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Subject line should include: Venting at MS geeks.
OK, I'm just about ready to chuck my computer at Bill Gates' head.
I have ONE folder on my secondary hard drive that will not display the text
until I select an item. For some stupid reason, all the subfolders and files
in the folder have been marked read only, and XP REFUSES to change them. I've
tried selecting them one at a time, I've tried selecting them as a bunch,
uncheck the read-only box in properties and all I get is 'folder tasks must
be turned on to make these changes' and I click OK and then they're STILL ALL
READ F(&^% ONLY WITH WHITE ON WHITE TEXT! I'm seriously pissed off at this
stupidity... WHY must folder tasks be turned on? Because some pencil necked
geek at MS decided that everybody is a total moron and needs that waste of
f(&#%^ space? How is eating up a column of my valuable window space necessary
to display black text on a white background, the same as every other window
on my machine?
I am so sick and bloody tired of all the 'automagic' crap in windows that
they throw in for the trailer park morons, and either there's no way to turn
it off, or the tick box to kill it is buried under 7 dozen sub-sub-submenus.
If you're a software engineer, you can just go tweak it... if you're a moron,
you just plain don't know there's a better way, but if you're a decently
intelligent person without a software degree, you're screwed.
I'm sure this is some stupid undocumented 'feature' of windows... it seems
that every stupid, inconsistent error, [pardon] FEATURE I run afoul of is due
to this type of crap. I can hear it now: "Oh! let's make read-only files
invisible, so people will know not to touch them!"
"Brilliant! We'll embed it so deep in the OS they'll NEVER be able to turn
it off! Bwahahaha!"
Anybody know what's causing this crapola?
MICROSOFT GEEKS TAKE NOTE:
Take a lesson from Scotty: You've overthought the plumbing to the point that
the drain is stopped, disconnected, and unidentifiable to boot...
We don't NEED any more features, we need better control of the ones that are
there. eg: I've been hunting high and low for info on the MS software
wavetable synth. All I want to do is load in another soundfont, like EVERY
other synth, hardware or software, lets you. Can't find nothin'... MS
'support' [HA!] says "Dell sold you the OS with the computer. Ask them."
HELLO?! Dell didn't write the code for the f&^$ synth, and they know NOTHING
about it because there ARE NO docs available. If there were they'd be in the
MS 'knowledge' base, right? Try a search. Try 'wavetable.' Try 'synth.' Try
'soundfont.' Useless. If there are docs, you geeks have obviously decided
that you're the only musicians on the planet and nobody else needs to know
how to tweak the synth. I won't even start on some of the idiotic replies I
got in these forums. [Why don't people READ?] It shouldn't take weeks of
bloody bureaucratic BS and runaround get an answer to a SIMPLE question, and
please note: I haven't even GOT ONE YET!!
I suspect there's an exe somewhere, probably in the windows folder, that'll
open a synth control panel, but guess what? Nobody wrote anything down about
it. How professional. I don't dare go clicking at random.
We need consistency. I don't give a damn if the machine crashes when I'm
doing something I know crashed it before, but when I get up in the morning
and the thing crashed mid-defrag, well, WTF? Stability, get it? Like, not
having the thing puke a blue screen at you while you're doing something
you've done thousands of times with no difficulty whatsoever. 'Out of the
blue' yeah okay, guys, clever pun, but IT'S GETTING OLD!!
Quit adding new stuff until you've gotten the old stuff working, or all but
the morons will be using linux. There's fewer morons out there than you
suspect...
OK, I'm just about ready to chuck my computer at Bill Gates' head.
I have ONE folder on my secondary hard drive that will not display the text
until I select an item. For some stupid reason, all the subfolders and files
in the folder have been marked read only, and XP REFUSES to change them. I've
tried selecting them one at a time, I've tried selecting them as a bunch,
uncheck the read-only box in properties and all I get is 'folder tasks must
be turned on to make these changes' and I click OK and then they're STILL ALL
READ F(&^% ONLY WITH WHITE ON WHITE TEXT! I'm seriously pissed off at this
stupidity... WHY must folder tasks be turned on? Because some pencil necked
geek at MS decided that everybody is a total moron and needs that waste of
f(&#%^ space? How is eating up a column of my valuable window space necessary
to display black text on a white background, the same as every other window
on my machine?
I am so sick and bloody tired of all the 'automagic' crap in windows that
they throw in for the trailer park morons, and either there's no way to turn
it off, or the tick box to kill it is buried under 7 dozen sub-sub-submenus.
If you're a software engineer, you can just go tweak it... if you're a moron,
you just plain don't know there's a better way, but if you're a decently
intelligent person without a software degree, you're screwed.
I'm sure this is some stupid undocumented 'feature' of windows... it seems
that every stupid, inconsistent error, [pardon] FEATURE I run afoul of is due
to this type of crap. I can hear it now: "Oh! let's make read-only files
invisible, so people will know not to touch them!"
"Brilliant! We'll embed it so deep in the OS they'll NEVER be able to turn
it off! Bwahahaha!"
Anybody know what's causing this crapola?
MICROSOFT GEEKS TAKE NOTE:
Take a lesson from Scotty: You've overthought the plumbing to the point that
the drain is stopped, disconnected, and unidentifiable to boot...
We don't NEED any more features, we need better control of the ones that are
there. eg: I've been hunting high and low for info on the MS software
wavetable synth. All I want to do is load in another soundfont, like EVERY
other synth, hardware or software, lets you. Can't find nothin'... MS
'support' [HA!] says "Dell sold you the OS with the computer. Ask them."
HELLO?! Dell didn't write the code for the f&^$ synth, and they know NOTHING
about it because there ARE NO docs available. If there were they'd be in the
MS 'knowledge' base, right? Try a search. Try 'wavetable.' Try 'synth.' Try
'soundfont.' Useless. If there are docs, you geeks have obviously decided
that you're the only musicians on the planet and nobody else needs to know
how to tweak the synth. I won't even start on some of the idiotic replies I
got in these forums. [Why don't people READ?] It shouldn't take weeks of
bloody bureaucratic BS and runaround get an answer to a SIMPLE question, and
please note: I haven't even GOT ONE YET!!
I suspect there's an exe somewhere, probably in the windows folder, that'll
open a synth control panel, but guess what? Nobody wrote anything down about
it. How professional. I don't dare go clicking at random.
We need consistency. I don't give a damn if the machine crashes when I'm
doing something I know crashed it before, but when I get up in the morning
and the thing crashed mid-defrag, well, WTF? Stability, get it? Like, not
having the thing puke a blue screen at you while you're doing something
you've done thousands of times with no difficulty whatsoever. 'Out of the
blue' yeah okay, guys, clever pun, but IT'S GETTING OLD!!
Quit adding new stuff until you've gotten the old stuff working, or all but
the morons will be using linux. There's fewer morons out there than you
suspect...