Encryption done the Perfectly Wrong Way(tm)

2006-08-19 Thread Peter Pentchev
[okay, apologies in advance - or, come to think of it, I'm here, so no apologies are needed; anyway, this will not be a real software hate, more like a software design hate; still, I think it counts as mind-software hate, so there] Dear Wossname[0], For about four months now, you've been subje

Re: [OT] Mac recommendations for minimising hate

2006-08-19 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 19:02 +0200, Phil Pennock wrote: > Wotcher, > > Sorry for the lack of hate here, but having read various rants about > Macs, I'm hoping for some advise on how to minimise future hate. Don't turn it on. No, really. To completely minimise all software hate: 1. Throw the comp

[OT] Mac recommendations for minimising hate

2006-08-19 Thread Phil Pennock
Wotcher, Sorry for the lack of hate here, but having read various rants about Macs, I'm hoping for some advise on how to minimise future hate. After losing last weekend to reinstalling, twice, Windows on my wife's machine, today she agreed to go into the local Apple center and try out MacOS on a

Re: A simple hate for livejournal

2006-08-19 Thread sabrina downard
That sounds like a very worthy piece of hate (can we see it somewhere?) i second this Call for Hate! I once was awestruck by some Linux fanboy trying vigorously (spittle and all) to explain to me all the goodness and beauty inherent in the info system. did you administer a beating? that wo

Re: A simple hate for livejournal

2006-08-19 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: > Nothing impressive here, but, all the same: > > I was writing my grand opus explaining to an interested non-unix user > all the hateful things about GNU Texinfo, the lack of manpages, botched > Debian manpages, incorrectly installed Debian Texinfo pages, idioci

Re: A simple hate for livejournal

2006-08-19 Thread David King
I was writing my grand opus explaining to an interested non-unix user all the hateful things about GNU Texinfo [...] Only after previewing the post a good fourteen or so times, cleaning it up iteratively, and after I went to post it, did it let me know, helpfully [...] "Sorry, LiveJournal c