From: Tanja Date: 10:37 on 26 Apr 2005 Subject: beachball Today I witnessed, many times, that cute colourful beachball that my Mac OS X displays when it basically hangs. Instead of using the valuable resources to actually make sure Safari doesn't hang (as my activity monitor kindly displays in bright red) Apple decided to make a cute spinning beachball. I don't like it *I hate it* What do they think? I go 'oh cute, I don't mind the wait lalala'??? I want to do my work! I don't want some stupid happy thingy on my screen, making it impossible for me to actually do anything but wait! And what do I wait for? I have no clue! It spins on *ALL* my apps most of the time! Do I want it? No! Can I turn it off? NO! Does it drive me crazy? Fuck yeah! -- Tanja ... Be a rebel. Accept your body.
From: Tannie Date: 16:27 on 26 Jan 2005 Subject: iSync must die! I hate hate hate iSync. Below you'll find my report of my latest attempt to sync all my devices. I think have succeeded mostly, but fear monday when I walk into wark and sync... So much hate comes from trying to get it all right,I just have no words for it. The report says it all. I managed to keep patient for about 1.5 hours (doing nothingmore then sync and write down my actions. Special Note: I only synced and did not change anything (unless otherwise noted). I've set up my palm to sync the contactsusing the iSync conduit and set all iSync devices to only sync contacts. To save time. (I do get things like 469 of 766 processed... Lines of information perhaps? Secretely syncing / processing ical anyway) 16:28 Started iSync through palm-sync with .Mac, Black (phone) and Tannie (palm Tungsten T) Syncing only contacts, no calender or todo items 16:31 Conflict! Contacts: add 21 | delete 15 | modify 2 -> Proceed 16:33 Done syncing, conflict resolver. 16:35 Syncing again to resolve conflicts (Black, Tannie and .Mac) 16:41 Conflict! Contacts: Modify 4 -> Proceed 16:43 Done syncing, conflict resolver. Error: Saturday, January 08, 2005 16:43 |Black| Device refused to add a contact (18) Conduit Black generated an internal error NSSyncConduitException (Device refused to add a contact (18)): can't close cleanly the connection to the device. (note: Black thinks it still thinkswhen iSync says it stopped syncing) 16:45 Syncing again to resolve conflicts (Black, Tannie and .Mac) 16:52 Conflict! Contacts: Modify 1 -> Proceed 16:54 Done syncing, conflict resolver. (3 conflicts...) Error: Saturday, January 08, 2005 16:54 |Black| Device refused to add a contact (18) Conduit Black generated an internal error NSSyncConduitException (Device refused to add a contact (18)): can't close cleanly the connection to the device. (note: Black thinks it still thinkswhen iSync says it stopped syncing) Yes, again! 16:55 Syncing again to resolve conflicts (Black, Tannie and .Mac) 17:02 Conflict! Contacts: Modify 1 -> Proceed 17:04 Done syncing, conflict resolver. (2 conflicts...) Again the same thing with black. At this point I decided to turn of .Mac syncing and fix the problems in my addressbook. Strated with 104 cards. Merged 1 and deleted 1. 102 cards left 17:08 Syncing again (Black, Tannie and *not* .Mac) 17:09 Conflict! Contacts: Modify 1 -> Proceed 17:09 Done. error that it couldn't connect to Black (it still thought it hadn't finished the previous sync) 17:10 Syncing again (Black, Tannie and *not* .Mac) 17:14 Conflict! Contacts: add 1| delete - | Modify 3 -> Proceed 17:17 Done syncing, no conflict resolver. (again, Black doesn't like it, I suspect it has to do with a duplicate contact) Merged duplicate contact in addressbook. 17:21 Syncing again (Black, Tannie and *not* .Mac) 17:26 Done syncing, no conflicts! (but oddly enough same error on Black) Addressbook likes how I want it. 17:28 Reboot phone, syncing with just .Mac. 17:29 Done. Addressbook likes how I want it. 17:30 Syncing .Mac and Tannie 17:32 Done! 17:33 Syncing .Mac and Tannie and Black 17:36 Conflict! Contacts: Add 1 -> Proceed (I suspect it's the duplicate one again) 17:37 Done! Conflict resolver, indeed the contact I thought. Resolve it by keeping the one from Black. 17:38 Syncing .Mac and Black and *not* Tannie 17:39 Done! Conflict resolver, again the contact I thought. Resolve it by keeping the one from Black. 17:40 Syncing .Mac and Black and *not* Tannie 17:40 Conflict! Contacts: Modify 1 -> Proceed 17:41 Done! error connecting to black though... 17:41 Syncing .Mac and Black and *not* Tannie 17:46 Done! error with black again (couldn't close connection properly) 17:48 Syncing .Mac and Black and *not* Tannie 17:51 Conflict! Contacts: Modify 1 -> Proceed 17:54 Done! error with black again (couldn't close connection properly) 18:03 Syncing .Mac and Black and *not* Tannie 18:04 Done! error with black again (couldn't close connection properly) 18:04 Syncing .Mac and Black and Tannie 18:07 Conflict! Contacts: Modify 1 -> Proceed 18:07 Done! error with black again (couldn't close connection properly) 18:08 Syncing .Mac and Black and Tannie 18:08 Conflict! Contacts: Modify 1 -> Proceed 18:08 Done! error with black again (couldn't close connection properly) repeat Repeat REPEAT! untill hate grows and phone gets smacked against the whole, iBook set on fire, palm thrown in front of train. Peace returns. Tanja
From: Tannie Date: 15:16 on 12 Nov 2004 Subject: adobe illustrator So, I decided to try out Adobe Illustrator. I downloaded the demo at work and installed. Went fine, no hate there. Downloaded the same demo at home and installed. Doubleclicked and that's when the horror started. It refused to start. It went up to initializing the plugins and to the menu fonts and then I got this message it couldn't start cause damaged and please reinstall. I did. about 8x so far. Even on my external firewire disk. I got the installerfile from work and used that, thinking it was a damaged installer. Didn't help. I deleted everything I could find related to the program (prefs, files etc etc) and reinstalled. Didn't help. I moved my fonts and rebooted. Didn't help. It drives me insane cause why the hell would I buy this program now if the demo doesn't even work. pff -- Tanja ... To err is human, to moo bovine
From: Tannie Date: 14:05 on 05 Aug 2004 Subject: installers I install programs. I think most users do. Lately I've started hating installer programs. The kind that pops up and says "Program installed!" without telling you where it was installed (or what). The kind that pops up, asks you where to install and then installs somewhere else. The kind that installs and all works well untill you want to remove the program so you run the installer again, expecting an uninstall option in there, but no! You are not allowed to un-install! You must run this program even if it messes up your Mail.app! What's even more hateful is that the documentation and/or manual don't tell you either. Bah! Every installer should have a un-installer! It is very hateful to be digging through many many files to find the ones the program created. Grr. -- Tanja ... Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
From: Tannie Date: 17:24 on 02 Aug 2004 Subject: adobe reader for Palm OS I got bored on the train home from work (and to work, but that's in the morning, so I'm still half asleep) and decided to read books. I don't really want to drag books with me (I'm dragging so much with me already) so I decided to use my darling Palm Tungsten T for it. It can read PDF's with Adobe Reader (and some other formats with some other funky programs) so it seemed the ideal way to carry several books with me in case I suddenly was in the mood for something else. The hate started soon.... I downloaded the required file from the Adobe website and unpacked it. It contained a mac-program and a palm-program. I had no problem installing the palm-program, I just drag and drop it into my Hotsync manager and synced. Step 1 completed! I then double-clicked the other program, expecting an installer but no! It was the desktop program! Hello? Where's the install thingy that installs my conduit so my palm can actually sync with the desktopprogram? I did some searching and turns out the desktop program contained the conduit! Which is very hateful, cause that way i have no control over it whatsoever. Whoever made that up should be fired. I wasn't in a hateful mood yet, so when the program told me to press the Hotsync button so it could check my palm I did it, fully expecting the program to check my palm and figure out what it could do with it. But no! *Nothing* happened (well, regular sync, but that wasn't what I wanted) I tried again a couple of times. *n-o-t-h-i-n-g* Since I couldn't find a conduit, the hotsync log didn't contain a conduit error-message. The hate started to grow. I disabled all hacks on my palm, thinking that may be the problem (hateful on it's own). But no! It still didn't work! And still no errorlog. I got angry and yelled at my palm to do the damn sync, but my poor palm was completely innocent and did it's best (I have yet to make up to it). I did some more googling and finally found a comment on versiontracker that said I had to rightclick the desktop program, click show package contents and somewhere in there was the conduit, hidden. What? Manual install of the conduit? Why was this not in the user guide?! I dragged it to my conduits folder of my palm application support folder and the hate grew and grew. I had to authenticate! What? Hello?! I'm logged in! As me! Hating everything I typed in my password and the conduit appeared in my Hotsyncmanager. Thinking I finally beat the desktop program I told it to convert a few books, which took nearly an hour and resulted in around 2mb of files (and the hate grew more!) By the time I could finally sync my palm the Hate was very big. It synced happily (good palm). And then came the error of the conduit "Not enough space on the receiving device, please check your memory card, it may be full" WTH? It had almost 3mb free! I triple-checked _before_ syncing! AAARGH! HATE! I checked again, it showed a little over 2mb free. It had installed one of the files, but there were a few more, and room enough for it. I pressed hotsync again. The next file was transfered, and again I got the error about not enough memory. AAAAAAAAAAA! And again hotsync, again next file transfered, again error (repeat until all files done). Have all files on Palm now, lots of Hate-Hate-Hate. Stupid Adobe Reader! It should just work! Grrrr! Hateful, very Hateful! -- Tanja ... I love cats... Dead ones.
From: Tannie Date: 13:12 on 27 Mar 2004 Subject: I hate iPhoto I very much hate iPhoto. It has this neat feature where you can set the title of the photo to a certain text or the film role name followed by a number.(see http://www.macstuff.net/hate/rename.jpg for a screenshot) Very handy one might think. Think again. iPhoto does: photo1 photo2 photo3 etc etc photo10 photo11 photo12 So when you sort all the photos by title you get: photo1 photo10 photo11 photo12 photo2 photo3 As you may have expected. (see http://www.macstuff.net/hate/sorting.jpg for the wonderful sorting sample) Well, it's not what I want nor expected! I just want *normal* sorting. Why on earth would iPhoto use a 1-2-3...10 type of renaming if it can't sort it properly.Even I can build in a check to see if something ends with one number and therefore should be treated a bit special for sorting. How come apples developers can't?Oh wait! Finder can! And that's all hate apart from the fact it keeps on crashing me even though it is supposed to be able to handle the 2000+ photos I have. grrrr hate iPhoto grrr! -- Tannie
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