Re: Where always means come hell or high water

2007-03-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
Jeremy Weathers wrote: That is, the Ctrl-W shortcut now has the same demented behaviour that the close-tab button always had: when there's only one tab left, Ctrl-W closes the tab AND THEN OPENS A NEW ONE WITH THE HOMEPAGE!! RHHH! DIE!! Die, dammit, and get outta my face! Really, it's

Re: Where always means come hell or high water

2007-03-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
Phil Pennock wrote: Camino's nice. Having tab (the key) take you to buttons (not just text* input fields), as Firefox does on every other platform, is pretty essential for keeping my frustration levels down as all my keyboard navigation habits get blown away. That's a Mac thing, Firefox is

Re: Where always means come hell or high water

2007-03-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: Why they hid this in Keyboard Shortcuts I have no idea. Every release of OS X has hidden more stuff in really fucked up places in Preferences. Speaking of hiding stuff, whomever decided in 10.3 that it would be a great idea to turn the simple Keyboard Viewer and

Re: Where always means come hell or high water

2007-03-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
Joe Mahoney wrote: I much prefer the button on the tab implementation. Now you don't have to click on the tab, then move your mouse over to the close button. I rarely accidentally close the wrong tab in Firefox 2, but I did it much more often in 1.x Hit (ctrl|apple)-w. We don't need no

Re: Where always means come hell or high water

2007-03-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
Martin Ebourne wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:19 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: Speaking of tabs, can I say what a horribly bad idea putting a tiny little close button on a tiny little tab is? X-Chat Aqua used to do this but they sensible took it out. Firefox used to do

Re: MySQL Function Naming

2007-03-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
Aaron Crane wrote: I'm prepared to believe that this is merely a bug in our particular point-release of the server, rather than a fundamental design flaw, but that doesn't stop it being incredibly hateful: if I'm looking for something equal to an exemplar, then, no, something vaguely similar

Whatsinaname

2007-04-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
World of Warcraft, that exquisitely designed casino with elves sucking in billions of man-hours from all across the globe. And they deserve it. If you've never played it, I'd suggest getting yourself a 10 day trial just to see what a really well designed and easy to learn interface is.

Re: Citrix.

2007-07-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
Mike Beattie wrote: We use citrix at work. As if that's not hate enough. citrix.com says they're Application Delivery Infrastructure For A Dynamic World Does that mean they ship freight or what? Hate null marketing statements.

Re: xargs

2007-08-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On Aug 1, 2007, at 17:02, David Cantrell wrote: What's hateful is the shell or OS (I can't be bothered to remember which) which makes it necessary - namely the limitation on how long your command line can be. Without that, xargs need not exist and so would be free of

Argument list too long... again.

2007-08-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
Oh look .ccache has gotten confused and filled up with tmp files and disk space is running low. That's ok, I'll just delete them. 0 windhund ~/.ccache$ rm tmp.* -bash: /sw/bin/rm: Argument list too long Hate. Anyone who tells me I should be piping or some shit to justify this will be

Re: Argument list too long... again.

2007-08-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: Michael G Schwern wrote: Oh look .ccache has gotten confused and filled up with tmp files and disk space is running low. That's ok, I'll just delete them. 0 windhund ~/.ccache$ rm tmp.* -bash: /sw/bin/rm: Argument list too long Hate. Anyone who tells

Re: Pesterware

2007-08-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Sean O'Rourke sorou...@cs.ucsd.edu [2007-08-16 23:00]: Here's an analogy. Say you want people to wear seatbelts. You might: (1) Install a buzzer that go off for 10 seconds after a car starts unless the driver's seatbelt is fastened; or (2) Install a

Re: Pesterware

2007-08-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:37, A. Pagaltzis wrote: The balancing act is not to annoy the undecideds overmuch while pissing off the freeloaders sufficiently. What is the business case for even caring about the freeloaders? Seriously. They do not represent lost business.

Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
Luke Kanies wrote: I hate gems, but stupid Rails really wants to use them. Not just that, but a really recent version. I hate ports, but I've got a Mac and it doesn't have real package management. I have an older version of rubygems installed with ports, and I need to upgrade. So:

Re: Rubygems require perl?

2007-08-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
Timothy Knox wrote: Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:37:15PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: Hate ports. It doesn't explain what dependencies its going to install or even warn you about them. This is inexcusable as all they have to do is take a look at dpkg or fink

Re: wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Robert Rothenberg wrote: I should add to the list of hateful things about these wifi hotspots: * Sessions that time out our login after not using it for several minutes (such as when you're in the midst of writing an e-mail). Extra bonus hate for losing the long email you typed in a

Re: Restart now, or restart in two minutes?

2007-08-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Steve Peters wrote: The more hateful part of the dialog is the idea that not clicking is interpreted as I'm too lazy to click so I guess you can restart now. One fine afternoon, I went upstairs for a cup of coffee and came back to a freshly restarted PC. I guess I didn't need those code

Re: Restart now, or restart in two minutes?

2007-08-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Joe Mahoney wrote: Well I was replying to the email about os x specific software update. In that case you have a simple, easy choice or updating or not. No need to force quit, no need to be annoyed at having to force quit. Why people even discuss windows updates on this list is beyond me.

Re: Restart now, or restart in two minutes?

2007-08-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Joe Mahoney wrote: OS X Software Update doesn't even give you the option. You restart or... you restart. And the damn thing will keep bouncing in the dock until you do. Fortunately you can just Force Quit the application and that's that. Why run the software update if you don't want to

SATA drive + Windows == hate

2007-08-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
I got sick of scrounging around for drive space for all my various media WHICH I ASSURE YOU IS ALL LEGITIMATELY PURCHASED COMPLETE WITH RECEIPTS (ok, is the RIAA goon gone) and when my 200gig external drive finally kicked the bucket I decided to go on a drive buying spree. 500 gig external USB 2

Re: SATA drive + Windows == hate

2007-09-05 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On Aug 30, 2007, at 2:09, Michael G Schwern wrote: 3) Use rsyncx's somewhat clunky GUI to backup my drive and make the new one bootable. 13) Discover that rsync has removed some magic metadata from some obscure file and now some old application won't work

Re: SATA drive + Windows == hate

2007-09-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 07:44:23PM -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Take a staple gun and park the disk? For really high RPM disks one of course would need a nail gun. Nail guns are fun. [Anything that needs to be powered by gases seems to

Re: Dear Perforce: fuck you.

2007-09-11 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ann Barcomb wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Martin Ebourne wrote: Yes, I'm sure I can tunnel it over SSH but some IT guys get sarcastic about contractors who leave SSH tunnels around. CVS at least only fires up SSH when it needs it. HTTPS :) Doesn't it require Apache 2? At least that was

Re: Dear Perforce: fuck you.

2007-09-12 Thread Michael G Schwern
Phil Pennock wrote: On 2007-09-10 at 18:58 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: Or hell, build a cheap ass server, put the repo on it and put it off in a corner. Hate security fascists. Oh, well if we're off hating just software ... Hate lame-arsed developers who think that it's appropriate

iAlertU

2007-09-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
iAlertU is actually an awesome piece of software. It's a *software* alarm for Mac laptops. It uses, amongst other things, the built-in Sudden Motion Sensor to detect if the laptop has moved, it can notice if the AC adaptor has been pulled, the keyboard typed on, the touch pad touched or the

Re: iAlertU

2007-09-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
Yossi Kreinin wrote: Chris Devers wrote: But to disarm it you need that remote. Whoops. Surely, having an easy way to disarm it without the remote would greatly diminish its usefulness as an alarm, no? Maybe it would (although maybe something requiring a password could help).

Re: iAlertU

2007-09-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
Chris Devers wrote: iAlertU is actually an awesome piece of software. It's a *software* alarm for Mac laptops. [...] [...] You can arm and disarm it with the remote control that comes with your Mac. Well, that remote is really small and easily lost. What if you don't have it with you?

Re: symantec firewall

2007-09-27 Thread Michael G Schwern
Struan Donald wrote: I might be a bit old fashioned but I've always thought the point of firewalls was to stop software on other computers connecting to my computer (or network but let's not run just yet). Symantec seems to find this rather a narrow definition and is keen to stop software

Re: XML Schemas: Some Ground Rules

2007-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
Tony Finch wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Michael G Schwern wrote: I would like, at this point, to pimp YAML a little. Not at all over-engineered! Over engineered in all the right places. :) I've got it! XML is the C of data languages! The specification is so small and elegant... well

Re: XML Schemas: Some Ground Rules

2007-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
A. Pagaltzis wrote: YAML is a gigantic pile of suck. If it corresponded to the feature set of JSON, it would be fine, but good grief, take your complexity fetish and stick it somewhere unmentionable. As it is, I'll have JSON instead please, thankyouverymuch. But JSON is YAML. :) JSON even

Re: XML Schemas: Some Ground Rules

2007-09-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com [2007-09-28 03:45]: $ cat `which yaml2json` #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use YAML (); use JSON (); my $json = JSON-new(pretty = 1, indent = 4); print $json-objToJson(YAML::Load(join , )); Let me know how that works out

Ant and oh god don't make me write XML and more YAML (was Re: XML Schemas: Some Ground Rules)

2007-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
Daniel Pittman wrote: One of us must be. Perhaps it was my sarcasm, perhaps I completely misunderstood your point. To help clear this up: There is no difference in the information conveyed using a child tag or an attribute of a tag. The only difference between the two, in SGML, is that

Re: Ruby is pretty advanced, folks

2007-09-28 Thread Michael G Schwern
tgies wrote: Today I found out that certain Ruby environments (I discovered this playing around with XChat's Ruby scripting plugin, as an exercise in determining whether or not this Ruby tripe the kids won't shut up about is any good), when asked to unload a given module/script containing a

Numbers doesn't do ODF

2007-10-16 Thread Michael G Schwern
Apple's new whizz-bang Spreadsheet application, Numbers, which comes with iWork 08 does not support Open Document Format. My choices for exporting are: PDF, which retains my pretty graphs but has no value as a spreadsheet Excel, which is just moving to another proprietary format CVS, which loses

Re: Autoconf and so forth

2007-10-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Adam Atlas a...@atlas.st [2007-10-16 19:30]: Mainly because I hate the whole here are a bunch of shell scripts that process M4 scripts in order to generate some more shell scripts that generate a bunch of Makefiles that will hopefully eventually generate some executable

Re: Autoconf and so forth

2007-10-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
A. Pagaltzis wrote: RiscOS? Well, if you want to include dead operating systems I'll add BeOS and AmigaDOS. I can't be bothered to check, but I'm sure Perl runs on at least one of those as well, probably both. MakeMaker needs to work on ALL OF THESE. It's as gruesome as it sounds. We

Re: Autoconf and so forth

2007-10-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 16-Oct-2007, at 15:33, Michael G Schwern wrote: Just when you thought you're done hating you realize one of the reasons Perl was written is so you wouldn't have to write shell code, much less portable shell code. I find portable shell code easier to write and read

Re: Autoconf and so forth

2007-10-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 17-Oct-2007, at 01:47, Michael G Schwern wrote: As there is no such thing as portable shell code across the platforms named, you must generate tailored code for each platform and make version, you are failing to appreciate the magnitude of the problem. The problem

Re: Autoconf and so forth

2007-10-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: If you're talking about an application in Perl, why would your installer not ALREADY be a Perl script? Why would anyone be building Makefiles and the like to install Perl scripts? That's not just confusing me, it sounds hateful and foolish. It was a decision made long

Cancel or Skip?

2007-10-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
My bank has instituted a new security code they're supposed to have mailed to me. As bone headed as that is (because NOBODY steals mail) at least they provided a way for me to skip it... for now. Then a big blank-out dialog comes up (from memory)... A log in security code will be sent

Re: When I said 'Empty Trash', I meant it, you twat.

2007-11-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
Mike Beattie wrote: * Mike Beattie m...@ethernal.org [2007-10-30 20:45]: 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, I hear that such cases are generally permissions problems. Nope, it appears

find . -print0 -name 'foo' | xargs rm

2007-11-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
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

Re: find . -print0 -name 'foo' | xargs rm

2007-11-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
Martin Ebourne wrote: One of the rules to save your bacon, just like you should always 'select ... from ... where ...' before you 'delete from ... where ...', 'find ... -print' before you 'find ... -exec rm \;' or xargs equivalent. No, you turn off autocommit, you maniac. Which reminds me,

Re: find . -print0 -name 'foo' | xargs rm

2007-11-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 01-Nov-2007, at 18:03, Michael G Schwern wrote: $ find . -print0 -name '*.txt' | xargs -0 rm That's a mistake. THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! Whoopsie, everything's deleted. 10 gigs of fine public educational video, gone. Turns out putting -print0 first

Re: MySQL date_format()

2007-11-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: date comes first because it's date_format and not format_date. :) (I have no idea whether this is true or not) Like Yoda speak the MySQL developers to wise seem they. -- 'All anyone gets in a mirror is themselves,' she said. 'But what you gets in a good gumbo is

Re: libtool

2007-11-14 Thread Michael G Schwern
H.Merijn Brand wrote: Ahh, so we can add Fink to the list of supported things for libtool? Very soothing thought. I'm still stuck with AIX though, and that is not by choice. I have no plans to work with Fink. Guess Fink isn't designed for OS's like HP-UX and AIX. You're right, it's not. It's

Don't fancify my man pages!

2007-11-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
Lately I've been noticing that less has been subtly choking on perldoc pages. Lines might appear and disappear as I scrolled up and down. I figured it was a bug in less, but no. It is far more evil. Today I pasted some example code from perldoc Attribute::Handlers into a text file to write up

Re: Don't fancify my man pages!

2007-11-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
A. Pagaltzis wrote: Reminds me, this is not the only GNU tool that needs such treatment. GNU grep pays attention to the locale as well, but its encoding decoder is apparently written in Visual Basic -- if you use a UTF-8 locale, it will slow down by TWO ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. $ time

Re: Metadot

2007-12-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Earle Martin wrote: Metadot is a vast heap of shit disguised as a CMS. Someone I used to work with, who still has to deal with it, hates it so much that his hate could not be contained in a mailing list post, thus he has made an entire website for it: http://www.ihatemetadot.co.uk/ I

Re: Web based applications wedded to MySQL (SugarCRM, I'm looking at you!)

2007-12-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
Sean Conner wrote: And at this point, I don't know where to direct my hate of software---is it PHP and it's serious lack of database abstraction? It's encouragement of shoddily written software with no pretentions of being portable? Is it the SQL parsing of MySQL for making some parts

COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE

2007-12-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Oh god, how many things are wrong here. Macs have long had extra file meta-data integrated right into the file separate from the data, which is a great idea. Means you don't wedge meaning into things like file extensions and magic #! lines and magic binary bits. You can have an editor store the

Re: COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE

2007-12-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: And don't get me started on OS/1100. Oooh, a whole operating system I've never even heard of! Pray tell, what new hates await us? Please, do go on. -- package Outer::Space; use Test::More tests = 9;

Re: Subversion and credentials

2008-01-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
demerphq wrote: Yet... I really don't want to see passwords, even insecure ones, accidentally. Hooray for SSH agent forwarding! Now somebody's going to tell me why that's hateful. -- If at first you don't succeed--you fail. -- Portal demo

Re: Firefox Update

2008-01-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Chris Devers wrote: We can't have these things happening without *some* kind of user intervention in the process, can we? People always seem to howl about silent self-update systems, but *ahem* this solves that problem, eh? Firefox has been updated. [OK] [Cancel]

Re: Firefox Update

2008-01-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:52:42 -0500 (EST), Chris Devers cdev...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: [Skip] [Defer] [Ignore] [Cancel] [Abort] [Retry] [Cancel] [Panic] Do you want to Cancel the update? [Cancel]

Re: Firefox Update

2008-01-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Chris Devers wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Michael G Schwern wrote: Chris Devers wrote: We can't have these things happening without *some* kind of user intervention in the process, can we? People always seem to howl about silent self-update systems, but *ahem* this solves that problem, eh

Re: Bashing Bash Hashing

2008-01-05 Thread Michael G Schwern
Smylers wrote: I just spotted this in the README.Debian that Debian supply with Bash: bash does not check $PATH if hash fails bash hashes the location of recently executed commands. When a command is moved to a new location in the PATH, the command is still in the PATH but the

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Juerd Waalboer ju...@convolution.nl [2008-01-13 14:40]: Ah, but that's easily solved with a changelog entry: version 20080113- No bugs, no fixes. Version bump to please your PHB. And veryone who uses a package manager of some sort will *really*, REALLY

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-13, at 00:22, Michael G Schwern wrote: Lately I've been toying with ISO date integer versions, for that what, you're using the 2005 version?! Your shit is OLD! UPGRADE NOW! effect. http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/35127 I tried that for a while

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-15, at 08:13, David Cantrell wrote: What bug was fixed I have no idea. I have only a hazy recollection of what features it has, and certainly couldn't have told you off the top of my head that 1.03 was the most recent release. So it doesn't tell me anything

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On the other hand, for me, 1.5.4 versus 1.5.2 does tell me something useful. ...about your own software? What about the rest of us who might use it? Strictly speaking there are three audiences for a version number: 1. Project members. 2. People outside the project who

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-15, at 15:44, Michael G Schwern wrote: I argue that it *will* make things worse for the members of the third group for two critical reasons. Worse than just using a date, which contains *zero* information, because it's something you have anyway? Not after

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
H.Merijn Brand wrote: If the current version is 1.5.4 and the guy's running 1.5.2 that tells me more than if the current version's 20070620 and the guy's running 19990114. It tells you that it's eight years old, and that's concrete information. You Only time-wise. It gives me zitch

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Michael G Schwern wrote: Lately I've been toying with ISO date integer versions, for that what, you're using the 2005 version?! Your shit is OLD! UPGRADE NOW! effect. http://use.perl.org/~schwern/journal/35127 How do you handle parallel stable/dev

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-13 Thread Michael G Schwern
Andy Armstrong wrote: On 13 Jan 2008, at 18:23, Juerd Waalboer wrote: Tony Finch skribis 2008-01-13 16:02 (+): On Sat, 12 Jan 2008, Michael G Schwern wrote: Lately I've been toying with ISO date integer versions, for that what, you're using the 2005 version?! Your shit is OLD! UPGRADE

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Phil Pennock wrote: On 2008-01-14 at 14:53 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: Standardized automated installation? What's that? Maybe you get a link to a .py file. Maybe you get a tarball and you have to copy the contents by hand. Maybe you get a zip file. Maybe you get something that wants

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:19:21PM +, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:15:23PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-15, at 10:03, David Cantrell wrote: Then stop calling them version NUMBERS. While you, and other people, continue to do

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Philip Newton wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 6:38 PM, Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com wrote: I think it's already been said, or maybe it went by on Twitter, but there's a special layer of hell for DBAs who store phone numbers, social security numbers and PIN numbers as numbers. Ditto with postal

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Martin Ebourne wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:01 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: Or, ya know, Canadians. Damn Canadians with their alphanumeric postal codes!! Here's a do you mind if I tell you how we [uhh, they] do it in Canada moment... Canadian Postal Codes are decidedly non-hateful

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-15, at 07:09, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: Perl's interpretation of 1.80 as 1.800 might not be what people expect, but it makes sense when versions are just numbers that you =. Version numbers ARE NOT just numbers. They are to me. Numbers compare easily and can go

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-01-15, at 14:05, Michael G Schwern wrote: If the rest of you want to overload a simple number with all sorts of special formatting to give magical meanings that exist in your own heads and require special code to compare them, have fun. Straw man arguments

Self-certified email

2008-01-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
An email just came into the bug tracker, which is hateful in and of itself, but it has this tacked onto the end: No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.0/1218 - Release Date: 10/01/2008 13:32 Well gee thanks, totally

Re: Software that keeps stealing focus.

2008-01-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
Nicholas Clark wrote: Pertinent hate indeed. It's not as bad, but Ubuntu's Sound Juicer is also hateful. It has no option to disable the helpful popup for I've finished extracting the CD It's not like I haven't noticed - it *has* an option to eject the CD. That's sort of like remote controls

flexcar.com

2008-01-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
It's a lazy sunday, let's hate on a web site. Flexcar and Zipcar are great ideas. Cars parked all around the city that you can reserve and drive away. Pay by the hour, about $7 - $10. They pay for the gas and insurance. It's lovely and makes being a carless American so much easier.

Mailing list as bug tracker

2008-01-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
It's hateful enough to use a mailing list as your bug tracker, it's not like any good bug tracker doesn't have a mail gateway, but it's extra hateful when they don't accept posts from non-members so I need to sign up to a bunch of mail I don't care one bit about JUST TO REPORT A BUG! I'm

Re: Mailing list as bug tracker

2008-01-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
Tony Bowden wrote: Having wasted a significant chunk of last year on so-called open source license wrangling for my erstwhile employer, I can spew software license hate all day with only a half-turn of the winding key... /me turns the key a good three or four times and stands back. -- The

Thunderbird's UTF8 warning

2008-01-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Thunderbird sees fit to warn me before I send something that contains UTF-8 characters. I guess something I cut pasted into my signature file has some of them new fangled smart quotes or whatever. It presents me with this big dialog box telling me all the consequences of using Unicode or

Re: Thunderbird's UTF8 warning

2008-01-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Jody Belka wrote: Bestest of all is it asks me this FOR EVERY MESSAGE! There's no always do this. I've looked through the Composition preferences and there's nothing about character encodings. I get the choice between plain text and lord knows what that means these days, and HTML. There's

Re: Thunderbird's UTF8 warning

2008-01-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
Michael G Schwern wrote: Why there it is, grouped with Fonts because someone doesn't realize that fonts are just about pretty pictures and encodings are about the actual data. Yeah, hateful. But wait, I spoke too soon! There's no just upgrade to UTF-8 as necessary setting. No, I have

Signatures

2008-02-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
I hate that it's 2008 and we're still signing documents with a pen. Let me explain. I'm working out the final details of a contract which involves signing a very simple NDA. The code is all public so the NDA is a mere formality. They took a PDF and printed it. Then they signed it. Then

Re: Signatures

2008-02-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
Tony Finch wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Philip Newton wrote: The problem is that a forged signature does *not* record the assent of the purported signer, and that you can't tell them apart if all you have is a digital document that was supposedly scanned in from a piece of paper. Right. If you

Re: remote editing (was Re: emacs hate)

2008-03-05 Thread Michael G Schwern
Aaron J. Grier wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:46:48AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote: *everyone* has access to said 'smart' terminals these days. (Anyone still using a dumb terminal must be assumed to prefer it.) But somehow, it's mysteriously difficult to make remote file editing not suck.

Logan's Run Registration

2008-02-29 Thread Michael G Schwern
I registered for XFire, yet another chat network. This one is specially designed for Windows gamers. It scans your machine and keeps track of all the games you have and what you're playing so your friends can see and jump in with you. Kinda need, in a frighteningly insecure way. Anyhow, I

autoconf

2008-03-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
10 RUN CONFIGURE 20 INSTALL MISSING DEPENDENCY 30 GOTO 10 This process gets longer and longer as you go deeper and deeper in. Couldn't it run all the way through and let me know all the missing stuff at the end? Please? -- 7. Not allowed to add “In accordance with the prophesy” to the end

Re: Macports package dependencies

2008-03-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
Walt Mankowski wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:16:02PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: And don't get me started on the hateful way they handle package dependencies... I had some out of date macports packages, and today seemed like a good time to upgrade them. The manpage for port(1) lists

Re: So I heard you like to reboot?

2008-03-19 Thread Michael G Schwern
Joshua Juran wrote: Remember waiting several minutes for the Finder to figure out that the AppleShare server is GONE, and it's NOT coming back? Well, lose a Bluetooth peer and you get to wait FOREVER. Or until you reboot. That's funny because just an hour ago I woke my laptop up from sleep

Re: krashing krap

2008-03-26 Thread Michael G Schwern
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Indeed. I've seen UNIX servers with 1+ year uptime, but sooner or later either a disk crash or a need to patch something urgent brings them down either by accident or by necessity. VMS takes uptime rather seriously. (I don't know for certain but I assume that one can

Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: Speaking of album artwork, they REALLY need a way to show the location of the downloaded album artwork file so I can clobber it when it has the wrong one. All my jazz podcasts are showing up with the album cover of some BBC science show, and it's beginning to freak me

Re: Kill. All. Hippies^W Database people^W^W Standards Authors.

2008-10-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
[I suppose software standards bodies hate is on topic] Philip Newton wrote: On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 01:17, Michael G Schwern schw...@pobox.com wrote: [1] Maybe they did in one of the newer versions of SQL, but I can't read them because they cost a good wad of cash. God forbid the standard

Re: Windows download/unzip programs...

2008-10-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: Why in the name of all that's unholy do programs on Windows generally unpack or download files to a temporary location and then *copy* them to the final location, instead of at least *moving* them or (god forbid) downloading them to the right location in the first place?

Re: perl and line endings...

2008-10-08 Thread Michael G Schwern
Darrell Fuhriman wrote: So you've mainly abandoned Perl for Ruby but you decided to pop a shot at Perl anyway - and it turned out to be Ruby's fault? :) Well, it's partially my fault for not checking my quoting (hardly unique to ruby). But why should

Re: perl and line endings...

2008-10-09 Thread Michael G Schwern
Joshua Juran wrote: On Oct 8, 2008, at 2:55 PM, b...@cpan.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 03:18:41PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: That's all perl. :) No, it's all you big guy. PEBKAC. Ah ah. I wonder what percentage of the subscribers of hates-software are actually Perl

Re: Lurking within MT

2008-10-17 Thread Michael G Schwern
Phil Pennock wrote: On 2008-10-16 at 12:19 -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: Read Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson as he goes about ways a malicious author could hide a trojan horse in seemingly innocent code. http://www.c-program.com/kt/reflections-on-trusting.html Then reflect

Re: not quite a hate: is there an archive?

2008-12-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org [2008-12-23T14:15:39] 2008/12/23 Ricardo SIGNES hates...@rjbs.manxome.org Is there a place I can get a big ol' mailbox of past hates-software? Or a tarballed maildir? Or a complete newsfeed? Whatever... Not to my knowledge,

Re: not quite a hate: is there an archive?

2009-01-05 Thread Michael G Schwern
David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:58:31PM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org [2008-12-23T14:15:39] 2008/12/23 Ricardo SIGNES hates...@rjbs.manxome.org Is there a place I can get a big ol' mailbox of past hates-software? Or a tarballed

Re: not quite a hate: is there an archive?

2009-01-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
Roger Burton West wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:45:48PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: I've sucked it all down from GMail into Thunderbird via IMAP. I don't know how to turn that into something like a mail archive file(s). Suggestions? Compact folders, then dig into Thunderbird's

Re: not quite a hate: is there an archive?

2009-01-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
Michael G Schwern wrote: That did it. Here it is, everything from July 2004 on. There's older stuff, and I leave it as an exercise for the reader to scrape them. http://schwern.org/tmp/Hates Software.gz I fixed the permissions. -- Ahh email, my old friend. Do you know that revenge

Re: not quite a hate: is there an archive?

2009-01-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
Joshua Juran wrote: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /tmp/Hates Software.gz on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. P.P.S. This is now fixed, but noted here for posterity. Speaking of

Re: RPM

2009-01-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
Simon Wistow wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 07:13:06PM +0100, demerphq said: You see RPM thinks that any given file can only have one source. That's mostly but not strictly trues. AFAIK you can differentiate between files it installs and what it claims it supplies. By default they're the

Re: alias rm rm -i

2008-12-31 Thread Michael G Schwern
Gerry Lawrence wrote: Sorry -- I should have mentioned: tcsh (yes, I'm an idiot for using it. Old habits) Yep, you're boned. -- 91. I am not authorized to initiate Jihad. -- The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army http://skippyslist.com/list/

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