Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:19:28PM +1000, Michael G
Schwern wrote:
> On 2011.1.27 10:43 AM, Timothy Knox wrote:
> > Bonus hate: When I am refactoring software, I will sometimes rename a
> > variable or function or what-have-you. Before I submit the code t
anges, forgot to sync before checkin, etc). It would
be awfully nice if diff gave one the ability to say, in essence, take
one of the files, and notionally perform the following substitution,
then diff the resultant with the other file. In other words, only show
me the diffs I don't recall making
sh loading, or time out, before you can save the page.
Un-fscking-believable!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
"Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do."
-- Ted Nelson
ot; command undefined, or what they did. Aaargh!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
"Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do."
-- Ted Nelson
at for some time,
but now I need not write it. Thanks, and let's see if we can find a way
to disable it. :-)
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
"Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do."
-- Ted Nelson
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:03:38PM -0400, Jarkko
Hietaniemi wrote:
> I see your hate and raise: info hello
You had me at: >-->---+
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The problem is that once you have don
And the Fox of the Fires rejoiced,
in having thwarted the simple programmer in his attempt to work
more efficiently, by opening all the tickets first, and then reading
them all in one go.
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The problem is that once you have done away with the ability to
can't be bothered to either click the link, or view parts to get to the
HTML part. Honestly, if you can't be bothered, why should I?
Die, you evil software, DIE!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The problem is that once you have done away with the ability to make
judg
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:25:56PM +0100, Tony Finch
wrote:
> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Timothy Knox wrote:
> >
> > A big steaming pile of hate goes to rss2email because it can't
> > handle feed:// URLs (even though I have sent them a patch *repeate
pile of hate goes to rss2email because it can't
handle feed:// URLs (even though I have sent them a patch *repeatedly*).
Also, it doesn't really handle non-full feeds, which I have hacked
around, but it would be nice if I could just indicate that a given
RSS feed is a partial feed, an
> But this is just too hateful. I need to find new mail software to
> hate.
Well, mutt is kind of elm-like, and hateful in different ways. In fact, if you
have the patience of Job, you can configure it to be even less hateful by
default than it otherwise insists on being. But don't get yo
cluding a plain-text version of the message, whilst simultaneously claiming
that they are.
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The one thing I've learned about freedom of expression is that you really
ought to keep that sort of thing to yourself.
-- Scott Adams, _I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot_
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 07:27:27PM -0700, Phil
Pennock wrote:
> On 2008-07-03 at 16:52 -0700, Timothy Knox wrote:
> > which is followed by an HTML version of of the actual mail, THAT is NOT
> > ACTUALLY
> > multipart/alternative. multipart/al
parts to get to the
HTML part. Honestly, if you can't be bothered, why should I?
Die, you evil software, DIE!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The one thing I've learned about freedom of expression is that you really
ought to keep that sort of thing to yourself.
--
protected portion of the site.
So we can now declare that website to be manchestery*.
*Perhaps we could shorten it to manky. ;-)
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The one thing I've learned about freedom of expression is that you really
ought to keep that sort of thing to
e? I don't really ask you to do much, I know, and
perhaps you do this as a form of retaliation, but keep it up, and I shall banish
you to to the Hell of Being Skinned Alive*.
* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The one thing I've learne
you? Of course not! If there is
new mail, '$' only adds the new mail to my mailbox. SO I have gotten into the
habit of hitting '$' at least four times in a row (yes, I count), hoping that at
least one of them will actually SYNC MY D*MN MAILBOX!!!
Aaaargh!!!
--
horse dung! ;-)
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The one thing I've learned about freedom of expression is that you really
ought to keep that sort of thing to yourself.
-- Scott Adams, _I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-Idiot_
ion Photo Booth quit
> > unexpectedly"
>
> I like calling it "the pinwheel of death".
We always called it the "Spinning Pizza Of Death" or SPOD. SPOD is also a verb.
"Safari spodded me. Hate! Hate! Hate!"
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.c
ut an error/usage message. That's nice. Helpful,
even. But then it returns a 0 status code. That's not so NICE! You didn't
succeed, you moronic program! You FAILED to do what I asked! And thanks to your
deceitful ways, I've just wiped out the archive, and now must re-download it
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:55:30PM +, Steff
Davies wrote:
> Timothy Knox wrote:
>> I spend my days in heavily Linux-y environment. My main machine is a Linux
>> box,
>> my dev box is Linux, my client-test box and my server-test box are all
&
It took me all of five lines of shell hacking to add it in, so we are not
talking rocket science here.
Firefox, burn in hell forever!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
The one thing I've learned about freedom of expression is that you really
ought to keep that sort of thing to y
time I searched for it, somewhere 410kish. I didn't
> record the number, and when I went back to get it for this mail, it was now
> 484k.
Curiously enough, when I just did a search for mysql hate on google, the second
hit was Smylers hates-software auto-blog. :-)
PS I also got ~
on my forehead? Why
can't you render the text (that is not already constrained by some other
HTML/CSS unholiness to a fixed width) to the width of my window? Is that
*really* so much to ask? If so, WHY?!
May you all burn in the Eighth Circle of Hell
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divin
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:13:16AM -0600, Peter da
Silva wrote:
> On 2008-01-21, at 01:50, Timothy Knox wrote:
>> Breaking news: Stuffit Expander is hateful!*
>
>> * Okay, it's only breaking news if you have been in a coma for the last
>>
of bilious hate, WHY? Why can't
you just expand my file, and mind your own business? Just expand them, and SHUT
THE FSCK UP!
We now return you to your regular hate, already in progress.
* Okay, it's only breaking news if you have been in a coma for the last twenty
years.
-
Bob's Country Bunker, and ask Bob's wife, "So what kind of
music do you have here?" She responded, "Why, both kinds. Country *and*
Western." Pfui!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse.
-- Nicholas Clark
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:23:14PM -0600, Peter da
Silva wrote:
> On 13-Nov-2007, at 01:43, Timothy Knox wrote:
> >But let me clue you in on how GUIs work in the 21st century.
> >Nowadays, when an
> >application highlights a button as a defau
enter key, and you have a fscking button
highlighted, I want you to act as though I had personally moved the mouse over
the d*mned button and mother-fscking clicked it! AARRRGGH! You
filth-encrusted slimy turd! May you suffer a terminal case of licky-end, or
something even more horrific!
-
the
(reasonably commented) full config, but I have managed to make it not suck too
much, but as always, YHMV*.
*Your hatefulness may vary.
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse.
-- Nicholas Clark
ate.
Curious. List-reply just worked fine for me (I hope, anyway). At least, I only
see the list address once in the headers. We'll see. ;-)
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse.
-- Nicholas Clark
l". Why can't it
(also) accept "fink self-update"? I always forget which of the two options takes
the d*mn hyphen and which does not!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse.
-- Nicholas Clark
is hateful, but I am forced to use enough boxen w/ GNU tail (and head)
that I have gotten in to the habit of using "tail -n 10" instead of the
traditional "tail -10". FreeBSD's tail also supports the "-n " notation, so
I can use one consistent (if cumbersome) notati
bers in the same position as those boxed in
green below
* enter all 11 digits with no spaces in the box labeled"
That's right, boys and girls! If you subscribe digitally, and don't keep the
original email they send you giving you all these delicious details, you are
hosed! FO
Fortunately you can just Force Quit the application and that's that.
>
> Why run the software update if you don't want to update?
Good question. ;-)
BTW, apparently even the Microsofties are bugged by this:
http://neopoleon.com/home/blogs/neo/archive/2007/08/24/26758.aspx
ng and beeping
and flashing - they're *flashing* and they're *beeping*. I can't stand it
anymore! They're *blinking* and *beeping* and *flashing*!"
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
90% of everything is crud. And for software the other 10% is worse.
-- Nicholas Clark
get eliminate that going back to the original
ports collection reintroduced? And I am serious in asking, as I am a FreeBSD
user myself, and hate RPMs (though that is another subject/rant). What
hatefulness am I putting up with that the Debian folks have eliminated?
Thanks. :-)
--
Timothy Knox <m
g about nine distinct browsers. I admit
that I am atypical in that regard, but this is one of the chief reasons I find
website accounts hateful.
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone.
My wish has come true
t; Sorry AndrewB is taken
And for that matter, why do I want to have a "username"? Why can't I just use my
email address, and if the website needs something it can display to others, let
me enter my name. If there is more than one Timothy Knox already on the system,
display my name
histles, and it is worth it,
for me. ;-)
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language
ee runs of your job in the four or five hours of lab time available.
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language
lines to your .vimrc:
map
map!
Voila! :-)
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language
rab random
snippets of web pages, blogs, and such like. It is really aggravating, though I
can tell it is spam because all list traffic I receive, and I only get geek
stuff at home via mailing lists, is color-coded. Anything that looks geek-like,
but isn't from one of my lists, is thus easily recogni
ng will be much faster. D'oh! Your acceleration just changed your
settings. ;-)
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 01:59:02PM -0500, Sean
Conner wrote:
> -spc (There's a reason why I never maintain code not written by me)
Ah, what joy that would be, but alas and alack, my career has consisted mostly
of maintaining code not written by me. In fact, my current
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:12:13PM +, Edmund von
der Burg wrote:
> In a thread about hatred for CUPS Timothy Knox wrote:
>
> Ah cups, let me count the ways I hate thee. On second thoughts, no. The
> heat death of the universe would occur before reac
My cup of hatred for CUPS runneth over, but let's focus on just one hate:
Due to really bad weather today, I wanted to work from home. No problem, as I
have a high speed network connection. I wanted to print some documents from my
Linux workstation at the office to my printer at home. No problem,
"Windows" key, which pops up
its big menu and steals the keyboard focus.
Windows key, be still! I *never* want you to pull up that menu, *ever*! Under
any possible circumstances! Am I being clear enough, you moronic key? Stay out
of my way!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.co
, Solaris (9, 10), and Cygwin/Windows. *sigh* Oh, and
I forgot FreeBSD. And Mac OS X.
"Consistency? Hah! Simplicity? Hah! A Jedi craves not these things!"
Pfui!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
"People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe
are pre
d, the updater would ask, "Would you like to
quit XYZZY so the update can proceed?" Polite, but helpful. Now the updater is
neither.
And yes, I agree with another poster that needing "software installers" at all
is hateful, but this hate was for one specific bit of hatefulness.
ycle repeated. HATE! HATE! HATE!
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
"People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe
are pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door,
screaming, 'Take me, take me!'"
-- Carl Jacobs, from alt.sysadmin.recovery
tte. It's
half the fun of using you.
Grr! Hate hate hate!
PS Burn in hell forever, you hateful pig!
Yours, hatefully,
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
"People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe
are pretty much standing on Darwin's
to artificially limit the size of our pages based
on actual inches/centimeters rather than as a percentage of window size or in
proportion to font size, so when those of us with bad eyes or super hi-res
monitors turn the point size of the fonts up, we get to read
Text
that
looks
like
this.
Fsckers!
--
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:41:04PM -0400, Dan Noe
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:34:32AM -0700, Timothy Knox wrote:
> > But, you hateful little pile of &$#^@&, why in the name of all that is
> > wonderful won't you give me the optio
ignore* the popup. Silently. It's okay. You won't
hurt my feelings. Really! JUST DO IT!
Yours in hateful annoyance, and annoyed hatefulness,
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:t...@thelbane.com>
"People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe
are pretty much standing o
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