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From: Phil!Gregory Date: 22:14 on 09 Jan 2004 Subject: Brain-Dead Security Network device. Uses SNMPv1 (which we'll accept for the moment; that would be a different hate). Has separate get and set community names; let's say they're "public" and "private". $ snmpget -v1 -c public <device> <MIB>::writeCommunity.0 <MIB>::writeCommunity.0 = STRING: "private" This has apparently been fixed in a later firmware revision, but this particular device is already at it's highest possible firmware revision. Whee. This has been a low-effort hate. Enjoy your day.
From: David Cantrell Date: 11:38 on 09 Jan 2004 Subject: XML makes me angry Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a specification called XML, which was mostly based on SGML, and it was good. Documents in the format specified were easy to read. But nowadays whenever anyone mentions XML they don't mean that. They mean what came next. You see, the crack-monkeys were set loose. XML wasn't complicated enough, so they added namespaces, and schemas, and XSLT (which has to be one of the stupidest ideas of all time, a programming language with even more brackets than lisp, even less maintainable than the worst perl, and with even more mutually incompatible bug-ridden implementations than java) and a thousand other Xrandomletters and so forth. Now, I hear that schemas are being deprecated in favour of some new and exciting way of making my brane hurt. Please dear god give me back my DTDs! But this is hates-software, not hates-idiots-on-standards-committees. I hate XML software because it is either simple to use and understand but barfs on any document which attempts to conform to the current specs (that is, almost any document); or is bloated, bug-ridden, poorly documented and has a zillion dependencies all of which are themselves hateful.
From: Nicholas Clark Date: 13:52 on 07 Jan 2004 Subject: perforce on Macs I'm not even using a Mac. But I'm being adversely affected by perforce running on a Mac: nwc@faith perl$ ll t/op/glob.t -r-xr-xr-x 1 nwc users 2209 Jun 9 2006 t/op/glob.t nwc@faith perl$ rm t/op/glob.t rm: remove write-protected regular file `t/op/glob.t'? y nwc@faith perl$ p4 sync -f t/op/glob.t //depot/perl/t/op/glob.t#22 - refreshing /home/nwc/p4perl/perl/t/op/glob.t nwc@faith perl$ ll t/op/glob.t -r-xr-xr-x 1 nwc users 2209 Jun 9 2006 t/op/glob.t The bloody thing comes back with the wrong timestamp. It seems to be four years out. This would be consistent with doing calculations using an epoch of 1904, when the local timestamps are actually using an epoch of 1900. Grrr. Whatever. It caused me pain and wasted my time. Nicholas Clark
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 00:04 on 05 Jan 2004 Subject: Panther. Again. AUGH. They replaced the perfectly good "nvi" in Jaguar with one of those inadequate and incomplete clones (to be precise, "vim"). This is intolerable. (no, I'm not going to try and quantify exactly why vim sucks, suffice it to say that I've been using "vi" longer than the Macintosh has existed, and vim breaks my finger macros)
From: Michael G Schwern Date: 01:28 on 03 Jan 2004 Subject: OS X Finder In the OS 9 Finder one could quickly navigate to a folder in an open window by typing the first few letters of it and then correcting with the arrow keys. If you wanted to drill down into it, either cmd-o or cmd-downarrow, but this opened a new window. No problem, hold down shift to avoid this. cmd-uparrow to move up a folder. This made navigating a directory tree nearly as fast as a command line. Enter the OS X Finder. Everything works the same, but they changed the default. Now the default is to open a folder in the same window. Great! Except that they took away a hotkey to open in a seperate window. shift-cmd-downarrow still opens in the same window. shift-cmd-o opens in a different window but using this rediculously slow zoom animation that I can't figure how to turn off. cmd-doubleclick will do what I want, but that means I have to use the mouse. Three ways to open a folder, three different behaviors. Argh.
From: David Cantrell Date: 16:14 on 29 Dec 2003 Subject: Hateful mail software I don't know what OFCOM are using - probably some home-brew rubbish - but it appears to not do confirmed opt-in. Grrr. http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/subscribe/numbering.htm And I hate Thunderbird. First time I tried to send this, it auto-completed "hates-" to "hates-software-sub@..." and I didn't notice.
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 14:05 on 24 Dec 2003 Subject: Lastminute.com software Actually, I hate every single airline booking system I've ever met, because they require cookies and JavaScript. The KLM site requires JavaScript that doesn't work with Mozilla. But right now, lastminute.com is pissing me off because of their lame error messages. Trying to search for flights leaving on the 26th gives me a warning that the latest you can book a flight is before noon the day before departure. Searching for flights on the 27th gives the same error. I hate stupid error messages. I also wonder what is so 'last minute' about planning things several days in advance. Last minute is trying to leave in 2 hours. - A
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 15:35 on 23 Dec 2003 Subject: Misconfigured anti-spam software Messages like the one below annoy me. I think it's the people more than the software though. My own experiences with SpamAssassin are fine. But I don't know of an I-hates-people list. First of all, this message was sent in response to a letter to a mailing list. If you can't distinguish a letter as being from a mailing list, at least have the decency to unsubscribe. And, if mail is only unsolicited, why reply, since the address is probably forged? Just delete it. Grrr. - A, also hating websites which require JavaScript, yet again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [this message has been automatically generated] Please note that this address is no longer in use, and nowadays receives nothing but unsolicited commercial mail. Accordingly, any mail sent to it is automatically deleted. If you genuinely want to contact the owner of the address, please re-check your contact lists, or search the web, to find their current e-mail address. The mail you sent is reproduced in full below, for resending to the correct address. Sorry for the inconvenience! [-- Signed: the SpamAssassin mail filter]
From: Earle Martin Date: 10:24 on 22 Dec 2003 Subject: Browser detection Did we do this one already? Who cares, let's go: I just visited powergen.co.uk. I got this message: ---- We have detected that you are running a browser not supported by this website. We currently support Microsoft Internet Explorer (Version 5.0 or above) and Netscape Navigator (Version 7.02 or above). Whilst not officially supported the site can also be used with Opera (Version 7.20 or above) and Konqueror (Version 3.1.1 or above). Your Current Browser: Netscape Your Current Version: 1.89 It is recommended that you upgrade your browser to one of the below. ---- Uh... Netscape 1.89? Let's have a look at that version string. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 StumbleUpon/1.89 Oh look. It's taken the beginning and the end of the string - the end happening to be the version number of StumbleUpon (that SU appended without asking me, and I hate it for doing so, as an aside). What fucking shitwit wrote this browser detection script? Having a website that does that at all should be a hanging offense, even *if* it works, which half of the time it doesn't.
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