Confirmation Bias

2012-05-29 Thread David . Mackintosh
it will affect! And if by some chance this is a mistake, we're not held responsible, because we warned you! So, you gotta ask yourself the question, punk: do you feel lucky? [Yes] [No] ...or even not bother with the confirmation dialog in the first place. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David

Re: test

2011-11-23 Thread David . Mackintosh
for a perceved deficiency in _anything_ else, but I can't think of it now. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpHaxEGi1rNV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Client Security solutions

2011-08-08 Thread David . Mackintosh
to sue when the box with the light turns out to be lying. (And an extra helping of fail for me for mailing back to Peter directly instead of to the list.) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpD4aXlNTwJ4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: qemu

2011-03-05 Thread David . Mackintosh
the contents which have scrolled off the top. This sounds like a delightful re-implementation of the decision which dumps out help text (or --help text) to stderr, meaning one has to jump through hoops in order to read more than the last screen's worth of it. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh

Outlook Forwarded Email Hate

2010-11-09 Thread David . Mackintosh
on the Outlooks of everyone else for that fix to be worth anything. Does Mutt run on Windows yet? :) (and yes, that *still* wouldn't fix his problem, because everyone else's Outlook would still be in the default you-don't-need-to-know-that mode!) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d

Re: iChat stealing focus across Spaces

2009-12-25 Thread David . Mackintosh
the argument because of all the software it generates that we end up hating. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpFrG1S7a39n.pgp Description: PGP signature

FlexLM

2009-07-13 Thread David . Mackintosh
YEARS. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpwmttNA8b2a.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

2009-07-08 Thread David . Mackintosh
be useful. But what it all comes down to is that this is the particular way I will tollerate^W^Wlike being kicked in the nuts. Your tastes are obviously different. And Windows proves that people can get used to anything. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http

Re: screen Re-Attach Options

2009-04-29 Thread David . Mackintosh
exist. There isn't any other way to invoke screen, IMO. But I wear a cup when dealing with screen anyways. Just seems prudent. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgphUhU2kqi2T.pgp Description: PGP signature

More Sun Love

2009-03-26 Thread David . Mackintosh
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Re: More Sun Love

2009-03-26 Thread David . Mackintosh
waiting for you downstairs. If you want to hate NetApp filers, how about mixed-mode filesystems? (Sorry for the direct email Peter, I'm obviously the stupid monkey of the day.) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpQQIzjF6HBS.pgp Description

Re: Thanks a lot, Sun

2009-03-25 Thread David . Mackintosh
need a drink. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpJnEAxDUVuf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Thanks a lot, Sun

2009-03-25 Thread David . Mackintosh
was halucinating again). AND the web managagement thing claims it is green across the board. We're afraid to reboot the system attached to it. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgp6mfXOL4Zfu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Uncontrollable Tool Tips

2008-03-03 Thread David Mackintosh
generate a ton of messages which no one ever read. Neither of which are tool tips, but exemplify the spirit of dumping out a ton of useless noise when a gnat in Lower Tunisia contemplates scratching its ass. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http

Outlook is driving me INSANE!

2008-02-11 Thread David Mackintosh
as the default device and now print to _that_ instead. Doing this also has the pleasant side effect of making information sent to collegues much less likely to be accidentally doctored after the fact. /me waits for PDF hate. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com

Re: Outlook is driving me INSANE!

2008-02-11 Thread David Mackintosh
expect. So Outlook is broken, but if you are not using Word as an email editor, it is probably consistantly broken. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpYJQVddoyNE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Thunderbird, how hard can it be?

2008-01-23 Thread David Mackintosh
was on the client, because the store was compressed. So if your client stopped reading the message once the advertised number of bytes passed by, you usually didn't get the end of the message. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com

Re: Fwd: Mailer Error Messages

2007-11-01 Thread David Mackintosh
to be in. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgplMSO5acVVF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Network connectivity may fail

2007-09-16 Thread David Mackintosh
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Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread David Mackintosh
by ignoring the List-Id header. But tbh, I hate Daniel more than I hate his software. This was my first reaction too, but then I wondered if I was confusing my hatred for the software with hatred for people who don't know how to use their software, broken as it proabably is. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David

Re: Some hate may have settled in transit

2007-04-01 Thread David Mackintosh
in the user portion of their email address (ie me)? ...which I don't actually hate, just dislike, so I guess it isn't really appropriate. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpCdohYDjJKW.pgp Description: PGP signature

There is a thing as too much flexibility

2007-01-23 Thread David Mackintosh
cannot cover up the top three lines of the email list with the preview pane. I'll just repeat that the user had been sitting there for TWO WEEKS wondering why he had no email. Kill. Me. -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpoVQsDKOw92.pgp

Re: perl

2006-12-18 Thread David Mackintosh
on this. Ah, but back in the early days of the perl-on-NT effort from ActiveState (please please please don't make me remember any more) I used to say it's a damn good thing that there's more than one way to do it, because most of them don't work! -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d

Veritas NetBackup.

2006-11-27 Thread David Mackintosh
never happened because NetBackup couldn't find a tape to dump its databases to. Say what you want about NetVault (and believe me I will), but it gets all this RIGHT. Which is stunning when you consider how much else NetFault gets WRONG. _HATE._ -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d