On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:19:33PM -0400, david.mackint...@xdroop.com wrote:
>The confirmation dialog, in it's entirety:
> "Do you confirm this operation? [Yes] [Cancel]"
Variable-text dialogues are HAARD. Let's go shopping.
I still have a soft spot for
"Do you wish to cancel this operatio
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 02:53:52PM -0700, David Parsons wrote:
>Novices like to prattle on about C being just another assembly
>language, but they don't know what they're talking about.
No, C-- was just another assembly language. Actually it was a slightly
C-like wrapper language that expected
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:28:45PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>Storyserver was supposed to be a
>content management system, but when I used it it couldn't handle binary
>file uploads - so you couldn't use it to upload images. Their
>"solution" to this was to send us some C source which was "unt
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>* Roger Burton West [2012-05-04 09:40]:
>> With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came
>> out?
>I would ask if you would be upset at this if the releases were identical
>except
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 02:45:00AM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>I fail to remember if I even had any crashes with versions
>6 thru 11, but since the upgrade to 12 it has been crashing on me every
>couple of hours.
With 6-11, would you have had time to notice before a new version came
out?
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:18:49PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>And why doesn't snake oil do just its one damned job, either?
A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It
rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody
quite dared to sell, was a rac
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:27:00PM -0700, Cory Myers wrote:
>But it's not[1] a network printer. It's your basic home-office
>monochrome USB laser printer. And it's claiming 8080 on *localhost*.
>There should be no network connections involved at all.
Getting round built-in Windows firewalls?
(
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:10:55PM -0700, Cory Myers wrote:
>Whose bright-spark idea was it to use a common HTTP port for a *printer
>driver*?
Probably someone dealing with the sort of corporate firewall that's
common in places where HP printers are used, who's only allowed to
connect on ports 80
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:13:41PM +, Smylers wrote:
>How on earth can anybody think this hateful behaviour is the right thing
>to do?!
If you were using Outlook, it wouldn't look wrong. You should be using
Outlook. All the cool kids are using Outlook. Here, buy a copy now.
R
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 04:34:25AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
>When did deliberate data loss become fashionable?
When plain text became "that nasty thing we have to put in because of
disabled people and those who aren't using Our Wonderful Software".
(Why do people install IncrediMail?)
R
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 08:24:54PM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>Yes, you really need a variation on Focus Follows Mouse[^1] to
>make the left-drag select / middle-click paste gesture work
>properly.
Which Gnome can do. I think it may even do it by default. So I assume
Ubuntu does too...
>Th
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:26:24PM +, Peter Corlett wrote:
>Macs support multi-button mice. A right-click is also known as "secondary
>click", which gives a hint as to its importance. It's a power user feature.
>One that I find useful, but not necessary to use the system, as it should
>be.
As
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 03:12:29PM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
>I suppose Linux GUI developers target Windows users more so than Mac
>users because Windows is less likely to work properly (yielding a
>higher conversion rate) and there's more of them to begin with. In
>other words, the same reasons
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 and converting in-OS (i.e. the Unix or "correct" way)?
(I sti
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:52:33PM -0700, Gerry Lawrence wrote:
>Um, what? gmail may be hateful but there is a button that says "edit
>subject"
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 09:53:09PM +0200, Nik Clayton wrote:
>There's an "Edit Subject" link right below the cc: text box. I used it to
>change t
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 an.exam...@example.com and an.exam...@example.com can be different
>users. This has confused u
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 05:48:48AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>When I was working on Speedtables query optimizer I added indexed search for
>anchored string matches because they are a dead easy case. It's likely SQLite
>does this automatically.
SQLite does not automatically add a field to a t
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:17:35AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:51:47AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
>> (Even with the bit where you have to put the domain in
>> backwards.)
>For old-sk00l JANET compatibility?
My guess is some sort of funky fast
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:19:09PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
> I leave interesting tabs open or copy the URLs into a text file.
My master list of bookmarks _is_ a text file. From which I generate the
Firefox bookmarks file (and ditto for w3m and links). It's less trouble
that way. (Even with the
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:35:35PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote:
>> "we know better than you how you should use our software, and we'll
>> disable any possibility of using it in any other way and not even tell
>> you about some
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:13:34PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>Naturally, there is no way that I can see of turning off this wonderful
>feature.
While Apple is certainly not the only company with an ethos of "we know
better than you how you should use our software, and we'll disable any
possibi
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:05:08AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
>Congratulations, you've discovered ACLs.
I suspect that the short answer to this is "I am root, dammit. If I tell
you to remove my head with a chainsaw, I expect you to assume I have a
good reason and _do_ it. I didn't su - just for f
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:39:36AM -0500, Darren Chamberlain wrote:
>Procmail can do it:
>
> :0
> * List-Id:.*
> ! arch...@mail-archive.com
>
>/me cues the procmail hate
If you use that recipe, you won't get the mail yourself. Hatey enough
for you?
Procmail: because juggling chainsaws just is
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 02:24:40PM +, Smylers wrote:
>It seems that Debian includes a shuf command in coreutils, which is even
>faster than bogosort -n.
Why don't people tell me these things?
Oh. You did. Never mind then.
R
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:28:16PM +, Peter Corlett wrote:
> Incidentally, how long does your Perl program take if you use shuffle()
> from List::Util instead?
About 0.3 seconds.
I don't think List::Util was part of the core when I wrote mine.
R
Quite often I have a desire to take a list and put it into a random
order. So I wrote a program to do it. Now, I've spend a reasonable
amount of time fettling the algorithm, but it's still basically a Perl
program.
(Algorithm: set up a list 0..n of indices; iterate a over 0..n, each
time generatin
It didn't seem like such a hard thing to do.
I use a bunch of different web browsers, depending on what I'm doing -
Dillo, Firefox and Elinks are the main ones. I like to keep bookmarks
synchronised between them. I also like to keep the master copy of the
bookmarks in a plain text file which I can
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:16:13AM -0700, Ann Barcomb wrote:
>And then there was this address I recently sent something to which went
>something like this:
>
> 10 metros este de la esquina Norteste del parque comunal de vargas
> araya, casa a mano derecha, casa de madera de color blanc
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 sillier...
"We can't accept that credit card number becaus
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:14:18AM -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>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 think I
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:28:25PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>I don't think it's the *Linux* weenies. It is all the people that
>*THINK* they use the best configure tools available to make life for
>anyone on a system not exactly like theirs want to pull their hair
Joerg Schilling.
Ever try to
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:53:21PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>Oh right. So I should use autoconf to detect things like readlink,
>/proc/self/exe and the like, and hence make it find itself better, and thus
>make it less hateful? :-)
And an option to look at its inode number and delete all hard
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:47:49PM -0400, Numien wrote:
>On 06/26/2009 03:37 PM, Michael Leuchtenburg wrote:
>>This requirement is so unclear it could only possibly lead you to
>>hateful software.
>There is another kind?
Software that hasn't been written yet?
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 the student.
R
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:23:40AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>Are people that dumb?
If you have to ask...
hates-people is >>> that way.
Roger
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:35:17PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
>So am I weird for even considering an Iyonix machine for a "media
>centre"?
Since they stopped production last September, that seems sufficiently
quixotic to qualify as weird.
>I don't actually like RISC OS, but having such a usele
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:06:08AM +, Matthew King wrote:
>Why do people like MDI applications?
Because they first used computers in 199X when MDI was briefly The
Standard Way Of Doing Things On Windows? (Given the usual Windows
innovation system, I assume that it had been briefly standard on
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:09:23AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
>If *both* are missing, then it is probably a mailing list run
>by scripting TheBat! (Win32 GUI MUA) or something of the sort.
>And those are *truly* hateful.
I don't believe I have ever seen a non-spam message with that MUA head
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", then dig into Thunderbird's byzantine mail directory
struc
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 09:54:56AM +, Denny wrote:
>Are you saying you can't play a single track by itself on an iPod?
Gosh, XMMS actually got something mostly right. ("Toggle Playlist
Advance" will cause it to stop at the end of the current track; you'll
still need to advance manually to the
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:01:21PM +0100, Aaron Crane wrote:
> $ echo z | env LANG=en_GB.utf-8 grep '[A-Z]'
> z
Yes.
If you want to be sloppy about case in your directory listings, fine.
Breaking a shell script that wants to look at files [A-Z]* but not
[a-z]* is going a bit far.
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:50:00AM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
>2008/10/3 David Cantrell
>> You can fix that bug thus:
>How does I dood in web mailar??
That's got to be a client written in PHP, right? So first, upload your
rootkit...
R
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:50:15PM +0100, Matthew King wrote:
>Joshua Juran writes:
>> Actually, the entire application is hidden (i.e. all its windows), by
>> Option-clicking any other window or the desktop. And the hidden app
>> moves to the end of the Command-Tab rotation, so Command-Shift-Tab
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:53:38PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>The other thing you need to bear in mind that this is not just a
>problem with for-profit organizations (a mistake the left often
>makes) or for that matter governments (a mistake libertarians often
>make).
In short, organisat
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 05:02:05PM +0100, Paul Orrock wrote:
>My favourite mysqlism is that setting ENUMs for a field don't actually
>force you to use them unless you enable strict mode.
Mine is this quote from the manual:
TRADITIONAL: Make MySQL behave like a "traditional" SQL database
system
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:12:23PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
>I thought Mutt had all manner of bells & whistles. It can't rejustify?
Mutt is not an editor; it's an MUA. It'll use whatever editor you tell
it to.
Misdirected hate.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:40:56AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
>On 2008-06-29, at 18:37, Yoz Grahame wrote:
>>The ZIP file was auto-unpacked by Firefox too, which is always great,
>OK, that's a (minor) security hole right there.
And the reason for the problem - the (separate) documentation says
"
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:48:21PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
>What kind of product is this?
Home automation hardware/software.
R
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:03:46PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:23 -0500, Gerry Lawrence wrote:
>> Try oracle. No really. I didn't know how much I loved Mysql until I
>> had to work on oracle
>Without X11?
Last time I had anything to do with it, Oracle would run
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:57:45AM +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
>I normally don't do web programming. What follows is a newbie's experience
>with
>what appears to be very popular content management systems, more specifically,
>their piles of PHP/CSS crud that are called "themes" in the related ja
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:14:45PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>When there's a SQL compatibility question and MySQL's involved, you can be
>sure it's MySQL that's got it wrong. They love to bolt on all sorts of
>additional language extensions.
Which is why I have in my sigfile:
TRADITIONAL:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:41:25AM +, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
>Or does it just have a problem with SSL? Shouldn't it just
>be using some sort of network library that just fetches the URL?
https is hard.
To put it another way: would you rather have no https, or https supplied
by someone w
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:04:21AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
>* Benjamin Reed [2007-11-14 05:55]:
>> Spoken like a true developer with a Linux-centric worldview.
>It's portable -- it works on Debian *and* RedHat!
No, that might take some slight effort; these days it's RHell _and_
Fedora.
R
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:51:11AM -0400, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>Requiring a GUI
>to do things on a Unix system is a special kind of hate.
See also Oracle. Somewhere I still have my "how to install Oracle 8 on a
sanely-configured Unix system, and what you'll have to install
beforehand and remove a
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 08:04:54PM -0400, Adam Atlas wrote:
>Checking for allowed characters, checking
>whether a phone number is properly formatted,
No, you are NOT getting my phone number. The more inventive I have to be
to put in a phone number that your validator will accept, the less
likely
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:27:46AM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
>Test::ICantThinkBeforeICode [requires]
...a newer version of Perl.
R
It's so very thoughtful of you to link to files on our web site which
are explicitly excluded from your spidering, on the basis that some
other file somewhere else links to them and has a title that might
possibly be relevant. That's why I'm now banning you from the entire
site rather than just the
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 03:34:21PM +0100, Bob Walker wrote:
>which still doesnt scale very well. since firstname.lastname2 just looks silly
>and for that matter the . will probably confuse some things. Also quite
>frankly
>its far too long as a username.
And when Mr Firstname Lastname is broug
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:14:28AM -0500, Patrick Carr wrote:
>I'm sorry, but hundreds of people know which elementary school I went to and
>what my mother's maiden name is. And most of them are deadbeat second cousins
>who are probably going to be the ones filching my hard-earned pennies in the
Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate)
Why can't you verify it? Does it perhaps not chain up to the CA
certificate at which I have just pointed you? Or maybe the expiry date
is confusing you. But you're not going to tell me.
Sometimes you will say "unable to get local iss
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:47:14AM -0800, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
>Perhaps I have been poisoned by dpkg, but the sort order of such a
>version number seems obvious to me. I suppose it might be wrong though.
I still take the approach that if you're going to call it a "number" it
should
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:34:13PM -0500, Cory Myers wrote:
>*These* are "Smart" Tags:
>http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010347451033.aspx
And try to load that page but don't accept cookies, or you have
JavaScript turned off, you get a two-stage infinite redirect loop.
HATE.
R
On or about Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:50:09PM -0700, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net
typed:
>here's a puzzle for you!
>
> mods/artists/Hacker/Sad_Daze.xm
>
>What could the artist name be? Most Libraries will answer "".
What you want is clearly Rockbox. Well, all right, it isn't because it
doesn't h
On or about Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 07:36:46PM +1000, Daniel Pittman typed:
>I think this unfairly maligns Comic Sans, a fine font for the purpose it
>was designed for: lettering funny books. Having actually seen it in use
>where it was intended I think the font itself is great.
It is utterly terri
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