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Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:50:20 +1300

Discussion from blog post.

Russell Brown

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:50:20 +1300

Just fucking do it and don't bother me with insane chattering...

Could it be that Outlook 2007 is a blutter in disguise?

David Slack

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:51:33 +1300

I can't believe it's not.

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:53:42 +1300

Don't buy a volkswagon guys, naggingest car ever made, it treats YOU like a toddler:

"Beeeeep – Service Now"
"Beeeeep – Handbrake on"
"Beeeeep – headlights on"
"Beeeeep – Fasten your seatbelt"
"Beeeeep – refuel"
"Beeeeep – tyre pressure low"
"Beeeeep – Passenger door open"

I mean, it's all very?

Lyndon Hood

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:02:37 +1300

My pet MS message peeve is with office. I can usually aviod Mr Paperclip but I've come across this one infinity percent more often than I'd like...

When you open an office app for the first time on the machine, there's the assistant, saying blah blah blah.

Whatever. Try to?

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:04:58 +1300

Seriously though, there's no end of distracting and ultimately useless chattering in Windows. Microsoft unfortunately decided that there wasn't enough of it in XP, so it added even more for Vista.

The User Access Controls (UAC) is a good idea that will drive people mental with unnecessary dialogs that ask?

Kyle Matthews

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:24:09 +1300

Macs (since 10.4 I think) have had a similar thing. Whenever you run a piece of software for the first time it asks whether you really want to run it. It also does this anytime you update it (so it asks again when you go from Itunes 7.02 to Itunes?

merc

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:44:08 +1300

HAL voice...Why do you want to change the Paper size Juha?

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:52:12 +1300

I am completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning properly.

No, not really. I lie.

Un-copacetic coincidence of the day: HAL is stock symbol for Halliburton.

Che Tibby

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:53:24 +1300

computing was once a wild frontier of sorts.

it's become a nanny state.

Jeremy Andrew

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:57:42 +1300

The big problem with proliferating system pop-ups is desensitisation – most users these days just click straight onto the thing most resembling a 'yes' option when something pops up on screen, usually without even reading the message.

Tom Beard

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:41:47 +1300

On a completely different tack, and one unlikely to please the SPCA...

Mmmm, foie gras. Does anyone make it here?

Robyn Gallagher

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:43:05 +1300

Whenever you run a piece of software for the first time it asks whether you really want to run it.

Curiously enough, I've never noticed this on my Mac. I'm sure it happens, but I guess it doesn't bother me so I don't consciously notice it.

All these Windows messages?

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:51:22 +1300

All these Windows messages sound annoying. They should have a setting that lets advanced users switch to a lower level of messages – only telling you if something's gone wrong, for example.

On Vista, I can disable the UAC thingy. Doing so however turns off Protected Mode in Intarweb Exploder?

the E

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:03:34 +1300

talking of appliances throwing tantrums, i can't believe the immunity of aucklanders to car alarms!

@ waiheke island wine fest last weekend annika moa was indulging us in a very soulful set, with a backdrop of about half a dozen self-activated car alarms.

noone even so much as glanced in?

merc

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:10:49 +1300

Actively work on yourself to remove all projections, car alarms are a car owners cry for love and tolerance...I jest, I jest.

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:02:46 +1300

it's become a nanny state.

Bloody socialists turning up everywhere.

Che Tibby

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:27:42 +1300

conservatives are just nannies who make you clean up your own shit.

David Slack

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:31:11 +1300

What about the spankings Che? You forgot about the spankings.

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:39:36 +1300

I was actually thinking that instead of coffee and blends and stuff, we could like have School Dinners like. Che could be the matron and David the bully in the lavs, or vice versa. Or is that too too conservative?

Che Tibby

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:43:35 +1300

What about the spankings Che? You forgot about the spankings

therapy helped.

and juha, if i find you lurking outside my premises with a pinny for me... we'll have a serious chat.

Juha Saarinen

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:03:18 +1300

What? You think it could be a goer?

Oh oh... you mean that sort of serious chat. Right.

Che Tibby

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:19:07 +1300

now there's a good teccie.

andrew llewellyn

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:32:17 +1300

and juha, if i find you lurking outside my premises with a pinny for me...

I had a momentary vision of Juha as Miss Alice.

David MacGregor

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:48:01 +1300

Get a mac. They just work and get along with printers (and video cameras, and scanners, and still cameras...)