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From: Struan Donald Date: 14:04 on 08 Nov 2007 Subject: exactly how many ways to configure my display settings do I need lenovo? Three apparently. The usual windows one, the one that comes with the graphics card drivers and the one that comes as part of the ThinkVantage suite of bloat. I've no idea which one of these takes precedence over the other and it seems to be pure luck if one of them works. Just one bit of software that actually worked and didn't look like it was designed using Crayola Form Designer 10,000 would have been fine. Thanks Struan PS, if you could also try and limit yourselves to installing just the one way of controlling the wifi, bluetooth and power management that would also be good.
From: Aaron J. Grier Date: 21:30 on 02 Nov 2007 Subject: regex end-of-word GNU: \> , \< BSD: [[:>:]] , [[:<:]] WTF: ??? the two are not compatible. I guess I'm matching on whitespace and beginning or end-of-line to do what I want. \>\< [[:>:]] [[:<:]] the above is a picture of me poking my eyes out with incompatible end-of-word regexps.
From: Tia Marie Date: 18:35 on 02 Nov 2007 Subject: Sign in hate I'm the Online Community Manager for my company and much to my dismay I also have to deal with their stupid MySpace page (I have happily avoided MySpace for so long until only recently). Anyhow I went to the log in page put my info in correctly and after hitting the "LOGIN" button it tells me: "You Must Be Logged-In to do That!" What?! I think I felt an aneurism! You have to be Logged-In to log in?! What the hell kind of crap is that? The button even changes to "Logging In" after a click it only to give me a GIANT red error box above the sign in prompt telling me some damned non-sense. The fact I have to use MySpace for work is depressing enough, now I have to deal with their shitty bugs too?!
From: demerphq Date: 16:53 on 02 Nov 2007 Subject: ppm Activestate has a nice gui for installing perl modules on a windows box. I use it when I'm on a computer that has no compiler (a hate in itself) and generally im happy with it. Except today. I was foolish enough to upgrade DBD::File before noticing that I should upgrade DBI. The problem being that DBI includes DBD::File, and since its a slightly older version than the one in DBI ppm refuses to upgrade DBI. Theres no way to force the upgrade and then upgrade DBD::File after. You have to remove DBD::File, then upgrade DBI, then upgrade DBD::File. Stupid hateful software.
From: Earle Martin Date: 14:45 on 02 Nov 2007 Subject: Ejecting disks (was: When I said 'Empty Trash'...) On 30/10/2007, Mike Beattie <mike@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > Thanks OS X. > > For absolutely no reason that I can discern at all, it will not > actually empty the trash when I select "Empty Trash" from the Finder > menu, or the right click menu of the trashcan itself, or the shift- > fuckingabnormaltwirlything-delete hotkey. OS X HATE BANDWAGON! Whenever you remove a USB flash drive, you have to "eject" it first (the word in itself is a stupid historical legacy, like buttons labelled "rewind"). This is done by dragging the disk icon to the trash. They reworked almost everything and yet managed to leave in this particular bit of historical stupidity that dates from the Mac Stone Age (see http://www.mackido.com/Interface/TrashingDisks.html). Alternatively you can click its icon and hit Cmd-E. Fair enough. If you don't eject the drive before pulling it, you get a dialog box waving its finger at you telling you to eject the drive next time. When I eject flash drives, their icons disappear. Then I remove them. Then it brings up the same fucking dialog box telling me to eject first. Every time. I _DID_ EJECT IT, YOU SOURED DRIBBLE RESIDUE FROM A WIZENED WITCH'S TIT!
From: Smylers Date: 14:43 on 02 Nov 2007 Subject: MySQL date_format() MySQL's strftime()-esque function is called date_format(). That's mildly hateful, because it involves going to the manual page to look up whether it's date_format() or format_date() or format_datetime() or dateformat() or ... But at least it's understandable; the name is much more intuitive to those whose backgrounds don't include strftime(). Much more hateful is that even after getting the right name for the function, it still does the wrong thing because it takes the date first and the format second. Why? Why, when it's at best arbitrary which way round two arguments go, but there's a history of putting the format string first, would you do it t'other way round? I'm hoping that merely typing out this hate will sufficiently ingrain it in my memory that I'll remember it and not be caught out by it again ... Smylers
From: Michael G Schwern Date: 23:03 on 01 Nov 2007 Subject: find . -print0 -name 'foo' | xargs rm I want to delete a bunch of unnecessary text files in a pile of NOVA episodes I have archived. Ok, no problem... $ cd ~/Movies/NOVA/ $ find . -name '*.txt' | xargs rm rm: cannot remove `./NOVA': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `-': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `Search': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `For': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `A': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `Safer': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `Cigarette': No such file or directory Oh that's right, in Unix nobody would ever possibly put a space in a filename (a hate for later). So I need to separate things with a null byte, ok... $ find . -print0 -name '*.txt' | xargs -0 rm Whoopsie, everything's deleted. 10 gigs of fine public educational video, gone. Turns out putting -print0 first instead of last causes some sort of crazy find switch boolean madness to short circuit and everything becomes true. I'm sure there's some perfectly self-consistent, logical and yet still TOTALLY INSANE reason why this is so making find the well-dressed, but completely off his rocker guy on the bus trying to convince you to remove the plastic border from around your license plate. To save fuel. Because your car will weigh less. [1] Makes perfect sense, right? Hate. [1] No joke, he had little pamphlets with the math and everything.
From: David King Date: 04:24 on 01 Nov 2007 Subject: Fwd: Mailer Error Messages Begin forwarded message: > From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> > Date: 30 October, 2007 23:27:51 PDT > To: freebsd-chat@xxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: Mailer Error Messages > > This is just a short little complaint. Could we please make mail > exchange error messages just a little more understandable? For the > rare occurrences where I actually get a legit non-spam induced > bounce it would be nice to be able to quickly discern what happened. > > 1 - Don't use pronouns. "This domain is is blacklisted." Oh I see > it was "THIS" domain that was blacklisted. That clears things up. > Contact the postmaster? Oh I see "THE" postmaster. > > 2 - Say what you mean to say. ----- The following addresses had > permanent fatal errors ----- > <example@xxxxxxx.xxx> > Actually, the address probably didn't have any errors. It was > probably some sort of anti-spam in play. > > 3 - Use complete sentences. Please include a subject and verb PLUS > the reason why there is an error. "server.foo.com rejected > server.bar.com for reason." "There is no mailbox suchandsuch at > server.foo.com." > > (now I must wonder what sort of default sillyness my server spews > to everyone else when every variety of spam malfeasance reflects of > my MX) > > I used to think that running my own MX was neat. Now I am starting > to think that this is the realm of wizards. Can mere mortals use > the internet without ceaselessly battling with asshats? The fight > is all gone out of me. > > Later, > Jason > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@xxxxxxx.xxx mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat- > unsubscribe@xxxxxxx.xxx"
From: Mike Beattie Date: 19:36 on 30 Oct 2007 Subject: When I said 'Empty Trash', I meant it, you twat. Thanks OS X. For absolutely no reason that I can discern at all, it will not actually empty the trash when I select "Empty Trash" from the Finder menu, or the right click menu of the trashcan itself, or the shift- fuckingabnormaltwirlything-delete hotkey. Now, I realise that they probably all just call the same action, but COME ON. I don't want that cruft filling up my (normally) nice and tidy Trash. Even the cute little bit of crumpled paper annoys me. And while I'm at it, Apple, please put the Trash back on the desktop. Mike (who is a neat freak that has nothing on the desktop except the Finder icon for the computer (what is that called?))
From: demerphq Date: 18:42 on 29 Oct 2007 Subject: Thunderbird reply to all behavour Dear Thunderbird, A few hours ago I sent out a mail to some coworkers and I wanted to follow up on it with some more information. Since there have been no replies to the mail yet it made sense to me to hit 'reply-to-all' to my own mail. Now in exactly what universe does it make sense to send it 'To' myself and 'Cc' the other, originally 'To', recipients? You fucking hateful piece of shit, if gmail can get this right so can you* yves * Gmail would sensibly send it 'To' the original recipients and not include me in the distribution list at all.
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