Ah, I've dropped bombs on my management exams and still managed to squeak through. Wait, no, there's a manager and America joke to be found in there somewhere.
One thing that's been ticking me off a lot lately (besides my lousy ISP HughesNet) is that I'd click a link and it takes me to the link above or below it. So I suddenly find myself somewhere I wasn't expecting. It's clear I'm just not paying attention and clicking the wrong thing, which bugs me.
Another thing that bugs me, and I have to say it, is when someone decides to give a reply a different subject. Then I'm looking through Fungi Forums, I glance at the recent posts column, and see what looks like a new topic. I go into the forum (because I never think to click "show unread posts" instead), and I can't find it anywhere. Oh, it's because that's the name of a new post, not a new topic. I know it's a feature, but I don't care. I didn't think anybody bothered giving subjects to posts here.
And finally, my ISP HughesNet. It's the only viable option for some people out in the rural middle of nowhere like me, so they can afford to offer terrible service at outrageous prices. It's satellite internet, so you can see where this is going. When it does work, it works well enough, but there are times where you can't get service at all. Probably the weather. Secure sites aren't given the "turbopage" treatment on low-price plans like the one I'm on, which means they take so long to be received that they often time out. The HughesNet member login page itself uses a secure site, so sometimes I can't log in to check billing or usage info. Yep, it's one of those ISPs with data caps. I'm on the lowest plan, so that's 200 or 250 MB per day max. Turns out watching YouTube videos sucks that up REAL fast. There are complicated rules on how it's figured when you actually go over, but once you do, you're under the Fair Access Policy (FAP) mode where speed is throttled down to dialup speeds for 24 hours. But it doesn't even seem like dialup, because the pages always time out! It used to be you could check the HughesNet website to see how much you've already downloaded, but for whatever reason I can't get it to work now (it times out or comes up with a browser error) even when trying every browser with popups turned off (it insists on using a popup for that kind of info). If you do get through, it shows your usage except for the last two hours, so that doesn't always help. Hughes said they'd come out with a program to monitor your usage in realtime, but of course they haven't, and the only scripts I can find online work for earlier models of their router (or seem to try to access that same usage page). And as of a couple months ago, there's been this nasty habit of having pages time out IMMEDIATELY and needing to refresh each page a few times before it will go "oh, you actually want to go to that page? Okay". No, HughesNet doesn't allow you to change your DNS preferences to anything else (unless maybe you do a lot of trickery), so I'm held hostage by problems on their end. Or it's a problem inherent to satellite internet, I don't know. Oh yeah, and every time I open my browser, I have to wait half a minute or more before it will actually TRY to go to a webpage. Maybe that's the satellite acquiring an IP address, don't know.
I'd also complain that Adobe Updater is absolutely incapable of connecting to the Internet, but I've heard a lot of people say that darn thing always complains, so that might be an Adobe problem.
