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From: Chris Winters Date: 15:51 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: mozilla mail: show me the recipient! I don't ask very much from a mail client. But if you provide the means for a 'Sent' folder to all my messages, and you allow me to see just about every other piece of metadata about my emails (Status, Flag, Label, Priority, Order Recieved, ...), why can't you show me the Recipient? I understand that there can be multiple recipients, but just pick one! Most of the time you'll have a single address in the 'To:' and multiple 'Cc:' users, so just work with that. And if you have an ambiguous 'To:' listing, just sort them asciibetically or something. But don't remove the useful functionality just because of a little potential ambiguity... Chris
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 15:36 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: Emacs > Who needs shiny? OS X comes with a great newsreader. > $ emacs -nw -f gnus Emacs is pure evil, distilled and perfected. Combine in equal parts the bile of an angry developer, two thousand competing keymappings fighting it out in an arena of flaming napalm, unbounded arrogance, and an empty niche just waiting for the first program to come along. Let sit for two decades in universities and research labs, stir in mailing lists and newsgroups, add a dose of Linux, and stand back. Well back.
From: David Cantrell Date: 12:27 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: Mac usenet software I will first commit two heresies, so please forgive me. Heresy the first: there is one piece of Usenet client software which I happen to think Doesn't Suck Much. That is Forte Agent, and I have been a happy customer for many years. Heresy the second: it runs on Windows. But for many years, I have been a Windows-free zone. Thankfully, there is Wine, which I hate for all sorts of reasons, but at least it mostly lets me run Agent on Linux. I say mostly, because for no apparent reason a couple of years ago the cursor keys stopped working (and no, I hadn't been dicking around in the config files), and they remain not working despite having upgraded X and Wine, moved my installation to a machine running in Virtual PC on a nice shiny Mac, and indeed still not working in a brand new fresh install in Virtual PC. Cursor keys work everywhere else, including other applications running under Wine. But that's not what I am currently hating. Y'see, running Windows apps under Wine on Linux in Virtual PC on Mac OS X ain't fast. Screen refreshes are nasty. I can see the individual letters appear on the screen with a noticeable lag when I'm typing. Every so often I have to stop typing to let it catch up. For reading news, it's fine, but posting is made hard (which some would say is a good thing, but I hate those people). So every few months I get sufficiently pissed off and decide to find a native OS X client with a shiny GUI. You woulda thunk that Mac people, being into shiny things and usability, would have at least one useable news program. But no, they don't. They all suck, and they all manage to suck and deserve hate in interesting, new and different ways.
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 12:18 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: I hate CVS There are many reasons why I hate CVS. The annoying process for removing files (remove the file, then do a cvs remove--if you didn't think to type both commands before executing the first one, you'll actually have to type the name of the file) which is the opposite of the process for removing directories (do a cvs remove, then remove the directory); the lack of support for moving files and directories; and the fact that I always manage to mess things up and edit files that aren't meant to be edited. But what I am specifically hating today is that it aborts when a file is unknown instead of simply skipping a commit. For example, I have perhaps 10 directories--uk, ie, nl, no and so on. In each of these directories there are perhaps up to 5 files which I have modified and want to commit if they exist. What I want to do is 'cvs commit */file1 */file2 */file3 */file4 */file5'. However, this is impossible, and if there is a flag I can give it to make it shut up and simply commit files which exist and ignore others, I haven't found it (not that I've ever bothered to read all the documentation...I keep hoping something will rescue me from needing to know too much about CVS).
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 12:09 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: complaint about unknown software I don't like whatever was responsible for allowing the mail program to overwrite its partition last Thursday, on the server where my mail is kept. (If I were a sysadmin, I could perhaps allocate the blame more accurately, but since I'm not I'll have to settle for simply stating that applications should never be allowed to write so much to disk that they overwrite the partition...especially when it's just bounced worm mail crap.) The server still isn't functioning correctly.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 11:48 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: Stupid mailing list software I hate stupid mailing list software that blindly grabs some tagged and temporary address from a header instead of letting you pick the one you want to use. Like the software running this list.
From: Chris Nandor Date: 17:56 on 22 Aug 2003 Subject: Windows Me hates Windows. I was gonna say more, but what's the point?
From: Arthur Bergman Date: 13:34 on 22 Aug 2003 Subject: Safari, Browsers, IDIOTIC BEHAVIOUR Ok, I have been surfing a while, I have around 4 browser windows open with around 20 tabs in total, logged into several web applications, doing a lot of work. Then I want to close down a window so I hit command-w, but I miss and press command-q. If I do this in another program (like terminal which is like a browser) it ASKS me if I really want to quit. Does Safari do this? No it QUITS, TAKING DOWN ALL MY WINDOWS AND TABS AND LEAVES FRUSTRATED AND ANGRY. Frankly, the browser is like an interface to the OS, and it should really warn when you try and quit it.
From: Paul Mison Date: 11:32 on 22 Aug 2003 Subject: Mac OS X browser view source I love my Mac for editing web sites. I can easily view source in my favourite text editor, and steal or modify bits of HTML, CSS and Javascript. If I'm running Mac OS 9, that is. Mac OS X obviously has more (and better) browsers, except for the fact that none of them offer the choice of viewing source in an external editor. Safari pops up a crappy, small window with no choice of typeface and no syntax colouring. Camino pops open a new tab - even if you don't like tabs - which does have syntax colouring, but which also uses a horrible italic in some places. It also doesn't soft wrap. IE 5 used to offer external editor support on the Mac OS, but now it just dumps the file to the desktop without opening it in the editor. I'm not sure about the other browsers, but I hate them already enough as it is. This isn't a new rant, and thus there are workarounds using AppleScript: http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0103b.shtml#viewy2 http://www.webgraph.com/usability/applescripts/ Point is, though, that it's really unnatural to switch to the editor to view source; that's what the browser should do for you. You could bind a global key combo (if you buy shareware) or us the script menu (but then you have to mouse your way into it). Blurgh. I hate Mac OS X, and the way it's encouraged apps to remove features that used to mean I worked well.
From: Earle Martin Date: 11:34 on 20 Aug 2003 Subject: Bloody Mozilla! I just tried to install the Java plugin for Mozilla. Clicking the "download plugin" button in the dialogue box that appeared to tell me I didn't have the plugin, I was taken to <http://wp.netscape.com/plugins/jvm.html>;. Rather than providing simple links to download the installers, this page uses form buttons with some shitty JavaScript. That didn't work when I tried it. So I viewed the page's source, which told me I needed to get <ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.2/unix/linux22/plugins/jre131_02.xpi>;. After a long time a dialogue box finally appeared and asked me if I wanted to install, yadda yadda yadda. I said I did. It sat around for a while and eventually told me permission was denied to install. So I tried again as root, and it said "Installation successful". Wrong! Running Mozilla showed no sign of the plugin at all. Running it from the command line said the Java plugin couldn't be initialized because it was missing a shared object file. Thanks to packages.debian.org, I managed to locate and install an obsolete package called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1, which is something to do with an old compiler. As if I needed, or wanted, to know that. And as if that wasn't bad enough, running Mozilla again I notice that - all my bookmarks have been deleted! Fucking HEAP of CRAP.
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