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From: Juerd Waalboer Date: 01:57 on 20 Jan 2008 Subject: Software that keeps stealing focus. Ugly Software, If I actively ignored your splash screen by clicking another window, then why the hell must you insist on grabbing the focus when your main application windows is finally there? And then, why is it necessary that you do this for each of the twelve documents that I opened, with a painful two to three seconds interval? I'M TRYING TO TYPE AN EMAIL, DAMNIT. Await your turn, I will attend to you later. I hate you, OpenOffice dot org, I hate you very much. The universe doesn't revolve around you! Stop grabbing focus and stacking your windows on top of others. Oh, and quit that awful resetting to full window maximization that you like to do every other week.
From: Juerd Date: 13:57 on 22 Aug 2006 Subject: Hating it already The past hours I have been searching for software that: - runs on Linux - lets one easily administer addresses - prints labels (standard 4x8 sheets) - won't confuse my grandpa with terms like "ldif" and "merge" This seems like a reasonable thing to expect the world to have produced. Unfortunately, I still haven't come across anything that remotely looks like what I'm looking for. Everyone seems to suggest using OpenOffice and document merging, but that's ten times too complex. But if it exists, I'm hating it already. Juerd
From: Juerd Date: 10:51 on 10 Sep 2005 Subject: restart iTunes wanted me to reboot my Mac mini after upgrading. Reboots on security upgrades are bad, the reboot dialog that doesn't go away after upgrading is bad (though it can be killed), that there is always at least one application that doesn't respond and needs to be force quitted (You know, "kill" works much better as a verb) is bad. But rebooting to upgrade my music player. COME ON. And they exchanged the Brushed Metal look for a new Cheap Silver Plastic interface. The how manyth different graphic design is this? Juerd
From: Juerd Date: 17:13 on 09 Sep 2005 Subject: Fw: (bearman@ssrc.org) Out of Office AutoReply: Colors Suck. ----- Forwarded message from Ben Bearman <bearman@xxxx.xxx> ----- From: Ben Bearman <bearman@xxxx.xxx> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 12:03:48 -0400 To: Juerd <juerd@xxxxxxxxxxx.xx> Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Colors Suck. I will be away from the office until 9/14. ----- End forwarded message ----- Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. Dear Ben, I did not mail YOU, I mailed a mailing list that you subscribed to. I do not care about your current being away from the office. Regards, Juerd
From: Juerd Date: 22:56 on 13 May 2005 Subject: Firefox hate No, I did not want you to close that tab with the textarea in which I had just written a lot, when I accidentally pressed ^W instead of ^V. Damnit. Now I have to start over. Juerd
From: Juerd Date: 14:40 on 24 Apr 2005 Subject: Bad Terminal! After mis-doubleclicking: 15:41 < Juerd> WHY THE HELL DOES DRAGGING COPY AND PASTE 15:41 < Juerd> THAT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WITHIN THE SAME TERMINAL WINDOW Juerd
From: Juerd
Date: 13:21 on 23 Apr 2005
Subject: Upgrading without central packaging
So I've had a Mac for a month now. And there's a new version of Firefox
that has some bug and security fixes, so I thought it'd be wise to
upgrade.
Under Debian, I'd also upgrade the rest of my system, just because it's
just as easy and doesn't take a lot more time. I would type two simple
commands and it would get me new versions of everything, probably
including Firefox:
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
But - with my shiny new Mac Mini, I have to upgrade Firefox the same way
I installed it, and I recall not liking that. Again, with Debian, it'd
have been just one simple command:
apt-get install firefox
Which downloads and installs all without my intervention. Instead, I
have to:
1. start a browser (in this case Firefox)
2. enter a URL (getfirefox.com)
3. click a link (download)
4. wait for the download to finish
5. double click an icon (dmg)
6. drag another icon to the Applications folder
7. confirm that I want to replace the old one
8. close the Finder window again
9. select two icons (dmg and mounted volume)
10. drag them to Trash
And after all that hard labour, all that's upgraded is just one program!
There's not even something that can tell me what updates are available
for the many programs I have installed the past month, so I have to
check that manually too.
As far as I am concerned, Apple's Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows XP
are not yet ready for the Desktop. This is too much hard and confusing
work to confront newbies with. I'm lucky to be a geek and understand the
entire 10 step procedure!
Juerd
From: Juerd Date: 08:16 on 22 Jul 2004 Subject: Open/save dialogs that do not start in ~ My home directory has everything. I have my own structure within my home directory, but it'd be great if things would just start their open/save dialogs right there. Certainly not in /, or a hidden directory anywhere. OpenOffice.org is now sane enough to respect the mighty ~, but still too many programs don't seem to understand how most people work. For instance, xmms defaults to /. Perhaps they assume that everyone who has music, is a home user who has an mp3 disk mounted somewhere; I don't know why they do this. Juerd
From: Juerd Date: 20:27 on 30 May 2004 Subject: open in browser Yes, I know that it isn't text/plain. Yes, I know that you don't know how to handle that mime type. But please, PLEASE, can you just TRY to display it without forcing me to save it to disk or to use it with an external application (which also means saving it to disk)? Every browser should have a "open in browser" option in the download dialog that lets you just see the thing as if it's text/plain. I know I'm not the only one who wants this and I'm sure the feature has already been requested a thousand times. Why won't browser coders create this feature? Juerd
From: Juerd
Date: 15:05 on 02 May 2004
Subject: Useless error messages
Geeks want to know what went wrong, even when they're not in a position
to fix the problem.
DHL tracking site says:
Error Number: -2147221501 0x80040003
Error Description: <system>\-2147221501\4\ [TRK_Track:CTrackProxy.TrackShipmentASP]\|
File: /i_TrackRslts_Func.asp
Line Number: 213
Column Number: -1
And don't tell me they left out the real error message because that
would frighten newbies :) There is also no point in trying to convince me that
they do know what the real problem is.
Juerd
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