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Stupid juice machine

Petros — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:00:01 +0000

I have this juice machine, which unfortunately is stupid. When I try to produce one glass of orange juice, I then have to clean up the mess for half an hour. Talking about stupid design.

FAIL!

Hide and seek emails

Petros — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:48:45 +0000

Mail, most of the times is nice, but there are two forms of mail that I really hate:

Hide and seek emails
Hide and seek emails

Hide and seek emails are coming from people that think it is cool to add 4 paragraphs of disclaimers, 10 lines of personal info and one line of content somewhere buried inside the message body.

You, the recipient, have to spend time to locate the content and then be anxious because you need to also make sure the rest of the text is not of importance.

It becomes even worst, when the sender forwards you a message but leaves 40 lines of AV shitty messages saying that the email was checked for viruses. I don’t know why these AV applications have to insert a message in the email. Nowadays, everyone has one form of email protection or another. If an email hasn’t already been checked, my own AV will… what’s the big deal.

Anyway:

Please, please, please STOP doing this. Just write what you actually want to communicate and stop including shitty text that nobody reads.

Windows Vista profiles are carved in stone

Petros — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:12:06 +0000

I recently bought a laptop and the technical department decided to name my profile as “User”. When I took the laptop, I renamed the account from User to Petros. I thought the matter ended there, and I started installing all the software I need for everyday operations. Recently I had to look something in my profile and to my astonishment I saw that my profile’s name was still “User”!!

Lesson One: When you rename a user account, the associated profile is not renamed.

Ok, I said. I am used to Windows unfriendliness. All I need to do is rename the profile. After searching for an official way for about half an hour, I gave up and turned to our best friend Google. I searched and searched… and I realized there is no way to rename the folder without fearing you are going to break some application. Moreover, renaming the folder is not a supported operation in Vista. One has to also tweak the registry.

Lesson Two: Don’t think something obvious is as you expect it to be if you are a Windows user.