Computers are stupid.

So if you're thinking about implementing some auto-correcting functionality in your new shiny feature-packed word processor… don't. Computers are stupid. I am smart. Compared to a computer, I am infinitely smart. That means computers can't automatically correct me. At least, not properly. Automatic corrections will be wrong in 90% of the cases.What you can do though, is hint at me that I've made a booboo, which I can then correct myself! Or I can tell the computer: "Right, I keep making that mistake! You can correct it for me from now on without asking me"

WordPress: Don't automatically change single or double ASCII quotes to Unicode characters unless I ask for it. Especially don't do it when I'm applying the 'literal' style to a piece of text. "Literal" literally means literal. Chances are that I want things I type to appear, well, literally. Programming code might make a good example. I don't think many languages yet understand unicode quotes yet.
Word/Open Office: Don't automatically convert everything I type into something else. If I type "1.", don't assume I want to make a list. I'm not a fucking retard. If I want a list, I'll select my text and bash the 'List' button in the toolbar. Don't automatically upper-case the letter of a new sentence for me. It's a computer, and computers are notoriously bad at lexical analysis or human languages. You see, in Dutch it is required to end an abbreviation with a period. So "i.e." is not the end of a sentence. Don't automatically convert anything for me, please. Please!

Software engineers, at the very least make sure that when I undo one of your automatic conversions, and start typing again not to apply the same automatic correction again! Some simple user-experience testing should have picked up on that.

Honestly, I think mankind was more productive when it was still carving shit on rock faces in caves then it is today with computers. Cavemen inventing fire and wheels and whatnot. People with computers, what do they invent? Shit to solve problems that wouldn't have existed without computers in the first place, that's what. But hey, at least we're leveraging business synergy, right?

This morning I got at work again, turned on my screen. Ah the migration had a crash… bummer.. Hey Windows installed some updates and is asking me if I am ok with restarting my computer. Of course I am not ok with that! I want to check out what went wrong first so I choose "Restart Later". There we go, let's go check out those migration results…

Approximately 5 minutes later the update manager reminds me again that there are pending updates. I am kinda boggled.. It's been about 2 years now since service pack 3 for Windows XP was released if I remember correct. Apparently they never found this bug before, but now that they found it it seems that every minute I wait without rebooting will make my machine prone to be used by elite hackers who will then use it for whatever.

I think to myself: 'ok apparently this update is very important so I better finish what I am doing and reboot ASAP'. So after pressing "Restart Later" for a second time I kind of forgot about that update manager again. So next thing you know I'm typing an email about the results of the migration and there is the update manager again, it steals my focus while I'm in the middle of typing an email so fairly short after it pops up I type the letter 'n' which I was using somewhere in my sentence and shortly after that it was followed by a lot of cursing and a nice "Windows is shutting down…" message.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Let's see what to do? Ah! Pinball Fantasies! It must have been ages since last I played that. Let's just start by playing the first table. Off we go!

Oh #(*&$% gonna lose my ball, gonna lose it.. gonna…

Thank you Microsoft! After almost 24 years of Windows you still seem to think that we all want to enable 'Sticky Keys' if we press 'shift' 5 times. Thank god they never removed the option to disable this pain in the ass feature!

Why then do you still ask me:

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!

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:

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!

Development explained

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

Here's a standard false positive on Junk Mail:

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!

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

Why? Probably some crap about being able to avoid input sanitation for rm commands called from shell scripts as root. Wait? Does that make sense? No! Then why? Probably because someone some day might yell "Holy shit! I almost accidentally the whole root! Thank a deity I remembered to add the –preserve-root option instead of the –no-preserve-root option!". We can only hope the monkey next to him will have reproduced the works of Shakespeare by that time.

Pretty annoying, right?
The first time it was actually kind of cute, but after about once I started to look for a way to turn it off.

Guess what? There is none!

I don't know if this happened upstream or downstream, but come on guys… do you really think terminal users want this?

My gradually growing, active dislike for Ubuntu is turning into hate.

Update
Smart-ass solution for a dumb-ass problem:

I already hated gconf, but at least it can fix this shit.