What software makes you want to kill?

Chaotic42

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This thread is inspired by the computer here at work.

It's crap on crap running over crap. So here is my list:

-AXS Scheduling (Scott Studios)
-Lantastic (Artisoft)
-Windows 98 (Microsoft)
-Real Player (Real Media)
-Kodak Camera Software (Kodak)

All make me violent. :D

Edit: We'll just assume that everyone hates spyware. I should also note that Scott Studios and MS put out good software, it's just that those particular incarnations suck.
 

Lonyo

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Real anything
Quake 3
NFS2:SE
Internet Explorer (any version)
Quicktime embedded player

OTOH: I love Leechget, and that negates all bad software EVER.
 

brunswickite

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Jul 23, 2002
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Real player
Gator
Windows 95/98/me
Quicktime (esp when it keeps asking you to upgrade!, and you have to clik "upgrade later"!!!)
 

BurnItDwn

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Hmmm ... i loathe a LOT of software I think
(most of this is stuff I haven't seen or used in a long long time)
Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 98 SE
Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition
Microsoft Windows NT 3.x
Quicktime
Real Media
Any programs that ISPs think you should install to use their service rather than configuring the software that is built in to the OS. (especially aol, compuserv, prodigy, and netzero)
Any version of ICQ newwer than icq98beta.
all's client for aol IM (i much prefer KIT or GAIM)
Netscape
Stoned Spirit, Jerusalem, and Friday the 13th Virii (these are the only virii I have ever infected any of my PCs with, back in the days of the 486, when I didn't know any better)
Microsoft IIS (im sorry but Apache is so much better of a webserver, and i like Proftpd (or even ond versions of SurvU for all you windows folks) a LOT better)
winampa.exe ... I don't like useless crap in my system tray (though I love winamp itself)
Microsoft Minesweeper
That crappy Microsoft "getting started" that pops up on the screen after installing, or creating new user accounts on windows
Xing mp3 codec (though it has improved much over the last 5 years)
all GUI IRC Clients. (BitchX kicks their asses)
Adaptec Easy CD Creator (or roxio or whatever its called now)
Frontpage (the fact that the web is polluted with many poorly designed sites created by this web-atrocity appauls me)
that god damned commet curser thing
Weatherbug ..... Look it tells the temperature and uses 8+MB of ram! Couldn't they have made it run on like 100KB of ram???
Emacs (I think its cause I'm used to Vi)
Koffice (openoffice is much better)
Netscape (I've ran it on windows 9x and 2k as well as Macos 8.5 and 8.6 and also several distros of Linux, Mozilla, Opera, and MSIE are much better. (Currently a big fan of Firebird, though I use MSIE or Konquerer from time to time)

Software I have to access/use at work:
IBM 4690 POS Systems software (maybe i don't hate the software nearly so much as the fact that 90% of the users don't know how to use the software worth a damn, that and if the user screws something up, there isn't a good way to undo lots of things aside from telling them to do paperwork that they do not know how to do either)
Microsoft Office (especially that god damn paperclip thing) I prefer openoffice.org and staroffice.
Lotusnotes (wouldn't be terribly bad If i was using modern PCs at work ... but sometimes I'm stuck at a workstation with 128MB of ram, and well ... having 15 telnet sessions open, as well as about 10 other aps ... I want an Email client that is a bit more efficient with the RAM usage, though its tolerable when I am in my normal spot (that workstation has 256mb of ram at least ...)
Adapt Gateway
Adapt Interaction Client
SCO Unix 5.1 (most of the servers at work run this obselete junk)
Tandem software (for viewing credit/debit transactions, to verify if they went thru, and to pull up rejection codes)
Mastermind (crappy alarm monitoring software that is a pain in the neck to work with)



I think I am done for now. There is a LOT of software that i hate. Have a nice day.
 

bandana163

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Jul 2, 2003
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Win XP: 'the fastest, most secure, easy-to handle operation system ever'
Quicktime and Q-alt: can't play files in folders with '??úó' chars in their names
IE: i don't use it but some programs do...
Windows Media Player: overtakes file associations of Winamp and WinDVD, and doesn't let me correct them
 

IBuyUFO

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Java! This is a sh!t piece of language. Software written in java sucks up so much ram.
 
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Originally posted by: Lonyo
Real anything
Quake 3
NFS2:SE
Internet Explorer (any version)
Quicktime embedded player

OTOH: I love Leechget, and that negates all bad software EVER.

WTF? You hate Quake?

I agree on Leechget = 0wnx0r. Also see "Teleport Pro". :)

- M4H
 

thomsbrain

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Dec 4, 2001
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Windows ME
Real
Mac OS (9 and below)
Cakewalk Pro Audio (sounds like ass. wait, actually, it's worse than that)
Winamp 3
 

gopunk

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Jul 7, 2001
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gator... some dumbasses keep on installing it on the lab computers. i want to kill the people that have no consideration for others and install it, and the people that wrote it. or at least shoot off their toes one by one.
 

GoodToGo

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Real Player makes me convluse. I dont know how (or why) people still use that POS streaming software when there are other alternatives out there (read WMP).

Quicktime is bad as well.

MSN messenger for screwing up my TV card in Win 98.

GAIN/ Gator writers should be thrown in a pile of week old dung.

 

ElFenix

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real
kodak camera software (6 entries in add/remove software!)
gator
quicktime (only because of that "Upgrade Now!" thing and that you can't drag files onto it)
musicmatch
 

Lonyo

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Aug 10, 2002
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Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: Lonyo
Real anything
Quake 3
NFS2:SE
Internet Explorer (any version)
Quicktime embedded player

OTOH: I love Leechget, and that negates all bad software EVER.

WTF? You hate Quake?

I agree on Leechget = 0wnx0r. Also see "Teleport Pro". :)

- M4H

Whenever I play a botmatch, I have to re-do all the bot slots each time, I can;t just type in a number to set the number of bots, and you can only have 2 teams (that I can see), and it doesn't auto change map.
And if you can do those things, why don't they make it freaking obvious?!
UT is much better.
 

Howard

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Oct 14, 1999
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Anything that installs itself on other people's computers to force me to go over to uninstall. :|
 

ElFenix

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the software that allows spammers to send out massive amounts of email