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| November 28, 2005, 13:00 | |
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Woody
HEAD BLACK MAN 722 posts 
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Openoffice.org Firefox 1.5 The Java Runtime Environment Quicktime iTunes Mac OS X Windows XP Any distribution of Linux Realplayer Half-Life 2 Steam Flash Shockwave Adobe Acrobat I hope there's a hell so the makers of these pieces of software can burn in it. And their families too. More to come as I recall more HAET. [Edited on November 28, 2005 by Woody] ____________ boredome is the bitter fruit of too much routine |
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| November 28, 2005, 16:33 | |
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Sandman
F3n!x0r 1194 posts 
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So..what OS are you actually running? I hate MSN, with all my heart. Also some of Woody's Haet List: Steam, Quicktime, iTunes, Acrobat and Realplayer. Furthermore, IE can felch me anytime. ____________ BennuWiki Yes, my avatar has grey borders in IE (so get a decent browser) ROOFLEZ ROOFLEZ |
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| November 28, 2005, 22:06 | |
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Frimkron
Frustrated Megalomaniac 703 posts 
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I recommend Foxit Reader as an alternative to adobe acrobat
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| November 28, 2005, 23:27 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts 
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How can you hate OO.o and Firefox?  From Woodys list I hate: The Java Runtime Environment Quicktime Mac OS X Windows XP Realplayer Half-Life 2 Steam Flash Shockwave Adobe Acrobat I also hate Internet Explorer DIE DIE DIE MSN Messenger Yahoo Messenger AOL Messenger Adobe Photoshop Microsoft Office (The whole suite) Fenix FENIX DESKTOP ICQ Google Talk mIRC ____________ laffo |
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| November 28, 2005, 23:43 | |
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Rincewind
programmer 1545 posts 
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Quote: Adobe Photoshop Microsoft Office (The whole suite) Fenix WHAT - I think you're exaggerating here. ____________ Personal website: http://www.loijson.com |
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| November 28, 2005, 23:49 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts
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Photoshop is shit, it's big and bulky and is just a haven for people to apply a bunch of filters to a shitty anime image and call it art, it's also amazing at slowing down a system just by being minimised. Adobe seem to be good at this because Acrobat Reader does the same. Office is crap crap crap, it's slow and annoying, it's hard to get to places, not easy to navigate and is unpredictable. To top it off it alse likes to throw a million temporary files all over the place for no reason. Fenix is the buggiest thing ever made. ____________ laffo |
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| November 29, 2005, 01:47 | |
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Woody
HEAD BLACK MAN 722 posts
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Quoting Ferret: How can you hate OO.o and Firefox? :O Openoffice is bloated and sucks up monstrous amounts of CPU even while idle. I expected nothing more from a Java program, though. I only mentioned Firefox 1.5 because Quicktime and Flash refuse to work. I have to open K-Meleon or IE to see anything. Also, they added embedded media files support AND THERE IS NO WAY TO TURN THE FUCKING THING OFF. I DON'T WANT 30-MEGABYTE TECHNO WAVS PLAYING ON WEBSITES. Additions: Fenix Internet Explorer Google Talk Trillian MSN IM Yahoo IM AOL IM Photoshop ____________ boredome is the bitter fruit of too much routine |
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| November 29, 2005, 05:02 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts
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Openoffice.org 2.0 is pretty slow starting I must admit, but it's okay when it's open, nothing compared to the Visual Basic dungheap that is MS Office. QT and Flash wont work for you in FF? Both work fiiiine for me. And for embedded media, there's probably an extension, but yeah you should be able to turn that off anyway. Is there nothing in about:config? And nothing wrong with Trillian. Except having to pay for webcam/voice support. ____________ laffo |
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| November 29, 2005, 06:24 | |
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Woody
HEAD BLACK MAN 722 posts
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The flashy visual effects in Trillian that you can't turn off make me want to retch.
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| November 29, 2005, 07:10 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts
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Which ones? =/
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| November 29, 2005, 09:30 | |
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Woody
HEAD BLACK MAN 722 posts
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The fading shit on the main window when you sign on. And the whole UI is basically a mess of PhpBB-wannabe graphics. And the menus that don't use XP's menu standards or settings...
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| November 29, 2005, 11:21 | |
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Frimkron
Frustrated Megalomaniac 703 posts
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Let's not forget that trillian has a bug that means it drops messages on all media. There's a 14-page thread on the forum about it and its been there since version 2. And yeah quicktime refuses to work on my firefox installation but flash does work. Does the stop button not end the embeded media? That always worked in IE =/ [edit - someone tell me why that url isn't working, please :groar:] [edit - UGH stupid show bug. That seriously needs fixing Ferret] [Edited on November 29, 2005 by Frimkron] ____________ |
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| November 29, 2005, 16:56 | |
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Sandman
F3n!x0r 1194 posts
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Trillian works kickass for me, I love it. Got Trillian Pro 2.012, maybe the Pro thing has something to do with it. Looks tidy, compact and useful, unlike MSN. Yuck! And it has sound support for (animated) smileys! Woohoo! Fenix works when you get to know...which...takes some time. The most crappy part of it is to overcome some flaws. I'll see into this Foxit Reader when I might need it. And WOODY: What OS are you using and what program do you use to chat via MSN? ____________ BennuWiki Yes, my avatar has grey borders in IE (so get a decent browser) ROOFLEZ ROOFLEZ |
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| November 29, 2005, 18:05 | |
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Deadmaster
Where is Johnny? 458 posts |
Adobe Acrobat reader Internet explorer (AGRAAAAAAAH) Realplayer Windows media player itunes Linux (not really hate, but dislike) MAC OS X ... I recently told the system admin at our secondary school to get Goddamn Firefox, and all he did was stick his nose up and go "Humph, I like my browsers to actually display pages when you try to go on them." o_O;; ____________ My site still needs updating and redesigning. My last.fm page. GO TO TEXTUAL ANARCHY II YOU FISHDOG YOU |
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| November 29, 2005, 18:11 | |
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Deadmaster
Where is Johnny? 458 posts |
Half-Life 2 should be on my list too, along with Half-life 1.
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| November 29, 2005, 18:11 | |
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DTM
Earthling! 821 posts 
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Those KMELON mouse gestures are awesome.
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| November 29, 2005, 20:33 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts
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Frim: Yeah, can you work out why it's doing it? Sandman: He uses XP with Miranda I believe. [Edited on November 29, 2005 by Fiona] ____________ laffo |
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| November 29, 2005, 23:35 | |
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Frimkron
Frustrated Megalomaniac 703 posts
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I really like Miranda - its small and neat and does a basic job well instead of being a huge sluggish monstrosity that takes up half your screen with an advert laden window and has a million features you don't care about.
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| November 30, 2005, 04:30 | |
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Woody
HEAD BLACK MAN 722 posts
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XP with Trillian. I only use it because Miranda drops messages while Trillian doesn't.
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| November 30, 2005, 05:58 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts
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Oooh, I wondered why I could always catch everything you say.
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| December 1, 2005, 16:16 | |
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TheMI3
Starving Artist 520 posts 
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Quote: Photoshop is shit, it's big and bulky and is just a haven for people to apply a bunch of filters to a shitty anime image and call it art, it's also amazing at slowing down a system just by being minimised. Adobe seem to be good at this because Acrobat Reader does the same. I'm sorry, but I have to stop you here. Photoshop is an industry standard, and that would be because it does pretty much everything. The stuff it's not so good at (text and vectors) Adobe cover with other software (InDesign and Illustrator respectively). Sure people just (ab)use it for filtering over images of Haruka from Pokémon or something. But that's the nature of a totally versatile piece of software. And by the way, on macs, Photoshop (at least seems to) manage memory far better. Only once on my powerbook has it slowed down, but I was working on an image 20,000 pixels across and 25,000 down or something. By the way, you all use msn but hate it. Is it the actual msn client or just in general? The mac version doesnt properly work with proxys it seems, so I'm going to add 'Adium X' to your list. ____________ This is my Blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine! (Now actual posts on it) http://www.chiefillustrator.com |
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| December 1, 2005, 16:35 | |
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Rincewind
programmer 1545 posts
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Photoshop is great. And the filters are actually very helpful. It just takes a bit of time to get used to (a couple of months following tutorials for example). I think you're just a bit jealous  And about art: there's people walking around on this forum who call random object compositions in ms paint art, *click*. Oh yeah and Fenix is just awesome for everything DIV was awesome for, but better (despite the few bugs it has). And MS Word is not slow for me at all, it's actually very light weight. And that's not just because my computer is great(it's 4 years old). It's just a bit pathatic to hate software pieces because of some bugs or other imperfections while the rest of a program can be great. Ypu should never forget programmers are human too. ____________ Personal website: http://www.loijson.com |
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| December 1, 2005, 17:45 | |
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Moogle
Enterprise Edition 239 posts 
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Trillian RealPlayer WinCVS Turbulence Windows Media Player Firebird Those are my only real turnoffs I think. There are a load of programs that irritate, but listing them wouldn't do justice to the few that stick out. ____________ I am Moogle and I approve this message. Quoting (. )( .) in the Bugs topic: Everytime I login the threads with new posts are by Dennis.
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| December 1, 2005, 19:37 | |
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Deadmaster
Where is Johnny? 458 posts |
Quote: Turbulence Oooh, harsh words there. ____________ My site still needs updating and redesigning. My last.fm page. GO TO TEXTUAL ANARCHY II YOU FISHDOG YOU |
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| December 1, 2005, 20:14 | |
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Fiona
games are terrible -9616558 posts
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Quoting Rincewind: Photoshop is great. And the filters are actually very helpful. It just takes a bit of time to get used to (a couple of months following tutorials for example). I think you're just a bit jealous I can use Photoshop very well thank you, I prefer PSP, but my trial ran out and I havn't been bothered to "fix" that. The abuse is unbelieveable though, everything is looking the same these days, it's bad when you can do things like walk around town and point out PS filters. Quoting Rincewind: And about art: there's people walking around on this forum who call random object compositions in ms paint art, *click*. Joke, Rincewind.Quote: Oh yeah and Fenix is just awesome for everything DIV was awesome for, but better (despite the few bugs it has). Few? I hope you're kidding.Quoting Rincewind: And MS Word is not slow for me at all, it's actually very light weight. And that's not just because my computer is great(it's 4 years old). You cannot be using Office XP. Word 2000 is still fast, but it still does the temporary files thing and does it's unpredictable crap of shuffling stuff around for no reason.Quoting Rincewind: It's just a bit pathatic to hate software pieces because of some bugs or other imperfections while the rest of a program can be great. Ypu should never forget programmers are human too. These companies also have lots of money to make thier product good. The feature race ruins too many things.
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