Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[brentsg]

@LS:

Armpit and other pubic hair is there to capture pheromones.

That's interesting. Does that mean women who shave their pits and downstairs areas are more difficult to entice with man pheremones then?

Fortunately they can then attract the folks into the Kojak thing.

[Skykid]

Humans don't emit pheromones.

Okay, now I'm royally confused.

[trap15]

Humans don't emit pheromones.

Okay, now I'm royally confused.

Me too

[Deca]

Having to flip over consoles to get a game to boot.

It's annoying, especially since I can't think of why that would actually help, even though it does. Also, having to flip the damn thing over again to switch games is annoying.

I'm late on this one, but I've had similar experiences. I could be completely off base here but I figured it might rock the laser over so that it was a bit closer to the disc, since there's a small amount of play in the assembly.

[BulletMagnet]

Not a "little thing", but I wanted to scream upon reading this.

[drauch]

Ever had a huge beard in the winter, dudes? Trust me, it helps so much.

[xbl0x180]

I cannot grow a beard or a moustache... but I still grow enough facial hair to require shaving!

[null1024]

This Galaxy S3's inability to play DDP:R. I've gotten the game to work properly once, and that was a complete fluke.
It runs, it just shows a black screen after five seconds. All inputs and audio work.

Also, the absolutely massive sound latency on the thing.

[Ed Oscuro]

Humans don't emit pheromones.

Okay, now I'm royally confused.

Me too

Maybe it's not pheremones per se, but male smells definitely play some kind of role in female sexual sex-lection of a mate.

[trap15]

Vice-versa as well. I know

[BulletMagnet]

Maybe it's not pheremones per se, but male smells definitely play some kind of role in female sexual sex-lection of a mate.

Mainly those of leather, paper and green ink.

[Ed Oscuro]

Things that cause minor angst:

Those moments when you do a mental tally of all the MT-32s, CM-32P and CM-64 stuff you have, coupled with the knowledge you still don't have anything which interfaces with them

edit: Also finding out that Microsoft's stupid-ass verification system on the Xbox does jack shit unless you go to the URL shown on the screen - the way it's written, it seems like it's an optional step. Not so; got dicked around again because I didn't set it up. Let's hope that not fucking around with other options won't require me to go through that shit a third time. Fuck you, Microsoft. Even when they're trying to be helpful they fuck it up.

[AntiFritz]

People that don't understand the difference between a video game remake and an (enhanced) port. A remake is obviously when they you know, remake a game? A port of a ds game on 3ds with added features isn't a god damn remake.

[Zerst]

Mosquitos

[Edmond Dantes]

Not necessarily a "little" thing: how fucking unclear Linux is.

I was trying to install it on a USB drive, but somehow wound up erasing my hard drive and needing to reinstall everything. And I lost a lot of Works-in-Progress that hadn't been backed up because of this.

If only Linux had said "this is your main hard drive" instead of labelling it with its cryptic /dev/sba bullshit, that wouldn't have happened.

Lesson learned: Always remove the hard drive if you're trying to install Linux.

[trap15]

It's not cryptic. There's no way to say "this is the main hard drive" because there isn't such a thing. The names are assigned based on when they're identified. sda is the first, sdb the second, etc.

Chances are, it told you the sizes of each drive. Chances are, you didn't bother to look and just assumed sda would be what you wanted. Chances are, you didn't pay enough attention and if you had bothered to, it wouldn't have happened.

[BPzeBanshee]

It's not cryptic. There's no way to say "this is the main hard drive" because there isn't such a thing. The names are assigned based on when they're identified. sda is the first, sdb the second, etc.

Chances are, it told you the sizes of each drive. Chances are, you didn't bother to look and just assumed sda would be what you wanted. Chances are, you didn't pay enough attention and if you had bothered to, it wouldn't have happened.

This kind of view is exactly why Linux variants are not as popular as they could be, and why I can't be assed to do anything with it. Need experience to use it, need to use it to get experience, and perfectly intelligent people get shot down when making valid points or otherwise asking for help, so they get stuck, so they don't get the needed experience, so they give up.

Why bother with even trying Linux if you have to already a Linux programmer/hacker to be able to get it going and to use it effectively, and when you don't, get slammed by people with this kind of attitude? There is surely a way to make the process less cryptic, but chances are, the Linux community doesn't give a fuck, therefore nothing will get done. At least Ubuntu somewhat tries, or at least the last time I bothered to give it a look and it actually started up correctly it did.

[captnrain]

You didn't at the very least check the size of the disk or its contents before you nuked it? You got what you deserve and it isn't linux fault.

[emphatic]

You didn't at the very least check the size of the disk or its contents before you nuked it? You got what you deserve and it isn't linux fault.

I'm very sorry for you data loss, but I have to agree with this^^. I have a friend who asks me for help with computer stuff (I hate helping people with this shit, stop bothering me) and many times I've helped him only to have him do stupid shit like this. I hope you've learnt a valuable lesson.

[Ed Oscuro]

A while back I accidentally nuked a partition in Windows 7 when trying to merge partitions, so this can happen pretty much anywhere. Although in many ways these are different cases, there is the basic reality that if you don't know what's going on, you can't just hope for the best.

That said I am glad for the forewarning about Linux, since I have been interested now and again in trying it on a USB drive. However I find it hard to believe that there aren't clear and readable drive tools for setting up Linux which will tell you what a drive is (if you know the size of each volume or physical drive, at least).

[trap15]

If you know the sizes of all your drives, you should be able to tell which is which pretty easily, since I think every tool will tell you that when you have to pick one. Additionally, the first devices enumerated are generally your internal drives, so sda is probably going to be your primary hard drive.

[nasty_wolverine]

Additionally, the first devices enumerated are generally your internal drives, so sda is probably going to be your primary hard drive.

^this. Linux is pretty clear on which drives are what. Never have been confused by it. But I will agree, its more on the lines of "Know thy hardware". Its clear on whats there, but depends on what you see is there.

[Ed Oscuro]

Does Linux support the same kind of volume labelling that Windows does?

Also, what is the most typical file system used with Linux? Wikipedizu says that NTFS performance via the NTFS-3G system on fragmented files can be poor.

[trap15]

NTFS is a terrible filesystem in general. Ext3 and Ext4 are the most used filesystems on Linux, though I've been known to dabble in the most killer of filesystems, ReiserFS

It does support labels, but those are per-partition, not per-disk. So if you're doing operations on the disks themselves and not partitions, you won't see them (since they're not relevant). Same in Windows, except I don't think Windows makes it readily apparent that it only exposes partitions, and it's quite difficult to get to just the media itself. And when you do, it ends up being just like Linux: labeled with numbers and letters.

[Edmond Dantes]

You didn't at the very least check the size of the disk or its contents before you nuked it? You got what you deserve and it isn't linux fault.

I did check the size, elitist monsiuer.

The thing that threw me was that it showed five different partitions on the drive. In Windows, I have my drive split into a C drive and an E drive, so I expected two partitions, three if I count the hidden recovery partition. I saw five partitions and had no reason to suspect it was my HD.

On top of that, it wasn't until it deleted a few that it showed a whole bunch of megabytes (it shows megabytes, not gigabytes) and I realized that's way too big for the USB drive.

Dude above you is right, Linux users are way too elitist, and you're demonstrating it.

[Edmond Dantes]

That said I am glad for the forewarning about Linux, since I have been interested now and again in trying it on a USB drive. However I find it hard to believe that there aren't clear and readable drive tools for setting up Linux which will tell you what a drive is (if you know the size of each volume or physical drive, at least).

Something else I learned that would've saved me some headaches. This may not be for all versions of Linux, but for Zorin at least, it typically offers three install options: Completely replace windows, Install alongside Windows, and Something Else.

For some reason, it kept fucking up when I picked the latter two--it wouldn't take the entire USB drive (apparently they were partitioned before). But when I picked "completely replace Windows," It took the entire drive, automatically blanked it and made the kind of partitions it likes, and installed with no hassle.

Why hadn't I used this option in the first place? Because due to its label, I assumed it would nuke Windows even though I was installing it on a USB drive... which fortunately, it won't in that case. Just another way Linux doesn't clearly telegraph itself... (of course, I'm sure the Linux-lovers will say this is my fault for not being psychic and magically knowing this as well )

I have a friend who asks me for help with computer stuff (I hate helping people with this shit, stop bothering me) and many times I've helped him only to have him do stupid shit like this. I hope you've learnt a valuable lesson.

Yeah, I have. Two, actually.

One, always remove your hard drive before fucking with Linux if its been awhile.

Two, don't expect sympathy from Linux users. They're almost as stuck-up as Ninja Gaiden fans and have the same "you didn't magically know that this would happen despite there being no logical way to reasonably expect this? IT's YOUR FAULT!"

I swear, if I got into a traffic accident, some people here would say its my fault for driving a car.

[emphatic]

For the record, I'm not a "Linux user/lover".

[spl]

Edmond Dantes,

May I ask why you are trying to install Linux in the first place?

[Ed Oscuro]

Things that annoy me: Razer.

At least my mouse is back to working. It'd be nice if the shoulder buttons on my Onza stopped acting up. Nice to have the left shoulder button seize up entirely (due to something loose rattling around inside, it's been that way since I bought it and should've sent it in at the time, in retrospect) when trying to line up a shot against a bear in Red Dead Redemption.

[BPzeBanshee]

Things that annoy me: Razer.

At least my mouse is back to working. It'd be nice if the shoulder buttons on my Onza stopped acting up. Nice to have the left shoulder button seize up entirely (due to something loose rattling around inside, it's been that way since I bought it and should've sent it in at the time, in retrospect) when trying to line up a shot against a bear in Red Dead Redemption.

This.The Onza is a piece of shit.

I bought it for $50, $10 less than what the official 360 controller was going for. Regret every penny: should've gone for the official controller or looked around harder for a third-party controller that was cheaper (at the time they weren't too easy to find locally). Now I've got a Rock Candy one that was $20-30 and already seems better-built.