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From: David Cantrell Date: 10:43 on 26 Jul 2006 Subject: Ghostscript When I feed functionally identical Postscript into two different versions of Ghostscript, I expect the resulting images to be identical. They are not. Grrr. This makes it impossible for me to ship tests with my perl module which relies on Ghostscript to convert from PS to PNG. Hate.
From: David Cantrell Date: 22:13 on 30 May 2006 Subject: Inconsistent options Leafnode is a small simple NNRP server. The two most important commands it provides are texpire, which expires old messages out of the spool; and fetchnews, which mutters at other news servers to exchange messages. Both provide a -q option. The docs say: for texpire: Quiet. Print no messages unless problems occur. Cancels preced- ing -v [verbose] options. and for fetchnews: Be quiet. Suppresses some warnings. This flag cancels any previ- ously encountered -v [verbose] flags. So while -v (and -vv, -vvv etc) mean the same for both, -q doesn't. Or at least, they're not documented to be the same. So it's hateful either way.
From: David Cantrell Date: 11:59 on 23 May 2006 Subject: helping the user is not an error When the user asks for help, giving that help is not an error. So please use STDOUT and not STDERR. It makes it so much easier to redirect your overly verbose spew into less(1).
From: David Cantrell Date: 12:40 on 29 Jan 2006 Subject: apt-get david@farmer-giles:/etc$ sudo apt-get update ... W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk unstable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems HATE
From: David Cantrell Date: 21:05 on 13 Jan 2006 Subject: GNU Mailman GNU Mailman inserts a List-ID header into emails passing through it so that they can be easily filtered. It also inserts a List-ID header into email sent to $listname-admin before forwarding it. This is hateful, as it is reasonable to expect that people wouldn't want those emails to be filtered in the same way. Also hateful is sourceforget's habit of having $listname-admin go through mailman at all instead of just being forwarded straight to the right person.
From: David Cantrell
Date: 14:05 on 30 Nov 2005
Subject: calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator
; iroot(90872395726983750274650285408174305827346085726340587260384650287435,3)
44958380568752795591117
; 44958380568752795591117^3
90872395726983750274646170108413760218858681308600137573915168198613
Grrr.
From: David Cantrell
Date: 15:06 on 18 Oct 2005
Subject: stupid dependencies
For reasons I'm not going to go in to, I need to install some of that
trendy "Instant Messageing" software, specifically gaim. There is a
Debian package of it. So I apt-get install gaim:
$ sudo apt-get install gaim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gaim-data gcc-4.0-base libao2 libaspell15 libaspell15c2 libglib2.0-0
^^^^^^^^^^^^
libglib2.0-dev libgtkspell0 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
libpango1.0-dev libstartup-notification0 libstdc++6 libxss1
WTF, over?
From: David Cantrell Date: 17:09 on 16 May 2005 Subject: OpenOffice.ooOOOOOOoooOOOoooook EEEeek! eeek! oooOOOOOK! Bastard software, used to have a nice simple name like Open Office, but now the crack monkeys have been at it and we're meant to call it O0o, or oOo, or ooo ooo ooo ooo-oo-ooo ooo-oo-ooo or doobie-doo or something equally stupid. But that's not what I hate right now. Right now, I have two documents open, in two windows. Both contain tables. In both documents, my cursor is in a table cell. In the active document (you know, the one that my window mangler has highlighted, and where the cursor moves around when i mash my fists on the keyboard, and THE ONE I JUST FUCKING RIGHT-CLICKED IN TO GET A CONTEXT MENU) i select the "row" option, then "delete" and it deletes the current row in the wrong document. I find this to be quite annoying. Jeeves, fetch my sword!
From: David Cantrell Date: 10:45 on 04 May 2005 Subject: GNU info and GNU cpp I'm following a trail of documentation trying to find out about the #line directive in cpp, which I only just found out exists. But this is a Linux system, so the meat of the docs is hidden in GNU info instead of in a nice tasty easily-searchable man page. GNU info is hateful in itself, as it has the world's most fucked up user interface. The info docs for cpp - at which I am pointed from the cpp man page - seem to be nothing but a word-for-word copy of the inadequate man page.
From: David Cantrell Date: 10:24 on 26 Nov 2004 Subject: Coffee machines I have Hated the coffee machine we have at work in this august forum before. But now I have new Hate for it. Last night, some of the menus on it changed for no good reason, so until I memorise the new layout I'll have to read the menus. Bad user interface design. However, a far worse sin is that it now has several "coffee's". I declare apostrophic jihad.
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