Dear Vacuum,
You don't suck. And I mean that in the worst way possible.
Love,
Nate
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
A letter to the Windows 7 Team
Dear Windows 7 Team.
You've tricked me. Like an ugly girl with tight pants and a lot of makeup at 10 meters I was in love with you. Well, with your product anyway. Well, with the look of your product.
But that's it. You've scorned me for the last time. I was happily installing software when the installer couldn't write to it's own log file.
"Egad!" I exclaimed. "Why canst not the system write to the log of mine own x:\log directory? For I am an admin, yea even the greatest of all system users! Wherefore didst mine privileges run afoul of thee, oh Sir William?"
After much searching, I determined that I must not actually be the owner of the folders. I changed the owner of all the folder in the C drive to my domain user account. I further enabled permissions for additional groups and even tried sharing folders. Alas, the installer still can't write to the log directory.
And this isn't the first time you've performed such shenanigans with my permissions.
So that's it Windows 7. I'm not enamored with you anymore. Next time you want to protect a user from themselves, go find a Apple user.
Love,
Nate
You've tricked me. Like an ugly girl with tight pants and a lot of makeup at 10 meters I was in love with you. Well, with your product anyway. Well, with the look of your product.
But that's it. You've scorned me for the last time. I was happily installing software when the installer couldn't write to it's own log file.
"Egad!" I exclaimed. "Why canst not the system write to the log of mine own x:\log directory? For I am an admin, yea even the greatest of all system users! Wherefore didst mine privileges run afoul of thee, oh Sir William?"
After much searching, I determined that I must not actually be the owner of the folders. I changed the owner of all the folder in the C drive to my domain user account. I further enabled permissions for additional groups and even tried sharing folders. Alas, the installer still can't write to the log directory.
And this isn't the first time you've performed such shenanigans with my permissions.
So that's it Windows 7. I'm not enamored with you anymore. Next time you want to protect a user from themselves, go find a Apple user.
Love,
Nate
Monday, May 3, 2010
A letter to CitiBank
Dear CitiBank,
You keep asking me to "Go Paperless." Recently, you started trying to bribe me with a so very tempting offer to be "one of 5" to win some money by "going paperless."
As side from the fact that "going paperless" sounds scandalous and oh so fun, why would you want me to switch so badly? Oh Citibank, you must really care about the environment, that's it!
Or is it possible you don't realize that I realize what you realized about printing and mailing costs? Er, uh, I mean you'll save a bloody fortune if you don't send me paper statements.
Let's make a deal Citibank. Spit the savings with me. You probably save at least $0.40 on business class mailing and at least another $0.60 on printing costs. In essence, you're saving $12 per customer per year. Why should I give you another $12.00? Let's make a deal: You give me $6 bucks a year and I'll switch.
Deal?
Well, probably not because no one reads this blog.
You keep asking me to "Go Paperless." Recently, you started trying to bribe me with a so very tempting offer to be "one of 5" to win some money by "going paperless."
As side from the fact that "going paperless" sounds scandalous and oh so fun, why would you want me to switch so badly? Oh Citibank, you must really care about the environment, that's it!
Or is it possible you don't realize that I realize what you realized about printing and mailing costs? Er, uh, I mean you'll save a bloody fortune if you don't send me paper statements.
Let's make a deal Citibank. Spit the savings with me. You probably save at least $0.40 on business class mailing and at least another $0.60 on printing costs. In essence, you're saving $12 per customer per year. Why should I give you another $12.00? Let's make a deal: You give me $6 bucks a year and I'll switch.
Deal?
Well, probably not because no one reads this blog.
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