Comments on: Contest: Win History’s “Engineering Disasters” DVD set

By: Sidd

Sidd — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:23:21 +0000

there seems to be MS hating going around
lets change it up a bit.

1. Apple
2. iPhone
3. Safari
4. iPod
5. HD-DVD

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:23:34 +0000

1. iphone keyboard
2. Acrobat - can you get any more bloated
3. PBR
4. Charter Cable
5. HD DVD

By: Sumeeth Evans

Sumeeth Evans — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:52:04 +0000

5. IPhone Clones
4. HD DVD
3. MB Air
2. OSX Updates bricking systems
1. Forcing Safari via mandatory update

By: RL

RL — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:51:15 +0000

5)Windows CE
4)Motorola V3
3)Compaq Ipaq
2)Windows ME
1)Windows Vista

By: Tom Woolf

Tom Woolf — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:36:37 +0000

5: CueCat
4: Windows ME
3: Netscape part 1 - letting MS IE catch up and beat you
2: Netscape part 2 - bloatware versions that were created to try to battle IE
1: OS/2 - letting Win 3.1 beat you

By: diem

diem — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:46:18 +0000

1) Atari not buying Nintendo when it had the chance
2) Sony’s minidisc and mind-blowingly bad software to go with it
3) Sony’s failure to use and inform anyone of their rootkit altering software on their cd’s
4) Diebold electronic voting machines. Funny how they can make ATM’s but not a voting machine with a paper trail.
5) RFID inclusion in passports–great, now everyone knows me *dons tinfoil boxers*

By: MK

MK — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:36:32 +0000

1. Windows Vista
2. N-Gage
3. Atari Jaguar
4. Betamax
5. Internet Forums

By: JWJ

JWJ — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:06:22 +0000

1) Windows Vista Ultimate
2) Windows ME
3) Windows 98 FE
4) My 15 year old Mac refusing to recognize its new 8 MB of RAM
5) Oregon Trail refusing to run on Mac in (4)

By: JEWSH

JEWSH — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:10:04 +0000

Ok I can play this game the 5 major tech disasters that I can personally shed some light on also happen to be the biggest tech blunders my School District has made.

#1. Hiring me
#2. Spending 120k dollars on a wireless system by XIRRUS that doesnt work with our AD setup.
#3. Dropping our HP contract for a new contract with DELL.
#4. Rolling out windows Vista district wide when it was only a few weeks old.
#5. Investing well over 500,000 in new computers and laptops that have not been opened or used for almost 8 months due to a lame azz IT Director.

By: Sean-Michael

Sean-Michael — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:51:51 +0000

1. My Twitter Addiction VS. Twitter’s Downtime
2. Windows ME & Vista
3. Installing linux on 3rd generation iPod
4. Sony Rootkit
5. Macromedia ColdFusion

By: Little Red Ryan Hood

Little Red Ryan Hood — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:33:56 +0000

WAIT I forgot one!

The Blink tag in HTML. IE doesn’t support this tag anymore, firefox still does. Biggest.Tech.Disaster.Ever.

By: Little Red Ryan Hood

Little Red Ryan Hood — Thu, 29 May 2008 20:27:12 +0000

1. Apple’s refund for Lisa owners with 20+ year old original receipt.
2. The Palm VII and it’s nearly impossible ability to wirelessly sync email.
3. ClearWire (I’m actually a user because it was cheaper than going with
cable, I hate myself for this choice).
4. The Movie Hackers
5. Virus hoax emails

By: Jeremy Jones

Jeremy Jones — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:54:52 +0000

My first gen MacBook Pro freaked out and sent to much power to my iPod 30GB over USB. The iPod was screwed and just kept restarting. The laptop started to having some more issues so I made sure to backup my data on an external hard drive. I called Apple and they thought I was just someone that wanted a free iPod and didn’t believe me. They wanted me to try the USB port again. I plugged in the hard drive that I just backed up my data on (not thinking right) and it screwed the hard drive by sending to much power to it. That power surge not only screwed the external hard drive but now the computer wouldn’t boot up right. I target disc mode but it wouldn’t see the hard drive.

So I lost a 30GB iPod, external hard drive, a MacBook Pro and the most important thing was all my files.

Apple was really nice about it (after the hard drive died) and replaced pretty much every part in the MacBook Pro, they exchanged my iPod for a new one and gave me $200 store credit for a new external hard drive.

I was the idiot for plugging the external hard drive with my data into the MacBook Pro.

That is my 1-5. I hope that never happens again. I never could trust the MacBook Pro again so I now have a new 2.5GHz MacBook Pro and 2 external hard drives, and a home server.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:08:10 +0000

5) 20GB HD full of X rated material
4) not backing my Firefox bookmarks before a clean install of XP
3) breaking my spacebar on my IBM Thinkpad A31.
2) Upgrading to XP SP3. ‘nough said.
1) recently having an 8GB Pico-c flash drive die on me.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:58:54 +0000

5. PS2 that doesn’t like to read some discs anymore.
4. A cell phone that can’t erase text messages without crashing. Thanks Verizon for your crappy OS.
3. CD drive going boom in the middle of the night. Something inside exploded.
2. MacBook system alarm going off for 10 seconds for no reason. Logs give no noticeable details.
1. A self-built Vista computer that turned off one day and didn’t turn back on. Bulging capacitors.

By: Tereasa

Tereasa — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:20:38 +0000

1. Laser Disc
2. iPhone
3. Betamax
4. Microsoft Bob
5. Iomega Jaz Drive (if you think a zip is bad, you’ve never had a Jaz)

By: Rhayader

Rhayader — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:17:04 +0000

5 - Alchemy
4 - Phrenology
3 - Cold Fusion
2 - Perpetual Motion
1 - Religion

By: dwalk51

dwalk51 — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:06:54 +0000

5. Took apart my PSP, and when I put it back together it sparked and the screen went dead. I must have left a wire exposed somewhere… oops.
4. Tryed to install Windows SP2, and I accidentally erased all of my previous data. Everything. Lots of pictures and music just gone.
3. Sat on my old flip phone with it open inside my pocket and it cracked in two pieces. No more flip phone!
2. Old iPod went absolutely hay-wire and stopped playing music. In place of music it would play EXTREMELY loud static-y screeches that nearly killed my hearing.
1. My Blackberry spontaneously started typing in the letters ‘Q’ and ‘E’ whenever I scroll to the left, despite the fact that I’m not typing anything. Its very annoying, and the buttons often ’stick’ and think that I’m holding down the Q and E buttons, and it leaves the phone useless until I can unstick it. RIM sucks.

By: dwalk51

dwalk51 — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:58:29 +0000

You said to send them to you but left no email… and also said to leave them in a comment…

By: kevbo

kevbo — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:44:35 +0000

5. Newton
4. N-Gage
3. Windows ME
2. Betamax
1. Zune