Java
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Java is a programming language from Sun Microsystems designed to run on set-top boxes and various small devices. However, due to Java being too slow and bloated, that plan failed miserably.
Repurposing the whole thing for writing desktop applications also largely failed, partially for the reasons mentioned and partially because the GUI toolkit, AWT, was a useless piece of crap. A second attempt at a GUI toolkit, called Swing, put another layer of crap on top of AWT, resulting in something equally useless but slower, uglier and more unreliable.
Reportedly Java now runs OK on a powerful server, assuming you don't need to run any other applications.
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Security dialogs
<User> Java, get me a cup of coffee.
<Java> Warning! There was a problem with the milk. We are out of milk. Do
you want a cup of coffee?
<User> Yes, I already told you! But ... why the warning? Is there
something else you want to tell me?
<Java> More information: The building is on fire and we're out of milk. Do
you want a cup of coffee?
<User> Wait, what? The building is on fire?! Then why are you going on about
...
* User has died in the flames.
Workarounds for common problems
Double-click doesn't work reliably
Java on Unix uses X resources to determine how close together clicks must occur to register as double-clicks. The default is 200 ms, which many people think is unreasonably fast.
To change it:
echo '*multiClickTime: 350' >> ~/.Xdefaults xrdb ~/.Xdefaults
Applications are using the wrong language
The Java runtime environment works in mysterious and brain-damaged ways to determine the user's locale settings on different platforms. On Unix, the language used in most applications is determined by looking at the LC_CTYPE environment variable, which is only supposed to affect the text encoding.
Workaround: Change your LC_CTYPE before running Java applications. Something like this can be put in a wrapper script:
test -n "$LANG" && JAVALANG="$LANG" test -n "$LC_MESSAGES" && JAVALANG="$LC_MESSAGES" test -n "$LC_ALL" && JAVALANG="$LC_ALL" LC_CTYPE="$JAVALANG" export LC_CTYPE
It you're using Windows, I have no idea. Java certainly doesn't respect the OS language, and there is no per-user language setting in Windows.
