Pants Full of Unix

<> Had to restart.
<> Ah… iChat… how sweet the name.
<> Do you know how to get things from the OS X clipboard into the (Apple) X11 clipboard?
<> If you Command-C something in OS X it should go into X11 where you middle mouse clikc or something
<> I've got a screenshot of the fuck-up-edness on the clipboard, can't paste into Gimp.
<> Images, not text.
<> Ah.
<> Screenshot to file on Mac OS X creates a fucking PDF.
<> Yeah yeah I know
<> Honestly… not sure how to fix that easily.
<> Because that'll ever be useful.
<> Erg. So what's the included app where I can paste images? iPhoto?
<> Maybe…d o you have Appleworks?
<> Not so much.
<> No luck with iPhoto…
<> OK, there's a shareware program called Graphic Converter for OS X taht should do it
<> GC's been around forever. I remember it from System 7!
<> It's been a mainstay on Mac since forever
<> right
<> Yeah, nothing in Applications looks like it'll do.
<> This is unsane.
<> Well, [REDACTED], your Mac puts you in control… and what is more in control than not being able to interact with data you create?
<> Kill me.
<> hang on, preview does “new from clipboard”
<> rock
<> Hmmm… awesome
<> it's a .pict, let's see if it can save as jpeg
<> Or even a PNG!
<> nope, only as pict
<> unknown file type for gimp
<> Oh, shit
<> gimp can open PDF!
<> HUMILITALITY!
<> heh
<> Okay, has to load post script
<> first time I opened it, I just hit return, did resolution “100″ got crap
<> Not crap, image too large.
<> Opening with res 72 works, though, as should have been obvious.
<> (and by “obvious” I mean “NOT SOMETHING THE USER SHOULD HAVE TO THINK ABOUT”)
<> I fucking hate computers.
<> Yeah.
<> You invariably get screwed, it's just a question of which way
<> Either the developer thinks: “normal users won't need any features, so i won't include them” or “people who want these features will know everything and i will just let them enter it manually”
<> http://eclipsed.net/~gr/ichat_sucks.png
<> Note two things here:
<> It says you're offline, doesn't say you've come back. And then you say something. And it receives it. And leaves you offline.
<> At that point, you're offline in the buddy list. Only way to get you to show up is to stop and restart iChat.
<> Oh man.
<> AND AND AND
<> “I must scream, but I have no mouth!”
<> No text input box. Because you're offline.
<> !!!!!!!
<> Of course.
<> Yeah, they pretty much failed there.
<> Please to stop thinking for me, bastard developer.
<> It's hard to imagine how after going to all the trouble to do the kind of squirrely bullshit they do with Rendez-Vous and all that crap… that they can't get the core feature to work.
<> What, you wanted to CHAT or something? Stupid user, no cookie.
<> Yeah pretty much.
<> Okay, really back to work now.