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It seems like Android Studio easily forgets at least some non-standard code style settings when upgrade happens. This is essential for using heavy IDE (versus lightweight like VSCode) to keep environment like code style format settings which are some hard to create and move between projects manually.

Labels: android studio, shit

Far manager is so much better than mc because mc has inconveniences like this https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3664: unable to type `-` key (among other keys) in command line (at least when used on macbook). This makes any serious usage of mc almost impossible (because cannot type any command line argument as it always starts with `-`).

Labels: bug, linux, mac, mc, shit

I've recently bought a Jira license in order to have my own bugtracker for projects I do. For my projects I personally like to use classical bugtracking, which cannot be fully replaced by something like Trello.
When the time came to update Jira version, the quick check shown that there's no way to update Jira in any automatic way. Administrator must each time go to web site, choose OS version, start download, abort it, copy link from Downloads and wget- or curl- it on server. Then manually unpack it and play with symlinks (or some other way to gracefully abort upgrade if one prefers).
Seems like in this case Atlassian has some business requirements that override product usability. This is first sign that the product design is drawn by primarily interests of non-tech people in Atlassian. As long as Jira product is sold to support the technical process and make it cheaper, this decision to make update process unstable (as it needs special attention), this ruins my trust in product and company in general. To understand the scale of this decision just imagine that for example 10 different products on your servers need manual update process. This is at least annoying and bug-prone because involves human factor. So from my point of view this is a clear sign that (1) either company generates enough money to let marketing people make shitty decisions and override technical ones and not to think about competitors or (2) company's left hand does not know (and care) about right one. Any of which is very bad from the client point of view. Any good alternatives for a bugtracker?

Labels: autoupdate, bugtracker, bugtracking, jira, linux, manual, no-autoupdate, shit, upgrade

This is my experience while installing .tar.gz onto centos.

1. Automated redhat init.d and user script openfire/bin/extra/redhat-postinstall.sh has bug on line 27: it states wrong openfire.sh filename (really no ".sh"). WTF?
solution: open redhat-postinstall.sh and remove .sh on line 27

2. after going through install web guide I cannot log in to admin console. (now it reminded me how much sometimes I hate opensource).
solution: username IS NOT admin@domain as you typed in. username = admin without any @domain. f%%ck you.

3. openfire cannot live behind non-root web context (in my case it's proxypass of /openfire through https apache vhost).
solution: no?

Labels: centos, installation, openfire, opensource, shit, xmpp

my ipad (ios 5.1.1) had spinning wheel of death boot-loop (without apple, just SWOD) after battery depletion. I had lost all apps data and notes.

WTF? passcode lock is the f%%%%%g problem.

while being in SWOD ipad detected by itunes, i could even backup photos using OS methods, not sync (without even passcode authentication, which is strange!).

I could even make transfer purchases to itunes. but no backup/restore is available because "unlock device with passcode" is needed. I know f%%%ng passcode, I WANT to enter it, why the HELL it's impossible to enter passcode in itunes while ipad is connected?!

restoring from the previous backup did not work with the same reason, device is locked with passcode. "unlock please...".

so I had to upgrade to ios 7 from recovery mode (recovery mode is really the only way in this case!).

the most ugly thing is even after it's initialized, and I make restore from backup, the ipad shows "welcome" screen. it's clean and new.

I don't rely on itunes backups anymore. that's sad.

Seems like i'm more interested in having android device than ios. These are android vs ios screen after new device init.

Labels: apple, ios, itunes, shit

is that SO F%%G HARD to make QA for such thing as Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?! migrating today from 10.04 to 12.04 LTS. Problem: Alt-Tab does not work any more out of the box in gnome classic. edit: bug in compiz: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/971051

Labels: opensource, shit, ubuntu

Apple broken Bluetooth drivers for mid'11 macbook air bootcamp 5.0. After installing 5.0 driver pack, open "apple broadcom bluetooth radio" in Device manager and if you have 5.0.1.0 version Update the driver with manual select ("let me pick...") to 4.0.0.1 version (27/4/2011). Without this rollback I couldn't anymore transfer files via Send file bluetooth dialog.

Labels: air, apple, bluetooth, driver, mac, macbook, shit

узнал сегодня, что мобильные операторы во франции блокируют ssh, vpn, даже smpp. короче, все, кроме http/s. это хуже, чем даже в китае с их файрволом!
а китайцы ведь разрешают vpn и ssh!

Labels: block, china, firewall, france, mobile operators, network, shit, ssh, vpn

so firefox 19 now have some inhouse built shitty default pdf viewer. shitty it is because it shows only the english text. also, because it is NOT an extention, it's extremely hard to find option to disable. WTF?!

Labels: firefox, opensource, pedofirefox, shit

edit /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi_skip_timer_override"

and possibly disable acpi 2.0 (not all acpi, 2.0 only) in BIOS

This problem seems to be frequent on AMD (I have AMD Phenom X6 1090T).

Bug exists at least in Ubuntu since 2008: bug on launchpad. Problem started to appear in 10.04, but exists even in Ubuntu 11.11. The bug on launchpad had been discussed in MANY comments from 2008 to May 2011, until in July 2011 it was AUTO CLOSED with resulution Confirmed->WON'T FIX. IDIOTS?

Labels: acpi, amd, linux, opensource, shit, ubuntu

read that systemd will soon use binary log (in russian), which of course does not yet support search. f%ck, people, this is late >10 years, because disk space is CHEAP today, we don't need to use smaller binary formats anymore! XML had such success because of human readability without any tools, in any editor, with grep, awk or something else. notepad :-)
Go to hell with that binary logs bullshit and code something really useful.

Labels: binary logs, linux, logs, opensource, shit, systemd

Macbooks does not have PageUp/PageDown keys. Which makes programming on macbooks a very annoying proecss. Because = Fn+Up, which uses TWO hands, comparing to most non-mac laptops.

Why the f%ck is there turn on/off key here and so very long 2-keys spaced delete (backspace) key, but no really needed ones. Why is this called useful laptop?!

Labels: keyboard, macbook, shit

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If you have same main account on more than one android device, C2DM delivery will only work for last logged in device (seems that google acc logon happens on system restart). This is a problem for testing park devices for which is hard to create and support unique google accounts :-(

Labels: android, c2dm, google, opensource, push, shit

Running exe (which is exe4j executable) leads to multiple constant disk operations by exe4j (not even idea itself). I checked that with process monitor filtering idea.exe events. If you run .bat (java.exe hosted idea) that doesn't lead to strange events disk io overload.
So to prolong battery (and hdd!) life consider running idea.bat file, not idea.exe.

Labels: exe4j, idea, shit, win

submitting crash reports cannot be disabled. Even solution described in a comment to bugreport (solution is for version 10) does not work in current version 11. Seems they has "fixed a solution" :)

By the way, this bug exists starting from FF version 4!..

I wonder, is that possible to have clipboard info in a memory snapshot in firefox crashreport?

Labels: bug, firefox, opensource, shit

For some reason the default (pre-installed) HFS in last macbook Air (with 10.7.2) is case-insensitive. For example, you cannot create two files: doc and Doc - they are same. BUT: depending of which file was created first, you won't be able to access using different-cased name...
In short: create is case-insensitive, access is case-sensitive. Very annoying behaviour.

Labels: apple, hfs, macos, shit

The max RAM seen by 32bit Win7 is ONLY 2.16 Gb on macBookAir 2011 (last). Don't fucking tell me install 64bit, I have Win7 32bit on my 4Gb RAMmed Dell latitude 6410 and it uses 3.43 Gb. This is just some bullshit in memory management in BootCamp 4 layer BIOS emulation on mac. Moreover: apple hardware doesn't support UEFI (!). They has some EFI extension which is not compatible to run UEFI Windows 7 for example.

Will try rEFIt / win7#32, but don't believe much in that.

Labels: apple, bootcamp, EFI, shit, UEFI

Mac os x 10.7 (lion) by default (pre-installed OS on Air) has filename length limit of 31 chars (with extension). With manuals (pdf documents) being downloaded from support.apple.com frequently violateing that limit makes me wonder why the hell are they using such a legacy FS. This reminds me of world of windows 3.1 and OS/2 (when on old good FAT16 with its 8.3 char limit; native OS/2 HPFS didn't have such limit).
Want/have Macos, still hope for good usability?! Give them money, forget about usability, it's apple's concern now. They are going to pay dividends to shareholders this year, that's where apple's real usability lies. Definitely not in hell bunch of 'little' mac os x issues.

Labels: apple, macos, shit

When you switch apps by Command-Tab it's no way to say whether there's no app window at all or it was minimized. Moreover, there's no way to maximize window from keyboard. It's very uncomfortable when using auto-hide option for dock (cause you don't see without moving mouse and waiting for dock to explode the list of minimized windows). There's an article on this problem and there's only paid ($10) option to use some app for shortcuts. I hate this apple world. Like "We will bite your ass a little until you pay $10 for every point".
Actually apple's "we know UI better" is just "we know how to have your money" bullshit. Beware: Apple only have the smell of usability, not usability actually. Although they make nice thin 'air' laptops which don't get very hot like Acers do :) So you can get one and just install Windows/linux on it.

Making now Windows7 installation disk for BootCamp to install win on macbook.

Labels: apple, macos, shit, usability

How the hell are you all people using command line in macosx?!

By default midnight commander and some bash hot keys are not working out-of-box in terminal (both default and iTerm [the replacement of default shitty Terminal]:
- No Alt-Enter - filename insert, you need to untrivially change keycodes
- No Shift-F7 (find next)
- No left-right = pgup/pgdown
- No word left/right (which is alt-left/right in linux) - this is bash specific
Other inconveniences:
- No key repeat (yes, no physical laptop keyboard keys repeat at all! Long press is for additional symbols - as on ipad; you need to change kernel parameter for that!)
- No NTFS write support.

- No way to disable smooth scroll in default PReview, it's really BAD on this screen and it's SLOW (there IS bugreport for this, i checked; but no hope to be fixed - mom Apple knows better what you need).

PS Going to setup win7 in spare partition. Possibly will get rid of macos to use whole drive (128gb only) need xcode sdk! No NTFS -> so I couldn't share files between, and I won't ever use unjournaled and insecure FAT. Only paid options are for ntfs: both free projects are unsupported: NTFS-3G and FUSE. Paid are tuxera (25 EUR) and Paragon ($20). I in no way am going to pay for things are currently for sure available in opensource for linux! NO WAY!

Labels: inconveniences, keyboard, macos, ntfs, shit, usability