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From: Timothy Knox Date: 03:11 on 12 Mar 2008 Subject: Firefox, we're not going steady... I don't remember when, but somewhere in the last year or so, Firefox has started to want the focus, ALWAYS! Firefox, I clicked on another app! Just because some d*mn web page you are trying to render wants to set a d*mn cookie does NOT give you the right to pop back in to the front and steal my d*mn focus. You are *NOT* the center of my d*mn computing experience! We are not in a monogamous, or even serially monogamous, relationship. I will continue to see other programs, and you need to stop calling all the time, and following me around. Just wait your d*mn turn! You fetid pile of horse dung! ;-)
From: Smylers Date: 19:05 on 11 Mar 2008 Subject: Gnumeric Graph Plug-Ins I have a Gnumeric spreadsheet with a graph in it. I get a new computer, which happens to be running a more recent version of Gnumeric, and copy my home directory to it. I open up my spreadsheet. The graph's gone! Hateful! It still has a title, axes, and so on, but there's a big white space where my data used to be. Double-clicking the graph and looking at the options I can't even see where one could specify what the data should be. Odd. Eventually I give up, thinking I'll create a new spreadsheet and insert a chart on that, then perhaps copy the data over. 'Insert' > 'Chart...' brings up a dialogue box entitled 'Select Chart Type'. There's a list at the left headed 'Plot type'. The list is empty. Hateful! So, somehow this version of Gnumeric doesn't have any graph types defined -- yet it still displays the useless dialogue box, pretending I can pick one. Hateful! Perhaps graphs type definitions are now separate. Hmmm, Ubuntu has a gnumeric-plugins-extra extra package; let's try that. Nope, no difference. I can't be the only one suffering this. Let's try Googling. Ah, graphs are indeed plug-ins, and 'Tools' > 'Plug-ins...' is the place to go to configure them. But that's greyed out. Hateful! I click on an empty cell, and the menu item is now available. But, really, why on earth does having a chart selected mean I can't manage plug-ins? I see there's a bunch of charting plug-ins, so I activate them. I can see the logic in moving this functionality into plug-ins, but why weren't plug-ins for former-core features activated by default? Hateful! Oh, it turns out that actually for new users such plug-ins _are_ activated by default. It's just that I copied my home directory -- including my Gnumeric config, it seems -- from an older version. And part of that config was my list of active plug-ins! THEY MOVED CORE FUNCTIONALITY INTO A PLUG-IN AND THEN DECIDE WHETHER TO ENABLE THAT PLUG-IN ON THE BASIS OF WHETHER I'VE PREVIOUSLY ENABLED THAT PLUG-IN THAT THEY'VE JUST MADE UP! Hateful doesn't cover it. When I opened the document with a graph surely Gnumeric could notice it needs a plug-in? Or the interfacing for enabling graph-releated plug-ins could be in the dialogue boxes for selecting the types of new or existing graphs? Or at least those dialogue boxes could mention where to go to enable plug-ins? Or at least they could do that if currently no chart plug-ins are enabled? Because if graphs require plug-ins to be enabled, what bigger clue that the user wants to use them could there possibly be than choosing the 'insert graph' feature? Do they actually expect there is _anybody at all_ who when presented with an empty list of chart types wants to do anything other than enable a chart plug-in or two? Really? But that isn't the end of it. Because enabling the plug-in doesn't actually make the chart appear, oh no. For that I have to re-open the document. Hateful! Smylers
From: Jeremy Stephens Date: 17:07 on 10 Mar 2008 Subject: configuration hate OK, I need some input. My co-workers and I were discussing this today. Which of these has the most evil and hateful configuration? Apache, Xorg, or exim? I think my vote has to be exim. TIA, Jeremy
From: sabrina downard Date: 18:46 on 07 Mar 2008 Subject: textedit Dear TextEdit: If your job is to edit text, as is implied by your name, why are the only four file formats you offer to let me Save As as follows: - Rich Text (RTF) - HTML - Word Format - Word XML Format Whither plain text? Oh, I see. . . I've got to convert this document first by going to the Format menu and selecting Make Plain Text. *Then* I can Save As text. Oh, and I see I've got to manually force you to default to plain text. Because naturally when I choose an application called TextEdit what I want to do is RichTextEdit. Not like I'd open up Word or Pages or anything. It's a good thing that I've already been exhausted by suck-ass software today and have got no more energy for you, or else I might be forced to remark that it's stupid crap like this that keeps stubborn, elitist unix bastards stubborn, elitist unix bastards. Christ, just give me a terminal. oh well, whatever, never mind. --sabrina.
From: Walt Mankowski Date: 19:37 on 05 Mar 2008 Subject: Macports package dependencies On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:16:02PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > And don't get me started on the hateful way they handle package > dependencies... I had some out of date macports packages, and today seemed like a good time to upgrade them. The manpage for port(1) lists among its options: -R also upgrade dependents (only for upgrading) -u uninstall non-active ports when upgrading and uninstalling So I figured that running "port -uR libpng" would upgrade any packages that depend on libpng, and then remove the old copies. But instead of doing that, it just upgraded itself. Then it complained that it couldn't remove the old copy because aterm depended it it: ---> Unable to uninstall libpng 1.2.24_0+darwin_8, the following ports depend on it: ---> aterm Error: Uninstall libpng 1.2.24_0+darwin_8 failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on libpng first. It helpfully repeated the messages 6 times to make sure I saw them. *Sigh* Walt
From: Michael G Schwern
Date: 04:44 on 03 Mar 2008
Subject: autoconf
10 RUN CONFIGURE
20 INSTALL MISSING DEPENDENCY
30 GOTO 10
This process gets longer and longer as you go deeper and deeper in.
Couldn't it run all the way through and let me know all the missing stuff=
at=20
the end? Please?
--=20
7. Not allowed to add =E2=80=9CIn accordance with the prophesy=E2=80=9D t=
o the end of
answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
-- The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army
http://skippyslist.com/list/
From: Michael Bevilacqua Date: 15:33 on 02 Mar 2008 Subject: Uncontrollable Tool Tips ------=_Part_32351_17692330.1204472010273 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Tool Tips are quite possibly the most annoying feature of software today. They constantly get in the way of what I'm reading or trying to read. They are distracting. And most of the time, there is no way to disable them. Sometimes they don't even get out of the way and then overlap other windowed applications when switching focus. Or, like the following example, pop up information onto the screen that is exactly what I have already read and then block the next link down. http://bevilacqua.us/ljpics/HateToolTips.jpg Of course, my favorite is still the Tool Tips that tell you the X button at the top right closes a windowed application. I think even single-celled life on the bottom of the ocean knows this by now. Redundant? Yes. Useless? Most of the time. Annoying? Terribly. TGF Window Managers that don't incorporate this feature and applications that let you disable them.
From: Nicholas Clark
Date: 13:04 on 29 Feb 2008
Subject: Photo Booth
Good idea: Mirroring the live webcam feed, so that one doesn't get confused
about left and right
Bad idea: Saving the photos out to disk still mirrored
Makes it somewhat less than useful as a quick way to take pictures of things.
Oh. I found an option to flip photo...
And to auto flip all new photos...
Which turned my existing photo blank, gave me the pizza of death, and now
I have a little dialogue "The application Photo Booth quit unexpectedly"
How sweet.
Nicholas Clark
PS And where's the preferences option to turn this off? Where's the preferences
setting full stop? Doesn't that break Apple's own guidelines?
From: Michael G Schwern Date: 07:33 on 29 Feb 2008 Subject: Logan's Run Registration I registered for XFire, yet another chat network. This one is specially designed for Windows gamers. It scans your machine and keeps track of all the games you have and what you're playing so your friends can see and jump in with you. Kinda need, in a frighteningly insecure way. Anyhow, I have a friend of mine for whom it's her primary IM and with Adium unifying all my IM connections what do I care how many I have? Going to register on their website, they require all sorts of information including a birthdate. I accidentally submitted the form before filling that in, I think the default was something silly like today's date. It told me I needed to be at least 13. Ok, I can manage that. Go back, fill out the form again and submit... "You are not the right age to register for an Xfire account" Uhh, and what age would that be exactly? Is this some sort of Logan's Run-esque "don't trust anyone over 30"? I know Windows gamers are immature, but designing a chat network which only allows 13-29 year old smacktards is beyond even the inanities of Windows. It turns out this is a feeble attempt at preventing 12 year olds from lying about their age. It wasn't long before I found the "under13" cookie they had set when I first submitted the form. Yes, it wasn't even obscured. As any 12 year old will be able to figure out how to circumvent it, a simple google search gives the solution, I can only conclude this is a new user slip punishment system.
From: Peter da Silva Date: 16:10 on 28 Feb 2008 Subject: Apple's automounter OK, I'm connecting to a samba share called "backup" on a machine called "enclave.in.taronga.com" that happens to be in the "taronga" workgroup. What do you suppose OS X does? Mount it as "enclave-shared" (or something like that) on "/volumes/ enclave/shared"? No, it mounts it as "shared". No indication of where it comes from. Mount it as "shared" on "/volumes/shared" or "/volumes/ enclave:shared" or something? Nope, it's "shared" on "/volumes/TARONGA;ENCLAVE". Mount something else, and it shows up as "/volumes/TARONGA;ENCLAVE-1". * semicolon as part of the file name? * share name NOT part of the file name? * Finder's name and the mount point completely different? Jesus Harold Christ!
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