Hey Windows! You cunt! I want to VISUALLY DISTINGUISH my FUCKING
DISKS. I don't give a shit what you think about it.
You make your users do this:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1849093,00.asp
When I meet your programmers in Hell I will cry sweet tears of joy at
their suffering even as the
On Sep 24, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Earle Martin wrote:
Hey Windows! You cunt! I want to VISUALLY DISTINGUISH my FUCKING
DISKS. I don't give a shit what you think about it.
Yeah, I've never quite been a fan of the Windows way of things.
Sometimes it seems like their human interface for Windows
* jrod...@hate.spamportal.net jrod...@hate.spamportal.net [2007-02-27 02:45]:
Here you see the core of microsoft culture. My paraphrase:
Improving the situation is _impossible_ because it would
require the cooperation of two teams.
For reinforcement, consider this glimpse into
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.
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
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
situation evidently occurred often enough in testing that someone had
to
Dave Vandervies writes:
Most windows I've dealt with behave differently on drag-and-drop
depending on what part of the window you drop in. Trying to guess
what you meant would be far more hateful than giving you an easy way
to bring the window to the front so you can drop it where you want
Somebody claiming to be Aaron Crane wrote:
Dave Vandervies writes:
Most windows I've dealt with behave differently on drag-and-drop
depending on what part of the window you drop in. Trying to guess
what you meant would be far more hateful than giving you an easy way
to bring the window
On 25 Feb 2007, at 20:23, Dave Vandervies wrote:
Trying to guess what you meant would be far more hateful than giving
you an easy way to bring the window to the front so you can drop it
where you want it.
Presumably the application could easily specify what a taskbar drop
was equivalent to.
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 people will go buy hardware from someone else.
Personally, I suspect
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 7/7/06, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
In the old days when I would run windows, my video card vendor always
provided two driver options: the logo certified one, and the one with
fewer bugs. I'm sure the program works the same way now.
Nah, now you just get
Il giorno ven, 07/07/2006 alle 11.46 +1000, Matt McLeod ha scritto:
Nah, now you just get certified drivers with lots of bugs and
third-party hacked ones that have fewer. The latest nVidia drivers
are just brilliant: they make the C++ runtime crash.
Last time it happened to me (crash
The software you are installing for this hardware
$SOFTWARE_NAME
has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its
compatibility with Windows XP. Continuing your
installation of this software may impair or
destabilize the correct operation of your system
either
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 18:55:10 -0400, Earle Martin
hates-softw...@downlode.org wrote:
...and repeat TWO DOZEN FUCKING TIMES. Because Microsoft is TOO FUCKING
RETARDED TO PROVIDE A DON'T ASK ME AGAIN button.
System Properties-Hardware tab-Driver Signing-
Ignore - Install the software anyway
That's a funny way to click the don't ask me again during this install
button on the dialog.
It's not like you don't want it to come up NEXT time when it's not you but
an email worm that's kicked off the install.
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:04:08 -0400, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com
wrote:
It's not like you don't want it to come up NEXT time when it's not you
but an email worm that's kicked off the install.
Well, if it comes up two dozen times it's because you're installing two
dozen different
If you're running WinDD/Citrix/Winframe/Terminal Server you can base it on
when you switch into and out of install mode.
Does XP Fast User Switching support that?
On 7/6/06, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Translated into English ...
We at Microsoft are too fucking stupid to prevent applications from
fucking with our OS. We recommend switching to OS X. Or Linux. Or
OS/400. Anything but Windows.
Well, no, because this is about
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:07:17PM +1000, Matt McLeod wrote:
Crap drivers on any platform are going to create havoc.
I've heard the VMS is plenty hateful, but didn't it run device drivers
in a separate protected context from the core OS and user-space? ISTR
that NT 3.5 used a similar technique
Aaron J. Grier wrote:
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:07:17PM +1000, Matt McLeod wrote:
Crap drivers on any platform are going to create havoc.
I've heard the VMS is plenty hateful, but didn't it run device drivers
in a separate protected context from the core OS and user-space? ISTR
that NT
* David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk [2006-07-06 12:25]:
Translated into English ...
We at Microsoft are too fucking stupid to prevent
applications from fucking with our OS. We recommend
switching to OS X. Or Linux. Or OS/400. Anything but
Windows.
Are you telling me that OS X or
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:26:32PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk [2006-07-06 12:25]:
Translated into English ...
We at Microsoft are too fucking stupid to prevent
applications from fucking with our OS. We recommend
switching to OS X. Or Linux. Or
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:26:32PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
As you well know, operating systems and hardware have the concept of
privelege seperation. Certain instructions are not available to user
programs, and certain operating system interfaces likewise without first
becoming a
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