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From: Simon Wistow Date: 16:34 on 28 Oct 2005 Subject: kcalc I'm not sure where the retardedness of this lies but, you know what, I'm going to blame kcalc and the cascade of attention deficit disorder teenagers who wrote it. I type kcalc at the command line, I expect a calculator. I'm pretty sure that with Tk, Fltk, Vb, Delphi, MSVS, Xcode or a host of other tools, I could knock up a simple calculator app in about 30 minutes. It would be lean, clean and simple. It would fire up in a couple of milliseconds, calculate things and then close. As a potential calculee with a thrist for multiplying and dividing I need no other functionality or information. Put numbers in. Get numbers out. So why the fuck does kcalc feel the need to tell me all this crap when it starts up? Hmm? Does that aid my calculation? Does it sooth my mathematically furrowed brow? No? Fucking linux retards. Creating link /usr/people/simon-wi/.kde3/socket-guinea.mpc.local. Created link from "/usr/people/simon-wi/.kde3/socket-guinea.mpc.local" to "/tmp/ksocket-simon-wi" Creating link /usr/people/simon-wi/.kde3/tmp-guinea.mpc.local. Created link from "/usr/people/simon-wi/.kde3/tmp-guinea.mpc.local" to "/tmp/kde-simon-wi" kbuildsycoca running... Id 'kde2.2/b1' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3.1/cvs' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3.0' was already in done-list! Id 'kde-3.1-toolbar' was already in done-list! Id 'kde2.2/r1' was already in done-list! Id 'kde2.2/r2' was already in done-list! Id 'kde2.2/r3' was already in done-list! Id 'kde2.2' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3.1/r3' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3' was already in done-list! Id 'kde_3_1_sizeChanges' was already in done-list! Id '25082001' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3.1' was already in done-list! Id '04112002' was already in done-list! Id 'kde2.2/r1' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3.0/r1' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3.0r1' was already in done-list! Id 'kde3.0/r1' was already in done-list! Id 'noatun20' was already in done-list! Id '1' was already in done-list! Id '4' was already in done-list! Id '5' was already in done-list! Id '6' was already in done-list! Id '7' was already in done-list! Id '8' was already in done-list! Id '9' was already in done-list! Id '3.1-update-identities' was already in done-list! Id '3.1-use-identity-uoids' was already in done-list! Id '3.1-new-mail-notification' was already in done-list! Id '3.1.4-dont-use-UOID-0-for-any-identity' was already in done-list! Id 'KNewsTicker-0.2' was already in done-list! Id 'KNewsTicker-0.2-Rename-KDE3' was already in done-list! Id 'KNewsTicker-0.2-Rename-KDE3.1' was already in done-list! Id 'preKDE3_a' was already in done-list! Id '3.1-1' was already in done-list!
From: Earle Martin Date: 18:54 on 19 Oct 2005 Subject: Abacast Streaming Media Click on a link to hear radio. Popup: "Abacast streaming media software currenly [sic] only supports the Windows Operating System. To manually connect to the stream, open http://www.abacast.com/media/pls/filmmusic/filmmusic-bb-64.pls with your favourite asx file interpreter." Points: 1) It's not ASX, it's AN MP3 STREAM. So you've got off to a really bad start here. 2) Stop trying to be fucking smart. You're actually being a moron. Let the user's browser deal with whether they have the right helper app or not. 3) You're asking me to copy and paste FROM A DIALOG BOX. HELLO? THAT TEXT IS NOT FUCKING SELECTABLE. Or perhaps you just expect me to painstakingly transcribe it, letter by letter? "Demand Abacast Technology from Your Service Provider!" Um, no, I'll pick software that isn't retarded, thanks.
From: David Cantrell
Date: 15:06 on 18 Oct 2005
Subject: stupid dependencies
For reasons I'm not going to go in to, I need to install some of that
trendy "Instant Messageing" software, specifically gaim. There is a
Debian package of it. So I apt-get install gaim:
$ sudo apt-get install gaim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gaim-data gcc-4.0-base libao2 libaspell15 libaspell15c2 libglib2.0-0
^^^^^^^^^^^^
libglib2.0-dev libgtkspell0 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
libpango1.0-dev libstartup-notification0 libstdc++6 libxss1
WTF, over?
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 19:59 on 17 Oct 2005 Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks) > It was unclear whether you were calling the inclusion of extra > characters idiotic, or the invention of incompatible charsets in > order to express them. Both. > The former is, but before Unicode, inventing new 8-bit charsets > that were ASCII + a bunch of whatever characters were considered > necessary was something everyone did. No, it wasn't something everyone did. It was something idiots did. The right thing to do is to use © or \(co or equivalent internally and in transmission and storage formats, and deal with the mechanism for displaying either of those as a copyright symbol to the presentation level. So the file contains \''quoted text\" or &lquo;quoted text&rquo; and the user sees his curly quotes if his display and software is capable of presenting it that way. And (as I already noted) it can do the same thing with straight quotes when it believes it's appropriate. Yes, it may be mistaken. But. Since it's already doing it when it isn't appropriate and burning those mistakes in the file itself, that's definitely a lesser evil.
From: Luke Kanies Date: 23:22 on 12 Oct 2005 Subject: Blogging sucks How is it that people can be so geeky and so geek-illiterate at the same time? Who the hell writes HTML any more? Don't we have, like, 100 simple markup languages that make it 10x easier and better? Really. I've been writing a software product (deserving of much hate, I am sure) recently, and have had little luck finding people with whom to discuss the trials and trevails of this process. So, I decided to begin recording the conversations I have with myself, at the least so that I have them to look back over, and maybe even to draw some more interest onto the software. Unfortunately, blog software seems to largely suck. (I know, I hear you gasping with surprise -- who knew?) First, it seems to be a pretty simple setup -- I write something, it gets put online. Ok, there are some other features -- comments (can get quite complicated), categories, pinging (don't ask), and tags. Ok, I understand. But what's the most important thing, the one thing you figure they'd get right? That's right, text editing. I write a lot of code snippets in my entries (because, you know, I'm writing code and developing a language) and I can't seem to get code snippets to show up well at all. Really. They look like crap, in addition to looking nothing like what I want. There's lots of hate here, and my options appear to be 1) don't blog, 2) do the writing but do it in a vacuum with no connectedness to the rest of the blog world, 3) use shitty software, 4) host something myself and hack it till it works. All of these suck. I understand the blog software is written for people who want to post pictures, not code snippets, and want to write using WYSIWYG not Vim, but please, this isn't that hard.
From: Aaron J. Grier Date: 00:22 on 08 Oct 2005 Subject: broken MTAs the head of marketing (my mother-in-law, unfortunately,) decided to send a newsletter to a few dozen of our international distributors. fine. not a big deal. they actually expect this, are opt-in, and that situation alone is all copacetic. my mother-in-law is (still) not terribly computer-savvy, and put ~80 recipients directly in the To: line. this leaks unnecessary information, but other than being an annoyance is not normally a technical problem. unfortunately one of the recipient's email handlers in sweden apparently has a buffer overflow problem and for whatever reason has decided that it needs to resend this newsletter to all ~80 recipients, I assume since they're on the To: line. it seems to die somewhere in the process, and at last count some recipients had received 20 copies of the newsletter, which included a 88K pdf attachment. this busted swedish mailer is also preserving the original envelope sender, meaning that secondary failures are also being bounced back. hate hate hate.
From: Aaron J. Grier Date: 07:00 on 30 Sep 2005 Subject: automatic bug reporting I don't run thunderbird. but a friend of mine does. thunderbird is crashing during exit, which throws up a dialogue box which must be attended to. "do you really want to exit?"
From: Earle Martin Date: 00:01 on 30 Sep 2005 Subject: du I'd like to see how big all the files/directories starting with a '.' in my home directory are, please. earle@pulsar:~$ du -h \.* 4.0K ./Mail 12K ./.ssh 104K ./photos/test ... Whoa, hold on, "Mail" doesn't begin with a dot. Stop that. Okay, try again. Maybe I need to quote the dot, or something. earle@pulsar:~$ du -h '.'* 4.0K ./Mail 12K ./.ssh 104K ./photos/test ... Okay, that's not it. What does a simple listing do? earle@pulsar:~$ du -h 4.0K ./Mail 12K ./.ssh 1.3M ./photos/test 19M ./photos 12K ./.mozilla/firefox/nx0jka40.slt/chrome ... Well, that's matching... something. I don't understand the sorting order. Out of curiosity, let's see what happens if we throw in a wildcard. earle@pulsar:~$ du -h * 8.0K Calendar 2.5M Desktop 1.6M Incomplete 4.0K Mail 36K accounts ... What the hell? Asterisk isn't matching '.'? Gah. I don't care any more.
From: Luke Kanies Date: 06:50 on 27 Sep 2005 Subject: Debian bugs So, I'm currently being stupid enough to try to write a cross-platform automation tool, which involves managing services, which involves init scripts. And, of course, one of the services I'm managing is Apache 2, and I'm running that on Debian. So, I write my tool to use Apache's init script's restart function. Hmm, that can't be right, I call the init script with 'restart' and it prints the usage message but exits with a zero return code. Well, sure enough, it's not "right", but that's what's happening -- the init script doesn't support 'restart', yet exits with 0 after printing the usage message. Ah, I think, Apache expects me to use apache2ctl, so I try that. Well, I don't have the status.cgi set up, so I get a 404. Except that apache2ctl also exits with a zero code on a 404! Okay, this sucks. Time to submit a bug. Go to bugs.debian.org, search for 'apache2 init'. Okay, even though debian doesn't allow spaces in package names, it thinks I'm looking for a package with that name; that's stupid. So, I delete the 'init' and look again; nope, no package of that name, either. A little verification with apt-cache, and yeah, the name is definitely 'apache2'. Ah! Stupid little web page, you searched for 'apache2 ', didn't you? Delete the space, search, there it is. Of course, the stupid site has no way to just search for keywords -- it's certainly much easier to make the humans do the work, we wouldn't want to make our computers break a sweat. Grr.
From: Struan Donald Date: 13:27 on 22 Sep 2005 Subject: Firefox 1.5 copy When I copy text I want to copy the text. It's simple. But not in firefox, oh no. If I select text that's also a link then it copies some sort of bizarre windowsy link object, becuase that's obviously what I wanted. And then to add more hate when I paste this into a plain text message in Outlook it turns the link into an attachment. Genius! Struan
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