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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Spank who wrote (42119)	1/3/1998 1:53:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

To be honest Spank, we did have a lot of problems reading a Zip drive on the network; taking down our NT server after installation, writing on disks that would go through the motions but not actually update the files. Several people I know have experienced similar problems. The software and hardware simply aren't up to par as evidenced by the number and type of failures. Now, bulls were of course foaming at the mouth, assuming I was short, claiming I was trying to talk down the stock, et cetera. As always, the attention then turned to me: personal questions, hate mail, and of course spelling errors. The most hillarious post was somebody actually claiming that if you post your position that somehow clears the air and you are to be taken at face value. That is so naive that it's beyond description and the notion that there is some requirement to notify the thread that whether you are net long or short is patently ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as the fuss they made over a few spelling errors. The truth is, I think IOM products are a pile of junk and I have firsthand experience that confirms that. No amount of personal attacks or "learn how to spell stupid" remarks are going to change that. So basically it was a bunch of foaming at the mouth bulls jumping on somebody for making a casual observation and there you have it. I think you knew that anyway. BTW, CD recorders are really the way to go for backup and they are getting cheaper all the time. They are also far more reliable in terms of storage life and you would be hard-pressed to find somebody without an available CD if you are exchanging large files with other companies.

To: Spank who wrote (42119)	1/3/1998 2:45:00 AM
From: FuzzFace	Respond to of 58324

Spank, wonderful reponse. Years ago, when I was a JES2 Sysprog at TRW, operations management made a big stink how the new version of JES2 was "shuffling the deck" such that one print job would come out of the printer with another job's banner pages. There were 2 or 3 VP's pounding their fists on the table in a meeting, telling me it was my incompetance and IBM's software that was doing it. I told them I had searched the problem database and called IBM up to level 3 and no one ever reported such an error in all of JES2 history. Then 2 days later, a senior operator secretly watched the new hire all night (she was so cute, I'd have volunteered) and discovered she was the one mixing up the outputs. No apologies, no public retraction, just sweep it under the rug and move on. I'll never forget how much trouble simple operator error can cause. And how unaware one can be that one is making such simple errors.