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From: Daniel Pittman
Date: 04:11 on 19 Aug 2004
Subject: The Cobalt RaQ 550
I *HATE* the Cobalt RaQ 550 OS.
I have a client who hosts users on RaQ 550 based systems.
This is a world of pain. In large part, this is because every time they
screw up again I keep thinking "standard Linux system - months of
uptime".
Really, a hosting platform that cannot consistently manage more than a
few days of uptime before it reboots, usually without any help from
anyone, is an insane proposition.
I also hate the fact that they store all the core information in a
stupid proprietary database.
One that got corrupted on one of the servers.
In fact, one that hosts around 150 sites.
One which is a world of pain to try and migrate things away from
because, you guessed it, the core database is corrupted.
So now I get to try a next to bare metal recovery on a host that has no
sane way to achieve this.
*argh*
None of this even touches on the hate that you get when the thing is
actually working correctly either.
Daniel
From: Michael Leuchtenburg Date: 22:52 on 18 Aug 2004 Subject: gdb quit command So here I am, happily debugging along, when I decide that I want to stop running gdb for now. Knowing that gdb doesn't respond to Control-C, I type "quit" to quit: (gdb) quit A debugging session is active. Do you still want to close the debugger?(y or n) y Cannot find thread 1024: generic error (gdb) I guess gdb doesn't *want* me to leave. So, since I can't exit with the debugger session still running, I try to kill the program: (gdb) kill Kill the program being debugged? (y or n) y Cannot find thread 1024: generic error (gdb) Figuring that I've accidentally selected a non-existent thread, I try to list the available threads to switch to one that does exist so that I can finally kill it: (gdb) info threads Cannot find new threads: generic error (gdb) I hate you too, gdb. -- lucky
From: Tannie Date: 14:05 on 05 Aug 2004 Subject: installers I install programs. I think most users do. Lately I've started hating installer programs. The kind that pops up and says "Program installed!" without telling you where it was installed (or what). The kind that pops up, asks you where to install and then installs somewhere else. The kind that installs and all works well untill you want to remove the program so you run the installer again, expecting an uninstall option in there, but no! You are not allowed to un-install! You must run this program even if it messes up your Mail.app! What's even more hateful is that the documentation and/or manual don't tell you either. Bah! Every installer should have a un-installer! It is very hateful to be digging through many many files to find the ones the program created. Grr. -- Tanja ... Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
From: Yoz Grahame Date: 12:40 on 05 Aug 2004 Subject: Windows Task Manager "hidden feature" Colleague of mine just turned his monitor my way: "Look! Task Manager's gone funny again!" The window border (along with resizers, corner buttons, title bar) had completely disappeared, as had the menu bar, the "Applications/Processes..." tab bar, the status bar at the bottom... all that was left was a floating grey panel with a processes list and the "End Process" button at the bottom. In order to get rid of the window, he had to kill the process. Turns out (as the MS KB article below casually states) that on the lower left side of the panel, in between the main process/apps list and the status bar, there's an *invisible toggle* which you can double-click to switch this, um, feature on and off. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q314227 Fantastic work, Windows Team! -- Yoz
From: Tannie Date: 17:24 on 02 Aug 2004 Subject: adobe reader for Palm OS I got bored on the train home from work (and to work, but that's in the morning, so I'm still half asleep) and decided to read books. I don't really want to drag books with me (I'm dragging so much with me already) so I decided to use my darling Palm Tungsten T for it. It can read PDF's with Adobe Reader (and some other formats with some other funky programs) so it seemed the ideal way to carry several books with me in case I suddenly was in the mood for something else. The hate started soon.... I downloaded the required file from the Adobe website and unpacked it. It contained a mac-program and a palm-program. I had no problem installing the palm-program, I just drag and drop it into my Hotsync manager and synced. Step 1 completed! I then double-clicked the other program, expecting an installer but no! It was the desktop program! Hello? Where's the install thingy that installs my conduit so my palm can actually sync with the desktopprogram? I did some searching and turns out the desktop program contained the conduit! Which is very hateful, cause that way i have no control over it whatsoever. Whoever made that up should be fired. I wasn't in a hateful mood yet, so when the program told me to press the Hotsync button so it could check my palm I did it, fully expecting the program to check my palm and figure out what it could do with it. But no! *Nothing* happened (well, regular sync, but that wasn't what I wanted) I tried again a couple of times. *n-o-t-h-i-n-g* Since I couldn't find a conduit, the hotsync log didn't contain a conduit error-message. The hate started to grow. I disabled all hacks on my palm, thinking that may be the problem (hateful on it's own). But no! It still didn't work! And still no errorlog. I got angry and yelled at my palm to do the damn sync, but my poor palm was completely innocent and did it's best (I have yet to make up to it). I did some more googling and finally found a comment on versiontracker that said I had to rightclick the desktop program, click show package contents and somewhere in there was the conduit, hidden. What? Manual install of the conduit? Why was this not in the user guide?! I dragged it to my conduits folder of my palm application support folder and the hate grew and grew. I had to authenticate! What? Hello?! I'm logged in! As me! Hating everything I typed in my password and the conduit appeared in my Hotsyncmanager. Thinking I finally beat the desktop program I told it to convert a few books, which took nearly an hour and resulted in around 2mb of files (and the hate grew more!) By the time I could finally sync my palm the Hate was very big. It synced happily (good palm). And then came the error of the conduit "Not enough space on the receiving device, please check your memory card, it may be full" WTH? It had almost 3mb free! I triple-checked _before_ syncing! AAARGH! HATE! I checked again, it showed a little over 2mb free. It had installed one of the files, but there were a few more, and room enough for it. I pressed hotsync again. The next file was transfered, and again I got the error about not enough memory. AAAAAAAAAAA! And again hotsync, again next file transfered, again error (repeat until all files done). Have all files on Palm now, lots of Hate-Hate-Hate. Stupid Adobe Reader! It should just work! Grrrr! Hateful, very Hateful! -- Tanja ... I love cats... Dead ones.
From: Mark Fowler Date: 23:01 on 29 Jul 2004 Subject: Mac OS X Command-Tab switching Okay, which idiot decided that moving a mouse over an icon was a significant act? I often find myself moving the pointer to where I expect a window to appear as I command-tab between applications. Of course, if you run over the icon for any application then guess what the switcher does? It moves the focus to that application, meaning I get totally the wrong application popping up. If I click on it, it means I want it to have focus. If I move over it, it means *nothing*. Moving the mouse with no buttons pressed shouldn't do anything. STUPID STUPID STUPID. Hate and more hate. Mark. P.S. Lightswitch X got this right. (But I don't have it installed everywhere for the reasons explained in why I hate software that you have to enter licence codes for rant)
From: Alexandre Hauser Date: 23:22 on 27 Jul 2004 Subject: Outlook 2003 Outlook 2003 has this nice little feature: Imagine you receive an executable attachement, you know what it is because you asked your coworker to send it to you. Well it just blocks it "to prevent potential damages..." ! Sure don't even put an option in the menus to disable it, that would be soooooooo dangerous... Everybody knows email's attachement are the weakiest point to get in a computer!!! We better not talk about Blaster&Co, I guess Outlook would start blocking *ALL* connections to my computer... :( Lowi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
From: Abigail Date: 21:33 on 27 Jul 2004 Subject: mkdir mkdir has a -p option, to make it create any necessary parent directory. Cool. mkdir has a -m option, to set the mode of the newly created directory. Cool. But "mkdir -m <mode> -p <dir>" only sets the mode of the final directory - not of any created parent directory. Hate, hate, hate. Abigail
From: Juerd Date: 08:16 on 22 Jul 2004 Subject: Open/save dialogs that do not start in ~ My home directory has everything. I have my own structure within my home directory, but it'd be great if things would just start their open/save dialogs right there. Certainly not in /, or a hidden directory anywhere. OpenOffice.org is now sane enough to respect the mighty ~, but still too many programs don't seem to understand how most people work. For instance, xmms defaults to /. Perhaps they assume that everyone who has music, is a home user who has an mp3 disk mounted somewhere; I don't know why they do this. Juerd
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