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From: Earle Martin Date: 22:49 on 10 Sep 2003 Subject: Software that expires when it doesn't have to I hate and loathe software that suddenly, when you run it one day, says "This version has expired! Download a newer version!" and promptly quits. No, you stupid turd of a programmer, I *know* it's out-of-date - what you've failed to realise is that _I don't care_. In fact, I'm using an out-of-date operating system right now, on out-of-date hardware. In this particular case, for a Mac Jabber client called TVJab, both of them were made before your cruddy little program even existed. So don't go telling me that your program is TOO OLD TO RUN, because compared to everything else I use happily it's still a mewling whelp, wriggling and shitting in its diapers. Please hold still whilst I jam this screwdriver into your eye socket. Thanks.
From: Earle Martin Date: 18:42 on 04 Sep 2003 Subject: Thunderbird / dependencies I decided to try installing Mozilla Thunderbird (the mail and news app) to try it out. Turns out it wants a bunch of libraries that are provided by libc++5. Of course, this is in Debian's testing development, not stable, so my apt-get can't find it. (Can I tell apt-get about testing?) Anyway, downloading the dependencies by hand (sigh...) from packages.debian.org I get to this charming state of affairs: earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg -i libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb (Reading database ... 75274 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.1-16 (using libc6_2.3.1-16_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6: libc6 depends on libdb1-compat; however: Package libdb1-compat is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libc6 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg -i libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb (Reading database ... 75274 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 (using libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb1-compat ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat: libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libdb1-compat earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg --configure libdb1-compat dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat: libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libdb1-compat earle@batou:~/debs$ sudo dpkg --configure libc6 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6: libc6 depends on libdb1-compat; however: Package libdb1-compat is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 In other words - circular dependencies! How in God's name is it possible to install these libraries then? Screw this, I'm sticking with Mozilla Mail & News.
From: Earle Martin Date: 11:34 on 20 Aug 2003 Subject: Bloody Mozilla! I just tried to install the Java plugin for Mozilla. Clicking the "download plugin" button in the dialogue box that appeared to tell me I didn't have the plugin, I was taken to <http://wp.netscape.com/plugins/jvm.html>;. Rather than providing simple links to download the installers, this page uses form buttons with some shitty JavaScript. That didn't work when I tried it. So I viewed the page's source, which told me I needed to get <ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.2/unix/linux22/plugins/jre131_02.xpi>;. After a long time a dialogue box finally appeared and asked me if I wanted to install, yadda yadda yadda. I said I did. It sat around for a while and eventually told me permission was denied to install. So I tried again as root, and it said "Installation successful". Wrong! Running Mozilla showed no sign of the plugin at all. Running it from the command line said the Java plugin couldn't be initialized because it was missing a shared object file. Thanks to packages.debian.org, I managed to locate and install an obsolete package called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1, which is something to do with an old compiler. As if I needed, or wanted, to know that. And as if that wasn't bad enough, running Mozilla again I notice that - all my bookmarks have been deleted! Fucking HEAP of CRAP.
From: Earle Martin Date: 16:48 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: xemacs file dialogues (was: Mozilla save file dialogues) On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:57:25PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > And the fr*&king filename disapears. I wonder if that's a GTK thing, because I get it in The GIMP as well. But there is worse. Like xemacs, for example. Hit the "Open" button - cunningly labelled with the icon that means "new file" in 99% of applications, because in emacs land both opening an existing file and creating a new one are called "finding" a file, which is fucking stupid because how can you find something that doesn't exist? - and you get: A select file dialogue box. But not a normal one. Rather than use the traditional vertically-scrolling list beloved of most applications (whether with directories listed first (the One True Way) or not), the xemacs developers have eschewed it, choosing instead to have two panes - the one on the left for directories, the one on the right for files. Not so bizarre yet - The GIMP (to pick it again as an example) uses the same system. However, in xemacs, the panes list things sideways. Yes, sideways. It breaks long listings up into columns of 15 items each. And then if there are more items to the side, it puts a little arrow to the side of each item. Clicking on them has the effect of scrolling the pane one pane's width to the side, which is redundant, because both panes already have a scrollbar underneath, and just makes an ugly dialogue box even uglier. And what the hell is the point of scrolling sideways? Who needs to see half of a filename? Here, look at this: http://downlode.org/pictures/misc/ugly_xemacs_dialogue_box.png Pretty useful, huh? Oh, and as you can see, by default it shows hidden files. No convenient checkbox to turn that off, and if there is an option (buried somewhere within the 800 levels or so of configuration submenus) to stop it, I can't find it. Oh, look, though, you can resize the dialogue box. That should solve it! But does it? Does it fuck. You can make the box as large as you like, but the shitty thing will never display files in columns of longer than 15 items. And as if that wasn't good enough, it increases the space between the columns as you enlarge the box! Which means that I STILL HAVE TO FUCKING SCROLL. Oh and you can't double-click files in the box either. You have to middle-click them once. Which is great fun on my two-button laptop. What a load of fucking bollocks.
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