tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784Fri, 25 Oct 2024 11:33:36 +0000UIWTFGoogleMicrosoftprogrammingredditAdobeWin32search42AIRAlice in WonderlandDouglas AdamsGetMessageHitchHiker's Guide To the GalaxyLewis CarrollMSDNPDFbloglificcoen brotherscountrydemograpyfailfingerlinguisticslinuxmacintoshmanmathperforcephotosportmanteauseathe hudsucker proxyworldAnother pleonastic blog. Diary of an insomniac. And I always lose my words beyond the second sentence.http://skarpio.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)Blogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-8789807992810508242Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:06:00 +00002009-03-30T21:50:10.315+05:30MicrosoftprogrammingUILook at the second progressbar on the image. And to the very right -- yes, do you see a pipe rotating? That is so Linux-ish. Remember when the time when Linux wasn't so GUI-rich? This is what we would find for a progressbar:| / -- \ | / ...(Also, the redundancy of the top bar leaves me speechless. Why have it there when it's done?)http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2009/03/vs2008-remeber-linux-anyone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-1880537351333107192Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:54:00 +00002009-03-25T11:25:57.668+05:30perforceUIThis error message made my day!http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2009/03/best-error-message-ever.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-6323964473842636564Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:16:00 +00002009-02-12T01:55:47.256+05:30failMicrosoftUIAnother gaffe from Microsoft from an otherwise functionally superior product. I use keyboards a lot, and this irritates me, very, very much. When shortcuts are duplicated in the same menu. Of course, pressing 'm' twice takes you to the desired (Remove Hyperlink) menu item, but that defeats the very purpose of having a shortcut. Aye, mate?http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2009/02/office-2007-ui-fail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-3870085519502598171Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:52:00 +00002009-02-12T01:52:57.393+05:30UIWTFAnd you thought Lenovo's batteries were bad ...http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2009/02/super-laptop-battery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-9217017942490867137Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:47:00 +00002008-12-18T01:38:51.291+05:30GooglemathredditsearchWTFDid you know that you can enter cos (pi/2) and get back a nice 0? The parentheses thingy is a matter you'd like to be careful with though. Because cos pi/2 is treated as (cos (pi))/2. For that matter, log, ln, e are all keywords (just like your pi) with proper arguments. What is surprising, unfortunately, is that there are no hyperbolic functions. Try with arccos, acos -- they don't work. One http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-calculator-math-fail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-6032858091011498723Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:31:00 +00002008-12-13T22:44:39.556+05:30fingerlinuxmacintoshmanprogrammingWin32I have had the (mis-?)fortune of dabbling in more than a single OS. Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux, Solaris -- you get the idea. At different points of time I have independently labeled each of the current OS to be the worst of the lot. Windows for lack of anything remotely resembling a workable shell and Visual Studio (think version 6 and earlier, yeah the 'Dark Ages'), Unix for no GUI and http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/12/perverted-os.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-6497071640305109764Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:33:00 +00002008-11-03T05:55:24.369+05:3042Alice in WonderlandDouglas AdamsGoogleHitchHiker's Guide To the GalaxyLewis CarrollI'd hazard a guess that very few numbers ever became famous because literature endorsed it. 42 is an exception. Douglas Adams immortalized the number as the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything. (These days, even Google's calculator would tell you that -- try punching in that question.)I have thought about it for a while and only found myself satisfied to think http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/11/42-hypotheses.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-8089400170733497541Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:24:00 +00002008-11-02T17:16:37.221+05:30countrydemograpyGoogleseasearchworldOkay, buckle up for 'The Next Google Feature'! Google Search has a secret feature. Type in a country's name and the word population (enter, say 'US population') in the search bar and voilà -- Google snaps an estimate. The country name is hyperlinked to some site from where the data is scraped (for lack of a better word, and want of inside information, on whether Google actually pays these guys orhttp://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-demography.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-172082841100767896Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:20:00 +00002008-10-30T03:16:59.327+05:30AdobePDFWTFPDF is an open standard (ISO 32000-1:2008) file format for document exchange created originally by Adobe Systems. I decided to check-out more on PDF and started off by keying in www.pdf.com in my browser's address bar. Lo' and behold! Turns out the domain belongs to a certain EDA company - PDF Solutions, Inc. Call it identity crisis or lack of foresight, but sure goes down as a classic WTF.http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/10/wtf-2-pdfcom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-2040572800940980444Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:31:00 +00002008-10-30T03:15:53.271+05:30GetMessageMicrosoftMSDNprogrammingWin32WTFThis one goes into my little red-book of WTFs in all-caps. Epic fail from the behemoth. Look up the MSDN documentation of Win32 GetMessage() function. The section on 'Return Value', you ask? Yeah, right,the warning box. I'll quote them:'Because the return value can be nonzero, zero, or -1,[...]'In case you are not too familiar with Win32, I'll post the signature as well.BOOL GetMessage( LPMSG http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/10/wtf-1-microsofts-ternary-boolean.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-1652208250217626975Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:47:00 +00002008-10-28T20:49:03.785+05:30AdobeAIRphotosredditBeing the avid redditor, I couldn't help writing my custom photo-gallery. An Adobe® AIR™ based application. Here's a screen shot. Want it? Right-click and do a 'Save link as ...' here. (If there's a better way, let me know.)Of course, you'd need to install the AIR runtime first.There are some limitations: you don't see more than the top 25 images in each category. But then a 100 images is http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/10/reddit-photo-gallery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-6739357086223447457Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:54:00 +00002009-01-29T23:00:14.371+05:30bloglificportmanteauredditWhile still on a bloglific mode. Here's something I find confusing with reddit. What is the up arrow doing up there? Yeah, that's the number one post (and every other number one post). I'd bet they have a similar down arrow for every last post. (I mean I'd have done this differently.)Main Entry: blog-li-ficPronunciation:\ˈblȯg-ˈli-fik, ˈbläg-ˈli-fik\ Function: nounEtymology: blog + http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/10/reddit-fail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-514670565174673202Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:43:00 +00002008-10-28T19:22:19.507+05:30coen brotherslinguisticsthe hudsucker proxyJust back from a feast of Coen brothers' movies I treated myself to. And here's what I got: What gives? (The Hudsucker Proxy, to be exact.) Curious expression! Led me hunting the internet and came up with a jewel, a rather formal treatise here at Brian Joseph's.http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2008/10/what-gives.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-115190206268394378Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:42:00 +00002006-07-03T10:17:42.686+05:30Actually this should have been here much earlier. Just that I couldn't figure out how to get javascript working with blogger :( Also, managed to put up some html on a free host and get a site up and running. So anyone who wishes to install the searchbar has to (unfortunately, for now) go there and get it done.Ok. The uninstall HOWTO: Go to the directory where Mozilla Firefox is installed Gethttp://skarpio.blogspot.com/2006/07/howto-uninstall-firefox-uva-search-bar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-115133804274209939Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:05:00 +00002006-07-03T10:12:01.536+05:30TestHere's something I managed to whip up in almost no time (copy-pasting can be such a delight). Its basically an useless searchbar extension you can have in case you're using firefox. You can simply install the searchbar and start searching uva without actually having to go to the site (or the board, the place you really keep looking at). I know the icon is really really bad. Help me if http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2006/06/firefox-uva-search-bar-add-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-115087880970738036Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:26:00 +00002006-06-21T14:03:29.720+05:30I didn't have much time so only a few minor fixes. preferences: Click on Options tab to change user id. restart mozilla By default it would fire up my stats ;) -- so you'd better change it.And oh! the link to get it is here. And thanks to all who took thetime to actually try it out!The opinion poll can be found here (along with misc. comments).http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2006/06/bug-fixed-added-preferences.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-115046447643815712Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:24:00 +00002006-06-23T17:52:06.573+05:30So thanks to nukeu666 I finally found enough inspiration to actually put it here1. Still working on some more interesting add-ons to this -- a toolbar to actually search uva using their new search page.Happy downloading! 1 The link at rapidshare will probably go off in a few more days, till thenlets have it here ;)http://skarpio.blogspot.com/2006/06/installer-uploaded-on-rapidshare.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989784.post-115036615836691676Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:28:00 +00002006-06-23T17:49:22.526+05:30 Yes, I know you know its a plagiarised version of that verse quoted somwhere in Zahir; I know you read Coelho. But this is not about Coelho. Not even remotely so, except maybe _this_ paragraph.I have been into UVA for some time now; solving problems or rather pretending to do so. In short, spending a hell of a lot of time there. And, gaining a bit of knowledge about a few things under the sun inhttp://skarpio.blogspot.com/2006/06/time-to-kill-time-to-write-extensions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Suman Kar)0