On Aug 12, 2011, at 12:28 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
wget not released version 1.13, which fixes a whole lot of bad things.
I suppose you're now responsible for typographical errors?
Josh
On Aug 5, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
... and to add insult to injury, when I tried posting my I hate
virus scanner thingies rant, the hates-software list had broken
software... :-o
The messages I get from hates-software are somehow classified as spam-
neutral, which is to say
On Mar 4, 2011, at 1:33 AM, Smylers wrote:
All this for no reason: Outlook could simply use the Unicode '☺',
which
does the right thing regardless of font.
Or, if the user simply typed the three Ascii characters ':-)' in the
first place, Outlook could perhaps DO NOTHING AT ALL WITH THEM,
On Jan 31, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Yoz Grahame wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Numien num...@deathwyrm.com wrote:
I know, I know... this is hates-software, hates-hardware is down
the hall and hates-reporters is on the 3rd floor.
Caps Lock management counts as software, even if the
On Jan 28, 2011, at 9:26 AM, David Parsons wrote:
CVS is a extra-special little snowflake. Personally, I found
that switching from CVS to burn a nightly copy of the development
tree onto a CD paid for itself pretty quickly, so I couldn't see
Perforce actually losing that race unless
On Dec 21, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Bruce Richardson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 04:56:57PM +0100, Marco Von Ballmoos wrote:
And thus we have arrived at a familiar place: the good old chestnut
--
oft-repeated even today -- of how Apple tries to force its users to
accept a mouse with only one
On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Abigail wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 09:40:08AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
On Dec 21, 2010, at 8:18 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
If I have to use the mouse, let it be as simple as
possible: a big ball for movements, three buttons - for which the
middle should
On Dec 21, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Peter Corlett wrote:
Let us instead unite against things that we all agree suck.
Unicode support.
Also, filesystems. And Unicode support in filesystems.
Apple filesystems have been brain-damaged since birth by not being
case-sensitive. Apple finally
On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:19 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com [2010-11-29 00:05]:
What wrong direction was chosen in 1969?
Leaving terminal support entirely up to userspace, via libraries?
The only worse clusterfuck that comes to mind from own experience
was
On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
This is not a court, it is a mob.
Less an angry mob and more a sullen, depressed, resigned to their
fate kind of mob.
Wait, doesn't that also describe zombies?
Zombies lack the necessary mental and emotional capacity to be
depressed
On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On 2010.11.9 9:31 AM, Joshua Juran wrote:
Dual-booting OS 9 and OS X demonstrates OS X using local time as
well. I
don't know what happens on Macs that can't boot classic Mac OS.
I can assure you OS X is using a UTC clock.
Of course
On Nov 9, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 04:26:57PM +, Tony Finch wrote:
Who needs
timezones anyway?
Doesn't MS still set the machine's clock to localtime - and thus
change
it twice a year in most places - rather than simply leaving it on
gmtime
On Nov 9, 2010, at 10:00 AM, Joe wrote:
pfont color=#0066cc face=comic sans,comic sans
ms,arial,helvetica,sans-serifJust a friendly reminder that our
[...] class
meets tonight (Tuesday) instead of Thursday in honor of Veterens
Day./font/ppfont color=#0066cc face=comic sans,comic sans
On Oct 2, 2010, at 12:45 AM, Timothy Knox wrote:
Okay, this is a simple hate, at a ginormous target: When Safari is
loading a page, that perhaps (let us suppose), has some banner ads.
Let us further suppose that the hateful banner ad servers have the
approximate availability of a concussed
I want to edit a Wikipedia article, so I go to log in. There's a link
at the top right to an insecure login page (with a redirection
parameter so after login I'll be back at the page I wanted to edit).
So, I'm supposed to send my password in the clear?
The login form is followed by a list
This is a variation on the brain-damaged credit card number input
field (where they couldn't be bothered to add one line of code to
filter out spaces, but go to the effort to document this limitation --
or not) that you all know and hate.
This time it's a phone number. The difference is
On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:11 AM, Numien wrote:
On 24/09/10 04:03 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 08:59:53AM +0100, Bob Walker wrote:
I recently found that in our work software that even though we use
email addresses as the username we dont actually check this
properly
so
On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 12:11:53PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
Not being able to render in a fixed-width font is a deal-breaker, and
I'd have dropped it as a MUA if it couldn't manage it. As you can
see,
it even works without having to
On Sep 22, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
On Wednesday-201009-22 15:26, Timothy Knox wrote:
So in my day job, I work for a hardware/software company that makes
nifty-neato networking gear. We have our own command shell, sort of
bash-like, but tuned to our needs. I was forced to use
I used to hate Apple Mail's inability to allow me to display incoming
messages in a fixed-width font (as needed to view ASCII art) except by
viewing the raw message (which only works as intended with text
messages, but at least ASCII art users tend to send text).
That was with 10.4 Tiger.
On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:11 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
On 18 Sep 2010, at 11:45, Joshua Juran wrote:
I used to hate Apple Mail's inability to allow me to display
incoming messages in a fixed-width font (as needed to view ASCII
art) except by viewing the raw message (which only works
On Sep 9, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de writes:
Words fail me in describing the grandeur of its sucktitude.
[...]
These are the tortures I can remember. I know I forget much more
of the circumstantial pain visited upon me by this unspeakably
On Jun 25, 2010, at 12:26 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:46:19PM +0300, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
This mail was sent via Mobileye Mail-SeCure system.
Fully on-topic :-)
Why, is SeCure worse than SeDisease?
Josh
On Jun 26, 2010, at 3:16 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
On 26 Jun 2010, at 10:35, j...@jameslaver.com wrote:
I do hate blackberries though, especially when used in expensive
restaurants.
They're nice enough in tarts and other desserts. The device known
as a Blackberry should also be fed to the
I just updated a service with my new credit card number. I logged
into their billing system with the credentials that Firefox
remembered from last time.
Then in the form in which I enter the new credit card number, I'm
asked again for the password. Curiously, it's blank. But that's
On Apr 10, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2010-04-10, at 11:57, Joshua Juran wrote:
I just updated a service with my new credit card number. I logged
into their billing system with the credentials that Firefox
remembered from last time.
Then in the form in which I enter
On Apr 27, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
On 27 Apr 2010, at 13:28, Dave Brown wrote:
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Matthew King wrote:
[nothing but the subject line]
Indeed. 'nuff said.
*seconded*
In the same vein:
Subject: SOAP
No REST for the wicked.
Josh
So I'm setting myself up with a non-admin account on OS X, which
involves chowning a bunch of stuff.
$ cd $DIR; sudo chown -R jjuran:jjuran .
chown: ./path/to/files/foo.cp: Operation not permitted
chown: ./path/to/files/bar.cp: Operation not permitted
chown: ./path/to/files/baz.cp: Operation
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Roger Burton West
ro...@firedrake.org wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:05:08AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
Congratulations, you've discovered ACLs.
wintermute:~ jjuran$ /usr/sbin/fsaclctl -p /
Access
After replacing the dead hard drive in my iMac, Apple installed a
fresh 10.4 Tiger system.
Apparently not fresh enough, as any attempt to connect to the
Personal File Sharing server a.k.a. AppleShare caused AppleFileServer
to crash.
I discovered this not by any sort of GUI notification
On Dec 23, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Chris Devers cdev...@pobox.com [2009-12-23 20:25]:
The problem, of course, is that Spaces fucks this up royally,
as it seems to take a drunken, blindfolded dartboard approach
to window management that is best used with grim resignation
iChat, I hate you.
It's fine for you to get my attention that someone has requested to
chat with me. But whatever you do, DO NOT STEAL FOCUS.
You may have thought you were in the clear by using translucent
overlay windows that don't capture input. Well, you were wrong.
Because it's
This one has bothered me for years. It just happened to piss me off
right now because I tried to do something as complicated as copy and
paste.
Apple Mail has a mode where lines are double-spaced. I have no idea
how Mail gets into this mode (though I think it happens when replying
to
On Nov 27, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 01:29:26PM +, Roger Burton West said:
I should like to find the person who decided that since
bookmarks and
history were both lists of URLs they ought to be integrated in a
single database. I should like to shake
On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:58 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:15:20AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
Mac OS has used fixed-layout version structures, allowing only three
numeric fields ...
Holding up anything proprietary to Apple, especially from the Dark
Ages
before they had
On Nov 2, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de [2009-11-02 16:40]:
Just to warn you... bringing up version numbers in a room full
of old grumpy Perl/CPAN hackers is never a good idea.
Oh, and so that those who aren't in the know can enjoy
On Oct 22, 2009, at 5:49 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2009-10-21, at 14:51, j...@jameslaver.com wrote:
I was doing something else and couldn't be bothered to type in my
password so i hit 'cancel'. Ever since then not only have I been
unable to connect (I know my credentials are correct because
On Oct 15, 2009, at 4:32 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* James Laver j...@jameslaver.com [2009-10-11 19:25]:
There's an appalling lack of information out there on how to
multinationally handle addresses and postcodes.
Very simple: freeform multiline text entry. Period. Anything else
is
On Oct 11, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Matthew King wrote:
Open Office I'm especially looking at you now, you disease-ridden
piece
of fail. Even Microsoft, the kings of software hate, haven't
managed as
much fail as you.
You obviously don't own a Sidekick.
Josh
P.S. Sorry for the delay, but I
On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:42 AM, Denny wrote:
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 13:35 +0100, James Laver wrote:
On 12 Oct 2009, at 13:32, Joshua Juran wrote:
You obviously don't own a Sidekick.
I'll give you reasons to hate your sidekick.
See the nice big warning on http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl
On Oct 10, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:55:34PM -0700, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
Your Customer Reference Number is 8 digits. Please refer to your most
recent copy of The Economist to see it on your mailing label
beginning
with 0 (zero).
I've seen
On Aug 21, 2009, at 7:29 AM, Peter Kruse wrote:
you know, under Solaris which deserves a threefold hate:
1. is a csh-script
2. does not return a proper return status
3. prints the error message (no suchandsuch in path...) to stdout
you couldn't think of something more hateful?
Me neither, but
On Aug 18, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 09:59 -0700, Alan Amaya wrote:
PS: Maybe if your web page was a PDF it would look exactly right.
What a horrible thought. Those kind of ideas are best left
unspoken, and
certainly unimplemented.
Remember image
On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:48 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
Cunningly hidden deep in some menu, Gnome has an option to enable
focus-follows-mouse. But their implementation is truly hideous.
In a decent window mangler, for example, windows only raise when you
click in certain areas of them - normally
On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com [2009-07-08 05:30]:
On Jul 7, 2009, at 9:48 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
Using a menu or selecting text doesn't screw around with
window z-order.
Why is this important?
Maybe because if the window were
On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:53 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 8 Jul 2009, at 04:23, Joshua Juran wrote:
But in the Gnome world it does, and this makes me want to strangle
kittens.
Can you point me to the research showing the effect this has on
user efficiency, or failing that, at least a design
On Jul 8, 2009, at 5:15 AM, Piers Cawley wrote:
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Joshua Juranjju...@gmail.com wrote:
[2] Fetishes include extensionless filenames and Mac apps written
in Cocoa instead of Carbon.
Isn't Carbon the one that's slated to be going away? If so, I'd've
thought that
On Jun 26, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
On 6/26/09 5:35 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
autoconf, automake and libtool. What more could one need?
Actually, what other non-overlapping software could one
legitimately use to
increase the hate?
This reminds me of an April Fools thing I
On Jun 25, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 03:57:51AM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
RealAudio. Enough said.
That's not a hate. That's a cop out.
Please explain, for the benefit of listeners at home, why you love the
software known as RealAudio
On Jun 26, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org writes:
I offer you this software that I've only just written. I don't
think that
it's that hateful:
$ cat goodbye_world.c
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
On Jun 26, 2009, at 3:48 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
/me cares much about backups, where precious plugins reside that /do/
work and somehow are not shipped with `better' or `enhanced' versions
of audio-players
At first I thought you were talking about plugins for backup
software. On that
On Jun 25, 2009, at 3:23 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:14:48AM +0100, Matthew King wrote:
Unfortunately it's Thursday and I wanted to listen to a programme
broadcast on Monday.
The programme page contains a .ram file name. The remainder is left as
an exercise for
On May 29, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Marco Von Ballmoos wrote:
I don't think it's fair to call them dumb. And besides, they did
eventually fix the problem.
Clicking the star is not intuitive; putting a white star on a
light blue
background even less so.
You're right.
On May 24, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Yoz Grahame wrote:
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com
wrote:
Let's see, have we had one about horrible home-brewed defect tracking
systems lately?
You'll be here all YEAR.
I just want one - home-brewed or commercial, I don't care
On Mar 25, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2009-03-24 14:35]:
but why on earth 2009-03-05 *WITH* quotes end up as May 03,
2009 - even in the Dutch locale - is way beyond my level of
understanding.
Did you try 2009-03-05 ? Ie. a quoted column
On Mar 25, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
OO improves, but up until today my more complicated graphs never came
out as expected in OO
Ooo... for real graph pain, try Numbers. Very limited graphing
options, and actually creating a graph causes the program to use
all of your
I was browsing YouTube videos when I suddenly got:
400 Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
Cookie: ...; watched_video_id_list_USER=[stuff in base64, but
really a whole freakin' lot of it, such
On Mar 13, 2009, at 1:33 AM, Joshua Juran wrote:
I was browsing YouTube videos when I suddenly got:
400 Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
Cookie: ...; watched_video_id_list_USER=[stuff
On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Joshua Juran wrote:
On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
My Macbook Pro just piped up and started complaining about the
temperature. Both cores running at 80%, for I don't know how long.
So I go to see who's responsible. Safari. Why? Well, because I
On Mar 11, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com writes:
P.S. Apple's spelling dictionary has never heard of a 'subdomain'.
What did it suggest as an alternative?
I didn't ask at the time, but sub-domain. I'm not sure whether to
hate
On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Léon Brocard wrote:
2009/3/4 Phil Pennock phil.penn...@globnix.org:
You truly are unable to have a rationale debate
Please stop. You're not hating software.
For example, I hate software. Especially software that pretends to be
a web framework. Or software that
On Mar 4, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Matthew King wrote:
Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com writes:
On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Léon Brocard wrote:
2009/3/4 Phil Pennock phil.penn...@globnix.org:
You truly are unable to have a rationale debate
Please stop. You're not hating software.
For example
On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
My Macbook Pro just piped up and started complaining about the
temperature. Both cores running at 80%, for I don't know how long.
So I go to see who's responsible. Safari. Why? Well, because I
don't have a Flashblock for Safari (need to
On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
My Macbook Pro just piped up and started complaining about the
temperature. Both cores running at 80%, for I don't know how long.
So I go to see who's responsible. Safari. Why? Well, because I
don't have a Flashblock for Safari (need to
I knew there was a reason not to blindly migrate from Tiger to Leopard.
So, my Web hosting account comes with free email accounts. They
support ghetto SSL (i.e. unrecognized CA), so I get this warning:
Mail can't verify the identity of mail.example.com.
The certificate for this server was
On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:40 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
I'm using Mail with a self-signed certificate on my home mail
server. All I had to do was add the certificate to my keychain.
There's an option to do that, but you have to click Show Certificate
to get there. Show Certificate says that it
On Feb 20, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Andy Dougherty wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Ann Barcomb wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Andy Dougherty wrote:
I deal with one copmany that does this approximately every 6 months.
However, they inadvertantly keep me informed because they have an
automatic
On Feb 18, 2009, at 11:34 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Omry Yadan wrote:
A co worker that uses Windows Vista asked me to setup samba access
for
him to a Linux server.
for the life of me, I was not able to figure out how to get
windows to
properly authenticate with Samba.
I figured that
On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:46:21PM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
On Jan 10, 2009, at 8:41 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:46:12PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Fortunately, OS X comes with the built-in ability to turn
On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:08 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
the most obnoxious fat finger target since Caps Lock
The Caps Lock problem was actually solved decades ago by NeXT. On
NeXT's keyboards there was no dedicated Caps Lock key, and Caps Lock
mode was enabled by holding down Command and
On Jan 7, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Roger Burton West wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I've sucked it all down from GMail into Thunderbird via IMAP. I
don't know
how to turn that into something like a mail archive file(s).
On Jan 4, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Roger Burton West wrote:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I've sucked it all down from GMail into Thunderbird via IMAP. I
don't know
how to turn that into something like a mail archive file(s).
Suggestions?
Compact folders,
In the process of switching to a new laptop (for which there are good
reasons why I can't use the migration tool), I made sure to visit
Keychain Access to recover certain passwords. Of course, there's no
way to say Here's my password, now give me unrestricted access for
the next N
On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
My only real experience with BSD-style packages is with MacPorts.
I have no
idea what their relation really is, but BSD ports can't possibly be
this bad
and have such a rabid following.
Wait... isn't this a Mac? I thought you could
On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Joshua Juran wrote:
On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
My only real experience with BSD-style packages is with MacPorts. I
have no
idea what their relation really is, but BSD ports can't possibly be
this bad
and have
On Dec 30, 2008, at 10:13 AM, demerphq wrote:
You see RPM thinks that any given file can only have one source.
And that if you want to say, upgrade a file in a package, you have to
remove the old package first.
Now this is just hateful behaviour, totally divorced from day to
day reality.
On Oct 29, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Joshua Juran once stated:
On Oct 29, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Denny wrote:
# include std_reply_to_list_not_enabled_hate
Reply-To Munging Considered Harmful, and blame your mail user agent
for not letting you reply
Only once in my lifetime have I seen a digital audio playback device
with a feature called Auto Cue. Auto Cue is mode in which reaching
the end of a track (other than the last one), instead of advancing to
and playing the subsequent track, pauses at the track boundary.
Although useful and
On Oct 29, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Denny wrote:
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 20:51 -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
Why the hell can't I tell iTunes or my iPod to finish the
current track and then pause?
Are you saying you can't play a single track by itself on an iPod?
Basically, yes -- you can't
On Oct 11, 2008, at 6:15 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Smylers smyl...@stripey.com [2008-10-10 19:40]:
Which characters? The representation \r denotes a carriage
return, aka character \x0D.
Whereas \n denotes a 'new line', a virtual concept which is
made up of some concept of some
On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 06:31:41PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
It isn't possible to have an 'actual' \n character; all actual
characters will be specific, not conceptual.
EBCDIC has a new line control character distinct from both line
feed and
On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Earle Martin wrote:
2008/10/10 Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com
At least Mac OS 9 is ASCII.
DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS!
Oops, I forgot to add *ducks* to the end. :-)
Josh
On Oct 1, 2008, at 7:06 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:43:55AM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
[1] SourceForge has now broken my CVS use in addition to my project
Web uploads, and will be the subject of a future hate.
Oh god, what have they done? Mine *appears
On Sep 29, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
There is something I call the =93Chernobyl Design Pattern=94,
where =
you =20
take your worst bug, the ugliest part of your code, the part that
=20
is so bad, so radioactive that no one can touch it without
getting =20
killed, and you
On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:40 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-09-30, at 18:17, Michael G Schwern wrote:
God forbid they cover real SQL issues. Oh no! They're too busy
adding
fucking XML to the language! (Not a joke, wish it were).
xsl:template
xsl:undress select=shirt/
xsl:undress
On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:29 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-10-01, at 06:46, Joshua Juran wrote:
On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:40 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-09-30, at 18:17, Michael G Schwern wrote:
God forbid they cover real SQL issues. Oh no! They're too busy
adding
fucking XML
On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
At work, I inherited some PHP application written for MySQL. My
boss
wants to use PostgreSQL. It can't be that hard to convert it,
says I.
SQL is SQL, right?
As long as entire subsystems are on the table, why not rewrite the
thing in
On Sep 29, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Peter da Silva wrote:
WTF? says I. The SQL statments are pretty much SELECT * FROM
frob
type queries. No joins. No multiple table selects, just pretty
straightforward SQL.
There's a reason I have lately come to write code like:
$emails search
On Sep 26, 2008, at 9:13 AM, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
Unless of course you accidentally hit option-click (or on my pc-
keyboard
alt-click) on a window. Then the window you were just working with is
hidden, which means it is not minimized to the dock, or in fact listed
anywhere in
On Sep 22, 2008, at 5:00 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
OK, I can dig that Apple's new last.fm-style music recommendation
system is just starting up, so their Genius doesn't have as broad a
musical taste as me, but it doesn't even seem to reliably know
about tracks that I *know* are in the
On Sep 9, 2008, at 8:32 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
When I write an email containing a line that consists of just a single
dot, I'd appreciate if mutt would do something Clever before
submitting
it to the MTA.
I shall now demonstrate the problem by removing my sig from this email
with one
Venerable but fresh hate:
$ rm foo.bar
$ cvs rm foo.bar
$ cvs commit
cvs commit: Examining .
[EDIT]
cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `foo.bar'
cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
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On Aug 28, 2008, at 4:45 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-08-28, at 04:46, Leon Brocard wrote:
If it plugs into the hole, it should work. If it doesn't, it
shouldn't
work. I like The design of everyday things for a book that tells
you
what you already know about why computers are
On Aug 28, 2008, at 5:18 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 28 Aug 2008, at 05:46, Leon Brocard wrote:
It is not unreasonable to expect that an operating system that
was EOLed in
2000 (OS 9) might have a bug in its handling of a standard (USB
2.0) that
wasn't released until 2000.
Excuse me,
On Aug 27, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 27 Aug 2008, at 05:03, Joshua Juran wrote:
I never used iTunes for OS 9. I used Norman Franke's SoundApp.
(SoundApp was great because it had this really amazing feature
called a play queue. I'm still waiting for iTunes X to catch up
On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:51 PM, Joshua Juran wrote:
On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 27 Aug 2008, at 17:14, Joshua Juran wrote:
I'll concede that yes, it has a queue internally, but one which
is permanently hard-wired to the Shuffle randomizer and fails to
offer
Apple never fails to impress me with their contempt for users of
those Apple products which Apple would prefer to imagine never existed.
Just for fun I thought I'd plug my new iPod into an OS 9 box to see
what happened. I was expecting this to be (and would have been
satisfied with) one
On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
Also, modern iPods, like many modern USB devices, really need USB2 to
draw enough power to charge the battery, nevermind transfer large
amounts of data in a reasonable amount of time.
Plugging the iPod into a USB keyboard instead of a primary
On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:57 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
Also, modern iPods, like many modern USB devices, really need USB2 to
draw enough power to charge the battery, nevermind transfer large
amounts of data in a reasonable amount of time.
If I have the timeline right, and I think I do, the first
On Aug 26, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 26 Aug 2008, at 21:05, Joshua Juran wrote:
Unfortunately, what actually happened wasn't so benign as any of
those. Instead, the OS promptly wedged itself, forcing a system
reset.
So basically you assumed that because the plug fitted
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