{"id":23,"date":"2005-04-23T21:12:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T12:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-04-23\/23"},"modified":"2005-04-23T21:13:49","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T12:13:49","slug":"shame-on-you-netgear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-04-23\/23","title":{"rendered":"Shame on you, Netgear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <span class='nobr'>I bought<\/span> a <a href=\"http:\/\/netgear.com\/\">Netgear<\/a> wireless\nrouter (<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/netgear.com\/products\/details\/WGR614.php\">WGR614<\/a>, 60% off\n<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.compusa.com\/products\/product_info.asp?product_code=302517\">at\nCompUSA<\/a>, for $30). Rather than <span class='nobr'>a printed<\/span> manual, it comes with <span class='nobr'>a\none<\/span>-page quick-start guide with instructions on how to view the manual on\nCD-ROM. It says \"On computers not running the MS Windows operating system,\ndouble click on the <b>index.htm<\/b> on the CD.\" Okay, that's easy enough,\nexcept...<\/p>\n\n<p><b>index.htm<\/b> refers to one big image with an image map -- there is\nnothing else displayed by the page. This would not be <span class='nobr'>a problem<\/span> in and of\nitself except that they refer to the image as\n<tt>&#8220;<b>setup\/images\/WGR614v5_EUinstallsc.gif<\/b>&#8221;<\/tt>, but\nthere is no <b>setup<\/b> directory. Thus, the page is blank except for the\nbroken-image symbol.<\/p>\n\n<p>It turns out that there's a <b>Setup<\/b> directory, which, of course, is\nthe same as <b>setup<\/b> to <span class='nobr'>a Windows<\/span> box (is there any other modern OS\nwhose filesystems by default ignore case?), but not to anyone else.<\/p>\n\n<p>Shame on you, Netgear, for not testing on (even one!) non-MS OS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netgear shows a decided \"all the world is windows\" attitude.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}