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What's with Linear Technology's "Download Request?" Chris Carlen 10-08-04
Posted by Chris Carlen on October 8, 2004, 8:24 pm
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Hi:

It seems LTC requires registration to download LTSpice now.

:-(

Anyway, the most recent download is version July 26, 2004, 2.10v.

Yet in August I downloaded the August 3, 2004, 2.10y version.

Which is preferable?


Thanks.




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Posted by Ken Smith on October 9, 2004, 7:00 am
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>Hi:
>
>It seems LTC requires registration to download LTSpice now.

It looks like someone let the idiots loose on the web site. They make
parts not profiles of men looking slightly upwards.

Lucky for mankind, they don't check any of the entries on the sign up web
page.

They've made the text smaller so they can fit the silly border around the
outside.

There are errors in the Java-script so that "view category" doesn't work
on at least one page.

The whole site just flat looks silly.

Hopefully they will shoot whoever corrupted the web site and put the good
one back up.



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Posted by Chris Carlen on October 11, 2004, 5:36 pm
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Ken Smith wrote:
>
>>Hi:
>>
>>It seems LTC requires registration to download LTSpice now.
>
>
> It looks like someone let the idiots loose on the web site. They make
> parts not profiles of men looking slightly upwards.
>
> Lucky for mankind, they don't check any of the entries on the sign up web
> page.
>
> They've made the text smaller so they can fit the silly border around the
> outside.
>
> There are errors in the Java-script so that "view category" doesn't work
> on at least one page.
>
> The whole site just flat looks silly.
>
> Hopefully they will shoot whoever corrupted the web site and put the good
> one back up.


Yeah, I was displeased by the changes in the overall site also. Often I
complain to webmasters about their sites. Maybe I should drop them a dime.




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Posted by on October 11, 2004, 7:24 pm
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>Yeah, I was displeased by the changes in the overall site also. Often I
>complain to webmasters about their sites. Maybe I should drop them a dime.


You may want to direct your comments to the sales/marketing people as opposed
to the web master. Often the web designers are off in their own little "oh how
cool is this!" world. The people who want to know how the web site is doing
are the people who are selling and advertising the product. Many times, they
are unaware of the problems with the web site, and are eager to hear from
customers about problems that need to be addressed.

Mark




Posted by Ken Smith on October 12, 2004, 1:51 am
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>Yeah, I was displeased by the changes in the overall site also. Often I
>complain to webmasters about their sites. Maybe I should drop them a dime.

I'd suggest waiting until, lets say, Friday to let them discover the error
of their ways and find a back up copy of the old web site code. I think
its only fair. Linear has been a good company for such a long time we
really should cut them a little slack. There is really no sense in going
into full rant mode over the stupid idiot changes they made to their web
site. It really is a small matter that they didn't realize that they had
a moron without the sense God gave a goose running the web site and a
bunch of managers who were too ignorant of the basics to stop this
travisty of HTML from being unleashed on the general public. I am sure
that they mean well and really it isn't like they are killing puppies or
anything, so we shouldn't let ourselves get all spun up, It is really
just a simple error, you know the sort of thing were you let a high school
kid do brain surgery because you don't know any better. I'm sure that the
metal disease that infected the web department will not, at least quickly,
spread into the chip designing departments. Linear is not the sort of
company that will bull-headedly continue along the path to disaster.
Seeing that the new web site is a blunder of the highest magnetude and
correcting it forth-with, I think, is what we can expect from them.
Perhaps a week worth of some, soon to be unemployed, persons labor is all
they really will have lost. We certainly will not hold it against them
that they let such a monkey brained idea slip out into public view. If I
saw someone accidentally walk naked into the street, I would look away as
I believe would all of the gentlemen and ladies of this news group.
Shouldn't we grant Linear the same grace and not look at their abortive
web site changes until they've had a chance to correct it? I believe we
should and we must. It is only right and fair that we do, for as horrid
and uncalled for as this corruption of their web site is we should not be
outraged but merely provide some gentle guidance as to the error of their
ways and trust that they will be adult enough to correct it.


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