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ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS!ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS!ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS! 05/12/2004 08:23 AM How do I turn on the screensaver with a key combination!?! I don't want to use the hot corners (I already have them overloaded with Exposé and I want to have the top left corner free so I don't have to worry about counting pixels when I try and access the Apple menu), but so far the best way to lock the Powerbook is to go and turn the lid down and then back up again. which turns on the screen saver (and stops iTunes, BTW, since the computer goes to sleep for a second). I know there are Mac people reading me, so please: tell me which key combination I have to use, or which freeware application I have to install to just be able to press Apple-F12 to lock the computer! I've been trying to find the info from Google, but apparently I haven't been able to figure out the right keywords. Frustrated now! (Sorry for the headline, just wanted to grab your attention there. My Mac Powerbook does NOT suck, it is a wonderful little machine and I grow more attached to it every day. It is by far the best computer I've ever owned. I just need this one thing to make it perfect. Please?) This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS!Grok Headline matches for ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS!Argh argh arhg.Argh argh arhg. 12/19/2004 03:43 PM I was so looking forward to the time after this election. Being able to truly be interested and care for little unimportant things happening in the tech world and the blogosphere again. Apologies to my readers who come here looking for that. BOPNews had a what a second Bush term will mean posting with a list of reasons to be depressed about the result. They also have a moving forward posting. DailyKos calls for Howard Dean as the new DNC... Argh! 0.2.3Argh! 0.2.3 08/07/2004 03:18 PM An esoteric programming language. Argh! 0.2.1Argh! 0.2.1 07/20/2004 11:27 PM An esoteric programming language. Argh!Argh! 12/18/2003 02:27 PM I swear, text will be the death of me. (If you thought it was objects, nope--they're obnoxious, overblown, and the OO Kool-Ade tastes of almonds, but hardly a full-blown nemesis or anything) As an example, a page that Kim found. While on the one hand I do really like the shape and form of the alphabets and writing (no surprise, I'm a font magpie too) the implications in actually processing text in these languages is painful to think of. That's even ignoring the issues of rendering or OCRing these sorts of languages. (One big screaming example--you'll note on that page... Blogs + MLM, ArghBlogs + MLM, Argh 01/23/2004 02:18 PM There was this message on the phone wanting to talk to me urgently; which has been happening a lot since I’ve been job-hunting. It was a fellow high up in EcoQuest International, who sell air-fresheners. He had a deal for me: he’s planning a “Dealer Education” tour up here in Canada, and if I could drive people to some of his sessions, he’d put me upstream from them in the MLM food chain. What’s old is new again. Or something. Labels X 1.7b2 : Argh EditionLabels X 1.7b2 : Argh Edition 06/05/2005 10:55 PM Here is the second beta of Labels X 1.7 (Tiger Compatible). I've got nothing witty to say here. Version 1.7b2... Google, Yahoo, and CNN: ARGHGoogle, Yahoo, and CNN: ARGH 05/20/2004 11:28 AM Much has been made of the switch of CNN from Google's search results to Yahoo's. I'll take CNN's word that they switched, but in at least one instance Google's search... It sucksIt sucks 11/11/2003 10:33 AM It sucks to be wounded. Buy.com still sucksBuy.com still sucks 02/12/2004 12:40 PM More than four years ago, I ordered a CD from buy.com. The album was a new release and widely available everywhere, but it took them two months to process and ship the order...and then it never actually showed up. I haven't shopped there since. This morning I got an email from buy.com announcing their "NEW Cellular Store", one of many I've gotten from them since that initial shopping experience despite... I got a Mac and it sucksI got a Mac and it sucks 03/08/2004 11:11 PM I just spent an hour on the phone with my father-in-law failing to help him find his email client. It used to be there, but it vanished from the tool bar at the bottom. Now we can't get it back. None of the Finder options seem to actually help us find anything. I know it's there. I know it's "easy." But it sure ain't intuitive. Anyone want to give me the most basic instruction about how to find things on the !@#$% Mac, OS X? As Dr. Dean would say, "Aaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhhh!" [Ten minutes later] I can't even walk my father-in-law... This really, really sucksThis really, really sucks 09/05/2004 10:12 PM This really, really sucks On Saturday night after their Houston show, Engine Down's van and trailer were stolen from the parking lot of the Red Roof Inn on NW Freeway in Houston. All of their gear, 3 laptop computers, cameras, merchandise and personal items are all gone. If you want to help them out at all, click here. Sometimes it sucks to be a GeekSometimes it sucks to be a Geek 09/20/2004 02:53 AM My wife and I went to a work related party last night which turned out to be pretty boring. So much for the $70.00 spent on tickets. We left early and knew that the sitter was good to go decided to drop in on a friend of hers. We get to her house and I am admiring her house and see a big Master Degree in Education hanging over her computer. I was surprised to see it actually as we have known her for a while and she had never mentioned it. Anyway to make a long story short she says hey my PC is having problems can you look at it. You guessed it 2 hours later and much under breath cursing I give up and tell her I need to take it home or we can just pull the restore disk out and start from scratch. I get this deer in the headlights look when I explain that her computer has been hijacked and is infected with nearly every piece of spyware known to man. 1. Virus Definitions 2 years old Remember now she has a Masters Degree in Education. She commented I should open a business and fix peoples computers like hers. I guess my 21+ years working with advanced electronics now makes me qualified to fix computers. I suppose I could charge her $750.00 for a days worth of work. All I could do was smile and say drop it by the house and I will get it fixed for you... All my wife could say when we left was sorry. I hate stupid educated people. Sometimes being a geek sucks. Pep boys sucksPep boys sucks 03/19/2003 10:44 PM Tucson reservist loses job when Navy calls Automotive supply chain Pep Boys fired a Tucson store manager because his military Reserve duties took him away from work, according to a federal lawsuit filed here. Read the article. It’s heart-wrenching nonsense... Spyware Sucks!Spyware Sucks! 04/19/2004 08:25 PM "dotCanada sucks""dotCanada sucks" 04/20/2004 10:17 PM Polling sucksPolling sucks 03/15/2003 06:27 PM Actually, I'd go further than that--a system that polls has something about it that's fundamentally broken. Now, occasionally (very occasionally)... "Technorati sucks""Technorati sucks" 08/01/2004 08:33 AM School sucks...School sucks... 05/09/2004 02:07 PM Monroe County Family Court Judge Marilyn O'Connor ruled March 31 that two parents "should not have yet another child which must be cared for at public expense." Unconstitutional? Maybe. But not sufficiently so for the NY ACLU to say Why JSP Sucks So HardWhy JSP Sucks So Hard 12/19/2002 11:43 PM once again my UI engineers will be taking perfectly good HTML written in Dreamweaver and tearing it apart, throwing out some of it and rewriting other parts of it, just to make it work with the JSP they're writing. Once they're done, the HTML author will have absolutely no clue what the page does any more, and will have no desire or ability to edit it. When we insist that no really we need this redesigned, we'll spend twice as long doing it (doubling our costs, negative ROI, bad technology choice, yadda yadda yadda) since the HTML author will need that long to write in sample data and then have the JSP author tear it out again. -- Marc Hedlund
Is Adam Bosworth saying the same thing? Disco Sucks!Disco Sucks! 07/14/2004 11:57 AM 25 years ago a Chicago radio disc jockey had an idea for a promotional event. Steve Dahl invited his listeners to bring a disco record to a double-header White Sox game. Between games he was going to blow them up. What happened was a full scale riot that caused the White Sox to forfeit and disco to die. Spellex-Anywhere SUCKS!Spellex-Anywhere SUCKS! 07/05/2004 07:35 AM I did a stupid thing earlier this week I purchased a spell checker to use for online spell checking being I could not get Firefox's spell checker to work. I went googling and thought I found a good program I should have run it a couple of days. What a piece of crap. When it is running it seems to want to own the clipboard and not give it back. It doesn't recognize when I have put the cursor in a different window. The list goes on. I will be invoking their 30 day satisfaction guaranteed clause. Anyone have a good suggestion for a spell checker to use with Firefox Your Company Sucks!Your Company Sucks! 06/02/2004 02:32 AM CustomInk.com publishes uncensored customer satisfaction reviews to create a sales bonanza [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004] Moving SucksMoving Sucks 03/06/2004 02:09 AM Now I remember why I waited 4+ years to move again. So much unpacking to do. So very much. But hey, at least the 3Mbit DSL is working and the wireless works well too! Sunday I head down to SoCal for about a day and a half. More on that when I return from the trip.... Why Applecare SucksWhy Applecare Sucks 03/06/2004 02:06 AM (PJ Doland via MyAppleMenu) Poverty sucks!Poverty sucks! 03/06/2004 01:54 AM Software that SucksSoftware that Sucks 01/07/2004 07:04 PM ?How sad to see two leading Democrats fall for, even feed the lie that they can create user-oriented software? Flickr Sucks!Flickr Sucks! 12/19/2004 03:52 PM Flickr Sucks! flickrsucks.com Matrix 3 sucksMatrix 3 sucks 11/05/2003 07:05 PM I feel so burned. I can't believe I (called in sick to go see) went to Matrix Revolutions. IMO, they shouldn't have made it into a franchise, as the first Matrix was just fine as a stand-alone movie. Viral SucksViral Sucks 12/22/2003 05:18 PM Internet Works Dec 22 2003 4:55PM ET Passym sucksPassym sucks 01/22/2004 03:17 AM Tonight is my second night in an Embassy Suites with Passym Wireless internet access, and I have to say that Passym really sucks. Connectivity is just horrible. I don't know why the service sucks so badly... it might be because I'm in a corner room (they're larger at the Embassy Suites) or it might be because I'm using a Macintosh, but neither of those two things should be reasons that the connectivity sucks so badly... Maybe there are too many people using the service to keep up with what I want to do, but that shouldn't be a problem. I've normally stayed in Wyndham and Marriot hotels with Wayport access, and even though most of the time those hotels only provide wired access, they always worked just fine. I could connect to my office's VPN at the most complicated end of connectivity issues, and I could definitely send email through my own servers, but with this silly Passym service, I can't connect to the VPN and I can't even send email through my own service... and the speeds are terribly slow compared to what I expect them to be... especially at $10/day. The worst part is that to get technical support, I'm supposed to email their support@ email address... no one here at the hotel knows anything about the service from a technical/troubleshooting stand-point, and I can't get email out through my email client. Good thing I have a webmail client set up on my server... So, next time I stay in a hotel, I'll ask them if they have internet access, and I'll ask who the provider is. If it's Passym, I'll choose a different hotel if internet connectivity will be a need. WinAmp randomizer sucks...WinAmp randomizer sucks... 09/01/2004 11:33 AM I just wanted to post that the randomizer for playlists in WinAmp sucks. It's always been a problem. I have... india sucks at the olympicsindia sucks at the olympics 08/23/2004 02:21 AM the reason i sucked in gym class was because i was honoring my heritage John Carmack: "This sucks."John Carmack: "This sucks." 07/29/2004 01:15 PM Creative and id Software struck a deal to incorporate EAX ADVANCED HD into the Doom 3 engine under suspicious circumstances. Sucks Sites Get Some More SupportSucks Sites Get Some More Support 04/05/2005 04:42 AM The issue of so-called "suck s sites" has come up plenty of times before. Someone upset by something a company did puts up a website all about how that company "sucks" and (almost invariably) the company proceeds to sue the person for trademark infringement, thereby guaranteeing that their heavy handed tactics get more attention. A smarter move might be to actually address the issues on the site or simply leave it alone, but somehow many corporate lawyers just can't resist. While some of these sites have been awarded to the companies, it looks like the courts are increasingly realizing that people have the right to criticize companies online. The latest such decision, about someone angry with a hair-replacement service, has some great quotes from the court explaining why this isn't trademark infringement (though, the court also chose to go the pun route with phrases like "bald-faced" and "splitting hairs"). "The Supreme Court has made it clear that trademark infringement law prevents only unauthorized uses of a trademark in connection with a commercial transaction in which the trademark is being used to confuse potential consumers. Kremer's use of the Bosley Medical mark simply cannot mislead consumers into buying a competing product -- no customer will mistakenly purchase a hair replacement service from Kremer under the belief that the service is being offered by Bosley." Once again, the courts have been called in to explain that a trademark doesn't mean you control every instance of the trademark -- but just those where someone is trying to mislead and confuse potential customers. You would think that lawyers (you know, experts in the law) would understand this concept by now. Update: Apparently, confusion over this matter is fairly common. Even the AP's "legal affairs writer" seems to think copyright and trademarks are interchangeable terms. Google support sucksGoogle support sucks 12/17/2004 06:36 PM Google's support department could use some help - I sent them this request (emphasis added) From: Luke Hutteman To: 'groups-support@google.com' Subject: Google groups & groups beta Why are google groups requests handled by groups-beta.google.com (again) ? If groups-beta is no longer beta, please put this functionality at the groups.google.com url. If it is still a beta, please allow the old... (315 words) Verdict on JoyBee 720: It SucksVerdict on JoyBee 720: It Sucks 03/17/2005 03:51 AM
CeBIT 2005: great expectations, big let-down - BenQ JoyBee 720 [dapreview] The orange XML icon sucksThe orange XML icon sucks 06/16/2004 01:03 PM I'm not a fan of the orange XML icon, even though I use it on my categories page. I love the concept of a universally recognised icon for RSS feeds, but XML is simply the wrong acronym to put on it. Don't think it's liable to cause confusion? Check out this excerpt from Journalism.co.uk (emphasis mine):
Doh! Tivo Sucks Like Audible.comTivo Sucks Like Audible.com 04/22/2004 01:29 PM A while back I ranted about Audible.com making account cancellation difficult. Well, our friends over at Tivo are no better. After browsing around their "customer service" site it became apparent that they were more than willing to take more of my money on-line, but heaven forbid they let me cancel service. Instead I found a page that explains that I must call Tivo to arrange for that. Nowhere on the page do they provide justification for this inconvenience, of course.... "Dennis Miller sucks""Dennis Miller sucks" 01/26/2004 03:28 AM Grok Description matches for ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS! GrokA matches for ARGH, MY MAC SUCKS! Start the Squid web proxy as a service
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