___ ____ _____ ____   ___   ____ ____  
|_ _| __ )_   _/ ___| / _ \ / ___/ ___| 
 | ||  _ \ | | \___ \| | | | |   \___ \ 
 | || |_) || |  ___) | |_| | |___ ___) |
|___|____/ |_| |____/ \___/ \____|____/ 

It's 2010, and email vacation responders are still sending mail to huge lists, not bothering to even cache known senders. IBTSOCS.

Software for an rs232 Scantron device determines that you're done scanning forms if there's no serial activity for 2 seconds, instead of waiting for the "I'm done" signal that the giant honking "I'm done" button on the Scantron can send.

IBTSOCS

After upgrading to MacOS 10.6.2 and Safari 4, the only way to get smooth Flash playback on my MacBook Air is to install Windows in BootCamp.

IBTSOCS.

VMware Fusion apparently thinks that 'firefox google.com' is a separate program from Firefox and so should be given its own title; I'm up to firefox 8. IBTSOCS

It's 2010, and most games are still written in a static programming language with no GC, no real module system, no standard ABI, and slow compilers.

I Bemoan The State Of Console Systems. IBTSOCS

The 6.01 website recommends the use of Python 2.6, while its online tutor appears to use Python 2.4.

I Bemoan The State Of Course Six: IBTSOCS

My AI class publishes PDF notes. At the bottom of every page is the string

file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%...ing/6.034/07/lessons/Chapter6/csp-games-handout-07.html

IBTSOCS

Exchange will happily let you schedule meetings and then not send e-mail, which results in nobody knowing about the meeting, but it will still show up on your view of their calendar.

I Bemoan The State Of Calendaring Systems.

IBTSOCS

If your fatal error includes the text "not an error", you're doing it wrong.

DBD::SQLite::db do failed: not an error(21)

IBTSOCS.

C, TBH. IBTSOCS