Dear iCal:
Sometimes I have to schedule several items to occur at the same time.
Such as when I am going to, say, attend a conference and I want to make
a printout to put in my day planner so I can look at them all and then
pick and choose which one to attend. Sometimes, these events may be
this may have been hated on before. *i* may have hated on it before.
but it never really gets old, does it, because it keeps happening.
dear safari:
if you cannot be bothered to have a are you sure that you really want
to close this window, which has a lot of open tabs in it? dialogue box,
Dear Quicken:
If I should happen to set my Date and Time preferences to display dates
as DD/MM/YY instead of MM/DD/YY, and you should then helpfully convert
the dates as received from my financial institutions from MM/DD/YY to
DD/MM/YY, do you not think it is slightly less than helpful to then
How about: I hate it when I switch mail readers and the reply defaults
change from reply to all to reply to original sender only, and I
send a couple responses which were meant to have gone to the list
directly to the senders.
(Clearly not my fault. Each mailreader assumes it knows best
I just love flame wars about spaces vs. tabs. ;-)
Anyone for VIM vs. Emacs next? When can I schedule American Football
vs. (Rest of World) Football?
i'm just grateful that someone else started the thread that dissolved
into ranting, this time!
and to put this on topic, ... firefox can still
So if you want to pay money to get broken features unbroken, it's
possible that you can deal with this soon.
is it too early in the morning to start drinking?
(if it is, it's probably software's fault)
--s.
On 7/10/06, sabrina downard v...@ziggurat.org wrote:
Dear Apple:
[snip]
Okay. Whatever. I have that album on this laptop and I don't know
why you're whinging about it anyways, as I didn't ask you to copy
anything. 'Cos it was already *there* and all. But whatever, I
didn't want to listen
so what you're saying is that you didn't use the tools provided, or
pay attention to the backup you were trying to use?
no, i was saying that iTunes shouldn't be removing files from my iPod
without any iWarning based on an iFaulty assumption, but perhaps i
should have taken more time to make
You miss the point. The problem isn't that Apple uses DRM (or the
particular variant they're using), it's the way they implemented
syncing for the iPod shuffle. It is explicitly a nuke everything,
write new stuff to the device arrangement. It is no great surprise
under these circumstances that
That sounds like a very worthy piece of hate (can we see it somewhere?)
i second this Call for Hate!
I once was awestruck by some Linux fanboy trying vigorously (spittle and
all) to explain to me all the goodness and beauty inherent in the info
system.
did you administer a beating? that
I tuned out after the first word in the topic. Too easy to hate.
i know, i know, but ... it lured me into a false sense of complacency.
i had no choice but to use it, and then it seemed to suck much less
than it used to. but it turns out that they've just cleverly stashed
the suck away into
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On 11/27/06, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni maddin...@free.fr wrote:
Oh, and NetBackup Unix GUI was a total mess, the precise as if the
guy who made it had decided to follow the opposite of each rule of
GUI design. Oh and the installer, written in shell, was also stupid.
Don't forget the part
On 12/19/06, Yossi Kreinin yossi.krei...@mobileye.com wrote:
During the cold war, whenever a Soviet official was asked about human rights in
the USSR or such, the immediate response would be In the USA they lynch
niggers!
what a classy remark.
look, we get it. you don't like how unix does
On 2/20/07, Leon Brocard a...@astray.com wrote:
Ninjas, please strike out at all ... manufacturers that
provide ... software.
+1!
It's so nice to know how thoughtful OS/X is. Often when I am doing
something trivial like scrolling down to read the rest of a document or
opening a folder in Finder that it stops to think deep thoughts for a moment
or two. I know that when the mouse pointer transforms into a spinning
Going beyond the so very many things I find objectionable about having
to use a Windows GUI-driven suite to monitor my UNIX systems and
utilities, and especially one with such a loathsome name:
Every time, every single damned time I find reason to think to myself
that maybe, just maybe there's
zsh is a whole new category of hate, as far as I'm concerned.
zsh is the weirdest shell I've ever used. That hasn't stopped me from
adopting it as my login shell, but it keeps giving me occasions to say
what the fuck? that shouldn't have worked. Like the first time when
I did something like rpm
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 ...
Well even more annoying is that you will be told by some MySQL fanboy
that it is fixed in the very next version than the one you have
installed.
Dear Valued Customer;/r/nThank you for your inquiry./r/nYou will receive a
response from one of our Customer Service Specialists within 24-48 business
hours. Monday through Friday./r/nPlease do not respond to this
message./r/nSincerely,/r/nwhoever
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Dear TextEdit:
If your job is to edit text, as is implied by your name, why are the
only four file formats you offer to let me Save As as follows:
- Rich Text (RTF)
- HTML
- Word Format
- Word XML Format
Whither plain text? Oh, I see. . . I've got to convert this document
first by going to
Just had a web form reject my email address as invalid. It insisted
that the email must be entered in the format 'n...@domain.com.' Which
is hard for me to do with a .org.
I mean. Just. Really? *Really*? Isn't this just delightful.
Didn't we fire the last web developer who did stupid
I was going to commiserate, but then I got started thinking about all
the things I hate about Exchange calendaring and realized that this
email would never actually end.
I've been away from work for 10 days and I'm really, really, really,
really, really looking forward to see what brain damage
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