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From: David King Date: 19:45 on 03 Apr 2007 Subject: Broken /usr/local/bin/tequila I changed my email address subscribed to this list a while ago, and after the "the verdamnit subscription database got truncated while doing a server move", I was re-subscribed under both addresses, so I tried to unsubscribe the old address. Tough luck, looks like /usr/ local/bin/tequila is broken Begin forwarded message: > From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx> > Date: 3 April, 2007 11:38:42 PDT > To: my@xxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxx > Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender > > This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) > failed: > > pipe to |/usr/local/bin/tequila unsub hates-software > generated by hates-software-unsub@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx > local delivery failed > > The following text was generated during the delivery attempt: > > ------ pipe to |/usr/local/bin/tequila unsub hates-software > generated by hates-software-unsub@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx ------ > > Rc2\-J is not a column of Siesta::Member at /usr/local/perl5.8.4/ > lib/site_perl/5.8.4/Siesta/Message.pm line 151 > > ------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. > ------ > > Return-path: <my@xxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxx> > Received: from my.host ([ip.ad.ddr.ess]) > by banner.unixbeard.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) > (envelope-from < my@xxx.xxxxx.xxxxxxx >) > id 1HYnth-0006HJ-Eb > for hates-software-unsub@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx; Tue, 03 Apr 2007 > 19:38:41 +0100 > Subject: unsubscribe > X-Spam-Score: 0.3 > X-Spam-Score-Int: 3 > X-Spam-Bar: / > > Intentionally blank
From: Yossi Kreinin Date: 15:08 on 03 Apr 2007 Subject: Uninitialized Word MS Word is supposed to support footnotes. By "support", I mean "make it possible to insert footnotes and automatically maintain their numbers when more footnotes are added/deleted". By "supposed", I mean that there's an "Insert footnotes" dialog. So I open that dialog, and talk to it, and say that it's OK, and Word says that no, it isn't, because it wants "Start At" to be a number from 1 to 30 thousand something (no, not 2^15). But... but, um, wait, I said "1" at the "Start At" field. I even think that was Word's default. I kept banging my head into that dialog for about 10 times, and finally it worked. The trick was to change some option in the dialog (I think the endnotes/footnotes list box), which automatically changed "1" to "0", and I changed it back, and then changed the list box back, and it worked. No, I don't think that just deleting 1 and typing it back works by itself, I'm pretty sure I tried that one. I guess it's unitialized memory or something. I don't know where I heard it, but I have this impression that most of Microsoft's revenues come from it's powerful excrement simulator code-named "Microsoft Office". This is discouraging.
From: David Cantrell Date: 14:10 on 03 Apr 2007 Subject: The most hateful thing is the world is ... This: > Thank you for your email to daniel@xxxxxxxx.xxx... > ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND HIT SEND. > The long version: > Thanks for your email! However, I now get over 150 spam emails a day. That's just too many to handle. And unfortunately, my automatic filters like to claim that mail from my family and friends is spam. So I have to double check all those messages to make sure I'm not actually ignoring my mom instead of the spam. Since I haven't setup your email address on my approved list yet (sorry!), you need to let me know you're not an evil spammer. > > Please don't change the subject line when you reply. The text in the subject tells my email server how to locate your message and forward it on to me. > > I know this is inconvenient ... ... but I'm going to do it anyway instead of spending a tiny bit of effort myself, because it would be *your* effort, not mine, and *your* time isn't important. > If you don't reply within a few days, my email server will delete your message. I'll never get to read it. So please reply. Thanks! > > The headers of the message sent from your address are show below: > > From hates-software-bounce@xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxx Tue Apr 03 07:08:21 2007 > ... > List-Id: hates-software <hates-software.siesta.unixbeard.net> The hateful software part of it is, of course, that the software decides to waste the time of people posting to mailing lists to which its master has subscribed by ignoring the List-Id header. But tbh, I hate Daniel more than I hate his software.
From: Yossi Kreinin Date: 08:57 on 03 Apr 2007 Subject: STUPID_SOMETHING Yesterday I saw a spam filter insert a "PROBABLY-SPAM" warning into the subject line of an innocent message. It also appended what looked like detailed reasoning to the body of the message: a list of UNDERSCORE_SEPARATED heuristic names accompanied by a score value. It also said that the overall score spam threshold was 5; apparently that overall score was the sum of individual scores. Well, the message was ranked 2.6 by a DEAR_SOMETHING heuristic, and ended up classified as "spam" (5.3) due to the combined efforts of other incomprehensible mail-header heuristics. Is it really that bad to start a message with "Dear Something", and even if it is, is it really more typical of spam messages than other messages? Needless to say, the non-technical receiver of the message didn't understand any of the COMPUTER_GENERATED rubbish at the bottom.
From: Michael G Schwern
Date: 17:36 on 02 Apr 2007
Subject: Whatsinaname
World of Warcraft, that exquisitely designed casino with elves sucking in
billions of man-hours from all across the globe. And they deserve it. If
you've never played it, I'd suggest getting yourself a 10 day trial just to
see what a really well designed and easy to learn interface is.
Except...
The character creation provides you with simple, graphical options. Buttons
for race and class. A few selectors to determine what your character looks
like. A representation of what your potentially fearsome character will look
like. Some handy helpful text explaining the consequences of your choices.
And a text box to type in your name.
What's in a name? In WoW everything. There's so little to customize about
your character that the only thing which sets you apart from others is your
nome de slash. Maybe it will be "Fire Tosser" the gnomish wizard. "Rick
Drywall" the beefy human warrior. Or maybe the stalwart paladin, "Lancelot de
Loot".
Names. People have several names. A first, a last, maybe a middle. Maybe
more if you're spanish. You innocently type in "Hiro Protagonist" and click
"Create" only to find your new creation to have the name "Hiroprotagonist".
Shit, toss him in the bin and start the process over again.
Yes, in WoW you're not allowed any spaces or non-alphanumerics in your name.
There's perfectly good reasons for this restriction, but they fail to mention
it in character creation. Worse, they don't stop you when you do type a bad
name, it just silently "corrects" your "mistake". In such a wonderfully
designed game with over 3 years of continual development and upgrades you'd
really think they could put in:
warn_user "Sorry, no spaces allowed in names" if /\s+/;
From: Richard Clamp Date: 10:37 on 01 Apr 2007 Subject: Some hate may have settled in transit Somehow the verdamnit subscription database got truncated while doing a server move. I've kludged some stuff together by reconstructing the subscriber list from known haters (those of you that have posted in the past) this may result in extra-special bonus hate for some of you if you'd unsubscribed or changed addresses or whatever. So join us now in a rousing hate of the hates-software software, and of poor backup regimes.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 01:27 on 29 Mar 2007 Subject: Follow your own bloody guidelines. "Discoverability. Encourage your users to discover functionality by providing cues about how to use user interface elements. If an element is clickable, for example, it must appear that way, or a user may never try clicking it. Be sure to use Aqua controls properly and avoid making controls invisible to inexperienced users." In iTunes, if you're viewing a playlist, and you want to delete a track from the library rather than the playlist, you hold "Alt" down while hitting the "Delete" key. This is the only way to delete the track without locating it in the main "Library" list and deleting it from there. Holding down Alt and dragging to the trash or holding down Alt and selecting Delete from the Edit menu just remove the entry from the playlist. Dragging to trash, selecting the "Delete" item in the Edit or contextual menus, or hitting the "Delete" key without holding Alt also just remove the track from the Playlist. And you can't even bring up teh contextual menu with the Alt key held down. There is no way to "discover" this. It doesn't say that this option is available in the "Delete" dialog, and holding down the Alt key doesn't provide any feedback. You just have to know. Now if this was just a shortcut for the "Delete Track" menu entry, that would be fine. But the Mac user interface is full of special cases like this, where Alt-click and Cmd-click do special things. And there's NEVER any indication of it. Anywhere. You just have to memorize this stuff. It makes the options to Berkeley "ls" seem intuitive.
From: Mark Fowler Date: 16:42 on 27 Mar 2007 Subject: Invalid License "You are running OmniGraffle 4 but this is a license for OmniGraffle Professional 4"
From: Smylers Date: 13:51 on 20 Mar 2007 Subject: MySQL Function Naming MySQL has a couple of functions for extracting a substring from a string. They differ in how the substring is selected -- in one of them you specify a delimiter string, and in t'other you specify the index of the first character you want. The one in which you specify an index is called Substring(). The one in which instead of an index you specify a delimiter is called ... wait for it ... Substring_Index(). Wow. Smylers
From: David Cantrell Date: 21:14 on 16 Mar 2007 Subject: An open letter to Applescript Dear Applescript You're a retarded buggy undocumented piece of shit. Please fuck off and die slowly and painfully, impaled on a rusty shit-smeared spike. The same goes for the utter fuckwits who designed you. I hope their families die too so they can't spread whatever defective genes spawned a moron like you. Hugs n Glasgow kisses
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