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From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 15:55 on 05 Sep 2003
Subject: More Mozilla
When trying to view the source of a page which results from a form
submission, a handy little warning pops up:
The page you are trying to view contains POSTDATA that has expired from
cache. If you resend the data, any action the form carried out (such as
a search or online purchase) will be repeated. To resend the data, click
OK. Otherwise, click Cancel.
It's the same warning you see if you try to reload the page, or sometimes
go back to it. And it is true. I checked the web server logs, and view
source really is generating an additional hit. You would think they would
consider caching the result unrendered at least long enough to allow the
page to be viewed, given the consequences of resubmission.
The offending software is
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1)
Gecko/20021130, build 2002113015
From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 15:42 on 05 Sep 2003
Subject: find verbosity
I admit...this may not be find's fault. I just notice it with find,
but it really annoys me. I want a simple way to reduce verbosity.
Specifically, I don't want to hear messages about all the directories
I don't have permission to access. I know I don't have permission to
access them, so just ignore them and continue! It's pretty common
for someone to not have access to every file...or are you only
supposed to run the command as root to avoid missing the result hiding
amid the error messages? Why can't it just ignore directories I don't
have access to?
Example output:
hrm[1] /home/ann> find /tmp -name foo
find: /tmp/1/fd: Permission denied
find: /tmp/2/fd: Permission denied
find: /tmp/3/fd: Permission denied
/tmp/foo
find: /tmp/4/fd: Permission denied
find: /tmp/5/fd: Permission denied
Ideal output:
hrm[2] /home/ann> find /tmp -name foo
/tmp/foo
(If you want to defend find by giving me a solution to this problem, I
actually welcome rationality in this instance.)
From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 09:15 on 29 Aug 2003
Subject: Software that won't take no for an answer
I don't know whether to blame Windows or the software in question, since
I only use Windows at work, and then only for dealing with a few things
that I can't do on the development machine.
When the machine is booted, before I can log on, the following box appears:
Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition
Symantec AntiVirus Realtime Protection failed to load. (OK)
I click OK. It beeps, and the window remains. I click OK. It beeps,
and the window remains. I click OK and I am now allowed to log on.
After I have logged on, a new installer window pops up for the same
program (note that I do not even have access to install the program).
I click the cancel button.
The window is replaced with one which says 'Preparing to install', but
this quickly vanishes and is replaced with the installer window again.
I cancel it. The result is the same. I cancel it for the third time,
and it goes away.
For the remainder of the day, I can just expect yellow pop-ups telling me
the software isn't installed.
Does this constitute a sighting of an Acme::Snark in production code?
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 12:18 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: I hate CVS There are many reasons why I hate CVS. The annoying process for removing files (remove the file, then do a cvs remove--if you didn't think to type both commands before executing the first one, you'll actually have to type the name of the file) which is the opposite of the process for removing directories (do a cvs remove, then remove the directory); the lack of support for moving files and directories; and the fact that I always manage to mess things up and edit files that aren't meant to be edited. But what I am specifically hating today is that it aborts when a file is unknown instead of simply skipping a commit. For example, I have perhaps 10 directories--uk, ie, nl, no and so on. In each of these directories there are perhaps up to 5 files which I have modified and want to commit if they exist. What I want to do is 'cvs commit */file1 */file2 */file3 */file4 */file5'. However, this is impossible, and if there is a flag I can give it to make it shut up and simply commit files which exist and ignore others, I haven't found it (not that I've ever bothered to read all the documentation...I keep hoping something will rescue me from needing to know too much about CVS).
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 12:09 on 25 Aug 2003 Subject: complaint about unknown software I don't like whatever was responsible for allowing the mail program to overwrite its partition last Thursday, on the server where my mail is kept. (If I were a sysadmin, I could perhaps allocate the blame more accurately, but since I'm not I'll have to settle for simply stating that applications should never be allowed to write so much to disk that they overwrite the partition...especially when it's just bounced worm mail crap.) The server still isn't functioning correctly.
From: Ann Barcomb
Date: 17:02 on 14 Aug 2003
Subject: I hate Lotus Notes too.
At work, I have to use Lotus Notes for some of my email.
If I'm sent an HTML mail (an evil all on its own), which contains
a link like this:
<a href="http://bar.com/english?session=JKH6*&wshf7">http://bar.com</a>;
it is displayed as if I wrote this:
<a href="http://bar.com">http://bar.com</a>;
Of course, its automatic URL detection knows better than I do what
the link should be. To get around it, you have to write the link
like this:
http://<a href="http://bar.com">bar.com</a>;
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 16:45 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: Re: close tab/close other tabs (fwd) Resent due to the reason mentioned in my last mail about hates software. How much do you want to bet this forwarding is going to mess up threading? ;) Hey, in mailing list software you have to be prepared for every stupid thing a user could do! --------- I want to jump in on the hating Mozilla thread. I have a big problem with pasting to and from the browser. I don't know if this is a problem with X, my window manager, or Mozilla, but I don't have the same problem with other applications. When I highlight a URL or text in the page and then try to paste it in to an xterm, I'm far more likely to get whatever I highlighted before I touched the browser. It usually takes 3 or 4 tries to get it right. And when I try to paste a URL in to the browser, I generally get whatever I last highlighted in Mozilla, rather than what's in the xterm, especially if I switched to another virtual desktop. Next, what is the point of the 'about:blank' text that shows up if you open a new tab and then return to an old tab without typing in a URL? It's not as if this text automatically vanishes as soon as you start typing something in. Nor does the browser simply ignore it if it appears in your URL. No, you have to delete it yourself every time. It also appears if you do type in a URL, but then switch to another tab without actually trying to fetch the page. Why, when it is trying to auto-complete URLs, does it always seem to go for the very obscure URL rather than the one I have visited more often? Instead of trying http://somesite.com, the first thing it will offer is http://somesite.com/some/very/long/path?with=args. Mozilla also can't process commands like cntrl-T or cntrl-N when it is busy contacting a site. In the morning, I like to open a new tab, type in the URL, and then go on to opening the next one while it is fetching the first. But I can only open the next tab when the first is mostly done. It doesn't even delay the command; it just eats it. Finally, when I'm filling in a form field, and then return to paste in some text, the place where the text is pasted is usually wrong. It's not where I was last typing, and it's not where the mouse is positioned, either. Often the field isn't even selected any longer. I have this problem with every browser though, so maybe it's me and not Mozilla. And despite that, Mozilla is my favorite browser. Everything else I've tried is even worse.
From: Ann Barcomb Date: 16:41 on 14 Aug 2003 Subject: On the subject of hating hates software I am wondering if hates software is ignoring messages where it is CC'd instead of the primary recipient, since my previous message didn't get through. I'm testing the software by doing all kinds of odd replies...yeah... that's it...
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