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From: Earle Martin Date: 17:59 on 20 Jul 2004 Subject: Firefox: Tools->Options? Or Edit->Preferences? Place your bets now! Want to change your browser settings? I hope you've read the GNOME human interface guidelines, no, wait, I mean the KDE guidelines, no, Windows, no, MacOS X... http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=245765 Yes, I just upgraded to Firefox 0.91, and was surprised to find that Tools->Options no longer exists. Heaven help those people who might want to write help text about changing browser settings and want to cater to Firefox users. Argh. Hate.
From: Simon Wistow Date: 15:41 on 20 Jul 2004 Subject: phoenix I just realised that I've got into the habit of hitting ctrl-t to get a new tab every time I want to go to a new URL. And I was doing ti subconciously. Why? Because if I accidentally hit Ctrl-W to close a tab and it happens to be the last tab (or last window) open then it shuts down the program. Well *obviously* that's the correct thing to do. Fucking morons.
From: Leon Brocard Date: 17:34 on 19 Jul 2004 Subject: My files! I hate software lock-in. So I have a computer. This computer has my files on. I'm happy with my files for they are on a file system where multiple programs can act upon them. That way if I change a file, say, or delete it, then it's deleted. That's it. VOOM. etc. So I try Eclipse [which is an IDE apparently], and lo and behold it "import files" somewhere else and wants to be the only program in charge of holding a copy of them somewhere. Why oh why? I mean, I know some iApps do this but this is a source file which I might want to edit / move / run in something other than Eclipse dammit. They're my files. Don't steal them! Leon
From: David Cantrell Date: 11:46 on 09 Jul 2004 Subject: Fancy coffee machines Here at $new_work we have a very fancy drinks machine. Unfortunately it's so fancy that it gets in the way of my coffee fix. Normally, a drinks machine would have a list of all the possible drinks on the front, with two digit codes. Hit two digits and get a coffee. This one, however, has menus of options. I have to hit 6 for "speciality coffees" then get another menu. Hit 6 again for "espresso"*. Then 2 for "double espresso". Then 1 for "no sugar". At this point there are no further options, but I still have to hit "start" for it to spit out my drink. Five button presses instead of two. Sometimes, I'll hit 6 ... 6 ... 2 ... 1 only to be told that it's run out of cups. Grrr. Even all of that I could live with, cos I'm sure the menus won't change that often and I can remember 6621start easily. But I have to pause between button presses for the menu to re-draw, and it re-draws SLOWLY. The fancy graphics-capable display appears to build up each character a pixel at a time, and the list of pixels to light up feels like it's being sent over a piece of damp string. I bet it's just a serial port running at 4800 baud at the most. So here we have bad interface design (menus, ugh); bad software (only telling me at the end that it can't dispense my drink, and not listening to the keypad when redrawing); bad hardware; AND it makes crap coffee. Truly this is hateful. * - never mind that these bear no resemblance to espresso, it's the caffeine that counts
From: Mark Fowler Date: 11:00 on 06 Jul 2004 Subject: Return of the Lozenge Remember http://trelane.hates-software.com/2004/04/23/a13b7744.html ? Remember when I said the lozenge was a bad idea. I found something worse: Not having one. Having been forced into accepting the worst GUI design in the world, I've at least learnt the convention and can actually deal with it. Which is why I was so surprised to find that when I recently started to use Safari - one of Apple's own applications, nay not a little app but a flagship application that ships with the OS itself - that it doesn't have a lozenge. Oh no, you now turn the toolbars and off from the menubar. Hello? Nice standard Apple. So I was wrong, there is something worse that bad GUI design. It's inconstant GUI design. Bah.
From: Nicholas Clark Date: 18:06 on 30 Jun 2004 Subject: format fucked I hates format fucked. Which claims it merely "flows" messages to make them look nice, and claims that it can be undone 100% by the recipient. But there is hateful culpable stupidity here. Examine the RFC closely: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2646.html Section 4.4 - space stuffing "Other lines MAY be space-stuffed as desired" by the sender's MUA Or may not. So if my MUA receives a format fucked message, and the line starts with a space, how does it know if that space was part of the original (pre fucking) message, or a space stuffed buy the format fucker? IT CAN'T. So it has to strip it, on the assumption that it's a stuffing space. This isn't 100% reversibility. And so the grand tradition of inlining source code patches in plain text goes out of the window. I think someone had stuffing between their ears when they wrote this RFC. The flowwit. I hates all the mal user agents that uses this. Nicholas Clark
From: Luke A. Kanies Date: 22:10 on 25 Jun 2004 Subject: Small konqueror hate Okay, I'm using a web browser. Can anyone guess what I want to load first? That's right, text. So why does konqueror load the text _last_ instead of first? Huh?
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 13:29 on 10 Jun 2004 Subject: Optimizing System Performance Optimizing System Performance. Optimization 25% completed. Time Remaining: less than a minute. LIKE HELL You know, they already have code in there that goes "install X% complete, taken Y minutes so far, must be (100-X)/Y*100 minutes remaining". If they just reset X and Y when they hit "Optimizing System Performance" so it didn't sit there on "less than a minute" for ten minutes...
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 11:52 on 10 Jun 2004 Subject: Auto-reply software I hate auto-reply software with senseless defaults which is then used by people without a clue. Today I'm getting mails from the vacation program of someone I don't know. People who are sending something to a mailinglist generally don't care if someone else on the list whom they they have never spoken to is on vacation. Vacation programs should not reply to mailinglist traffic. Vacation programs should also keep some kind of log of people who have been notified about this vacation. A reply once every 24-hours or so per person is quite enough; I don't need a reply for every single email. I also got mail from a spam-blocking program that expects me to verify the letter before the address can be approved. Do your own whitelist work--the letter was sent by an automated script in response to the user making a request in a webform. Let's see...how difficult would it be for the spamer to parse this message and automate the correct response? I think I could do it in 15 minutes. On the other hand, why am I going to bother to do this so that someone can receive information he or she request? I guess it's a spam filter in the sense that it collects the spam for you, and gives it to you without the distractions of real mail. Then there was one of those mails informing me that I have sent a virus. This is some of the worst spam, because the anti-virus companies are just trying to tell you how great their software is. They know as well as I do that the email address is spoofed. Horrible applications, horrible default configurations, horrible people using them.
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 07:39 on 04 Jun 2004 Subject: Mozilla and JavaScript Following my last complaint about Mozilla, I did install Firefox, but I was using Mozilla for the following story: Today I had opened a tab to a site that annoys me because it uses JavaScript to make the prompt jump to the login field like a hyperactive puppy, meaning that I often end up typing my password in the login field because the page hasn't finished wiggling. I expect this now, and just let it sit for a while before trying to use it. I opened another tab and was typing in a URL. For some reason the URL wasn't appearing; I assumed the browser was occupied with the other tab, as Mozilla sometimes has difficulty with multiple active tabs. I kept typing, and hit enter...and noticed the title of the annoying site change to the 'wrong password' page. The first tab's JavaScript had managed to claim focus from the URI bar of the second tab, and my URL had been entered as the login name. This really makes me wonder exactly how much power JavaScript has to affect the other tabs. It reminds me why I usually keep JavaScript off, too. Evil and wrong.
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