On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
Why in the name of all that's unholy do programs on Windows generally
unpack or download files to a temporary location and then *copy*
them to the final location, instead of at least *moving* them or
(god forbid) downloading them
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 09:28:49AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-09-26, at 11:13, 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,
Actually, the
Mac OS X has an ability to hide applications. This functionality is
completely pointless to my workflow, which consists of use of Spaces
virtual desktops and suchlike. That's fine, I don't have to use it.
It's nicely tucked into a consistent location under the application menu
of the application
I *hate* centralized version control.
I most especially hate the kind that gets in the way of you doing crap
when you haven't got connectivity with the server. The worst offenders
of course are horrorshows like ClearCase, but Perforce isn't so hot
either.
-josh
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:43:54AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
Do you *want* more software in your life?
I don't particularly care. Disk space is cheap.
First law of software hatefulness: the amount of hatefulness in software
has a minimum
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:37:32PM -0700, Yoz Grahame wrote:
Rockbox is an alternative firmware/OS/UI for MP3 players, mostly iPods
and Archoses. Given that my wife has various demands of an MP3 player
that aren't met by our iPod's Steve-given interface, I thought I'd try
it out.
I didn't
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:49:45AM -0700, Yoz Grahame wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com 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
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:16:55PM +1030, Bill Page wrote:
Anyone else pissed that Google did that with Google Video when they
bought Youtube?
I thought I was the only one!
I too am pissed about that.
I'm also pissed that *anyone* gave those youtube yahoos any money at
all. There are
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:19:21PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:15:23PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-01-15, at 10:03, David Cantrell wrote:
Then stop calling them version NUMBERS.
While you, and other people, continue to do so, then people will
assume
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:09:39AM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
* Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com [2008-01-14T23:47:06]
On 2008-01-14, at 16:18, Phil Pennock quoted a very very unstable mind:
the real problem is that the version number on Parse::RecDescent went down!
from 1.80 (which
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:02:35AM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
* jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2008-01-15T08:37:19]
1.80 means 1.80. 1.95.1 means 1.095001.
How in the nine hells of software hate doesn't it mean 1.950001 or some
such crap? How is this defensible in any possible
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 03:21:35PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
I saw this on the intertubes and immediately thought, dear friends, of
you.
I feel this rant is roughly accurate. The tools do have a long list of
warts, and I have experienced unfixable repo munging with Perforce. I
really love
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:45:23PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 16 Aug 2007, at 10:07, Denny wrote:
Then pay for it. Next?
[...]
Get a mac, then not only will you be paying over the odds for hardware
but you'll be buying software
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:35:18AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:25, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
By doing it themselves you force everyone to parse the command
line on their own, which means quoting conventions and how to deal
with spaces in filenames can vary not per shell, but
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:41:59PM +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 Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:21:53PM -0700, Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2007-05-21 at 21:41 +0200, Abigail wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:42:14PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
Are you actually getting Joy's vi or is it Bostic's nvi?
My point was, like ircds, there is no mainline vi, and has not been
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:42:15PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Jonathan Stowe wrote:
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
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:10:51AM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
Andy Armstrong a...@hexten.net writes:
It's thinking I wish I had more memory. I wish he'd disable that
Dashboard shite.
Why is it that we have nice for our mostly-idle CPUs, but no
way to say sorry, Dashboard, you only get 30
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:53:31PM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented behaviour
that the close-tab button always had
I'm not sure if you want CTRL-W to do this. I don't. That is, to my
mind CTRL-W is close window, not close tab. If that somehow
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:10:22AM +, Earle Martin wrote:
Every time you run Nero, it creates a Nero folder in the Programs
folder of the Start Menu. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. There's no option that
I could find to stop it doing that.
THANKS A FUCKING LOT, NERO, YOU STUPID WANKERS.
There's a
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:10:38PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:53 PM, Joe Mahoney wrote:
Various theories and explanations here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/24/269237.aspx
What a load of codswallop.
Here you see the core of microsoft culture. My
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:23:18PM -0500, Dave Vandervies wrote:
Somebody claiming to be Earle Martin wrote:
Good God but this is stupid:
http://downlode.org/Pictures/Stupid_Software/Windows_XP_Drag_to_Taskbar.png
How did this even make it to release? Didn't the fact that this
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:24:11AM +, Smylers wrote:
I return to a shell window I haven't used for a few minutes, to be
greeted by the message:
ALSA: underrun, at least 0ms.
[...]
This computer doesn't have any speakers; it may not even have a
soundcard. I've never instructed it to
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
ObHATE: I hate the fact that Windows refuses to use class drivers for
any dratted thing at all.
It can't drive any RTL-8139 NIC without a driver specifically from that
manufacturer.
It can't talk to a USB Serial device
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 07:39:33PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated:
Exceptions and error codes aside, people who trap SIGSEGV should be shot.
Oh, come on now ... how else do you expect us to reattempt the operation
using a different
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:44:06PM +, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
I had a problem with the list view in Nautilus when I first installed Ubuntu
on a machine: all fields were unselected, so it showed nothing.
I am told this was never supposed to happen, but it did. I guess the
restriction
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:22:23PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
I can't stand that it wants to steal ctrl+A, which a decade of finger-
[...]
Yes, I fully realize that I could get around this by editing a
~/.screenrc, but software that gets off to such a bumpy, boneheaded
start seems like a
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:06:38AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
Calling control-up-arrow control 6 is hateful.
Is there something strange about my keyboard or terminal? If I hold
down the control key and press six, the character sometimes written as
^^ is sent. If I hold down the control key
I know we have some BSD coots out in the audience, so in advance, I'm
going to say that I don't want to hear any defenses for this complete
and utter crap, because that's what it is. Of course I welcome parallel
hate for comparable things.
The various forks of the BSD operating system all use
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:47:21PM -0500, Adam Atlas wrote:
Am I the only one who finds it hateful that most web browsers add new
bookmarks/favourites to the BOTTOM of the list? When I find some site
that I'd like to come back to later, the bookmarks feature would be
more useful if I didn't
I use a cacheing web proxy to make my life suck a tiny bit less. I use
it in my browser, and I export it as an environment variable. This
works well. All kinds of tools get accelerated.
( Well, really I export it as two environment variables, HTTP_PROXY and
http_proxy, because it seems people
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 07:46:33PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Yoz Grahame once stated:
Aristotle is actually being remarkably kind to PHP here, failing to
mention the TWO THOUSAND FUNCTIONS IN THE MAIN NAMESPACE, many of
which are synonyms for each other,
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:07:04AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
Because Mono has to implement all these system level semantics that
don't exist on unix, it has to create a sort of pseudo-system-wide layer
itself. This means that all your Mono processes have to be able to talk
to each
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:57:03PM +, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
On 21/12/06 16:25 Patrick Carr wrote:
On Dec 21, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Roger Burton West wrote:
[..]
MegaGloboBank thinks I went to the EskupatObs3 Elementary School.
Yes yes, that's all well and good, but _I_ have to
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:27:59PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
cause a file to be removed, or removed right away. This matters when
you are out of disk space, and so perhaps I am unsympathetic because I
have never been out of disk space. Otherwise, I think it doesn't really
matter, and
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 09:53:56AM +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
Yeah, that's better - no need to terminate processes! Fuck those
processes. They think they can use my files, ha! But no, I won't
*terminate* them. That punishment is too light. I will remove the
files they are using and then lay
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 04:30:05PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
Aaaah... it's WORSE!
My only hope is that my distribution will turn all this crap off by
default. I have no real hope that the implementors will realize just
how stupid they are being. If you think you can talk sense into them
the
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:36:53PM +0100, Juerd wrote:
Robert Rothenberg skribis 2006-12-14 20:01 (+):
I'm using a mere UK or US keyboard to type in exotic Roman characters used
for non-English languages.
Fine, there's Gnome's Character Map
You could try the Multy_key functionality
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:47:01PM -0800, Timothy Knox wrote:
Okay, everyone, repeat after me:
KDE is *not* Windows!
KDE is *not* Windows!
KDE is *not* Windows!
Sir, I say unto you:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-0.5.html
-josh
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:10:26PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
My vague memory of the rationale for different shell locations had to do
with extensive windbaggery and different interpretations of the File
Hierarchy Standard, which of course was supposed to resolve these kinds
or problems
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:23:53PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
P.P.P.S. why is tcsh located in different places in SuSE and RHEL?
Because Linux is not an operating system. It's a kernel. A Linux distribution
is a Linux kernel and a collection of packages, and it's up to the
distribution
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:57:34AM +1030, Bill Page wrote:
so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided, or
pay attention to the backup you were trying to use?
Unsubscribe.
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:33:28AM +, Nik Clayton wrote:
Luke Kanies wrote:
*I* don't mind. Ruby doesn't mind. But oh now, RubyGems declares that
I cannot have a version number that looks like that:
Malformed version number string 0.20.0-svn
Not to diminish your hate, but that's a
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:34:10PM -0500, Phil!Gregory wrote:
* Sean O'Rourke sorou...@cs.ucsd.edu [2006-11-10 07:40 -0800]:
To be fair, both are acronyms: Advanced Widget Toolkit and
Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay.
And Simple Widgeting Is Not Gay isn't a horrid name for a widget
library?
A
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:32:25PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
I expect that both awt and swing have now been deprecated, as
they're at least five minutes old and so are hopelessly uncool.
Their replacement is probably called something obvious like
'doublelattemocha' or 'Brian'.
Given your
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 12:32:33AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk [2006-11-01 21:15]:
Given that I'm using the default monospace font on this 'ere
modern machine, and given that unless both the multiply sign
and the letter x are next to each other I can't
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:24:06PM -0800, Patrick Quinn-Graham wrote:
On 1-Nov-06, at 12:10 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
[...]
If Unicode is so well-supported then I jolly well expect it to Just
Work. It doesn't.
[...]
[...]
I have a computer that's quite capable of handling unicode
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:29:54AM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:45:08 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi j...@iki.fi wrote:
Ahahahaha. That a program knows how to do Unicode doesn't mean
it has to *force* Unicode. The ?? of Revoluci??n fit fine in Latin-1.
This doesn't: ???.
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:22:30PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Yossi Kreinin yossi.krei...@mobileye.com [2006-10-28 13:15]:
WHY do I have to manually mount/umount these fucking things,
and why is silently corrupting my files a reasonable way to
enforce this wonderful policy?
The
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:47:53AM -0700, Timothy Knox wrote:
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
So, in the land of UNIX, there exists three normal channels from the
outside world to a program: standard in, standard out, and standard
error.
Standard in is where a program can expect to recieve keystrokes.
Standard out is where a program can send its normal output.
Standard error is where a
On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:57:24PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
On 3 Oct 2006, at 13:09, Smylers wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson writes:
On 3 Oct 2006, at 12:54, Simon Wistow wrote:
10) Repeat with other MP3s
Why repeat? ... Select the files you want to change, hit Option-I, it
asks are
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:59:20PM +0100, Martin Ebourne wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 23:51 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
The filesystem is not a good way to organise music. For small
libraries it's OK. To navigate big ones, it blows.
The filesystem is an entirely excellent way to organise
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:03:19PM -0400, Cory Myers wrote:
Worse IMHO, is customers/people/boneheads that have switched to
html-only
mail, just so they can force this font upon us, as they like it so
much.
Or those who've switched to HTML-only mail for the purpose of
delighting in
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 06:32:02PM +0100, Geoff Richards wrote:
blah blah unresponsive... Do you want to abort this script? [OK]
It doesn't seem willing to accept that it might not be OK with me
to refuse to run the bloody thing.
When confronted with this idiocy, I managed to escape by
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:11:20AM +1200, Guy Thornley wrote:
It's more of an advertisement for their driver certification
process. It's a message to driver developers: pay us a boatload of
money for your driver to be certified, or we'll make it look like your
software is shonky so
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:14:55PM -0500, Jeremy Weathers wrote:
I hate tabs in source code. If you must use them, expand them
into spaces please if you think anyone will ever want to read
it.
I hate multiple spaces in source code when a single tab does the job
of indenting the code
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:17:16PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Yes, yes, so hating Windows is like shooting fish in a barrel, but
here goes again:
A helpful little dialog box has popped up telling me that
Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be
restarted
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:44:38PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:30:20 -0500, David Champion d...@uchicago.edu wrote:
* On 2006.05.25, in 20060525181940.6a7da...@pc09,
* H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2006 09:53:56 -0500 (CDT), sabrina
it it deserves a proper Top Level Hate. But a quick
summary of the many levels of inconsistency can be found succinctly
captured in an image:
http://skonnos.ducker.org/~jrodman/image/opera-sucks.jpg
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