log

February 27, 2009

Niggles

• Why does Adobe Read­er 9 come with AIR? Mmm, pro­lif­er­a­tion. Unin­stalled immediately.
• Why do so many installers assume I’m will­ing to grant them net access? What exact­ly are you doing? BTW, I love VLC’s approach to this: a mes­sage from the devs say­ing they hate apps con­nect­ing to the net auto­mat­i­cal­ly too.
• Why do apps ignore my pref­er­ence for stan­dard antialias­ing? This includes IE8 (which has an ‘always use Cleartype for HTML’ option buried in Advanced options), Acro­bat Adobe Read­er and the MS Live installer.
• Sil­verlight install requests. I hate monop­o­lies too, but I’m not encour­ag­ing anoth­er pro­pri­etary plu­g­in just to break it.
• Google Update’s strange install loca­tion + check­ing for updates every 10 min­utes. At least it uses the task sched­uler, but the apps seems to run two copies at once at 7MB RAM a pop.
• c:\documents and settings\<username>\my documents\updater . What is this dir? Why is it always recre­at­ed empty?

Begin­ning to sound like the old guys from the Mup­pets…