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 <benb@theriver.com> The River Internet Access Co. WA Operations Manager 1-877-88-RIVER http://www.theriver.com