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Sweevo posted:Doesn't work with my camera. The driver intercepts left-click and brings up a menu with idiotically-large icons and stupid options like: "Copy all photos to My Documents" and "Email my lovely photos to grandma". Umm, you are clicking the remove hardware icon in the systray right? This one:  I hate how that list sometimes shows things you would never want to remove (as in the above example) and cannot actually remove anyway, but it should let you remove your camera
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IE6 is probably my number one enemy on computers full stop. As a web developer/designer I have wasted probably over £1000 worth of time getting stuff to work on it and hacking poo poo around.
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EbolaIvory posted:Seriously, theres games that REQUIRE me to loving install 4-10 patches just to play online? Steam kills that in the nuts. And it makes me really happy. Back when I still used it, Steam would force you to patch it before you could play ANYTHING. On a few occasions I'd hop off for ~5 minutes to check an IM or something, and there'd be a whole new patch out I had to wait for just to get back into what I was already playing. I seem to remember it updating EVERY SINGLE GAME during this process too, but that might be off.
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Javid posted:Back when I still used it, Steam would force you to patch it before you could play ANYTHING. On a few occasions I'd hop off for ~5 minutes to check an IM or something, and there'd be a whole new patch out I had to wait for just to get back into what I was already playing. I seem to remember it updating EVERY SINGLE GAME during this process too, but that might be off. Yep it autoupdates the second a patch is out. Rogue Istari posted:FYI you read the box. Nowhere does it say anything about needing an Internet connection. Maybe it does on the Orange Box, but not on the Portal standalone. This is the first game I've bought from Valve, so I didn't know anything about Steam, and there's no mention of it at all on the outer packaging for the game or on the one slip of paper that comes in the box. I don't find having to download a game I just bought and then having to prove that I'm the one that bought it every time I play it as convenient as you do, so it'll also be the last Valve game I buy. Under system requirements there SHOULD be in italics. "Internet connection required" If not, email valve, thats hosed.
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Lum posted:Umm, you are clicking the remove hardware icon in the systray right? This one: I didn't know about single-clicking that icon. The system tray pisses me off. Every application dumps icons in there and you never know whether they want to be single-, double-, or right-clicked. Most applications minimize to the taskbar when you click the window's minimize button, but some minimize to the system tray. Most applications exit when you click the window's close button, but some minimize to the system tray. All four combinations of the previous two sentences occur in one application or another. Al Azif fucked around with this message at May 5, 2008 around 14:10 |
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loving progress bars that don't mean loving poo poo. Seriously, do you really need to have the progress bar for, say, Installation Progress reset every time a new stage of the install begins? You'd think it'd be easier for installers this day and age to take a quick peek at the available CPU and memory on a machine and get you a more accurate estimate of the time it will actually take to complete a process. If I had meaningful progress bars, I could time tasks much more efficiently when, say, rolling out multiple workstations.
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TheTarrasque posted:loving progress bars that don't mean loving poo poo. Those iD installer progress bars back in the DOS days were hilarious. They'd be like 1%....... 2%...... 3%....... (several minutes pass) ...... 4%...... 5%.....67890adsfawefawefliauwfehawe100%
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TheTarrasque posted:loving progress bars that don't mean loving poo poo. "Preparing to install..." and a progress bar that stays at zero for 4 minutes, before zipping up to 100% in 0.002 seconds.
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TheTarrasque posted:loving progress bars that don't mean loving poo poo. Pretty much every game that has one is guilty of this. And they invariably get stuck at 100% for twice the amount of time spent counting the first 99%. Then there's ones like in Office Space when Peter is trying shut his work PC down to leave work for the day, so he waits for the progress bar. Then when that one is finally done, a whole new one pops up. Progress bars mean nothing if there are more than one and you don't know how many more are left. Zorilla fucked around with this message at May 5, 2008 around 15:29 |
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TheTarrasque posted:progress bars I'm looking at you, Outlook export to PST function.
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Raluek posted:To contribute to the thread: I was reminded by a different thread of something else that pisses me off on a regular basis: people who assert themselves and really don't know what they are talking about. I'm sure I've done it at times, but come on people, you come into the store where I am paid to know stuff and argue with me about how that little machine won't boot from the CD, even though I just booted from my shop disc? Right in front of you? I can sympathize, but the majority of the time the guy selling the computer stuff has no idea what he's talking about, so it's kind of hard to blame them for assuming the same with you. Blame Best Buy/Future Shop. HPL posted:Those iD installer progress bars back in the DOS days were hilarious. They'd be like 1%....... 2%...... 3%....... (several minutes pass) ...... 4%...... 5%.....67890adsfawefawefliauwfehawe100% Jedi Knight was the exact opposite. It would zip to 99% in about 30-60 seconds and stay there for 10 minutes.
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DizzyBum posted:Facebook application requests. Fortunately, people you defriend aren't notified.
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What pisses me off? Videos that have hardcoded letterboxing. Meaning when I view it with my widescreen TFT it's the right aspect ratio but much smaller than it should be.
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[quote="narby"] A few more I've been thinking about -Things that dynamically force resizes your browser window. This is especially annoying when it's a lovely webpage that decides your browser should be a 1024x1024 window to display its poo poo correctly. [quote] You still put up with this? Really?? Have you not heard of Firefox? I haven't had to deal with resizing windows for almost 6 years now.
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Anjow posted:What pisses me off? Videos that have hardcoded letterboxing. Meaning when I view it with my widescreen TFT it's the right aspect ratio but much smaller than it should be. Non-anamorphic is the fancy term for that. What's nice about VLC is that it has zoom functions built in that will take care of that.
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Alystair posted:People that are forced or too dumb to switch away from IE6. I was told not to install IE7 on my home PC because the fuckers at my school got ambushed by IE7 and never even knew of it existence until it hit windows update. They were going to "evaluate" the program for the next 6 months or so. IE8 is slowly coming and 7 is still not installed on the school PCs.
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duz posted:Non-anamorphic is the fancy term for that. What's nice about VLC is that it has zoom functions built in that will take care of that. Oh really? Not wanting to derail but certainly wanting to get over this stupid problem - how might I accomplish it? The 'zoom' menu option just seems to make the video larger and has no effect running in fullscreen. I'm on VLC 0.8.6c.
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Anjow posted:Oh really? Not wanting to derail but certainly wanting to get over this stupid problem - how might I accomplish it? The 'zoom' menu option just seems to make the video larger and has no effect running in fullscreen. Video -> Crop -> 16:10 (or whatever your monitor is) (Zoom is a "different effect")
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The photo uploading software for my girlfriend's Philips digital picture frame has a spectacularly dumb system requirement: The six megabyte app won't install on a drive that is more than 80% full, regardless of how much free space actually exists. Have 30 gigabytes free on a 300 gig drive? Tough luck. Better delete something. I ended up having to install it on my laptop, since none of the drives in my desktop qualified.
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Does Starforce qualify for this thread?
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I hate when I get customers who don't even want to change their passwords ONCE every six months. Never mind the fact that these are doctors' offices, and if there is a data breach, they will most likely be sued into oblivion. Now I just send out an email the day before and force them to change their passwords, as opposed to arguing with them for two weeks.
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Two related things I dislike about windows is when renaming a file: a)if you unknowingly/accidentally rename it to something that already exists it does not give you a chance to append to it but rather replaces it with the previous file name and: b)if you delete the file extension while renaming (undoubtedly because it auto-selects it by default  ) clicking "no" on the "are you sure you want to change the file extension" doesn't just replace the file extension with the previous. Of course it replaces the whole name and undoes the typing you just did because obviously I didn't want to rename it at all.Of course you could avoid b) by disabling file extensions but then it's even more tedious the times you do want to change one. I'd prefer a "yes", "no", "cancel" is that so hard? Xenomorph posted:
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Javid posted:Back when I still used it, Steam would force you to patch it before you could play ANYTHING. On a few occasions I'd hop off for ~5 minutes to check an IM or something, and there'd be a whole new patch out I had to wait for just to get back into what I was already playing. I seem to remember it updating EVERY SINGLE GAME during this process too, but that might be off. It's set to auto-updated by default, but in properties you can turn that off. Which is fine for local games, but multiplayer games you're still gonna have to update. The logic is, you open steam when you start your system and it downloads patchs then, so when you want to play you just start the game and it jumps right in without waiting for the patch after you decide to play the game. Worst outcome is you don't auto-start steam and you patch like every other game. Related complaint: People who demand everything conform to their workflow without attempting change. Similarly, people who demand everyONE conform to their workflow because it's how they do it. The biggest thing I'm thinking about is OSX. It comes down to "gently caress WINDOWS DID IT THIS WAY, gently caress YOU OSX" without trying to adapt. And then the macfags who go "gently caress you don't need a way to sort folders on top or snap edges or anything, you just need to learn to do it our way n00b  "
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ChiliMac posted:b)if you delete the file extension while renaming (undoubtedly because it auto-selects it by default Extensions aren't highlighted when you rename in Vista. Now, if Vista would just remember the last position of the mixer instead of opening in the corner every time...
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For some reason, my MP3 player won't accept a rename of a file if the file name is the same except for capitalization. Meaning, if I try to rename "04 - song title.mp3" to "04 - Song Title.mp3" and press Enter, it won't accept. I have to change the filename and go and change it back. I can't think of why it wouldn't accept it, because I'm pretty sure it doesn't see those two filenames as being the same.
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Rogue Istari posted:Extensions aren't highlighted when you rename in Vista. You can also use the QTTabBar to add tabs to Windows XP explorer and not auto-select extensions when renaming. Actually. QTTabbar does a lot of things for XP explorer that make it more usable without some lovely replacement that always seems to get rid of another important feature.
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HPL posted:Does Starforce qualify for this thread? Only if you have conclusive proof that it actually does anything. I recall the company that produced it holding a $10,000 challenge that if anyone could reproduce a problem due to Starforce in their office, using your own machine, they'd give you ten grand. I don't think anyone met the dare. EDIT: Well, according to Wikipedia, it seems that Starforce is pretty bad. I hadn't read anythign conclusive about it until now. Interesting. Jerk McJerkface fucked around with this message at May 5, 2008 around 21:53 |
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dorkanoid posted:Video -> Crop -> 16:10 (or whatever your monitor is) (Zoom is a "different effect") Right, crop. My bad. Paper Mache Soul posted:For some reason, my MP3 player won't accept a rename of a file if the file name is the same except for capitalization. Meaning, if I try to rename "04 - song title.mp3" to "04 - Song Title.mp3" and press Enter, it won't accept. I have to change the filename and go and change it back. I can't think of why it wouldn't accept it, because I'm pretty sure it doesn't see those two filenames as being the same. I assume this is because you're using a Microsoft filesystem all of which are case insensitive so when you change just the case, it thinks you havn't changed the name. If the application is smartly written, it won't have that problem, but so few are it seems.
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Ericcorp posted:Only if you have conclusive proof that it actually does anything. I recall the company that produced it holding a $10,000 challenge that if anyone could reproduce a problem due to Starforce in their office, using your own machine, they'd give you ten grand. I don't think anyone met the dare. You had to fly to Russia and the prize was only $1000 + traveling expenses. You had to do way more than "reproduce a problem due to Starforce", the problem had to appear more or less immediately after the installation and execution of a protected game and it had to be reproducible across different configurations. So basically it was "Fly halfway across the world, destroy your machine in a way that respects conditions that guarantee we can't lose and maybe we'll give you a grand." I'm shocked there were no takers.
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Suspicious posted:You had to fly to Russia and the prize was only $1000 + traveling expenses. You had to do way more than "reproduce a problem due to Starforce", the problem had to appear more or less immediately after the installation and execution of a protected game and it had to be reproducible across different configurations. Let's be honest: anyone flying to Russia ain't comin back.
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This poo poo: Can't find mother loving Google? You've got to be kidding me. And other sites I visit get this treatment too sometimes. I can go to Linuxforums.org, but I'll be damned if I can actually get into the forums of Linuxforums! My surfing experience has gotten this way lately since the ISP called to make sure we switched to their "stable" DNS stuff. You know, after we tried OpenDNS for a few days. They freaked out and called a few times wondering if they needed to send a technician over or something because we couldn't get our precious internets. Can't find Google... That just crushes me a little knowing the server farms they have... Green Puddin fucked around with this message at May 6, 2008 around 15:46 |
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Green Puddin posted:DNS hijack What happens if you click opt-out? Or use the root DNS servers?
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Casao posted:It comes down to "gently caress WINDOWS DID IT THIS WAY, gently caress YOU OSX" without trying to adapt. And then the macfags who go "gently caress you don't need a way to sort folders on top or snap edges or anything, you just need to learn to do it our way n00b With Mac OS X Server it's a bit more fruity, if it's not documented you shouldn't do it as your system will haemorrhage and require clean re-install. Case in point, Disk Utility, oodles of options completely unsupported and completely gently caress over your system: RAID partitions.
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Casao posted:You can also use the QTTabBar to add tabs to Windows XP explorer and not auto-select extensions when renaming. Actually. QTTabbar does a lot of things for XP explorer that make it more usable without some lovely replacement that always seems to get rid of another important feature. I'll have to check this out, thanks for the tip.
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my stepdads beer posted:What happens if you click opt-out? Or use the root DNS servers? I've been through it, on this and other computers around the house. The box is still ticked on the "off" choice, but these keep coming anyway. We asked our ISP (frontierservice if you didn't notice the logo I guess) about this and they tell us it's to ensure our safety as we browse the Internet. We told them it couldn't find Google and the guy just said, "Oh, well it IS still in beta..." I'm just wondering if we are their little test tube rats or whatever. e: root dns servers?
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Green Puddin posted:I've been through it, on this and other computers around the house. The box is still ticked on the "off" choice, but these keep coming anyway. We asked our ISP (frontierservice if you didn't notice the logo I guess) about this and they tell us it's to ensure our safety as we browse the Internet. Use 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 as your DNS server, problem solved.
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Yet another thing I was reminded of today that pisses me off: Computers that default to numlock off. What the gently caress good is that? It seems to act like arrow keys. I have arrow keys for that. All I want is to be able to enter goddamn numbers without moving my goddamn hand much. Goddamn!
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timb posted:Use 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 as your DNS server, problem solved. Thanks man 
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Raluek posted:Yet another thing I was reminded of today that pisses me off: Computers that default to numlock off. What the gently caress good is that? It seems to act like arrow keys. I have arrow keys for that. All I want is to be able to enter goddamn numbers without moving my goddamn hand much. Goddamn! You can thank laptop keyboards for that one, since on those numlock converts the right hand side of the main keyboard into numbers. So imagine the situation, you're a corporate IT department, you dish out laptops to all the self-important wankers who insist on having a laptop that they can leave on their office desk every night. You know the sort. One of them has an amazing password like: qwertyuiop. On a laptop keyboard with num-lock enabled by default that person will end up entering their password as: qwerty456- and then they'll ring the helpdesk for a password reset, only to go through the same hassle again and again if the new password is over on the right hand side of the keyboard, or if they happen to change it later in the day (after they've turned num-lock off to do any work) These things usually culminate in a member of IT staff having to go over there, turn the fuckwit's num-lock off, explain to them what it does and why they need to turn it off, then in a few days time (or if you're lucky, it might last until the next password reset) the cycle starts all over again. So now Windows defaults to num-lock off, and I for one am glad for it.
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Lum posted:One of them has an amazing password like: qwertyuiop.  It is an amazing password, or at least it was, thanks for sharing it with everyone
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