From: Gerry Lawrence Date: 21:46 on 24 Oct 2007 Subject: Special hate for Oracle. ------=_Part_9294_19393282.1193258764041 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Like most IT types, I've hated a lot of software in my life, that's just part for the course. But there's a special place in hell for Oracle. Oracle is such a overdeveloped, poorly designed worthless piece of crap that I don't know why I actually expect anything but pain and suffering every time I need to get it to do something. Oracle installs can be "automated". You basically take a text file (called a response file) and feed it into the installer (runInstaller). That's nice. So maybe you want to combine your oracle install with your kickstart install. Aren't we clever! Sounds great -- press the button and presto! The operating system is installed along with oracle. Only one problem. Even though (in "silent, automatic" batch mode) runInstaller needs no interaction with the human and never opens a window, it absolutely needs an X server to run. It will bail out without one. So now I gotta start an X serrver _during kickstart_???? You gotta fucking be kidding me. I gotta figure out some sort of fake X server to run? Or I could keep an X server running somewhere on the network with X open to the host and set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to it. Oracle programmers are cretinous fucking morons. Die, Oracle, Die. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE. ------=_Part_9294_19393282.1193258764041 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <br>Like most IT types, I've hated a lot of software in my life, that's just part for the course.<br><br>But there's a special place in hell for Oracle. Oracle is such a overdeveloped, poorly designed worthless piece of crap <br>that I don't know why I actually expect anything but pain and suffering every time I need to get it to do something.<br><br>Oracle installs can be "automated". You basically take a text file (called a response file) and feed it into <br>the installer (runInstaller). That's nice. So maybe you want to combine your oracle install with your kickstart install.<br>Aren't we clever! Sounds great -- press the button and presto! The operating system is installed along with oracle. <br><br>Only one problem. Even though (in "silent, automatic" batch mode) runInstaller needs no interaction with the human and never<br>opens a window, it absolutely needs an X server to run. It will bail out without one. <br><br>So now I gotta start an X serrver _during kickstart_???? You gotta fucking be kidding me. I gotta figure out some<br>sort of fake X server to run? Or I could keep an X server running somewhere on the network with X open to the host <br>and set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to it. <br><br>Oracle programmers are cretinous fucking morons.<br><br>Die, Oracle, Die. DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE.<br><br><br><br> ------=_Part_9294_19393282.1193258764041--
From: Gerry Lawrence Date: 20:00 on 08 May 2007 Subject: Thunderbird hate ------=_Part_77297_31633481.1178650848061 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline SIgh. I've used thunderbird for years, even before it was thunderbird, netscape mail. It seems that developers for thunderbird and all other mozilla projects are hell bent on: 1) Adding as many features as possible, especially if their utility is questionable. 2) Making sure that the keybindings are always always always "microsoft" and can never ever be set back to "emacs" bindings. There have been many methods over the years to change the keybindings but they eventually don't work with distro-x,y or z and or get deprecated and/or don't work with every part of the emailer -- title bar, text area etc. I've tried them all. I may give up. Ironically the MAC version leaves these as emacs bindings. I guess all those ex-unix guys are mac guys now. Yeesh. 3) Make extra damn sure that the UNIX versions (et al) all have incredible stupid behaviors that can not be fixed. Like for instance, attachment handling. Now, I of course have mplayer, which can play wmv files. I'd like thunderbird to use mplayer to play WMV files. So, when you download an attachment, you can specify the player. And you can do it again next time as well because thunderbird can't remember it. There's a little checkbox to "always do this action" but IT'S ALWAYS GREYED OUT. I filled a bug against tbird years ago on this and have been, of course, summarily ignored. I've been told that all software projects are like this -- programmers don't want to fix the bugs they created yesterday, they're too busy writing new bugs. So while writing this I tried evolution. It handles the attachments a little better. It has some other annoyances that maybe I'll live with. I'll try it and if it works, thunderbird is going to fly away.
From: Gerry Lawrence Date: 00:02 on 19 Apr 2007 Subject: Verizon Cellphone Software ------=_Part_17725_6397283.1176937372631 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline They may have the best network but their software sucks ass. Verizon puts its software on all models of phone, so it doesn't matter which phone you get, they all suck. All cell phone software sucks ass. Verizon takes the suckage to a new level. Stupid modal dialog boxes are the norm but Verizon one-ups this with the auto *disappearing* stupid modal dialog box. You can hit OK, OR wait until it does it all by itself. Sound good? It isn't. You'll have just a second to hit "OK", but if you don't it will "OK" for you anyway. Now this is insane. I can't press anything ELSE than OK, so why make me wait and decide to hit OK or not? Now, if you get it just a little to late the "OK" button NOW does something else, like drag you into another menu you didn't want to be in. What a bunch of Fucktards. Speaking of menus, it has the worst combination of navigation and keys that are "contextual" so you have to constantly look at the screen to figure out which key is going to do what you need it to do. And there's no consistency. Sub menus don't have a "go back" or "cancel" button -- if you've changed something you'll have to remember what you changed and change it back to cancel a change operation. The go back button USUALLY is the "clr" button. Only 4 of the buttons are programmable and the options for are limited to "buy more stuff" options from their fucking marketing department. God forbid that I hot-key something useful. To send a text message to someone in your address book take key after key after menu -- you'll give up before you get it. Most of the config menus take you to a simple "on off" sub menu. A whole sub-menu just for on damn option? There's hours of my life I'll never get back. Oh, you can change the front screen to have a background that you like but NOT WHEN YOU'RE MAKING A CALL. THEN you HAVE to have the verizon logo on it -- no way to change it. ------=_Part_17725_6397283.1176937372631 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <br>They may have the best network but their software sucks ass. Verizon puts its software<br>on all models of phone, so it doesn't matter which phone you get, they all suck.<br><br>All cell phone software sucks ass. Verizon takes the suckage to a new level. <br><br>Stupid modal dialog boxes are the norm but Verizon one-ups this with the auto *disappearing* stupid modal dialog box. <br>You can hit OK, OR wait until it does it all by itself. Sound good? It isn't.<br><br> You'll have just a second to hit "OK", but if you don't it will "OK" for you anyway. Now this is insane. I can't press anything ELSE than<br>OK, so why make me wait and decide to hit OK or not? Now, if you get it just a little to late the "OK" button NOW does <br>something else, like drag you into another menu you didn't want to be in. What a bunch of Fucktards.<br><br>Speaking of menus, it has the worst combination of navigation and keys that are "contextual" so you have <br>to constantly look at the screen to figure out which key is going to do what you need it to do. And there's no<br>consistency.<br><br>Sub menus don't have a "go back" or "cancel" button -- if you've changed something you'll have to remember what you changed <br>and change it back to cancel a change operation. The go back button USUALLY is the "clr" button.<br><br><br>Only 4 of the buttons are programmable and the options for are limited to "buy more stuff" options from <br>their fucking marketing department. God forbid that I hot-key something useful. <br><br>To send a text message to someone in your address book take key after key after menu -- you'll give up<br>before you get it. <br><br>Most of the config menus take you to a simple "on off" sub menu. A whole sub-menu just for on damn option?<br>There's hours of my life I'll never get back.<br><br>Oh, you can change the front screen to have a background that you like but NOT WHEN YOU'RE MAKING A CALL. <br>THEN you HAVE to have the verizon logo on it -- no way to change it. <br><br><br><br><br><br> ------=_Part_17725_6397283.1176937372631--
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