Your rants here.

suzyb

Is there any software Microsoft has touched that isn't garbage.

dhope

suzyb wrote:

Is there any software Microsoft has touched that isn't garbage.

Their server products are pretty solid, Visual Studio is excellent and nowt wrong with C# or .NET in general. Office, especially Word and Excel is second to none. Windows 7 has never let me down. Ah sorry, was it rhetorical?

Edit: Are we allowed to reply to rants in kind?

Simonb256

dhope wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Is there any software Microsoft has touched that isn't garbage.

Their server products are pretty solid, Visual Studio is excellent and nowt wrong with C# or .NET in general. Office, especially Word and Excel is second to none. Windows 7 has never let me down. Ah sorry, was it rhetorical?

Edit: Are we allowed to reply to rants in kind?

I so hope thats a troll.

Server products are as flakey as hell if you want to actually do anything other htan basic funtionality.
Visual studio dont use much, but I generally code in vim.

Word and excel are not very good at what they are supposed to do, eat memory and crash freuently.

Windows 7 hasnt crashed me on me yet but it always hangs on shutdown without fail on every box i've seen it. (hanging where it says its waiting for an application that not actually doing anything).


All software is cr*p except to the guy its designed for. Even notepad has massive bugs (which are slowly being fixed).

suzyb

dhope wrote:

suzyb wrote:

Is there any software Microsoft has touched that isn't garbage.

Their server products are pretty solid, Visual Studio is excellent and nowt wrong with C# or .NET in general.

Edit: Are we allowed to reply to rants in kind?

That's the crap products I'm ranting about :evil:

I installed Visual Studio today but it's moaning that it can't open a project. Yet it managed to open the same project last night without any problems. Not only that but some of the project code doesn't work in IIS 7/.Net 4 when it worked perfectly well when using IIS 6 or .Net v2.

And not only can I not get the websites to work but I now have a crap ton of stuff on my machine I do not need.

PBo

The Running Man wrote:

To the tractor driver towing a large grain trailer through the lanes from Lacock to Sandy Lane. You very very nearly killed me. You either tried to drive me into the metal fence posts lining the side of the road on purpose or you are a complete ars*hole who shouldn't be given control of anything more mechanical than a biscuit tin.

How I managed to stay upright and avoid impaling myself on the fence was just down to luck.

If I had managed to catch you rest assured I would have dragged you from your cab and beaten the living sh*t out of you.

I have a very long memory ..........

i bet he had red diesel in it too......

Pritchard5

Its got to be car insurance for me.

Male
17

They just know how to stuff you over!!!

£3000 is the lowest i can get on a mini one!!

Kieran_Burns

Apparently I'm not allowed to privately pass comment on cars driving down sections of cyclepath where cars aren't allowed....

Snotty arsewipe.

redvee

The four girls in the Peugeot 206 escaped lightly cause I was on my SS and gave them 50yds headstart. Firing a waterpistol at a cyclist might be fun for you but not for the cyclist you squirt. The motorcyclist that overtook me with 12", you only got away without wordsfrm me cause the lights at the bottom of the hill were out of action, I'm sure you'd feel the same if a car/bus etc passed just as close as you did.

suzyb

I got scalped today, well and truly. By a guy riding a hybrid wearing a backpack

And I was all happy about getting faster :?

pigeon42

To the daft bint who chose to wobble across the road on her bike (to get to the pavement on the other side) in front of me as I exited a very busy roundabout (complete with articulated lorry already moving out): 1) just 'cos I'm on a bike doesn't mean I'm doing walking pace & you've got time to noodle across in a line that resembles a blue tit's flight pattern; and 2) wearing a high viz top doesn't make you invincible.

gbsahne001

to the car that tried to force me out of the way yesterday; please look at your speedo before trying to get ahead of the bicycle, just because I'm on a bike doesn't mean you have to get in front, after all I was already breaking the speed limit and you almost pushed me into a the back of a truck.

Apologies to the black peugot that I cut up owing to the avoidance actions required in missing the truck.

Mr Sworld

PBo wrote:

The Running Man wrote:

To the tractor driver towing a large grain trailer through the lanes from Lacock to Sandy Lane. You very very nearly killed me. You either tried to drive me into the metal fence posts lining the side of the road on purpose or you are a complete ars*hole who shouldn't be given control of anything more mechanical than a biscuit tin.

How I managed to stay upright and avoid impaling myself on the fence was just down to luck.

If I had managed to catch you rest assured I would have dragged you from your cab and beaten the living sh*t out of you.

I have a very long memory ..........

i bet he had red diesel in it too......

I imagine he would due to being a farm vehicle..... :?

Is there a point you are trying to make?

bails87

Mr Sworld wrote:

PBo wrote:

The Running Man wrote:

To the tractor driver towing a large grain trailer through the lanes from Lacock to Sandy Lane. You very very nearly killed me. You either tried to drive me into the metal fence posts lining the side of the road on purpose or you are a complete ars*hole who shouldn't be given control of anything more mechanical than a biscuit tin.

How I managed to stay upright and avoid impaling myself on the fence was just down to luck.

If I had managed to catch you rest assured I would have dragged you from your cab and beaten the living sh*t out of you.

I have a very long memory ..........

i bet he had red diesel in it too......

I imagine he would due to being a farm vehicle..... :?

Is there a point you are trying to make?

That he's a communist?

asprilla

Chuffing workmen on Kingston Bridge this morning using a cherry picker to pressure wash the wall of John Lewis. I hope you suffer itchy crotch for the rest of your life.

Closing the footpath and cycle lane is fine, but it would help if you signed it at the beginning of the lane and not at the end. Also directing me to the spiral staircase as an alternative isn't the kind of challenge I was looking forward to this morning.

I'm particularly impressed that you took such an effort to reinforce my stereotype of the british workman when I told you that it would have been helpful to put a closed sign at the other end of the bridge and you pucked up your sign and moved it two metres further down the path.

I'm off to ring JL now.

Specialized Needs

Thank you, Mr Black-4by4-pick-up-'tank' HK 56 xxx on Sevenoaks Way at 7.40am this morning, but I already know there is a parallel shared cycle path. I just choose to use the road. I prefer it to the stomach churning rollercoaster path where I have to give way to all those side roads that you don't care about. I'm also sure the pedestrians on the path would prefer I didn't use it at the same speed I go on the road, too.

All the same, it was kind of you to take the time to come up 12" beside me for 50-100 yards, at 25mph, one handed (so you could lower the passenger window) and turn to face me (rather than look where you were driving) just to pass on that gem.

But I think I would have felt safer had you just overtaken and not bothered :roll:

nich

Now Mr Road Racing Cyclist, I don't know what to make of you.

I can almost ignore the fact that you jumped every red light upto and including those at London Bridge. You made yourself look very stupid!

However, I cannot ignore the fact when I took you later at some lights (that you did manage to stop at!), you had the cheek the freewheel pass me at 6mph while getting right down on your aero bars as I slowed for the next set!

I don't know whether you were serious or not, but it did make me laugh

Also note that your back wheel with one of those funny disc things for peak aero performance sounds orrible when you go over bumps!

unscarred

Regarding the bike parking in the basement at 25 Canada Square: is it really necessary for TWO folded Bromptons to be positioned in such a way that they completely block access to THREE rack spaces intended for normal bikes?

Ben6899

WGWarburton wrote:

Hi,
If you must use one of those daft mini-suitcases-with-wheels-and-an-extending-handle (tip- if it didn't have all the weight of the frame, wheels and handle, you could carry it easily)... Please don't stop dead the second you get off the train to extend it and block the doors for the other hundred people looking to alight...

Cheers,
W.

Those suitcases are designed for narrow-shouldered, weak-back cockwombles. Kick 'em and spill drink on 'em.

yzf750

OK I am in front of you at a red light.

OK I am never gonna be super speedy away from red light.

BUT I will pull to one side to let you go by (even though I will catch you up at every red light for the next mile).

Leaning on your horn for 30 seconds is not going to make me a quicker cyclist or you a nicer person. Learn some manners - you're very brave in your van eh. Next time shall we discuss it on the pavement - just you and me? Nah - thought not.

First commute home in ages (trying to get fitter) and this has seriously peed me off. Why do they do this?

I ride a motorbike, drive a car and am a cyclist and give notice and politeness to all road uses 'cos I am aware of all of them.

redvee

Skateboarding student types are colourblind and stupid. One of them crossed the road on a redman just as the lights were changing for me to accelerate away which nearly ended up with the dopey student type with a Schwalbe blizzard embedde in his calf, try skateboarding with a knackered calf.
And why can't specialised keep spares for the wheels they used on their bikes? Snapped a spoke last night and have spent the day trying the LBS's in Brizzle trying to get a replacement spoke and have drawn a blank, the only option looks like a brand new pair of wheels :x

wgwarburton

redvee wrote:

...why can't specialised keep spares for the wheels they used on their bikes? ... the only option looks like a brand new pair of wheels :x

Answered your own question, I think... Why sell you a spoke when they can sell you a wheel. As I type this, someone at Specialized is trying to work out how to sell you a wheel you can't repair, so you have to buy a whole new bike...

They need to take lessons from Shimano. If (when?) Shimano start selling whole bikes you can bet they'll be "integrated", so that they work beautifully for the first couple of years, then start to get scrappy just in time for them to discontinue the parts you need to fix 'em.

Not that I'm cynical at all... no, not me...

Cheers,
W.

rjsterry

Ashima 3 Function brake pads - not all that in the dry, but I might as well have used a couple of knobs of butter for all the good they did in tonight's rain. Pulled the levers - nothing, pulled the levers harder - barely perceptible reduction in speed, squeezed the levers as hard as I could - gradually reduced speed until I was travelling slow enough to stop with my feet. Absolutely useless!

Bailed out onto the train at Blackfriars as riding home at 5mph didn't sound like fun. Back to Koolstops we go.

mudcovered

redvee wrote:

And why can't specialised keep spares for the wheels they used on their bikes? Snapped a spoke last night and have spent the day trying the LBS's in Brizzle trying to get a replacement spoke and have drawn a blank, the only option looks like a brand new pair of wheels :x

I feel your pain. This is why I switched to the hope hoops on my CX. Built from off the shelf DT spokes & Mavic Open Pro rims and even includes spare spokes in the package . Of course I still have to trust the hub. :roll:

Front or rear wheel? I've got a partly worn but still perfectly functional Mavic Aksium front kicking around. The rear would be workable with a bit of spoke tweaking but hasn't got much rim life left.

Mike

MrChuck

WGWarburton wrote:

Hi,
If you must use one of those daft mini-suitcases-with-wheels-and-an-extending-handle (tip- if it didn't have all the weight of the frame, wheels and handle, you could carry it easily)... Please don't stop dead the second you get off the train to extend it and block the doors for the other hundred people looking to alight...

Cheers,
W.

Yes! And at the top/bottom of the stairs/escaltor. I hate those things. Just get a backpack of the same size and stop fannying about.

Also they take up all the space in overhead lockers in planes and as you point out half of it is just weheels/fram/handle. Rubbish.

el_presidente

A tosser on a hybrid physically pushed me out of the way this morning so he could squeeze up a tiny gap on the inside of a bus at a red light. :roll:

Satu

How the hell is it not Friday yet? There is something seriously wrong with this week; there's been at least three Thursdays already, and yet -- no Friday!

I'm ready for my weekend now, please.

MonkeyMonster

Satu wrote:

How the hell is it not Friday yet? There is something seriously wrong with this week; there's been at least three Thursdays already, and yet -- no Friday!

I'm ready for my weekend now, please.

+1

DCowling

Satu wrote:

How the hell is it not Friday yet? There is something seriously wrong with this week; there's been at least three Thursdays already, and yet -- no Friday!

I'm ready for my weekend now, please.

bugger
I thought it was Friday

bails87

DCowling wrote:

Satu wrote:

How the hell is it not Friday yet? There is something seriously wrong with this week; there's been at least three Thursdays already, and yet -- no Friday!

I'm ready for my weekend now, please.

bugger
I thought it was Friday

I thought it was Wednesday

suzyb

Mr client..you do realise the longer you take to get me the information I need to proceed with your website, the less chance there is for it to be finished by your deadline.