Waste of time
Today I have spent nearly 1 1/2 hours at office just to activate again all #Micro$oft products on my desktop. Last Monday the main BIOS was corrupted, but the dual BIOS mainboard recovered from the backup BIOS, but then Windows wanted a system recovery and now everything had to be activated again. I did not install anything, I did not change any hardware, nothing! Why does it need to get activated again? The online activation was not working for the system of course and so I used the telephone activation, but it got rejected after entering 54!!! numbers through the phone! After waiting for some minutes to get a human I hang up and repeat all this again. As a result I got this time another shitload of numbers I had to enter in the computer. M$ Windows was activated at least, but M$ Office needed to get activated also. š Oh yes of course I forgot that M$ Word must for sure access the BIOS to work. š¤ The automatic phone activation with entering 54 numbers did not work this time also and so I had to wait to get a human. This time I stayed in the line, but then they asked me about a serial number. How should I know these stupid serial numbers? I installed it months ago! They could not help me and I have to search the serial first before they can activate it. After I found the serial I called again and of course the automatic telephone activation was not working again after entering 54 numbers, so I had to wait for a human again quite long and when I got a human they just activated it without asking for the fucking damn serial or anything!!! WTF?!?! 
Just had to enter another shitload of numbers in the computer and also M$ Office was useable again.
Thank you!
Just had to enter another shitload of numbers in the computer and also M$ Office was useable again.Thank you!
Haakon Meland Eriksen doesn't like this.
eBay fail
When did #eBay actually start changing saved searches? So annoyed about all these SPAM mails with products that I am not searching for. I made a search that worked well for months, but then they just dropped the categories and now I only get SPAM. Getting the urge to close my eBay account every day I get another message with totally useless offers. No I am not interested in dental drills and all the other things! #fail
Christmas terror begins
Last week I was already annoyed when I saw the first christmas cookies in a supermarket. And today I saw in another shop that they are buidling up already the christmas stuff area! October, November and December!? What a wonderful three month christmas torture. 
October, November and December!? What a wonderful three month christmas torture. 
obfuscate everything
Oh I hate all this stupid #OXID #PayPal et al. #ZendOptimizer source code #obfuscation and #PHP version incompatible bullshit!
:headbang
If you are so afraid that someone will laugh about your source code, better stop programming! 
#FAIL
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Bob Mottram
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •Klaus Weidenbach
in reply to Bob Mottram • •Bob Mottram
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •tony baldwin
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •I hadn't used Windows in about 7 years, but thought about keeping it on as a dual-boot for playing with some of my cross-platform development (I was writing a lot of stuff in tcl, which would also run on windows).
Immediately it wanted this activation, and I entered the activation key that came with the box.
Rejected.
I called MS (ew...seriously, I could hardly believe I was calling them), and they wanted like $60 just to help me on the phone.
Within an hour that shite was wiped from the box and a proper gnu/linux OS was installed, without any dual-booting.
I haven't wasted any time playing with Windows for another 5 years since that day. Haven't used it for, really, about 13 years now, and I'm quite happy about it.
Bob Mottram
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •tony baldwin
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •Their whole business model is highway robbery.
This was the 1st reason I switched to FLOSS.
I stayed because the software was better, and more fun, and above all, for the FREEDOM!
Mike Macgirvin
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •Went through a similar fiasco several months ago where I managed to recover from a failed motherboard by putting my drive with all my data into another box. Problem solved right?
Nope. Windows insisted on reactivating - and flat refused to reactivate because it was running on different hardware. Speaking to a human wasn't a provided option. The only option presented was to buy another license, even though both boxes had come with valid licenses.
I managed to acquire a newer OS version with a valid license which had not yet been activated. Don't ask.
I resolved that this is the end of the line for me and Windows - outside the workplace where they can pay for their own bloody licenses.
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Bob Mottram
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •tony baldwin
in reply to Klaus Weidenbach • •RMS's theories about vendor control should be painfully crystal clear to anyone who has one of them and uses iTunes, etc.