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From: Earle Martin Date: 17:57 on 11 Jan 2008 Subject: Mail.app address autocompletion Start typing in the compose field: web<space> - Web Support Actions <websupportactions@...> - Web Systems <websys@...> Keep typing: web s - Web Systems <websys@...> Hello? Where the fuck did the other one go to? I WANTED THAT ONE, YOU WORTHLESS POOL OF PREMATURELY SQUIRTED BYTES.
From: Earle Martin Date: 10:53 on 13 Dec 2007 Subject: Metadot Metadot is a vast heap of shit disguised as a CMS. Someone I used to work with, who still has to deal with it, hates it so much that his hate could not be contained in a mailing list post, thus he has made an entire website for it: http://www.ihatemetadot.co.uk/
From: Earle Martin Date: 19:20 on 20 Nov 2007 Subject: Those damn uppity computers! http://www.slowwave.com/index.php?date=07-11-17
From: Earle Martin Date: 14:45 on 02 Nov 2007 Subject: Ejecting disks (was: When I said 'Empty Trash'...) On 30/10/2007, Mike Beattie <mike@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Thanks OS X. > > For absolutely no reason that I can discern at all, it will not > actually empty the trash when I select "Empty Trash" from the Finder > menu, or the right click menu of the trashcan itself, or the shift- > fuckingabnormaltwirlything-delete hotkey. OS X HATE BANDWAGON! Whenever you remove a USB flash drive, you have to "eject" it first (the word in itself is a stupid historical legacy, like buttons labelled "rewind"). This is done by dragging the disk icon to the trash. They reworked almost everything and yet managed to leave in this particular bit of historical stupidity that dates from the Mac Stone Age (see http://www.mackido.com/Interface/TrashingDisks.html). Alternatively you can click its icon and hit Cmd-E. Fair enough. If you don't eject the drive before pulling it, you get a dialog box waving its finger at you telling you to eject the drive next time. When I eject flash drives, their icons disappear. Then I remove them. Then it brings up the same fucking dialog box telling me to eject first. Every time. I _DID_ EJECT IT, YOU SOURED DRIBBLE RESIDUE FROM A WIZENED WITCH'S TIT!
From: Earle Martin Date: 11:04 on 27 Sep 2007 Subject: Opening tarballs in Mac OS X You may have a tarball you wish to open, named, say, Foo-Bar-0.1.tar.gz. If you double-click it, it expands to a folder called, predictably, Foo-Bar-0.1. However, if you then double-click it again (without removing the first expanded folder), it produces a folder called... Foo-Bar-0.2. Again? Foo-Bar-0.3. Yes, Mac OS X has decided to increment the version numbers on your downloaded software. In the old Mac OS, you'd get folders called "Copy of Foo-Bar-0.1" and "Copy 2 of Foo-Bar-0.1", etc. Whoever replaced this behavior with the current braindead one is a goddamn moron.
From: Earle Martin Date: 22:32 on 24 Sep 2007 Subject: Changing a disk icon in Windows XP 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 demons tear off my skin.
From: Earle Martin Date: 15:21 on 10 Sep 2007 Subject: Dear Perforce: fuck you. I saw this on the intertubes and immediately thought, dear friends, of you. "Dear Perforce: Fuck you. Fuck you, you miserable, untrustworthy, misleading, overpriced bastard. I hope your office goes up in flames along with all your off-site backups. I pray that some open source product that actually works is embraced by all the major companies and drives you out of business. I hope that no other company is duped by your salespeople into thinking you have something even remotely close in quality to the ancient and craptastic product known as CVS. Never before have I experienced so much pain in the most simplistic of version control tasks as I have since starting to work at a company that made the mistake of considering you you." http://weblog.masukomi.org/2007/8/31/dear-perforce-fuck-you
From: Earle Martin Date: 14:48 on 20 Aug 2007 Subject: PDF "encryption" Gmail provides a very helpful view-PDF-attachment-as-HTML tool. It works for my needs 99% of the time. Except when I get some particular PDFs, clicking upon which in Gmail producing this message: "The attachment cannot be viewed as HTML because the author has placed restrictions on its content. Download the attachment to view it in its original format." Apparently the content of the PDF is "encrypted". This must be some new definition of the word "encryption" that means "does not require a password to display plaintext version when opened (but nevertheless will interfere with your email setup)". Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Let me guess, was it Adobe by any chance?
From: Earle Martin Date: 16:48 on 14 Apr 2007 Subject: Motorola RAZR v3 buttons and menus I have one of these popular although now slightly dated phones. Overall it behaves itself, but there are several points about its user interface that make my blood boil. The OS designers don't seem to have understood that some actions need confirmation. Hit the "cancel" button while typing a text message - easily done as it's right next to the 3 button, which happily enough produces the letter "E", the most common in the English language - boom, your message is gone. That's great fun if, like me, you're not exactly an SMS-typing speed demon. Close the flipscreen? That cancels it out too. There *is* a drafts folder for saving messages in, but... you can't do that when editing. You have to choose "send", then select a recipient, then bring up the menu. Oh, and once you've got to the screen where you select a recipient, you can't go back to editing the message. You have to save it to the drafts, then choose "drafts" and select the message again. When looking at text messages in your inbox, if you bring up the menu, the top item is "delete". Since I use this item all the time, my hand has developed a bit of muscle memory for deleting messages. However, if you look at messages in the outbox, the top menu item is "resend". Guess what happens every now and then when I'm clearing messages out of my outbox? Even if I didn't have any muscle memory, to get away from the option I have to use the down arrow button - which is right next to the redundant button in the middle of the arrow buttons that acts as "OK" or "confirm". Redundant because this option is always assigned to one of the two control buttons next to the screen anyway; it's totally unneeded and I only ever use it when hitting it by mistake. It's awkward to press on purpose, anyway. And of course, in the mind of whatever idiot designed this software, resending a text is a non-confirmed action. Once you've chosen "resend" by mistake, that's it: the message is sent. No way to cancel How often do people need to send the same message a second time? That option should be way down the menu, with a big "are you sure?" confirmation dialog. Better be careful when taking photos, too. After you take a picture, one of the buttons is "store". It brings up a menu... of which the top item is "send in message". If you accidentally choose that when you meant to save the photo, you're fucked. There's no way to cancel out and save the photo instead. Hate, hate, hate.
From: Earle Martin Date: 11:10 on 12 Mar 2007 Subject: Nero's obnoxious modification of your Start Menu The Windows XP machine that I have at home came with Nero, a utility for burning CD-ROMs and DVDs. It is, overall, an excellent piece of software, and I have yet to have any problem with using it. However. I'm one of those people who doesn't like having an eight-levels-deep Programs folder in my Start Menu crammed with dozens of disorganized items. I've sorted mine out to sub-folders called Accessories, Applications, Games, Internet, Multimedia and Utilities. Nero, being a utility, goes under Utilities. As you might expect. 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. P.S. Here is some bonus Nero hate! http://iamyouruser.blogspot.com/2006/12/neros-nuts-i-want-to-kick.html
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