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Your all missing my most favorite bad design decision. And I know that in other areas this has been mentioned and made fun of enough but ... Who thought it was a good idea to put braille on the drive up atms? And having a contact in banking I do know that banks pay extra for this feature its not just a case that they are all made this way. On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Ben Browning wrote: > > > >> > Was doing some upgrades on a UBR7246 (to a VXR), and I got to thinking > >> > about short sighted design considerations. I was curious if any of you > >> > had some pet peeves from a design perspective to rant about. I'll start > >> > with a couple. > > Here are a few of mine: > > The little clippy widgets (looks kind of like @) on some oldschool racks, > that hold the nut in place for the hex-head bolt. Why these were considered > desirable is beyond me. > > The slimline DS3 patch panels. God help you should you need to do something > with the two innermost wires on the back end of that- there's barely room > for pliers, much less fingers. > > Procurve switch management interface. Archaic, arcane, insane, unusable. > > Cisco V-notched power cables - Design "feature" geared around getting > suckers to buy a power cable for 45USD. > > ~Ben > --- > Ben Browning <[email protected]> > The River Internet Access Co. > WA Operations Manager > 1-877-88-RIVER http://www.theriver.com > >
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