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From: Simon Wistow Date: 09:46 on 04 May 2005 Subject: mailman's rejection policies I have an announce list, right. And I only ever want a few authorized people to be allowed to post to it. So why do I need to rummage through the grease trap of held posts deleting all of them in turn. I *know* I don't want them. Why can't I just tell you to reject them outright. WHY? Oh, and for that matter - why no "delete all" Oh, and whilst in full flow - you put the headers and body of every message in a form element. And all form elements are in the same form. And the message queue, if we've had a particulalry viscious spam attack, can be over a hundred messages long. Spam and viruses can have rather large message bodies. IT'S NOT A PARTICULARLY HARD STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION TO SEE THAT SUBMITTING THE FULL TEXT OF A HUNDRED VIRUSES AND HTML SPAMS VIA POST IS GOING TO PUT QUITE A LOAD ON THE SERVER. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. Somebody should write a mailing list manager in Perl.
From: Michael Leuchtenburg Date: 03:01 on 04 May 2005 Subject: Gentoo's ufed ufed is a use flag editor for Gentoo. Unfortunately, it's shit. I have a number of things disabled that are, by default, enabled, like samba and arts. When I run ufed to edit my use flag settings, it re-enables them. This means that the next time I build most anything that uses sound, I get ARTS. Which means I get bits of KDE. FUCKING KDE. I DO NOT NEED A DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT TO GO WITH MY MEDIA PLAYER, THANKS VERY MUCH. Maybe I should go back to Debian. At least the hate there is long dried up.
From: Chris Devers
Date: 20:25 on 03 May 2005
Subject: obfuscated opt-out clauses
The MSDN subscription renewal form I was handed yesterday had the
following delightful opt-out clause in the footer:
I do not want Microsoft to send me pertinent security,
product, an event information via:
[ ] work address
[ ] email address
[ ] business phone number
[ ] Microsoft Partners may contact me with information
about their products, services, and events.
No, it's not *technically* software, bu rather a threat about how they
would like to use their software against you if you can't successfully
traverse their mindfield of a mandatory registration form.
And hatefulness? Yes, it has that, in spades.
From: Steve Peters Date: 20:12 on 03 May 2005 Subject: Those bastards! Why does Microsoft insist on being hateful? =20 "What new festing pile of dung do you bring for us?" you ask. Well, let me rant. With Word 2003, the table of contents creation has been moved from its comfortable spot to a new spot that was hidden to me. Hate. Don't fucking move features that users depend on! Isn't that GUI 101? To resolve this momentary hatred, I used the help in Word to find the hidden option I was looking for. The help contained some items near the top of my search that were completely unhelpful, but just a short ways down was an item titled, "Table of Contents I: Create a basic TOC". That looked helpful, so I clicked. Suddenly, Firefox is fired up, and I'm transported to the Microsoft Office 2003 Online Training site. Assholes! The fuckers say all you need is Office 2003 installed, but, strangely enough, none of the icons that look like links work with Firefox. I click through a few links, but they all want to fire up Windows Media Player 7 which (a) I don't want to fucking install, and (b) is blocked by the proxy at work. All this doesn't matter anyways since I don't have a sound card! What if the network is down, or I'm offline compeltely! HATE! Help should not be dependent on network access, but these assholes have fucked that up as well. Yours hatefully, Steve Peters steve.peters@xxxxx.xxx
From: Jan Martin Mathiassen Date: 12:18 on 02 May 2005 Subject: Auto Update Mechanisms I love autoupdate mechanisms. Truly, I do. They're wonderful, as long as they work. They take the load off of me, which means I can scale further. However, this isn't a huggy squeezy mailing list, so let's begin with the hatefulness. It's a proprietary software suite, so I have only one place to go. Great, one place to go for help. Or, so you'd think. That's offset by the fact that they appear to have the shoddiest monitoring system ever devised. I can understand having a few hours downtime during the weekend, because not everyone wants to be on call 24/7 and not have a life of their own. However, when the problems start friday evening/saturday morning, and they aren't fixed when I get to work on monday, things starts to suck. This would be understandable once in a while, because everything can go wrong in all the wrong places at the most inopportune times, but when this has happened 3 weekends in a row, and once or twice during the week as well, that's when my hate starts growing beyond control. So, they've got 2 FTP servers from which the updates are downloaded. Great. Redundancy, right? No, not quite. They use a DNS round robin, so if one of them goes down, we'd go for the other one, right? Oh, but wait, once the built-in dns cilent in windows gets the first IP, it seems to keep that one for god knows how long, so essentially, parts of my platform is suddenly incapable of getting the updates. Yes, yes, it's the client's fault, and it does work better when I turn off DNS Client, but this is something the producers should've taken into account is the default behaviour on windows. It gets better. It will, while the machines are having problems downloading the updates, decide to turn OFF this autoupdate mechanism. Apparently at random, too. So now I have half a platform which can't download their updates because the FTP server they're told to ask doesn't work, and the other half isn't downloading their updates because the entire update mechanism is turned off. What kind of oversized turd thought of THIS nugget of gold? Where the fuck do they think this will ever help? And why the hell doesn't the machines update themselves the instant I then reactivate auto-update? No, just to ADD to this hate, they've apparently decided to require me to log on to EACH AND EVERY goddamned machine and manually press an "update now" button. I am beginning to think a frontal lobotomy would be preferable to working with this stinking pile of shite.
From: Xtina Date: 18:24 on 29 Apr 2005 Subject: Outlook hatred. Of course it's been hated on before. I just figured I'd share some loud ranting for your entertainment. $$ *stabs myself in the eyes with the jagged shards of the Microsoft Office install CD* *tracks down the developers* *slaughters them with my bloody eye-goop CD weapons of doom* *rocks back and forth in a padded cell* ... At least THEN, THEN, I would NEVER have to use OUTLOOK again. EVER EVER EV= ER. Like, la la la, it's pretty and shiny and not bad when compared to *ponies*, but what say we use a *god*damn program that has *as its own fucking defaults* the simplest view possible, rather than the shiniest and absolutely most cluttered? Or perhaps use something that doesn't have fifteen different places at *least* to set various kinds of options? Sweet mary mother of claus!! Why is it necessary to hate email programs? Why? Is it so impossible to create something that does mail/calendars/your taxes without making it the clunkiest thing on the face of the earth?? *corrodes laptop with dripping viscous hatred* $$ After this, it was determined that the answer is "Yes". -x
From: Michael G Schwern Date: 00:31 on 29 Apr 2005 Subject: Utilities vs Applications Apple wisely placed all applications into a simple, flat /Applications directory as opposed to scattering them all over the filesystem or creating some sort of hierarchy. This is good. Now I can find shit. So I get on a Mac and I look in Applications for X11... its not there. Terminal? Not there. Digital Color Meter? Not there. Grab? NetInfo? ColorSync? Console? Not bloody there! OOhhhhhhh, they're cleverly hidden in /Applications/Utilities. What's a utility? What's the difference between an application and a utility? How do I decide which is which? Why is a program to take a screenshot (Grab) a utility and one to decompress a file (Stuffit Expander) an application? iSync is an application but RsyncX is a utility. How is a user supposed to know the difference? Why even have this artificial split? About the only distinction I can see is Apple put things into Utilities it would rather its dumb users not stumble onto such as the Terminal or X11 or the Disk Utility lest they shoot themselves in the foot and generate money wasting support calls. Ok, maybe I can see that... but Grab? Just how much trouble can you get into making screenshots? Unix does this, too, with the whole bin vs sbin thing. traceroute and ifconfig being the two I'm always losing. As always... hate.
From: Yoz Grahame Date: 15:25 on 27 Apr 2005 Subject: back to easier targets ... namely RealPlayer 10 on Windows. In the "Open" dialog, try giving it a URL pointing at a standard Real .rpm = file. Had you been ludicrously over-optimistic, you'd have thought that RealPlayer would grab the file, read the RTSP URL inside it and then play from that. What it will actually do is suddenly widen the window to accomodate its internal Internet Explorer browser control, which it then uses to grab the .rpm file, which it doesn't know what to do with, so it asks me if I want to save it. This is incompetence bordering on genius, and all I can do is sit quietly in awe. -- Yoz
From: Leon Brocard Date: 09:51 on 27 Apr 2005 Subject: Enlightenment Nono, it's not that I'm against transformation into greater wisdom. I'm against the Enlightenment Window Manager and all its libraries. This simple picture should explain all: http://www.enlightenment.org/data/images/upload/efl.png I hate the bad naming. I hate the billions of lines between these software libraries and all their bugs. Oh fine, I mostly hate the ones in Imlib2. It's an image library, it shouldn't have line- or polygon- drawing bugs. This is the future, dammit, we know how to fill polygons. Also this IRC exchange, although this might be more hates-people material: 09:32 <@acme> enlightenment-- # reinventing every wheel and still not releasing 09:33 <@muttley> acme: oh, they release 09:33 <@muttley> you just have to get it from CVS HATE, Leon
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