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From: Peter da Silva Date: 16:10 on 28 Feb 2008 Subject: Apple's automounter OK, I'm connecting to a samba share called "backup" on a machine called "enclave.in.taronga.com" that happens to be in the "taronga" workgroup. What do you suppose OS X does? Mount it as "enclave-shared" (or something like that) on "/volumes/ enclave/shared"? No, it mounts it as "shared". No indication of where it comes from. Mount it as "shared" on "/volumes/shared" or "/volumes/ enclave:shared" or something? Nope, it's "shared" on "/volumes/TARONGA;ENCLAVE". Mount something else, and it shows up as "/volumes/TARONGA;ENCLAVE-1". * semicolon as part of the file name? * share name NOT part of the file name? * Finder's name and the mount point completely different? Jesus Harold Christ!
From: Peter da Silva Date: 04:34 on 08 Jan 2008 Subject: Apple Mail *name* rewriting... When I get mail to an address that APple Mail thinks it knows, it CHANGES what it shows me to match the address it thinks I should be seeing. I just realized that this is what it was doing, despite the fact that I have the option that *looks* like it turns this hateful user snottiness on disabled, after a frustrating attempt to find a message that I'd deliberately sent to myself with a different name so it would stand out. This is pissing me off. Most of the Apple Collective crap I can ride out and move on with, but this is hiding information I need to know. That's purely hateful.
From: Peter da Silva Date: 12:18 on 16 Aug 2007 Subject: Dear Windows. I have 2GB RAM... Dear Windows. I have 2GB RAM. What bloody good is a nominal 20MB paging file going to do me? Why do I need a bleeding paging file at all when I have 2GB RAM? UNIX is happy to let me fly naked, and it's much more anal about its environment than you are, so what in the name of all the demons in Redmond do you need that dinky little paging file for? While I'm on the subject, why do you time out clean pages from your buffer cache when you've got 1.5GB of free memory? As far as I can tell even Vista still does this. Do you think pages get cooties after a while or something?
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 17:05 on 21 Apr 2007 Subject: Mail programs that don't tell you where links are going. Even Apple ****-ing mail does this. If someone puts a link in an HTML mail message, the only way to see where the link is going before you get there is to copy the link and paste it somewhere, or view source. Making the link show up in hovertext or in a status line would reduce the ability of phishers to fool people by about thirty Raffles Units (the standard unit for measuring the effectiveness of a con job), and it's something that I've just assumed Apple, Microsoft, and everyone else would figure out any day now. But no, this must be one of those things that's obviously not obvious.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 01:27 on 29 Mar 2007 Subject: Follow your own bloody guidelines. "Discoverability. Encourage your users to discover functionality by providing cues about how to use user interface elements. If an element is clickable, for example, it must appear that way, or a user may never try clicking it. Be sure to use Aqua controls properly and avoid making controls invisible to inexperienced users." In iTunes, if you're viewing a playlist, and you want to delete a track from the library rather than the playlist, you hold "Alt" down while hitting the "Delete" key. This is the only way to delete the track without locating it in the main "Library" list and deleting it from there. Holding down Alt and dragging to the trash or holding down Alt and selecting Delete from the Edit menu just remove the entry from the playlist. Dragging to trash, selecting the "Delete" item in the Edit or contextual menus, or hitting the "Delete" key without holding Alt also just remove the track from the Playlist. And you can't even bring up teh contextual menu with the Alt key held down. There is no way to "discover" this. It doesn't say that this option is available in the "Delete" dialog, and holding down the Alt key doesn't provide any feedback. You just have to know. Now if this was just a shortcut for the "Delete Track" menu entry, that would be fine. But the Mac user interface is full of special cases like this, where Alt-click and Cmd-click do special things. And there's NEVER any indication of it. Anywhere. You just have to memorize this stuff. It makes the options to Berkeley "ls" seem intuitive.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 20:07 on 01 Feb 2007 Subject: Contextual menus are on right-click, OK? Bug-report to Apple, on iCal: ``Normally on the Mac where an object on the screen has a contextual menu available, that is accessed by right-clicking. In iCal, to add an additional alarm to an event, you have to LEFT click on the word "alarm". Right-clicking does nothing. ``Whether that's a bug or a design flaw depends on whether that's deliberate or not, but I've been using this OS since it was called "NeXTSTep" and it didn't even occur to me to LEFT-click on a word that had no 3d cues to indicate that it was a button. I right clicked, nothing happened, and so I assumed iCal didn't support multiple alarms until talking about it with another Mac user after a meeting I was late to.'' I can just hear some hateful begger at Apple saying "Well, the Human Interface Guidelines are only guidelines".
From: Peter da Silva Date: 19:09 on 27 Jan 2007 Subject: Re: cygwin (was: Excessively grandiose product names) On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: > I miss Xt; it was butt-ugly but it worked, reliably and portably. It > was cool to be able to aim viewres at something and figure out how to > configure it without having to fight whatever limited options the > programmer might have exposed. I'm probably forgetting a lot of pain, > though. Xaw is pretty good that way, too, and you could use Xaw3d or neXtaw to make it less ugly (or Xaw95 to make it more ugly).
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 20:17 on 27 Dec 2006 Subject: Re: C#, .Net, and Mono > > And they're hardcoding explicit bit lengths in the definition of the class > > library? > How long do you think it will be until software starts using buffers > over 2 gigs in size. When I left my last job in May I had been using a system with 64-bit size_t for about a decade, so I would be utterly gobstruck if there's no software currently in existence that's reading and writing more than 2G at a shot.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 20:38 on 03 Oct 2006 Subject: When I say "install on drive 'D'" I mean "install on drive 'D'"... Dear Microsoft. When I select "install in the unpartitioned space on drive 'D'" I don't think it at all unreasonable for me to expect you to you to do that, and it's something of a shock to discover that you thought I selected "There's a Fat32 partition on drive 'C' so stick some of the boot files there instead, and when drive 'C' is removed the computer will just sit there until I get tired of trying repair options and reinstall" instead. Thanks ever so much, love and kisses, Peter.
From: peter (Peter da Silva) Date: 14:16 on 11 Jul 2006 Subject: You're just a text editor, that's not your file. TextForge: just because I used you to edit a config file that doesn't mean you own that file. Stop pissing on every file you touch and making it smell like you: if it was opening in Terminal before I edited it, then it bloody well should open in Terminal afterwards.
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