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On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Nicholas Clark wrote: > $ file ~/tmp/Printout > /Users/nick/tmp/Printout: PostScript document text conforming at level 2.0 > > I don't care what its fucking name is. It's postscript. Damn well open it. > Don't sit there with your pathetic dialogue box showing it greyed out because > it doesn't conform to your numskull blinkered idea of how files should be > named. > > I am the user and I am right dammit. Not Steve fucking Jobs. I have been mucking around with address books, trying to have some semblance of unity between the 50 or so areas I store information about contacts. Apple's Address Book deserves quite a heap of hate right now, considering that it crashed about every third edit, and in case you missed my last hate about AddressBook, remember that if it crashes twice on you and you hit the 'try again' button, it will delete your preferences. Which preferences? More than you want, I guarantee that, and even though the dialog says "temporary", I think they mean, "they'll be gone until you recreate each of them manually". It at least deletes your AddressBook and your Appearance preferences. Yes, Appearance. But the thing I'm writing about, the thing that pissed me off the most, is that it would literally refuse to acknowledge a file full of VCards because that file did not have the right extension. Even dragging the stupid file onto the window got zero response. This is exactly the kind of absolute stupidity that I feared when Apple announced their retarded "we're going to store important metadata in the file name" policy. The worst part was that I had to actually export some existing entries to figure out what the right extension is. Rename the file, whammo, things work just fine. What a stupid, stupid idea. -- Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -- Mae West --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
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