On 22/01/2008, Juerd Waalboer 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 new packages.
>
>
shouldn't we be pointing at http://www.cpan.org and let the cpan multiplexer
pass us to an appropriate mirror anyway? That would be a sensible default,
and if your site wants to use a specific or a local mirror, you can always
reconfigure later.
osfameron
On 06/05/07, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* de
On 15/04/07, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
A more general thing - why is the LaTeX parser so braindead?
The biggest error I keep on making is mismatching my \begin and \end tags.
OK, LaTeX isn't HTML, so fair enough that it doesn't just plough on regardless
and hope for the best. But given that th
Yup I tried the xp powertoy one too. I forget the details of why it
was hateful, i think something to do with moving windows to other
desktops. have you used it and found it less hateful?
osfa
On 24/01/07, Yoz Grahame wrote:
On 1/24/07, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
> On 24/01/07, Andrew Bl
On 24/01/07, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
DO I get the feeling that virtual dimensions is worth avoiding.
As per muttley's conundrum, I'm not sure whether to hate Virtual
Dimensions or XP. Allegedly XP now supports virtual desktops. Yay!
we all cry. Windows could now have something that Linu
You can sometimes 'restart session' from a dead putty.
But oddly sometimes not. (yes i'm using virtual dimensions too, also hateful)
--
osfameron
On 23/01/07, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:19:11PM -0500, seph said:
> While all software is hateful, the windows's "close window"
Yes, "Impress" is the word.
Though it made a massive leap from the 0.90 that was frankly unusable
to being apparently useful in 2.0 it has a few, er, rough edges.
OpenOffice's crash recovery feature is put to good use on my Ubuntu
Edgy installation as complex actions, such as entering text will
On 25/10/06, Philip Newton wrote:
On 10/25/06, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> Rebecca Breu wrote:
> > I hate Eclipse. I hate proportional fonts. I hate tabs.
>
> Sorry, did you say proportional fonts - in a code editor??
>
> Whatever will satan come up with next?!!!
Ligatures in a code editor. Becau
On 12/07/06, Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2006-07-12 at 11:12 +0200, Phil Pennock wrote:
Something has to go wrong soon, because this OS install is almost
becoming tolerable and every time I think that, I become frustrated at
something new and the hates builds to an even higher level than ever
before.
On 11/07/06, Jan Martin Mathiassen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0930, Bill Page said:
>> windows+e brings up windows explorer
> Windows-m minimises and unminimises everything which is hella useful
windows-l brings up the logout/change user box in XP
windows-r brings up a mini c
On 27/06/06, Aaron Crane wrote:
OK, now I know that CGI.pm's HTML-generating functions are considered more
than somewhat déclassé,
The mere existence of these methods is hateful. Why? Because they
are documented - now documentation is good of course, but when you
grep through CGI's docs to f
Ubuntu: Linux for Human Beings. My arse. They say that noone ever got sacked
for choosing Windows, but even more importantly, they don't get grief from their
significant other about how annoying their computer is if its Windows.
"Why do weird things happen when I move around using the touchpad
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