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From: Earle Martin Date: 11:51 on 19 Dec 2004 Subject: Backspace meaning "go back" in browsers What fucktard decided that hitting "backspace" should cause your browser to go back a page? There are ALREADY NAVIGATION SHORTCUTS. (In my case [Firefox], Alt-Left Arrow means "go back".) The only time that I ever use the backspace key like that is in error. There are lots of different kinds of mistaken ways to hit it, too, like typing in a text field and accidentally changing the focus to the rest of the page or just pressing it by error because on my keyboard it's RIGHT NEXT TO THE FUCKING PAGE DOWN BUTTON. Gah.
From: Michael G Schwern Date: 20:56 on 14 Dec 2004 Subject: Apple X11 copy Its simple. I highlight something in an X window. I hit Cmd-c to copy it. I go to a native Apple application. I hit Cmd-v to paste. Nothing. Or maybe its something I copied a few minutes ago. So I do it again. Copy. Paste. Nothing. Copy. Paste. Nothing. Copy Paste Nothing. Copy Paste Nothing. Copy Copy Copy Copy Copy Paste Nothing. Copy Copy Paste AHHH! It FINALLY FUCKING WORKED! Sometimes it seems to work if I first cut something in a native buffer, like there's some sort of corruption in the clipboard and it has to be cleared. The only thing that works consistently is pasting into XEmacs and using its explicit Edit->Copy menu command. Its CUT AND PASTE! How hard can it be, Apple?!
From: Paul Mison Date: 10:44 on 03 Dec 2004 Subject: Apple Mail view options (or lack of) In iTunes and the Finder, you can determine which columns are being viewed by going to Edit > View Options (command J) and clicking the little boxes in the resulting View Options menu. In iTunes, you can also get at this via a context-click. (You can't in the Finder, but I don't mind that too much. I suppose other people hate it.) In Apple Mail, there is no view options setting. No. In Mail, you go the Columns submenu of the View menu, and you check options there. Of course, once you've toggled one column, if you want to toggle another, that's another trip back to the the top level menu, then through the submenu. There's the same rigmarole with a context-click, but at least it saves a bit of mouse movement. Not enough, mind you. Not nearly enough. I wouldn't mind so much, but occasionally the blasted thing goes batshit and forgets where I've put windows, and which columns I'm showing (no, I don't give a shit if a "buddy" is "available" in iChat, thank you). Cue fifteen minutes of messing with the view options. Such as they are. Bonus rant: Apple Mail's nasty habit of showing 'relative dates'. Bonus bonus rant: apps that don't use the time format from System Preferences > International. No, I don't like seeing things like 12/03/2004 10:33am, you hateful arse. Say hello, Panic's Unison. While I'm in a good muttering mood, a mail application that put iTunes-esque arrows in the mailbox window would be nice. Want to see all emails with the subject "V1@GR4"? Just click here! Everything you've ever sent to bob@xxxxx.xxx? One click away. It'll never happen, I tell you. Too damned useful.
From: David Cantrell Date: 10:24 on 26 Nov 2004 Subject: Coffee machines I have Hated the coffee machine we have at work in this august forum before. But now I have new Hate for it. Last night, some of the menus on it changed for no good reason, so until I memorise the new layout I'll have to read the menus. Bad user interface design. However, a far worse sin is that it now has several "coffee's". I declare apostrophic jihad.
From: Leon Brocard Date: 12:04 on 22 Nov 2004 Subject: All of it This rant is pretty simple: I hate all software. I've just had it. I don't understand why people write or use software. I don't understand why companies use software or employ people to use software. I'm too frustrated. People keep on writing the same shoddy software which does the same thing as all the other wheels only still crashes and corrupts data and is 100k lines big and is hard to install and sucks up stupid amounts of memory and doesn't actually do what you want and just basically all sucks. I used to like software. It did useful things for me. However, what was really happening was that my frustration threshold was set too high because I was a fool. My threshold is now much much lower. And with any luck I won't interact with much software while I'm diving (which is mostly what I'll be doing now that I've quit my software job), other than my dive computer, which has a sucky interface but at least it tells me how deep I am and how long I should stay there. If a piece of software crashes, we should execute the entire software development and management team. This will lead to less software, and hopefully some of it might actually not crash. And don't get me started about hardware... Leon
From: Nicholas Clark Date: 18:08 on 18 Nov 2004 Subject: Eudora X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed So what's all this character 128 crap? Buggy deceitful pile of shit. Nicholas Clark
From: Tannie Date: 15:16 on 12 Nov 2004 Subject: adobe illustrator So, I decided to try out Adobe Illustrator. I downloaded the demo at work and installed. Went fine, no hate there. Downloaded the same demo at home and installed. Doubleclicked and that's when the horror started. It refused to start. It went up to initializing the plugins and to the menu fonts and then I got this message it couldn't start cause damaged and please reinstall. I did. about 8x so far. Even on my external firewire disk. I got the installerfile from work and used that, thinking it was a damaged installer. Didn't help. I deleted everything I could find related to the program (prefs, files etc etc) and reinstalled. Didn't help. I moved my fonts and rebooted. Didn't help. It drives me insane cause why the hell would I buy this program now if the demo doesn't even work. pff -- Tanja ... To err is human, to moo bovine
From: Geoff Richards Date: 14:45 on 10 Nov 2004 Subject: email fuckage When a mail program quotes a message in a reply you might prefer it to use lots of pointies down the side, or to plonk it verbatim at the bottom. Maybe there are other designs that make sense too, but here's a method that has never occurred to me before: put the name and email address of the original's sender inside a big pile of misformatted ASCII-art boxes, followed by something similar to the content of the original message, except with a few null characters sprinkled in for good measure. Genius. The culprit looks to be one of these: X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.10 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router This wouldn't actually cause me a big problem, but our salesman couldn't open the message in Outlook, and our administrator couldn't edit the text in Gedit (it can't figure out what character encoding it's in, so it daren't let the user see it, in case it fries their brain Snow Crash stylee). Bloody email, hardly worth the trouble any more.
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