worst code in Windows
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Yeah, maybe I should have not spouted off so quickly... but I am getting very tired of the wide-spread generalization that ALL Visual Basic developers are crap.
Hey, i write some VB code. I'm not heavily into it, but i see a place for it, and use it when it makes sense to. But i can't say i like it, and for sure have seen a *huge* amount of really, truely, awful code written in VB. Shog9 ------ If you really what to get shitfacde tell a crowded bar that is is yourt borthday and hife your wallet. you ka will many more friends.
- David Wulff, Brithday selebrations, 9/19/02
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_Magnus_ wrote: what the f*** is it sorted by!? Date of insertion, the first item being the first item you added to your favorites. _Magnus_ wrote: ey show upp when adding the favorit, but after about 10 minutes they are gone and never comes back again. They go away when you clear you cache or perhaps when it fills up.
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Domenic [Geekn] wrote: Date of insertion, the first item being the first item you added to your favorites Not in my favorites menu, items ends up on seemingly random positions. Domenic [Geekn] wrote: They go away when you clear you cache or perhaps when it fills up. I have never cleared my cache, dont know when exactly they dissapear, but it does not take long. /Magnus
- I don't necessarily agree with everything I say
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Don't get me wrong, I love Microsoft; I love Bill; I got teary-eyed when Charles Simonyi said he's leaving MS, but: When I click on the volume icon in the systray and have to wait like 10 seconds for some pissant lil' window to popup, I say to my self, "why oh why did they let those VB developers write code in windows!" :mad::mad: What's your worst performing feature in Windows? (the kernel is not a valid answer. ;P) Cheers, Simon "Sign up for a chance to be among the first to experience the wrath of the gods.", Microsoft's home page (24/06/2002)
The standard File|Open dialog box, when on My Computer, decides to sort by Total Size instead of drive letter. EXPLORER.EXE and Connections Tray (?) causing the End Program dialog box to pop up when logging off or shutting down. EXPLORER.EXE crashing randomly on XP on my office machine (though it's otherwise rock-solid on all my other systems, I'm not likely to take the time to reinstall the OS just to fix this). Too many other idiosyncracies I can't think of right now...
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Hey, i write some VB code. I'm not heavily into it, but i see a place for it, and use it when it makes sense to. But i can't say i like it, and for sure have seen a *huge* amount of really, truely, awful code written in VB. Shog9 ------ If you really what to get shitfacde tell a crowded bar that is is yourt borthday and hife your wallet. you ka will many more friends.
- David Wulff, Brithday selebrations, 9/19/02
Shog9 wrote: have seen a *huge* amount of really, truely, awful code written in VB. OK, I'll agree to that as well... 'Nuf said
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Don't get me wrong, I love Microsoft; I love Bill; I got teary-eyed when Charles Simonyi said he's leaving MS, but: When I click on the volume icon in the systray and have to wait like 10 seconds for some pissant lil' window to popup, I say to my self, "why oh why did they let those VB developers write code in windows!" :mad::mad: What's your worst performing feature in Windows? (the kernel is not a valid answer. ;P) Cheers, Simon "Sign up for a chance to be among the first to experience the wrath of the gods.", Microsoft's home page (24/06/2002)
Pet rant: the fact that when you select multiple files in explorer (say, 100) and you want to delete them. If any single file cannot be deleted the entire operation quits at that file, leaving you to reselect the remaining files (and hope a refresh/resort hasn't occurred) and try again. Why not just say "file x can't be deleted. Continue?". Unforgiveable. Rant #2: WTF does Outlook save attachments as read-only? ARGH! It does NOTHING to help safety/productivity. All it means is that you get stupid confirmation dialogs popping up whenever you try and move or delete them. cheers, Chris Maunder
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Pet rant: the fact that when you select multiple files in explorer (say, 100) and you want to delete them. If any single file cannot be deleted the entire operation quits at that file, leaving you to reselect the remaining files (and hope a refresh/resort hasn't occurred) and try again. Why not just say "file x can't be deleted. Continue?". Unforgiveable. Rant #2: WTF does Outlook save attachments as read-only? ARGH! It does NOTHING to help safety/productivity. All it means is that you get stupid confirmation dialogs popping up whenever you try and move or delete them. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: Pet rant: Yeah, i'll second that one. How many years has it been since Norton Commander came out? You'd think MS would have figured out how to do move/copy/delete correctly by now... Shog9 ------ If you really what to get shitfacde tell a crowded bar that is is yourt borthday and hife your wallet. you ka will many more friends.
- David Wulff, Brithday selebrations, 9/19/02
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In a better world we would have a "Purge Ram" button, which could reliably free up all Ram no longer being used, without losing anything important. Maybe one day, when I'm infinitly better at coding than I am right now, I'll manage to make such a tool, speeding up pc's for the rest of time ;P The following statement about your geekness is true.
The previous statement about your geekness is false.Megan Forbes wrote: Maybe one day, when I'm infinitly better at coding than I am right now, I'll manage to make such a tool, speeding up pc's for the rest of time You sound like Bill Sergio.:laugh::laugh::laugh: Megan Forbes - Infomercial Queen Cheers :) Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens!
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Domenic [Geekn] wrote: Date of insertion, the first item being the first item you added to your favorites Not in my favorites menu, items ends up on seemingly random positions. Domenic [Geekn] wrote: They go away when you clear you cache or perhaps when it fills up. I have never cleared my cache, dont know when exactly they dissapear, but it does not take long. /Magnus
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_Magnus_ wrote: I have never cleared my cache, dont know when exactly they dissapear, but it does not take long. This was discussed in the lounge quite a few months ago. The icons are cleared from the cache when the the timelimit you have set arrives along with most other files apart from cookies. However IE thinks it already has the pages Icon, so it never re-downloads it and ends up displaying the default. This must now be a legacy bug, that has gone on for too long for MS to fix. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
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Don't get me wrong, I love Microsoft; I love Bill; I got teary-eyed when Charles Simonyi said he's leaving MS, but: When I click on the volume icon in the systray and have to wait like 10 seconds for some pissant lil' window to popup, I say to my self, "why oh why did they let those VB developers write code in windows!" :mad::mad: What's your worst performing feature in Windows? (the kernel is not a valid answer. ;P) Cheers, Simon "Sign up for a chance to be among the first to experience the wrath of the gods.", Microsoft's home page (24/06/2002)
The real trouble is that MS have dumbed down the whole of windows to get more butts on seats, so they have worried about other crud instead of making Windows run well. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
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Megan Forbes wrote: Maybe one day, when I'm infinitly better at coding than I am right now, I'll manage to make such a tool, speeding up pc's for the rest of time You sound like Bill Sergio.:laugh::laugh::laugh: Megan Forbes - Infomercial Queen Cheers :) Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens!
Ouch! I was actually humbly displaying my lack of skill at this time and hopes of improving... :-O - still, it would be cool if something reliable (not counterproductive!) could be produced like that :cool: The following statement about your geekness is true.
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> Oh, I also hate 'My Documents'. No, I don't want to put all my data > into one folder on my system drive. I put my important data on my other > drives so that when something horrible goes wrong, I can format the system > drive without worrying about losing anything. You can right-click on the My Documents folder, select Properties, and then move it elsewhere. I've assigned mine to J:\ (the root), a 700MB partition. When I run out of space on it, I know it's getting too large to back up to a CD.
Daniel Desormeaux wrote: You can right-click on the My Documents folder, select Properties, and then move it elsewhere. Great idea! I moved it to the root of my data drive. I deleted the 'my pictures' folders and other extra crap and thankfully it hasn't come back yet. I also put my Temp files and temp internet files on another partition as you suggested in a different thread. _____________________ "So in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too." Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
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The real trouble is that MS have dumbed down the whole of windows to get more butts on seats, so they have worried about other crud instead of making Windows run well. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
You are the intrepid one, always willing to leap into the fray! A serious character flaw, I might add, but entertaining. Said by Roger Wright about me.
And with a single sentence, you cut right to the heart of the problem. :) Shog9 ------ If you really what to get shitfacde tell a crowded bar that is is yourt borthday and hife your wallet. you ka will many more friends.
- David Wulff, Brithday selebrations, 9/19/02