On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 00:53 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Phil Pennock wrote:
>
> > On 2008-03-24 at 07:26 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
> >> A desktop application can download mail or news batch-
> >> wise for
> >> offline viewing, but a Web app can't, except
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 17:28 -0700, Phil Pennock wrote:
> Google offers: http://gears.google.com/
> * Provides web-app controlled content caching and browser-side
>sqlite storage. (And async threading)
> * Windows XP/Vista
> * Firefox 1.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+
> * Windows Mobile
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 21:53 +, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:38:47PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > > I kind of have a teenie bit of software hate for things like "foo |
> > > awk ..." instead of "awk 'foo-equi
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 22:18 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Phil Pennock wrote:
> > On 2008-02-06 at 11:52 +, Tony Finch wrote:
> >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Phil Pennock wrote:
> >>> interested in knowing if anyone's found any bearable alternatives for
> >>> programming the unit.
> >> Wouldn't it
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:05 +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:25:37 +0900, Dave Brown wrote:
>
> > Dear Firefox,
> >
> > Ctrl+Q means Quit Application.
>
> It takes a lot of tuits to get that key-combo *removed* from applications.
> Luckily I manage with Opera to get that ke
On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 11:21 +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:43:51 -0500, num...@deathwyrm.com wrote:
>
> > Philip Newton wrote:
> > > It even lets you mix the two with REPLACE INTO, which will do an
> > > INSERT, unless the record is already present, in which case it'll do
>
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:43 +, Smylers wrote:
> MySQL's strftime()-esque function is called date_format().
>
> That's mildly hateful, because it involves going to the manual page to
> look up whether it's date_format() or format_date() or format_datetime()
> or dateformat() or ... But at leas
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 18:35 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> And then they should have realised that those crazy GNU guys would
> make the final "-print" optional, so it looked even more like a flag.
> Because it's not.
Yes it was at this point that I started to realize something was wrong
with
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 02:44 -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> >> RiscOS? Well, if you want to include dead operating systems
> >> I'll add BeOS and AmigaDOS.
> >
> > I can't be bothered to check, but I'm sure Perl runs on at least
> > one of those as well, probably both. Make
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:27 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> RiscOS? Well, if you want to include dead operating systems I'll add
> BeOS and AmigaDOS.
Strangely RiscOS isn't completely dead just not very well
http://www.iyonix.com/
Unless of course you meant the BSD variant that ran on MIPS hard
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 04:35 -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On 28-Sep-2007, at 23:23, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > XHTML is indeed based on XML and therefore doesn't have `` any
> > more than XML in general does.
>
> Then I guess that mustn't actually be enforced. What a surprise. :)
>
>
Well some th
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 00:22 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I've yet to play with tools powered by internal combustion engines
They mostly seem to be used in agriculture, horticulture and civil
engineering. I think we need a test of the relative effects of
chainsaws, stumpcutters and disk cutters a
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 17:38 +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
>
> http://chosaq.net/archives/2006/05/gmail-cripples-drmed-pdf-files-view-as-html-functionality.html
>
Which brings me to another hatred - when was the HTML 'title' element
deprecated ?
--
My guitar kills bloggers
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 04:18 -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Jonathan Stowe once stated:
> >
> > On a previous laptop, unloading the ALSA drivers would cause firefox to
> > crash, it appears that for some reason it was linked with the ALSA
>
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 22:41 +0100, Smylers wrote:
> Evince is a PDF viewer. Obviously no application should ever be hogging
> the sound device such that other apps can't play music -- but at least a
> sound-playing app has a plausible reason for why it's doing _anything_
> with the soundcard.
>
>
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 01:31 -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
>
> it's almost as if everybody who learns PHP goes through a "let's write a
> CMS" phase where supplication at the idol of browser is a necessity.
> fsck the browser.
"everybody who learns a language that could even remotely be used for
c
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 13:10 +0100, Steff Davies wrote:
> At that
> point, I gave serious consideration to becoming an itinerant goatherd.
This seems to be a common reaction amongst people afflicted by software,
I think it might be beca
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 09:44 +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> Peter da Silva wrote:
> > Actually...
> >
> > I think the analogy "not hiring a brewer who doesn't drink" doesn't even
> > go far enough.
> >
> > Even if you don't like programming, or don't currently program in your
> > spare time, I ca
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:15 +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote:
> Robert Rothenberg skribis 2007-06-06 9:48 (+0100):
> > > Just put the captcha at the beginning instead of the end.
> > No. A human can do the captcha part and then hand control over to a script.
>
> Change the captcha for each failed atte
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 21:07 +0100, Andrew Black - lists wrote:
> How many times have I gone to a form
>
>
> Why can't it check your username is sensible before all the other
> things. I guess with Ajax you can
Yes this is annoying, especially where you have a big stupidly designed
form t
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 17:35 +0100, Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote:
> Excel goes "woah!
> this isn't really an Excel file let's treat it as HTML! And kill
> it!".
This is what happens when you let Steve Ballmer have a hand in the
software business, though I guess this must be a more mellow mome
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 16:11 +0100, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> I was a clone and decided to upgrade Ubuntu from Egregious Eft to Festering
> Fawn. Sh'loads of hate
And there I was thinking that the bloody stupid names were all that
there was to hate about it.
/j\
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 11:45 -0700, David King wrote:
> I changed my email address subscribed to this list a while ago, and
> after the "the verdamnit subscription database got truncated while
> doing a server move", I was re-subscribed under both addresses, so I
> tried to unsubscribe the old
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 22:55 -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Bringing it back on topic...
>
> http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22+hate+%22&btnG=Search
>
>>From the first page of results I get it seems that Perl programmers have
a higher hatred quotient than most.
/J\
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 20:43 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* A. Pagaltzis [2007-01-24 20:40]:
> What do you expect from something called “VD”?
Oops, a momentary lapse. Sorry for the Unicode to all the people
with inept broken mail clients, I really didn’t mean to.
Surely you meant "HAHAHA EAT UNI
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 01:09 -0800, Yoz Grahame wrote:
>
> As for language hate: how come nobody's mentioned PHP yet? Because,
> fucking hell, do I have some SERIOUS bile worked up there...
Dynamiting Turkeys in a barrel seems so unsporting at this time of
year
/J\
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 17:34 +0100, Abigail wrote:
> If you say so. I bet there's also a deeper reason - Larry doesn't seem
> to be the person to make arbitrary decisions to make life more difficult
> just for the sake of it.
>
Yeah but this is the *community* rewrite of Perl right?
...
> Yep.
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 15:27 +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> SourceSafe is worse than BitKeeper,
That is understating matters somewhat. Sourcesafe is worse than, well
anything really, and only marginally better than not having revision
control at all. Actually that last might be open for debate.
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 09:02 -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> All the ATMs around here have 1/8" jacks for headphones for instructions.
I'd always assumed that the jacks were for the convenience of the
card-skimmers downloading all the card details they had stolen and
avoided any machines that had
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 11:29 +0100, Abigail wrote:
> I've blind friends who can only
> use a few number of cash machines (that is, a few cash machines, not
> cash machine from a few banks), because they have received training for
> those machines, and would be at a total loss at any other.
The near
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 20:11 +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Yossi Kreinin [2006-12-18 18:35]:
> > I'm a programmer. My program created a big file. Give me the
> > POWER to *DELETE* *MY* *FILE*!!
>
> On Windows, you'd be told the file is busy and it wouldn't be
> deleted.
Which is so obviously t
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 19:38 +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> >>... After some time it turned out that some log files exceeded 2G. When you
> >>remove a file *that* big on this filesystem (or this kernel, or
> >>something), the disk space is not reclaimed to an extent which would
> >>allow you to actua
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:52 +0100, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> * Why didn't rm say they were open?
I'm not sure it can know.
> * And by which process, so I'd know if it's OK to kill it?
As Martin said, lsof(8) and fuser(1) are your friends.
So it can know if i
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 12:18 +, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> On 18/12/06 07:18 Yoz Grahame wrote:
> > Oh go on, Firefox! Please freeze solid on me again! It's only been,
> > what, four times today?
> >
> > I can't tell if it's your core code that's causing the problem or one
> > of the extensions
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 08:23 -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Adam Atlas wrote:
> > Dear audio software (including, but not limited to, mixers,
> > synthesizers/samplers, and effects):
> >
> > Who told you you were supposed to look like audio HARDWARE? Please,
> > stop.
On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 22:34 -0500, Adam Atlas wrote:
> Dear audio software (including, but not limited to, mixers,
> synthesizers/samplers, and effects):
>
> Who told you you were supposed to look like audio HARDWARE? Please,
> stop. It's really bad interface design.
The obvious solution here
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:42 +, Earle Martin wrote:
> On 30/10/06, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > Ḟṓɼ đőčùḿêṉʈş ţɦầț ɳḕëḑ Ṷṅɨćōḑȇ, Ľǔčȋḑã Şǟṉŝ Üɳȋĉȯḍḛ
> > ǻɳɗ Ḽṻĉḯƌẚ Ćơṅṡṑĺė ȁṙê ɠṏöḍ ĕƞȯȕĝḧ ƒôŕ ɱė.
>
> Best hates-software post ever!
>
> Incidentally, I hate the hates-software blog-style archive be
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:00 -0400, Patrick Carr wrote:
> And yet they didn't mention the superiority of APL. Strange, that.
Do they even remember APL?
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 04:05 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Chris Nandor [2006-10-13 03:50]:
> > I can only occasionally tell the difference between, say, 192
> > and 320 kbps MP3. Usually on, like you say, percussion.
>
> Oh, I was talking about 128 kbps vs 192 or so. Beyond 192 kbps,
> it's rare
On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 00:01 -0400, Adam Atlas wrote:
> Dear MSN and other authors of email address validators who don't read
> the RFC,
>
> The ASCII plus sign is a valid character in email addresses.
Yes, even the BBC, who on face value have some rather cluefull
developers working for them, go
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:30, Smylers wrote:
> Outlook Web Access[*0] is so easy hate, but here's the one that's just
> bitten me.
I'm not even going to start
> [*0] Actually I only have experience of the non-Internet-Explorer
> version. I believe that WinIE gets a much-souped-up versio
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 07:11, Juerd wrote:
> Zach White skribis 2006-05-30 22:59 (+):
> > PS- For those that suggested using a different MTA, I have hate a plenty for
> > those too. But mainly, they don't satisfy requirement number 1 for me:
> > coming
> > with my base system. Makes upgrades le
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 06:22, Rob Scovell wrote:
> especially when the excel output will work in OpenOffice but not Excel.
>
> My problem? A merge_range which should text_wrap but won't. (But does
> in OOoooOo.org)
>
> On a critical report for a critical client -- isn't it always?
When you are r
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 22:14, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > > > 4. Heck, it's probably one line of code, as near as I can tell from the
> > > >twisty Perl in Siesta/Plugin/Multiblog.pm, but I'm not gong there.
>
> > > This being the number 1 reason Perl is losing in the corporate world.
>
> > What
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 16:34, Simon Wistow wrote:
>
> I type kcalc at the command line, I expect a calculator.
'bc' is fewer keystrokes.
HTH
/J\
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:11, Peter da Silva wrote:
> [absinthe:~] peter% touch "久石譲 каталог"
> [absinthe:~] peter% file "久石譲 каталог"
> 久石譲 каталог: empty
>
I was just shocked by bash running in gnome-terminal - creating a file
with the the above name it actually tab completed the name correctly
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 22:11, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> I would lobby for dropping the {} hash
> lookup operator altogether and permitting whitespace with the «»
> operator.)
Well except there isn't a « or » on any keyboard I have seen recently,
are we reinventing APL here ?
/J\
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