From: Chris Nandor Date: 16:19 on 18 Mar 2008 Subject: Wow, Downloaded From the Internet, you say? '"Foo" is an application which was downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?' I seriously hate this error message in Mac OS X 10.5. I know I downloaded it. I don't give a damn what you, the OS, thinks about it. Just open it, dammit. Yes, I know that some people don't know what the hell they are doing. But this is primarily caused by Safari having the DEFAULT of unpacking downloaded files, so in theory, someone's browser could automatically download something, automatically unpack it or mount it as a disk image, and then it could be automatically run. I get it. But here's the thing: I turn off your stupid default, and unpack/mount things manually. So why should I be subjected to your weak attempt to idiot-proof your own misfeature? And sometimes, this warning message is even placed on *plain text files I open in a text editor.* No kidding. It fills me with teh hate.
From: Chris Nandor Date: 22:34 on 12 Apr 2006 Subject: Safari Sampling In most Mac apps, cmd-shift-s means "Save As ...". But in Safari, if you have debugging on, it means "Start Profiling With Sample". So instead of getting a save dialog box, my whole computer froze up while attempting to profile Safari, which was playing a rather large Shockwave movie at the time.
From: Chris Nandor Date: 17:13 on 08 Sep 2003 Subject: Smileys Programs that automatically convert your text into smiley graphics are pretty silly, I think we can all agree. But if you can turn them off, then at least they are not especially hate-worthy. But in iChat, you CANNOT TURN THEM OFF. Now, there's a hack that supposedly removes them, but that's not the point. Smileys not only look stupid to many people, they actually get in the way when I am typing normal text, like: It has three colors (RGB) That becomes: It has three colors (RG<smiley face with glasses> And there is no way to turn it off. I can think of only one reason to not turn it off: because the person you're communicating with might have them on, so you should see what they see. But if that's the case, then I should see a smiley BEFORE I hit return. And anyway, couldn't it send some magic over the AIM link saying "Don't use smileys here"?
From: Chris Nandor Date: 17:56 on 22 Aug 2003 Subject: Windows Me hates Windows. I was gonna say more, but what's the point?
From: Chris Nandor Date: 15:30 on 12 Aug 2003 Subject: mod_perl modules on Mac OS X Mac OS X seems to be especially sensitive to symbols in libraries. I don't know why that is, it just is. So say you're building an module for Mac OS X, and at the top of your Makefile.PL you put: use Apache::ExtUtils 'command_table'; because that is what you are supposed to do. Well, you build it on Mac OS X and everything is just dandy. You install. It's all good. Then you come back later: % perl Makefile.PL dyld: perl Undefined symbols: _ap_add_module _ap_find_linked_module _ap_null_cleanup _ap_palloc _ap_register_cleanup _ap_remove_module _perl_clear_symtab _perl_cmd_perl_FLAG _perl_cmd_perl_TAKE1 _perl_cmd_perl_TAKE123 _perl_cmd_perl_TAKE2 _perl_get_startup_pool _perl_perl_cmd_cleanup Trace/BPT trap HUH? I just built and installed this 10 seconds ago, and now I can't build it! command_table require's the module if it exists, so it can see prototypes. But this causes a fatal error on Mac OS X if it sees undefined symbols, which it does. Because it was just too much trouble to use a sane dynamic loading system on Mac OS X. Or something. I figure that since I built it the first time without it "seeing prototypes" this way, it doesn't need to see them now, so I just comment out that line in the module, and hope that in some future Apache module it is not needed any more than it is with the ones I am working with presently.
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