Today's List Of Annoyances
Posted on March 16, 2006 10:33 AM
1. iTunes: When iTunes can't find a song, it asks you if you would like to locate the song. That's all cool, but I would love it if iTunes was smart enough to check the new location for the next song that it can't find. I recently had a USB hard drive fail, so I had to move my music to a different location. iTunes wants to ask me for each and every song if I want to locate it. To avoid this, I can just import all the music again. Unfortunately that means that all my playlists that I've created are useless, and iTunes still doesn't know enough to realize that all the stuff I just imported is identical to all the stuff that I already have.2. 1 & 1 Web Hosting: I own numerous domains with 1 & 1, with .NET hosting. I can't get each domain to remain autonomous. This basically means that if I use a .NET page (ending in .aspx) that is what I get for all the domains. Non-Geeks probably won't get what I am complaining about here. Basically when I make a change to one of my websites, that change shows up for all my websites, even though they're all supposed to be separate. This is one of the reasons I haven't moved off the computer sitting in my house, and why I haven't taken advantage of the hosting that I am paying $25 per month for. Here's a recent email that I got from 1 & 1 support:
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Thank you for contacting us. First of all I would suggest you to please avoid using "." when you name any file/ folder. There are few domains which are point to sub folders named with ".". You can host multiple sites if you are put them in the different sub folders. They have got nothing to do with other sites in other folders as they supposed to work independently. To run multiple .net application, it is the same principle as explained above. All the applications will/ must have their own web.config and default.aspx pages. To host multiple .net applications 1- you need to point all domains to root folder. 2- Use default.asp on root folder and redirect domains where ever actual sites are in sub folders. 3- Upload all .net applications with their own web.config and default files. Please make sure you need to ask us to enable any sub folder as an "Application Folder" where you upload the .net application. Also upload normal web.config file on your root folder which should not have anything to do with your other applications. |
I especially like the part where the dude says, "They have got nothing to do with other sites in other folders as they supposed to work independently."
HA HA! As Sarge would say, put that in a Memo, and title it "Crap I Already Know" The keyword there, in case you missed it, was SUPPOSED. My problem is, this is not what is happening...
3. Yahoo! Mail: Seems like these days when I use the web based email from Yahoo! I get a message that says "There was a problem accessing your account" or something similar. Eventually I can get in again, but at this point I am seriously considering switching to my gmail email account. One of the reasons I went to a premium account with Yahoo! was for the pop mail access. I wanted to use Outlook to get my email. That worked great for a while, but then one day Outlook started downloading all email in my inbox again. Since I get 2GB of storage with my premium account, I had about 2K emails in my inbox. This caused all sorts of trouble, because some of the emails I had moved to folders in Outlook and now I had one email in the folder and one back in the inbox. Also there seemed to be no way to reset Outlook without a total reinstall of Windows 2000/XP (don't get me started). So, having totally given up on Outlook for my email, I use the web interface, which seems to be unavailable at least 50% of the time.
Ah... fonzie. Add/View Comments Tags: 1&1, Outlook, iTunes, yahoo
