Monthly Archive for September, 2008

Windows Wireless Zero Configuration Sucks

God I hate WZC on WinXP. Why does it make me type my WPA key twice? Why doesn’t it provide a way to turn on the damn echo, so I can see what I am typing. Yes I know it’s a password but after I type it for the 10th god damned time I don’t care anymore.

Oh, and for the love of god, why do you show 8 “circles” in the pre-filled password dialog regardless of how long my pass-phrase actually is? This does not inspire confidence.

Objects in dialog may be larger than they appear.

Apple’s Wifi config is seriously better. (Not that it needs to be… Their supplicant actually works.)

Like, such as, the Iraq

(credit to Ganesh for noticing the similarity)

Confusion

My employer launched a new branding strategy today:

… It’s the power of Fusion. … It’s where customer needs, dreams and desires bond with our own passion for engineering.

Uhh, sounds like someone needs to take a cold shower. I just don’t get it.

Good thing I’m not in marketing, I guess.

Outlook 2007 Instant Search

Outlook 2007’s instant search is just awful. It rarely shows me the results I want — I have to hunt them down manually. It’s like web search circa 1995.

Apparently others share my opinion.

Olympian

Pop quiz: which of these individuals can snatch 83 kg?

Drew, Kassidy and Mark meet Melanie Roach

More about Melanie here.

Annoying QuickTime Bug

Apple: please fix this very old and annoying bug with browser-embedded QuickTime on x64 versions of Windows.

If only I could get John Mayer to install Vista x64, that would probably do it.

Asking Unanswerable Questions

Just got the follwing gem from Google Calendar Sync:

As a result of the sync operation 29 events will be deleted from your Google Calendar. Proceed with the operation?

The obvious problem here is that I am not provided information sufficient to make a choice. The only way to find out which events will be deleted is to click “Yes” and see what happens. †

I realize this was probably someone’s 20% project, and it’s beta software, blah blah blah. It still sucks.

† Actually, I still have no idea what the hell was deleted. If I’m late to your party, consider this a preemptive apology.




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