On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:18:37 -0700, Joshua Rodman
jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
Zero Install is total CADT, along with autopackage.
No idea what that means, but it's probably something bad, and I agree.
However it *should* be good. It's just a typical Linux Clusterfuck of
Fail. And you can
I need not, I think, paint you a picture. This one is simple and, of
course, typical of open sores.
If qemu has not grabbed my mouse/keyboard (and maybe if it has, I
wouldn't be surprised) it will, when running under whatever passes for
a window manager on my laptop these days, quit without
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:48:34 +, Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk
wrote:
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:26:25PM +, Matthew King wrote:
Dig can easily look up any type of DNS record with the simple form:
$ dig fqdn rr
Moreover, when the fqdn is actually a CNAME, it will helpfully look up
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:21:01 +, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org
wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:14:30PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
I'm not sure whose fault this hateful incompetence is - the authors of scons,
or the authors of the package's SConstruct file. But, frankly, I don't care.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:15:16 +1030, Martin Ebourne
li...@ebourne.me.uk wrote:
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 15:00 +, Matthew King wrote:
GNU diff has an option described thusly:
-I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE
Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.
Fantastic, says you
To: Martin Ebourne li...@ebourne.me.uk
Cc: hates-software@siesta.unixbeard.net
Obhate mailing list software, clients, users, etc.
Matthew
GNU diff has an option described thusly:
-I RE --ignore-matching-lines=RE
Ignore changes whose lines all match RE.
Fantastic, says you, now I can compare two files and see only if lines
which aren't comments differ by telling diff to ignore lines which
begin with a '#'.
Oh so much scope...
Emacs why do you put '# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-' at the top of my files?
Why did you put it back when I took it out?
Why did you do all that and not tell me how to get rid of it once and
for all.
And for the love of all that's holy why have you done it to a file
which is
Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org writes:
Over a 180K-entry corpus, it's taking around four and a half seconds, as
against the 0.6 seconds of my Perl program.
I was going to suggest you tell it to use /dev/urandom somehow. Except
that it already is.
--random-source=FILE
Smylers smyl...@stripey.com writes:
But then shuf is a single command optimized for a single purpose, with
no unrelated features bolted on -- can't see that kind of thing catching
on ...
GNU is *not* Unix.
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk writes:
On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:56, Matthew King wrote:
Anything and everything which provides an unsorted and/or unsortable
list of anything.
That's a bit of an overly-broad complaint.
By way of counterexample, readdir(3) does not sort, for what should
Matthew King matthew.k...@monnsta.net writes:
To: Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk
Cc: We Hate Software h...@hates-software.com
Insert obligatory hates-software software hate even though the above was
really my fault.
I nearly did it again...
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the term
Anything and everything which provides an unsorted and/or unsortable
list of anything.
I mean really. This problem was solved before computers. The amount of
suck required for a modern machine to be so much worse than its
replacement is unimaginable.
Open Office I'm especially looking at you
Aaron J. Grier agr...@poofygoof.com writes:
the point of autotools is to lower the barriers to write portable
software. so why is so much autotools software non-portable?
Much as autotools suck, they are still better than most
alternatives. Autotools software is non-portable largely because
Jarkko Hietaniemi j...@iki.fi writes:
It works fine on Linux, ship it!
If only people would actually test even that far that their software
configures/builds/tests/installs in *Linux*
(as in: at least *try* more than one release of a distro, more than
one distro, more than x86 [1]). But I
Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com writes:
Everyone is
moving AWAY from using metadata for anything that will break
functionality if it's lost.
Metadata like the HTTP Content-Type header?
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my
invariable experience that
Smylers smyl...@stripey.com writes:
Oh, that's because Ubuntu bundle the config to turn on name-based
virtual hosting, a directive that only needs setting once on the server,
into the top of a config file which supposedly only configures one
virtual host:
Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org writes:
When it becomes clear that the maintainers of a piece of software have given
up any plans to fix it after it has been broken for a long time, software
moves from hateful to not worth retaining any contact with. As is the case
with the
Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com writes:
jwzAlso, whenever a programmer thinks, Hey, skins, what a cool idea,
their computer's speakers should create some sort of cock-
shaped soundwave and plunge it repeatedly through their skulls./jwz
There are some times when I think to myself - That JWZ.
Thank-you, i-player, for being so much more understanding of my needs
than I am. What I really need you to do when I'm LISTENING to the radio
is to pause whenever I switch to another viewport.
After all what comes out of the speakers is not important, it's what's
on the screen that matters when
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk writes:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:17:57AM +0100, Matthew King wrote:
Thank-you, i-player, for being so much more understanding of my needs than
I am. What I really need you to do when I'm LISTENING to the radio is to
pause whenever I switch to another
Dear Gnus,
You were quite right. When I asked you to print that one page
MIME-attached PDF file, what I really wanted you to do was to print all
318 pages of the source after converting it to text.
Hatefully yours,
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my
Joshua Rodman jrod...@hate.spamportal.net writes:
2009-03-05 is always -MM-DD unless you're a moron.
Ah well you see that's where Excel has one up on you. It is the effort
of an impressive collection of morons all the way from the luser to the
cpu.
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the
Tony Finch d...@dotat.at writes:
I cut my GUI teeth on the Archimedes so I think menu bars are hateful
(e.g. on the Mac they screw up focus-follows-mouse, and on MDI they aren't
at the top of the screen so require too much long-distance precision
mousing) and I think everything should hang
Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org writes:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:49:01PM +, Tony Finch wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Matthew King wrote:
For its time (and with the rose-tinted goggles of hindsight) I can find
very little to practically hate about Risc OS and its ancestors.
No memory
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk writes:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:43:50AM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
That's something still hateful to this day on every (other) OS - I have a
Filer/Finder/Explorer/whatever window open, and I can *see* where I want
to save the file to. A nice, clear to
Joshua Rodman jrod...@hate.spamportal.net writes:
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 04:31:13PM +0200, Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
2009/3/17 Matthew King matthew.k...@monnsta.net:
Where the hell did .config come from?
See
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html#variables
Why do people like MDI applications?
I recently decided to hack on an application I'm using which is in the
early stages of development. It's a Gtk application which uses glade, a
GUI editor thing, to define the windows. I hadn't used glade for years
and when I did its hate was minimal and
They (read: me) like my performance so much on IRC that I thought I'd
bring hates-software this week's episode of Are you sure?, starring
VMWare Tools Pointlessly Expensive Edition.
VMWare: You can upgrade me.
Me: Click.
VMWare: Click on this button to upgrade.
Me: Click.
VMWare: This process
Joshua Rodman jrod...@hate.spamportal.net writes:
One of the growing list of reasons to disable javascript by default.
Which of course exposes the growing list of websites which can't produce
static content without javascript. Bu
Well, you know, a href=... is just too
Execution of hostid failed.
This indicates a problem with your network configuration.
Please correct the configuration before running Matrix Server.
mxconfig has completed successfully.
Logs?
What are they?
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my
Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com writes:
Incidentally, it appears that Google News has stopped auto-updating.
This wasn't using a lot of CPU time, but it did have the irritation
that it trashed any embedded video you might have been watching. I'm
glad to see it go.
Google Web apps have a
Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com writes:
Speaking of hateful, BEHOLD! http://www.qmail.org/
Rather than waste precious computing power and possible minute mistakes on
choosing a good mirror for you, qmail.org turns their users into a massively
parallel failputer!
And for your efforts,
[ Assuming you meant to send this to the list and now find some
combination of your MUA and the list software more hateful than you
did previously. ]
Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk writes:
On 4 Mar 2009, at 08:35, Matthew King wrote:
Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
PHP
Joshua Juran jju...@gmail.com writes:
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
Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com writes:
You could also try insert into foo values ('2'), for example.
(Which would arguably be something that, say, a Perl programmer would
expect simply works, though, say, Python programmers would have a
different opinion since most languages don't
Every site which does this.
Please die.
My server will tell you if my email address is invalid, which it is not.
Die.
Matthew
--
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my
invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely
preferable to that of a mere
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