On 2008-01-21 at 15:31 +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 06:56:11PM +0100, Ann Barcomb wrote:
It's so easy to hate OpenOffice, because they made it work and look
like Microsoft Office, only slower.
They did such a bad job of working and looking like MS Office that I
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:57:15AM +0100, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Ugly Software,
If I actively ignored your splash screen by clicking another window,
then why the hell must you insist on grabbing the focus when your
main application windows is finally there?
Pertinent hate indeed. It's not as
Nicholas Clark skribis 2008-01-22 10:28 (+):
Pertinent hate indeed. It's not as bad, but Ubuntu's Sound Juicer is
also hateful. It has no option to disable the helpful popup for
I've finished extracting the CD
Ubuntu is exceptionally skilled at writing software that demand ones
focus.
On 22/01/2008, Juerd Waalboer ju...@convolution.nl wrote:
Ubuntu is exceptionally skilled at writing software that demand ones
focus. Another exhibit: the upgrade thingy. After downlodaing the
updated packages, its window will pop itself up to the front, and
automatically start installing the
Ilmari Vacklin skribis 2008-01-22 13:37 (+0200):
This is reportedly a bug in Metacity, not in update-manager:
I'm not using Metacity, though.
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On 2008-01-22, at 04:57, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
The only kind of warning that should ever do this is, is in the
disaster-imminent-if-you-don't-act-now category: empty battery,
house on
fire, nuclear waste in lost+found. But Ubuntu does it even when it has
NO WARNING whatsoever. It's just
Nicholas Clark writes:
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:57:15AM +0100, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
Ugly Software,
If I actively ignored your splash screen by clicking another window,
then why the hell must you insist on grabbing the focus when your
main application windows is finally there?
Nicholas Clark wrote:
Pertinent hate indeed. It's not as bad, but Ubuntu's Sound Juicer is also
hateful. It has no option to disable the helpful popup for I've finished
extracting the CD
It's not like I haven't noticed - it *has* an option to eject the CD.
That's sort of like remote controls
On 2008-01-22 at 11:48 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Nicholas Clark wrote:
It's not like I haven't noticed - it *has* an option to eject the CD.
That's sort of like remote controls with eject buttons.
What, both useful?
Nicholas appeared to say that notification on desktop was redundant
Anyone else pissed that Google did that with Google Video when they
bought Youtube?
I thought I was the only one!
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:16:55PM +1030, Bill Page wrote:
Anyone else pissed that Google did that with Google Video when they
bought Youtube?
I thought I was the only one!
I too am pissed about that.
I'm also pissed that *anyone* gave those youtube yahoos any money at
all. There are
On 2008-01-21, at 23:59, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
I suppose this is now business hate.
Business hate? HP!
Just about every place I can think of where HP and Compaq had
competing products, they dumped the good one and kept the bad one.
And it wasn't just that they kept HP's
It's hateful enough to use a mailing list as your bug tracker, it's not like
any good bug tracker doesn't have a mail gateway, but it's extra hateful when
they don't accept posts from non-members so I need to sign up to a bunch of
mail I don't care one bit about JUST TO REPORT A BUG!
I'm
On 21 Jan 2008, at 22:57, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I'm looking at you, TextMate. Specifically their bundles.
Just cos I said hello to you and you thought Christ, that fucker
Armstrong gets everywhere :)
--
Andy Armstrong, Hexten
Michael G Schwern wrote:
It's hateful enough to use a mailing list as your bug tracker, it's not
like any good bug tracker doesn't have a mail gateway, but it's extra
hateful when they don't accept posts from non-members so I need to sign
up to a bunch of mail I don't care one bit about JUST
On Jan 22, 2008 1:11 AM, Tony Bowden t...@tmtm.com wrote:
But a few weeks back I noticed that one of their test cases seemed to
have a spurious minus sign in it. After confirming that I was correct in
every spreadsheet app I had access to, I decided to be nice and report
this to them.
But:
Philip Newton wrote:
Ah. This is clearly some novel meaning of open standards process.
I think it's a sign that the SCO-style legal-FUD approach is working.
They appear to be so scared of anyone ever challenging the provenance of
any part of their work that even *talk to them* you need to
Tony Bowden wrote:
Having wasted a significant chunk of last year on so-called open source
license wrangling for my erstwhile employer, I can spew software
license hate all day with only a half-turn of the winding key...
/me turns the key a good three or four times and stands back.
--
The
Okay, this is almost too easy. ;-) But here goes:
Dear Web Browser (aka Firefox, IE, Safari, and probably all the rest):
When the web page you are rendering for me has some ridiculously oversized
diagram in it (like, say, a product architecture diagram), I know I will have to
scroll to see the
Short version: Thunderbird + IMAP + Exchange = hate.
But you knew that already. Specifically in this case it's deleting
messages. I'm in the happy situation of occasionally getting a big
chunk of alerts where some process or other at $work throws its toys
out the pram. This is fine, other than
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