What's with Linear Technology's "Download Request?"

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Chris Carlen

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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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Christopher R. Carlen
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Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
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In article <ck7b3n0a1k@news2.newsguy.com>,
Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> wrote:
Hi:

It seems LTC requires registration to download LTSpice now.
Click to expand...
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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In <ckeud20ah4@news2.newsguy.com>, on 10/11/04 at 02:36 PM,
Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> said:

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.
Click to expand...

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
 
Spehro Pefhany wrote:

Yeah, but look at their cool "404 Error" page:

http://www.linear.com/prod/datasheet.html?datasheet=1169

That photo is probably adding $1000/month to their bandwidth bill. ;-)
Click to expand...
Note the absence of responses from Mike Engelhardt.

Paul Burke
 
I sure am glad you are being tolerant Ken ;-)

-Chuck

Ken Smith wrote:
In article <ckeud20ah4@news2.newsguy.com>,
Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> wrote:
[...]

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
Click to expand...
 
In article <ck7b3n0a1k@news2.newsguy.com>, crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov
says...

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?
Click to expand...
Not a clue there, but... As far as LTC's web site goes, it looks
perfectly normal to me. That, and SWCAD required no registration info
(though it offered me the option).

This is as of 16-Oct-04, Saturday, about 08:53 PDT.


--
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(Known to some as Bruce Lane, ARS KC7GR,
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"If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped
with surreal ports?"
 
Dr. Anton T. Squeegee <SpammersAreVermin@dev.null> wrote:
: In article <ck7b3n0a1k@news2.newsguy.com>, crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov
: says...

: > 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?

: Not a clue there, but... As far as LTC's web site goes, it looks
: perfectly normal to me. That, and SWCAD required no registration info
: (though it offered me the option).

: This is as of 16-Oct-04, Saturday, about 08:53 PDT.


A website that presents "&nbspSend us your Feedback on our new web site!"
for about a week after an update is at least somehow broken...
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Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
--------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
 
Ken Smith wrote:
In article <ck7b3n0a1k@news2.newsguy.com>,
Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> 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.
Click to expand...
Somebody must have been listening (or reading to be precise), now you can
download without registering.

Mostafa

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Mostafa Kassem
M Dot Kassem At ieee Dot org
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Ken Smith wrote:
In article <ck7b3n0a1k@news2.newsguy.com>,
Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> 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.
Click to expand...

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.




--
_______________________________________________________________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@sandia.gov -- NOTE: Remove "BOGUS" from email address to reply.
 
In article <ckeud20ah4@news2.newsguy.com>,
Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> wrote:
[...]
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.
Click to expand...
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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kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge
 
Ken Smith wrote:
In article <ckeud20ah4@news2.newsguy.com>,
Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> wrote:
[...]

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.
Click to expand...

Wow what a speech! Ok, you've got my vote for President on Nov. 2 !



Good day!



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_______________________________________________________________________
Christopher R. Carlen
Principal Laser/Optical Technologist
Sandia National Laboratories CA USA
crcarle@sandia.gov -- NOTE: Remove "BOGUS" from email address to reply.
 
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:56:44 +0000 (UTC), the renowned Uwe Bonnes
<bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

Ken Smith <kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote:
: In article <ck7b3n0a1k@news2.newsguy.com>,
: Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> 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.

They also renamed all the datasheet pdfs to some silly name, like
http://www.linear.com/pc/downloadDocument.do?navId=H0,C1,C1003,C1040,C1055,P7544,D5128

Argh!
Click to expand...
Yeah, but look at their cool "404 Error" page:

http://www.linear.com/prod/datasheet.html?datasheet=1169

That photo is probably adding $1000/month to their bandwidth bill. ;-)
 
Ken Smith <kensmith@green.rahul.net> wrote:
: In article <ck7b3n0a1k@news2.newsguy.com>,
: Chris Carlen <crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov> 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.

They also renamed all the datasheet pdfs to some silly name, like
http://www.linear.com/pc/downloadDocument.do?navId=H0,C1,C1003,C1040,C1055,P7544,D5128

Argh!

--
Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
--------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
 
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