On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 02:33:09PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>
> Right! And that should be information I can use to `fix' your fuckups?
Most error messages are the subject of hate. I only comfort myself by
realising that I have produced some pretty unhelpful ones in my time.
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:01:39PM +0900, Dave Brown wrote:
> gurgitate-mail, just by showing them the, uh, idiosyncratic style of
>
> the procmail code.
>
So what is your filter - so we can hat that as well :-)
Earle Martin wrote:
Not to my knowledge, even http://we.hates-software.com/ has been dead
for months. Which is a pity.
Just another topic for hate :-)
Jeremy Stephens wrote:
On Monday 10 March 2008 02:43:58 pm Phil Pennock wrote:
Is your experience with Exim debianised or not?
Definitely debianised. Maybe if I have to use exim in the future,
I'll try setting it up myself using the manual you mentioned.
I was going to say - the original
Robert Rothenberg wrote:
That's minor hate. The stupidity that really gets my ire is that if I want
to pay a bill if some even number of pounds, it won't just let me enter "0"
for the p field--- doing so gives an error that it cannot process the
payment, with no explanation why.
I once had to
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:22:42PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> If I want to use a billion characters and kick the shit out of my swap
> slice, the computer should allow me, the administrator, to shoot myself
> in the foot. That it doesn't is a misfeature.
I like the command
grep somestri
Yossi Kreinin wrote:
According to my crude estimations, at least about 75% of the people
getting payed for crafting tests used for various selection processes in
modern society should be taken out and shot.
But what tests do you use to select the lucky 25% that remain. And who
arranges this
Peter da Silva wrote:
>> I have to remember which contortion of my usual username wasn't
>> already taken by some previous user of the system. GH!
>
> As opposed to remembering which email address you used?
At least that is under you control (largely). I try to use one of two
different em
How many times have I gone to a form
Username : AndrewB
Password: x
Password again: x
email:
Graphic to check you are really human :
Submit
Sorry AndrewB is taken
Change to AndrewBlack
Sorry you must give a password (been cleared down)
Type password twice
Sorry AndrewBlack is taken
Ch
Anton Berezin wrote:
something something else1.234E15
Yep - it is nice to know that my phone number is 7.77E+09
H.Merijn Brand wrote:
Try to fill in an American form with H.Merijn Brand. Most will complain
that that name is invalid, ad they expect Whoever X. Brand instead.
I have a friend who users her 3rd given name (3rd first name doesn't
sound quite right) and the system of her (UK based) employer c
mes last.
It is what we used to call "Christian Name" in our less multicultural
and more European/ British supremacist days. Ie the Andrew of "Andrew
Black".
What do you call it in US?
Abigail wrote:
Oh, it's not just merkins think the entire world is like them.
Most Europeans also think every has both a first and a last name.
That is a fair point. I had to create an account on our server for a
guy from Bangalore who was listed in our coporate address book as
Lastname:
Philip Newton wrote:
How about "Provo, UT 84604". It's what I always use. (Mostly because
it's the only valid ZIP code I know.)
It does somewhat depend on whether they are going to check the code you
give against you credit card details, or whether you would prefer you
goods to be delivered
Ahhh - please can you merkins learn that you are not the only country in
the world...
David Cantrell wrote:
FWIW, Thunderbird DTRT, putting the URL in the status bar at the bottom
of the window. Of course, that it handles HTML at all is Hateful, as it
panders to the hateful people who choose to use HTML mail.
I think that "choose" is quite a strong word. For what ever reason
Ann Barcomb wrote:
I hate the way iTunes refuses to distinguish between what I'm doing with it
actively, and what I'm doing with it passively. For instance:
1. It grabs focus from whatever I'm doing (be it something else with
iTunes,
or a different application such as an xterm) when I inse
Michael Leuchtenburg wrote:
After a few days of wrestling with Ubuntu's installer (which is so
simple that if even the slightest thing goes wrong, it chokes and
doesn't bother to inform the user of this, even in "expert" mode)
Sound's a bit like Micro$oft type error message "something has gone
Yossi Kreinin wrote:
Is it really that bad to start
a message with "Dear Something", and even if it is, is it really more
typical of spam messages than other messages?
Tangential, but I was reflecting on why I find Email has become a more
tiresome medium to use over the years. I have looked
So, while on the subject of meaningless spaces,
I get really annoyed by significant whitespace (ie TAB v space or end of
line) is significant.
I one had input to a program
some input
Worked
some input
Syntax error
Fortunately I was in control of the program (didnt write it) so
This reminds me of a problem I had with a webmail provider. My
observation was that they weren't reading MX records. So if you send
email to host.domain.example (which has an A record but no MX ) it
worked. But if you send to mail.domain.example (with only an MX record
it was rejected).
They
Windoze decides to hibernate itself and I resume. It then complains
Unsafe removal of device
_You_ (i.e. me) have unplugged a device
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
So I use the mouse which it claims isn't there but works fine to click
on OK.
Peter da Silva wrote:
"No, that one's a port of a VMS program, and it only does VMS style
wildcards."
VMS Perl tries to be helpful and do the shell expansion that you might
expect. Usually this is helpful.
But if you do
perl something.pl "*wildcard*"
the quotes get sucked up by DCL so perl
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
From the first page of results I get it seems that Perl programmers have
a higher hatred quotient than most.
No - we are just less repressed than most people and express our hatred
better :-)
Yossi Kreinin wrote:
Incompetent exception handling (especially removing all useful context
information) deserves it's own hate. But what I find outrageous is that
/undefined behavior/, such as access violations, is silently ignored.
Ignoring exceptions is idiotic; ignoring undefined behavior
Hakim Cassimally wrote:
You can sometimes 'restart session' from a dead putty.
But oddly sometimes not.
My experience is that sometimes PuTTY doesn't notice the connection has
dropped. I find typing a few keystrokes into the dead session gets it to
notice. Is this what you are seeing.
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