Best IT fuckups in the world!
When you try to return data from Microsoft Query 97 to a Microsoft Excel 97 worksheet, the spinning globe icon (which signifies that a query is processing) may appear for a long time, and then the query returns no data to your worksheet. If you Google enough deeply to find a solution for this problem you may find solution filed under Q168702 in Microsoft Knowledge Base. It is just a rocket-science killer.
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Today's evening, after my father's seventieth birthday party, the world has ended for me. I opened up Google Maps to find a road back home and all I saw was...
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This fuckup is nearly as old as Windows 7 is -- meaning it has around six years:
And six years wasn't enough for Microsoft to publish any update that would hide this dully behavior and block user access to non-functioning feature!
The biggest fuckup of all Nokia / Microsoft Lumia phones is, that you can't manually configure your Wi-Fi connection. You must use DHCP. If your local network does not offer this feature, you simply can't use that network. And you're sucked!
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Most modern browsers has evolved to have a checkbox in each alert box that allows user to block displaying next messages.
Internet Explorer creator hasn't found need for such functionality.
If you want to see an effect of that, you only need to create a new HTML page or edit existing one and put such simple code somewhere inside:
<script>
function whyIECreatorsAreMorons() {
var elem = document.getElementsByTagName('');
for (var i = 0; i = elem.length; i++) {
alert(elem[i].className);
}
}
</script>Run it... and you screwed! On nearly every page you will be forced to shut down IE via Task Manager or you'll die clicking "OK".
This is the weakest part of Chrome browser and one of the biggest IT fuckups, this world has ever seen! To be honest, I simply thrill, whenever I hear "Chrome Password Manager". Thinking, what in the name of God did they wasted this time?
...continue reading "A nightmare called Chrome Password Manager"
There are many, many huge fuckups in Android 4.0. About most of them I wrote in a separate article. But dropping the native-USB support in favor of some lame shit and extreme useless stupidity, called MTP (Mobile Transport Protocol), seems to be so devastating fuckup, that it surely deserves for a separate article.
If you change your website and some, old-time ago remembered, links stops to work, you must implement a permant redirect to new, working URL!
Failing to fulfil this simple rule may lead you into loosing your customers because no one want's to see some garbage, even when using old links.
Thus, this is very surprising that companies like eBay had fuckups like this!
Google managed to waste and fuckup even such simple thing, like calendar!
Extremely basic, every-day-use tool that should offer maximum comfort, actually pisses off with many small, irritating bugs. Bugs, that Google calls "features" and is not going to fix then at all.
We all know that kind of approach, right? Google-thinks-user-is-a-shit(tm). They know better what you need or want. They think, you're a useless shit.
...continue reading "Mobile Google Calendar fuckups"The Pirate Bay (in cooperation with the Cybernorms Research Group -- researchers affiliated with the Lund University Internet Institute in southern Sweden) has made the third annual survey to "better understand file sharing people's needs".
On step four you can select continent, where do you live and on step five you select country in previously selected continent, where do you live.
Idiots at TPB and Cybernorms Research Group put:
So, if you select the latter one in step four, you have... two options to choose in step five: Canada and United States!
Surely, putting everything to one group, called "Americas" was beyond imagination of TPB or CRG morons.
There are new, enhanced security settings in KitKat, which causes, that you (the device owner) can't copy files directly to Downloads folder. Well... you can, only these files are not visible on your device once you access this folder. This is first of fuckups on Android 4.4 KitKat. And so... the Google Android Fuckup Saga continues.
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Android 4.2 JellyBean has come to my phone this night, so Android Fuckup saga continues. Of course, again, I have lost my nearly entire data plan, during middle of the night, because on of the biggest Android 4.2 fuckups is, that it again download system updates via GPRS, giving a damn shit, whether user decided to update everything via WiFi only.
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Because:
I decided to use Git client bundled with Netbeans. I knew that (like everything in Netbeans) it is slow and may comes out with a strange things, but what I actually found was even bigger than I expected.
...continue reading "Git client in Netbeans"Google Calendar is updating its own contents (events data) via AJAX only when user is making manual changes -- i.e. adding, removing or updating events. If it remains open, but unused, it will not update its contents itself periodically. This may lead you to at least confusion, if not a fuckup.
...continue reading "Google Calendar fuckup"I've applied to Toyota Motor Group. As with every international company, I had to create my own "jobs" account and fill application form.
During application process I found these two issues:
OMFG! When I saw these two, I thought that in Toyota it is still 1993, not twenty years later! After Intel this second big, international company, out of two, which jobs-application system or procedure contains such enormous fuckups.
I can't find anything that could explain this. What is wrong? The bigger company you deal, the stupider IT team they hire or the more idiotic IT services provider they choose?
One day I found a job offer at Intel that I could apply for. So I decided to do it.
What I have found in apply form was nothing else than a pure madness and fuckup after fuckup. I though that "great Intel" will provide me with perfectly working job application system. Turned out, I was wrong. The bigger company you're dealing with the worst job application process you're about to go through.
Remember that...
This short post contains some fuckups I found in mobile Dropbox. Both in Android app and in mobile website version of dropbox.com.
Two of them are just tiny and many users will probably ignore them. But third one is a big mother fucker, which in certain situations may lead you to data lost. All these were found in Dropbox for Android 2.1.8, running on Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.1.1.
I've started to play Optime Software's Chess (website, Google Play, iTunes) on my Android device and I actually liked that game. I was happy to find out that they've released an iOS version for my iPad as well.
The dream has come to an end when I realized that this is one of the worst chess engines in the world, with many stupid errors and huge fuckups included.
...continue reading "A chess engine that don’t know chess rules?"Word has a nifty feature that helps user in printing envelopes. Cool, easy and useful. All was fine in Word 2007. Few days after I switched to Word 2010 only to discovered that some moron got his hands on code responsible for this feature in newest Word. At wasted it totally!
As always in Microsoft, it is about small things that are so anoying, because are small and could be fixed within moments.
...continue reading "Printing envelopes in Word 2010"SPAM filter onboard Gmail is pretty good. Actually, I haven't got any problems with it (the same amount of false positives as in all other similar tools) up until now.
I receive a daily backup summary generated by my own server. Backup process runs every day at 3 p.m. and about half an hour later I get a summary e-mail. Since this is auto-generated message, its content is always nearly identical. Some filenames differs sometimes . It's been working for over a year. And for over a year Gmail has been accepting this e-mail without any problems and it always landed in my Inbox. Today, for the first time, I found it in my SPAM folder. Why? Gmail informed me that its content is very similar to SPAM messages.
Quite interesting. For over a year this e-mail hasn't been suspicious to Gmail at all. Of course, I have never marked such messages as SPAM manually. And all of sudden, after receiving about four hundred of them, it started to wonder if it might be SPAM.
Paint was always such a shit that many people actually called it MS Pain.
Microsoft has been fixing many things from version to version, making the one that ships with Windows XP even quite usable. Following versions were even bigger steps, with final version (Windows 7) actually rewritten from scratch, using ribbon, multi-level undo and many, many more.
Pity, that with one of the last version they removed a "small" feature that was always there -- a warning screen to warn you that you are about to loose your work...
Google is the company that always is releasing own version of already existing software, services or solutions (browser, office suite... the list is long). Or providing users with free1, yet alternates way to solve or do something.
The only thing is that they nearly always have to fuck something up. Google Chrome's extension called "Remote Desktop BETA" is no exception to that.
1Free as in "we are stealing all your data with this, so you're actually paying with your privacy".
When your session (cookie) is expired (because you have logged out of your Google account in some other tab), in most cases Google Calendar won't be able to handle such situation. Instead of logging you off automatically, it will keep bloating you with messages like "Cannot delete this item now, please try again within few minutes".
Pressing F5 and logging in again solves the problem. What a lame!
For several hours today, there were many fuckups in Google Wallet.
I can clearly see, that Google is introducing some serious changes to Google Wallet. But, why did they let themselves to run into situation, where current version works so badly?
I have exactly the same system installed on both my notebook and desktop computer -- Windows 7 Home Premium x64 Edition with Service Pack 1 and Polish Language Pack. On one of them (notebook) I can access external USB 80 GB 2,5 inch hard drive without any problems. On the other one (desktop) I can't access it at all.