Posted by Johnnie
Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:18:00 GMT
Much as love Linux – and god knows I do love ‘er, fickle and high-maintenance mistress that she is – there are a few things that irritate and annoy me. Some of them are big things and some of them are small things. The thing that annoys me most of all, though, more than anything else in the Free & Open Source software world, is the noise that K3B plays when it’s finished burning a disk. It’s a little fanfare of smugness. It’s a sound that all but demands a round of applause and a short speech to commemorate the fact that K3B has managed to accomplish the sole task for which it was designed, without – for example – setting my house on fire or pissing on my cat. It’s as bad as using Windows, where if I don’t want to sit through the ten-minute masturbation session that is the Windows XP New Features Tour, the operating system gets mildly indignant and goes off into the system tray for a sulk.
I know it’s open source, so I can just hack it myself and solve my own problem, but it shouldn’t be there in the first place. It’s stupid, and most un-FOSS-like.
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Posted by Johnnie
Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:29:00 GMT
I’m writing this from one of the public-access terminals at my local library. It’s a thin client system, which needless-to-say runs Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6. Gah!
Every two minutes, the system tray pops up a balloon to helpfully tell me that A Java update is available. Apparently I also have unused icons on my desktop – click here to clean them up. Every three minutes, that one.
Finally, the most annoying Helpful Windows Prompt™ of all time, Your computer needs to be restarted in order for the new updates to take effect. Restart now? No, Windows! Don’t restart now, thank you very much! In fact, don’t restart at all. As I’m not logged on as an administrator, I don’t have the privileges to restart anyway, so if I clicked the restart button, you’d just tell me I couldn’t. You know it, and I know it, so stop bugging me! Goddam it! Every five accursed minutes!
God, this site looks fugly on IE, doesn’t it? Sorry about that, those who are forced by circumstance to use The Cancer Of The Internet. Those who do so by choice have earned my eternal hatred. I’m not going to fix it – I spend far too much of my life making websites work under IE.
Oh, for heaven’s sake. The restrictions on this computer are crazy. I just tried to open up a second IE window to grab some urls for this post. Apparantly This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Are you kidding me? Two browser windows is too much anarchy for you? Give me a break.
Ah-ha! I’ve just remembered – I’ve got Portable Firefox on a USB stick in my bag. Happy browsing here we come … nope. Can’t use external storage either.
Bollocks to it. I’m going home. There’s a *nix box with my name on it.
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