Tech Peeves

kmick

I have a serious pet hate. You go to a website which needs you to log in (all good ones). You put in your username and tab to the password. The website decides to fully load up? and puts the focus back into the username box. You then type half your password into the username box before you realise what has happened. GRRR leave my focus alone.

Anti

dont hit tab, use your mouse.

SeanW

kmick wrote:

I have a serious pet hate. You go to a website which needs you to log in (all good ones). You put in your username and tab to the password. The website decides to fully load up? and puts the focus back into the username box. You then type half your password into the username box before you realise what has happened. GRRR leave my focus alone.

Grrr ... I know what you mean, this used to be a big problem for me when I was on dial-up. Now with ADSL, pages are all loaded before I get the chance

Edit: The tab key makes things faster, usually.

SwampThing

ye have small worries lads

Ruu_Old

SwampThing wrote:

ye have small worries lads

Hehe too right.

ShiverinEskimo

Ah, if you can't bitch about the little things on a net forum then where can ya bitch about them?

WizZard

Most people do it on their blogs these days

That focus thing annoys me too, but not that much

Khannie

Ah yeah....get it off yer chest I say. Maybe we should have a dedicated rant thread.
I'm f**king sick of double clicking installer files for people who are too frightened to do it themselves tbh.
I wish windows was cheaper.
I wish it was easier to learn linux.
I wish that there were more native linux games (though I love that UT* and quake* run on linux).
I hate the constant CPU socket changing.

come on lads....get it off yer chests!!!!

zilog_jones

Microsoft Exchange Server. Nuff said.

WizZard

Clippy...

#Smokey#

Internet Explorer. Its like opening the vault door and asking the virii/spyware/adware/trojans in.

majiktripp

-Dell Tech support (having to deal with them is just....)
-Windows Activation (When you have to do it by phone...GRRr)
-People putting their own phone number in for dial up access instead of 1892blahblah
-People thinking an old pc with windows 95 should work for 10+ years but change their car every 2-3 years...
-People who above entrust those type of pc's with their entire business accounts package....
- Eircom anything & everything (support or lack of,their broadband prices,etc)
- NTL Broadband(!)
For now thats enough.....gimme till the end of the day and I'll have more probably the way things are going!

majiktripp

No more replies!? An I thought this topic was nearly sticky worthy!

SeanW

- Optical mice. Great advance, on paper. Till you buy one and the pointer goes El Nutso every 30 seconds. Now these awful things are so pervasive you cant get ball mice anymore :mad:
- Broadband modems that inexplicably lose the internet connection and have to be physically restarted.
- Anything to do with DELL :mad: :mad: :mad:

TempestSabre

SeanW wrote:

- Optical mice. Great advance, on paper. Till you buy one and the pointer goes El Nutso every 30 seconds. Now these awful things are so pervasive you cant get ball mice anymore :mad:...

Why don't you just buy one that works?

Ruu_Old

Buying an expensive graphics card to find out its almost obselete the next day.
"Look at my new graphics card chums, I got it yesterday, €600 eurons like"
"Pff thats soooo like yesterday, sucks2beu!"
*lolz in background*
:mad:

Motherboard manufacturers, stick with the one bloody socket for more than a month ffs!

TempestSabre

kmick wrote:

I have a serious pet hate. You go to a website which needs you to log in (all good ones). You put in your username and tab to the password. The website decides to fully load up? and puts the focus back into the username box. You then type half your password into the username box before you realise what has happened. GRRR leave my focus alone.

Dumb GUI design always get me too

majiktripp

Optical mice. Great advance, on paper. Till you buy one and the pointer goes El Nutso

Those optical mice wrecks my f%$%in head too! playing a nice game of oblivion suddenly your staring at the sky rotating clockwise rapdily for no appearent reason...as soon as you utter "what the fu.." it stops...

irlrobins

majiktripp wrote:

An I thought this topic was nearly sticky worthy!

Meh:cool:

conzy

When People find out you are a "computer whiz kid" and you get to put 160cds on a crap Philips MP3 player that only supports windows media player:mad:

When people think that just because they have a 256mb graphics card they are leet, even though thier card is a Radeon 9250 with 256mb of crap ram. or when people think the quality of a PC depends on how many gigs of storage it has...

People who think they know a lot about computers, its painful listening to them...

Fanboys

Internet explorer

Norton Antivirus / firewall

High end processer prices

Irelands prices compared to US prices

and macs:p

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

- Optical mice. Great advance, on paper. Till you buy one and the pointer goes El Nutso every 30 seconds. Now these awful things are so pervasive you cant get ball mice anymore

I hear ya. Apparently using a white piece of paper as mousepad helps but I dont know as I just use the laptop touchpad now.

When People find out you are a "computer whiz kid" and you get to put 160cds on a crap Philips MP3 player that only supports windows media player

Or you have to call over to help them coz 'their internet is broken', usually coz of all the spyware they got when they downloaded pr0n.

majiktripp

What also really annoys me is when people (friends or family even) think that because you "like" computers you must want to spend 2-3 hours cleaning up that virus ridden,spyware infested mahcine that turns out you had to do a XP repair on after all those scans anyways and then reinstall their edonkey so they can fu&% it all up again for you to fix in 2 months time...but sure he loves it! its a great hobby!

Ruu_Old

majiktripp wrote:

What also really annoys me is when people (friedns or family even) think that because you "like" computer you must want to spend 2-3 hours cleaning up that virus ridden,spyware infested mahcine that turns out you had to do a XP repair on after all those scans anyways and then reinstall their edonkey so they can fu&% it all up again for you to fix in 2 months time...but sure he loves it! its a great hobby!

Oh yes getting "volunteered" to fix friends of your parents computer. "Sure he won't mind, will you Ruu?" Spending the whole night fixing a computer when you could be out with mates or whatever. Ah don't mind it too much but it happens too often.

TempestSabre

georgiecasey wrote:

I hear ya. Apparently using a white piece of paper as mousepad helps but I dont know as I just use the laptop touchpad now.
....

I've never had that problem with optical mice in years of using them.

majiktripp wrote:

What also really annoys me is when people (friends or family even) think that because you "like" computers you must want to spend 2-3 hours cleaning up that virus ridden,spyware infested mahcine that turns out you had to do a XP repair on after all those scans anyways and then reinstall their edonkey so they can fu&% it all up again for you to fix in 2 months time...but sure he loves it! its a great hobby!

Thats what limited user accounts are for. Never leave them with admin rights.

stevenmu

I hate people who go out and buy a PC and then don't bother learning how to use it. They just sit there looking at it saying over and over that they don't know anything about them. It's the equivalent of going out and buying a car and not learning how to drive.

Makaveli

Ruu wrote:

Oh yes getting "volunteered" to fix friends of your parents computer. "Sure he won't mind, will you Ruu?" Spending the whole night fixing a computer when you could be out with mates or whatever.

That pretty much is my biggest pet peeve. Because none of my mates can tell their arse from their elbow when it comes to anything technology related you automatically become tech support for absolutely anything, be it for clearing malware and spyware off a pc to helping them pick which mp3 player to buy. I don't have a problem helping them out, it just annoys me that they take it all for granted and can never be arsed trying to do something about it themselves.

Ruu_Old

Give them this the next time.

ShiverinEskimo

Anyone who shops in Virgin or HMV who have access to the internet and play.com/cdwow.

They piss me off but then cause me great joy when I laugh at the price they paid for stuff.

Also, people who use demo cds off the front of magazines. Might as well submerge your pc in the bath and switch it on.

majiktripp

ShiverinEskimo wrote:

Might as well submerge your pc in the bath and switch it on.

I'm suprised someone somewhere hasn't thought that might be a good idea and tried it.....they have tried this though...
http://www.markusleonhardt.de/en/oelbilder.html
If only supermacs could master this somehow it would make them unstoppable!

TempestSabre

majiktripp wrote:

I'm suprised someone somewhere hasn't thought that miught be a good idea and tried it.....they have tried this though...
http://www.markusleonhardt.de/en/oelbilder.html
If only supermacs could master this somehow it would make them unstoppable!

I don't see what the big deal with cover CD's is. I've got full version of lots apps from them. Nero, Paint Shop Pro etc.

SeanW

That just looks freaky. :eek: