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cvanpelt

Ah, Friday night.  Time to watch some quality comedy, properly encoded into a shiny AVI file.  I've heard MPlayer is the be-all-end-all of media players for any platform, and what's more: it's completely free!

Fire it up!

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Hm, no full screen.  Let's make it full screen!

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Duhr.  No full screen option in the menu.  In fact, no options at all that are in anyway related to the video I'm watching.  Let's right click the video, maybe they hid it there.  Nope.  Nothing.  I would've posted a screenshot, but a screenshot of nothing happening isn't very exciting.

So fuck this, let's exit and try another movie-playing application.  Click the main window again, and lo! The full screen option appears:

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Why there?  Really?  Doesn't it make sense to you people to integrate this all into one window?  Quicktime can do it.  Windows Media Player can do it.  DivX player can do it.  Okay, VLC can't do it, but at least it adds menu items to the viewer window.  Why do you have to be retarded, MPlayer?

But hey, why am I complaining?  I've found it right?  Let's click full screen and see what happens:

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Full screen my shiny metal ass!  That's the menu bar up top there, and the main window right smack in the middle of my movie!  I'll go see what's on TV…

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By cvanpelt – September 4, 2009

It's not a bug, it's complicated!

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In addition to calling shell features bugs, it seems that Apple in all their infinite wisdom (I'm going to assume it's Apple, but they may have lifted this from elsewhere- I don't really care) have decided that bugs are not just for features anymore!  This gem is from ls(1):

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Backwards compatibility.  Don't you just hate it?

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By cvanpelt – September 4, 2009

WordPress, stop scaring me!

fboender

Fucking wordpress! If I'm editing a post, and I save my changes by clicking 'Update post', and you tell me:

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Why then do you still ask me:

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Have I not used the correct 'Save' button? Have my changes not been saved properly? Will I lose all my preciously crafted ranting if I click 'Ok'? No! Everything's been saved and I've made no new changes, you little bitch! So stop telling me that the changes I've made will be lost!

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By fboender – September 4, 2009

Transmit your hate to me

fboender

I'm trying to set up a torrent download web interface using Transmission-daemon. It's running on my internal network, so I require no authentication. Simple enough, right? Just edit the configuration file and turn authentication off:

/etc/transmission-daemon# cat settings.json | grep rpc-
 "rpc-authentication-required": 0,
 "rpc-enabled": 1,
 "rpc-password": "",
 "rpc-port": 9091,
 "rpc-username": "",
 "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.1.*",
 "rpc-whitelist-enabled": 1,
/etc/transmission-daemon# /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start
* Starting bittorrent daemon transmission-daemon                [ OK ]

Yet still:

transmission-auth

I've tried everything to turn authentication off, yet it still appears. Extremely annoying.

Also, if Transmission is already running, and you modify the configuration file, it will be overridden when Transmission is stopped. What the hell? Transmission should just watch the configuration file and reload it when it changes on disk. That way you can edit the configuration both on disk and in the user interface.

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By fboender – September 4, 2009

His Ubuntu Wishlist

fboender

Over at BlueSunCorp, there's a list of things that need improvement in Ubuntu. I happen to agree with all of them.

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By fboender – September 4, 2009

It's not a bug, it's a dumbass

cvanpelt

The following is reported as a bug in the manual page for cat on MacOS X:

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One wonders, first of all, why this is reported because this is a shell feature and certainly not a bug in cat.  Secondly, how dare they make assumptions as to which shell I am using, what options are set, and then pass the whole thing off as a bug in the man pages?

As you can see file1 clearly does not get overwritten in my shell:

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Yes, Apple, we are aware your users are mostly idiots, but polluting the manual pages with incorrect information in an effort to keep the dumbasses from destroying their precious pr0rn will certainly guarantee you a spot on the wall when the Revolution comes!

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By cvanpelt – September 3, 2009

Some basic knowledge for you guys

emolenaar

Software written by some company for a customer sucks bad most of the times. If you are a "customer", or some kind of a bloated consultant / account manager, or a project leader, or if you just don't know how difficult it is to write good software:

Development explained

Development explained

So. Next time you yell "Dude! How hard can it be to write feature x?" think about it twice.

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By emolenaar – September 3, 2009

Where could that Media Server be?

fboender

We've had a media server on our internal network for about one and a half year. All this time it has lived at IP 192.168.1.65. It's a simple UPnP server which directly responds to requests as soon as it gets them.

Why then, dear Sony, does the Playstation 3 remove it from the list of Media servers every time I log out or when the PS3 starts up? And why does it scan the entire network, IP by IP, before showing the Media server that has always remained at the same address? And why does it take almost a full minute to scan a couple of IPs? Why Sony? Why?! AArrggghhh!

Update: According to Michiel, he doesn't have the problem with his newer generation (not the slim, but also not the original) PS3. So why haven't you updated my PS3, Sony?

Update II: We've received a PS3 upgrade! 500 Mb download and what do we get? Improved media server searching? Fuck no, we get glittery backgrounds! YAY!

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By fboender – September 3, 2009

Mail.app keeps us safe

cvanpelt

Don't get me wrong: I'm all for spam filters, image blocking, script filtering, graylisting, firewalling, honey potting and the general application of flamethrowers on anything 419 related.  Basically if it reeks of spam it needs to be killed with fire.  Simple enough?  You'd think so.  Not for Mail.app.

Here's a standard false positive on Junk Mail:Picture 6

Obviously, the black bars were added with Adobe Photoshop Elements by yours truly.  Now my filters aren't particularly well-trained, because Google Mail catches most spam, so this being a false positive is not the problem at all.  However, do you see the big "Load Images" button on the top?  Do you see any images?  That's not because I didn't click the button.  This is a simple automatically generated message without images.  "Fair enough, but maybe it's just to fill up space on text-only messages and it works on HTML messages" you say?  Wrong!

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Another false positive. See the big "Load Images" button?  See the "XBOX LIVE" image?  Yah.  Good job, Mail.app.

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By cvanpelt – September 3, 2009

PHP: The Ultimate Suck

fboender

I've been a PHP developer for too long and it has turned my brain into jelly. PHP is just such a convoluted mess, it rots the brain. I've seen other long time PHP programmers with the same syndrome. I'm not sure we'll ever recover, but there might be a cure. For those who aren't yet convinced of the level of suckitude of PHP, I've compiled a short List Of Stupidity found in PHP.
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By fboender – September 3, 2009