliding door is primitive; there is no locking mechanism like the 1.44 floppy has. I learnt the hard way that you can't treat Zips like floppies, you must keep them pristine in their box and avoid shock, dust and humidity.
I am trying out using a CD-RW (with packet writing) for the same purpose. Maybe it's a bit slower for writing but reading is v.fast (ie fast to backup), media is cheap and I can read it on any PC without having to lug an external Zip drive around with it's drivers. Also my Samsung 10X CD-RWs come in a slim jewel CD case that is easy to slip into a folder, unlike the quite thick Zip disks.
Zip cases also love to break, but at least I can buy a stack of replacement CD cases dirt cheap.
I still love my old MO-640 drive. Now *THERE* is an example of indestrucable media and reliable technology, shame about the price though.
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I recently purchased a SRW208L managed switch from Linksys. On paper, it sounds great: 1000/100/10 speed, 8 port switch with PoE and VLAN capability and a nice port mirroring feature. Unfortunately, when I unpacked it and pointed my Safari browser at it, I got only a background colour without any menus. Same for Firefox. I have only Mac and Linux machines available in the place where this switch will be used and configured so its really annoying that they cant get a simple embedded web server to work.
A search of Linksys's own forums found lots of angry owners with the same problem. Unlike Linksys's other products, this one's web interface is written by morons and somehow does not display anything on standards compliant browsers. Their engineers must have worked really hard to make it only work in IE.
I had an online chat with a Linksys rep who empathised with my dissatisfaction but kept returning to the line that 'it says on the spec it works best in IE6'. 'Best'! Ha! 'Best implies that SOMETHING would work in other browsers. After I explained that I am using a Mac, he suggested using their 'workaround' which involved installing 'IE Tabs' in Firefox. Riiiiigght, not quite sure what a Mac is, are we matey? My argument is that it claims to have a HTTP interface. My browser does HTTP, yet it does not work. I want a refund, they said 'no'. This is just total incompetence from their software developers and is totally indefensible in today's IT world.
I am trying out using a CD-RW (with packet writing) for the same purpose. Maybe it's a bit slower for writing but reading is v.fast (ie fast to backup), media is cheap and I can read it on any PC without having to lug an external Zip drive around with it's drivers. Also my Samsung 10X CD-RWs come in a slim jewel CD case that is easy to slip into a folder, unlike the quite thick Zip disks.
Zip cases also love to break, but at least I can buy a stack of replacement CD cases dirt cheap.
I still love my old MO-640 drive. Now *THERE* is an example of indestrucable media and reliable technology, shame about the price though.