Stuff that REALLY annoys you.

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Folks setting their flat panel monitors to use a resolution other than the native manufactured resolution. Yuck!
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Kamineko wrote:Folks setting their flat panel monitors to use a resolution other than the native manufactured resolution. Yuck!
hahah blur-o-vision :)
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Post by Sir_LANs-a-lot »

When my net connection starts going all flaky.

Like now.

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The fact that most laptops don't come with a middle button nor the functionality to let you bind one of the various cominations of taps, button clicks and pad presses to simulate a middle click either (yet they'll let me bind the left button to some wanky quick start app they've bundled. Gits.).
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Forgetting what you were going to say.
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People who make zip/tar/whatever files that don't contain a directory. You unpack them into your home directory and suddenly there's half a million random files everywhere that take hours to remove.

So sometimes you make a new directory and it turns out they made one for you.

It's actually harder using commandline utilities to compress individual files rather than their containing directory.
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piku wrote:People who make zip/tar/whatever files that don't contain a directory. You unpack them into your home directory and suddenly there's half a million random files everywhere that take hours to remove.
And conversely, archives which appear to have an excessive amount of nested directories, probably due to a command line program which was used to specify a directory from root, with bad switch usage.
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Kamineko wrote:Folks setting their flat panel monitors to use a resolution other than the native manufactured resolution. Yuck!
Yes. And that also annoys me because there seem to be no native 1280x720 or 1920x1080 flat panels on the market. D'oh!
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People who put up a torrent containing several hundred files, of which you already have several hundred minus 10...

and fucking RAR it! :x
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Ollie wrote:People who put up a torrent containing several hundred files, of which you already have several hundred minus 10...

and fucking RAR it! :x
People who stuff multipart RAR files into torrents. Look, we know it came off USENET, but join it back together and serve as a single file, eh?

And websites that contain more adverts than content.
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piku wrote:(...)

And websites that contain more adverts than content.
And websites that load the ads first, then lock up on the last ad, never displaying the actual site you're trying to reach.
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Getting used to the instant nature of the Internet, then having to wait for real objects to be delivered to you.
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Girls who do something slightly annoying, and then claim later that they never do said thing. And then when you point out that you saw them do this thing, they say "I think I know myself better than you do."

Honestly, if she'd just done the slightly annoying thing it wouldn't have bothered me.
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Oh I know. When people use the term "brigade" on the internets as a pre-emptive insult against anyone who might dare do disagree with what's the just been said.
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The C64 geek in me is impressed with that being post number 6581 :)

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