Comments on: Home Networking Is A Crappy Phrase

By: david

david — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:14 +0000

The federal government will call it: HFCS – (Home Fucking Computer Shit). Now they just need an HFCS Czar and we'll be all set.

By: Steve Bell

Steve Bell — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:03:51 +0000

Brad, you are spot on here. You know what the problem is? It is (as is often the case) MICROSOFT.

Microsoft in all it's wisdom, a few years ago, decided to "segment" the Operating System market neatly into "Home" and "Business". And to sub-classify their wonderful new Operating System VISTA into about 17 sub-categories following in that… paradigm.

Problem is, it is not how people think or work. The "Home Networking" thing is pure CRAP. Someone needs to call them out on this, and straighten it out. Kudos for you to pointing out the wrongness of this notion. Nobody goes out to configure a "Home Network", even if it just done for the simple goal of sharing files or printers, because they know it will NEVER WORK.

And, to be fair — if they do, they are in for some MASSIVE frustration – whether they are using a Microsoft or an Apple operating system.

Please don't make me post VIDEOS, to prove my point!!

Question: does anyone else share my point of view??

-steve b.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:58:06 +0000

Agreed – it's very relevant.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:57:15 +0000

It's on order – haven't gotten it yet. Integration with daily burn is supposedly just around the corner.

By: @speedny

@speedny — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:18:14 +0000

You may have read it, but very interesting read about the future of home networking and smart grid in Tom Friedman's book.

By: Dave M.

Dave M. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:54:29 +0000

Tell us more about the scale… does it work with Dailyburn directly? It says max weight is 180 lbs?