this is me hating on Office 2007
Friday, May 30th, 2008MS Office’s menus may have been a mess, but that’s no reason to replace them with something equally complex but different.
Posts Tagged ‘windows’
not my favicon
Thursday, February 28th, 2008I’m trying to make Firefox on Windows XP like Firefox with the GrApple theme on OS X. I don’t have to have it look the same, just compress all the bookmarks in the toolbar into the width of the screen.
This is how I want the bookmarks toolbar to look:
And this is how it looks right now on Windows:
I can find any number of links about only showing the favicon, but none about turning it off to save space. Aargh!
very poor
Thursday, December 13th, 2007It just took my work computer more than 5 minutes to create a new folder on the desktop. How am I supposed to get my work done?
so-called wizard
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Windows has just spent the last 15 minutes searching for a driver for my Garmin GPS. Y’know, the one I use with the computer a lot. It’s claiming it’s new hardware, but in the words of Syd, “I’ve had it for months”. Oh Windows, you really are very stupid. In fact, you are a silly wizard.
non-numinous
Monday, November 5th, 2007I had assumed that an admin here at work liked obscure Shakespeare plays when they called our server cressida. But I found the real reason when I noticed that the Richmond server is called rav4 …
can’t get here from there
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007I was trying to send a largish promotional image to our marketing department yesterday. It was too big for e-mail, so I put it on the department share, assuming that marketing could read it. Nope. Moved it to a company FTP site. User has no access to ftp. In the end, I had to send it on a CD, even though I’m pretty sure it originated somewhere inside the company.
I also had to point an (internal) reviewer to an engineering report on our servers. Again, it’s on a share - you know, those things that people are supposed to be able to, y’know, read. No dice. I think the reviewer ended up requesting hardcopy from the original consultant, even though I know the file’s on a server in the very same building as the reviewer. Aagh!
If one company that spends a truckload on IT can’t get communications right, there is no hope for us.
a small form of happiness is
Sunday, March 25th, 2007… a USB key with the irritating U3 software uninstalled.
Seriously, U3 is a major annoyance if you:
- use Mac
- use Linux
- work on a PC with locked-down permissions
- work on a PC with a one-letter drive gap (like having
D:andF:, but noE:); U3’s read-only system will appear in the gap, but your data won’t be accessible.
(It’s not really U3’s fault. The fact that Windows still has drive letters amazes me; why don’t they go for the whole 70s thing and have punch cards and gargantuan 5MB hard disk packs?)
All four of the above apply to me, so u3 uninstall.exe is my friend.