Monday, October 13, 2008

Progress or spin, which one do you like?

Our math department computer labs suck bigtime. The printer doesn't work.... if that works then the network connection is gone....arggghhh!!! A few weeks earlier I was desparately trying to take a few printouts from the undergrad lab. Too bad I didn't know the administrator would forget installing something as universal as Acrobat PDF reader. So everytime I would try opening the paper, safari would show the never ending spinning wheel forcing me to shift to the next available Mac. By the time I was frustrated enough to leave without the printouts, half of the macs in the lab were screwed... I mean they had that rainbow spinning wheel. This is one aspect of Mac I hate, they should say something like not responding or so instead of making the user confused about what it is "doing in the background".

The guy in this video talks about two frustrating things.... progress bars from PC and the spinning wheel in Mac, which one do you like/hate the most?

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