Potential serious snow leopard bug - be careful

[w1z4rd]

True . . . but did you notice how I managed to work the work 'epic' in there?

Yes bwana, because by any reasonable measure that is an epic coding fail.

Now that you're a mac user there's little excuse not to take advantage of the built in time machine app or download superduper if you want something a bit more configurable.

Um.. ok.. but that solution you posted two posts back... does it work? Have you tested it? Im not ganna.. so I was wondering if anyone but PeterCH had disabled their guest account and reenabled it, and logged in to see if their data is still there.

Okay so saw you edits. Lol... Its strange you would compare sticking a screw driver into an electric socket to your OS

No worries about backups, all my sensitive data is kept on my linux partitions, but I dont know enough about Mac to want it to delete whatever I have there hence the reason I am too scared to test if they fixed this flaw.

 

[bwana]

Okay so saw you edits. Lol... Its strange you would compare sticking a screw driver into an electric socket to your OS

I know but I spent all day Sat trying to shoehorn xubuntu onto an older machine (without success I must add) so I'm a bit jaded atm.

I've got a couple hours to spare today so maybe I'll test this guest account bug.

 

[w1z4rd]

I know but I spent all day Sat trying to shoehorn xubuntu onto an older machine (without success I must add) so I'm a bit jaded atm.

I've got a couple hours to spare today so maybe I'll test this guest account bug.

I suppose the old age analogy of comparing Linux to a F1 car is still there. If you ganna drive it well you gotta know how to drive.

Its still got to get way more end user friendly to become a competitive desktop for normal people.

Please keep us updated on your guest account test.

 

[bwana]

I suppose the old age analogy of comparing Linux to a F1 car is still there. If you ganna drive it well you gotta know how to drive.

Its still got to get way more end user friendly to become a competitive desktop for normal people.

Please keep us updated on your guest account test.

Logged in and out of my guest account and I'm still here - perhaps I didnt have exactly the right combination to create the perfect storm necessary to delete all my files so test it at your own peril.

If you had said series 3 landrover I might have agreed but Xubuntu on this hardware . . . nothing F1'esque about it.

 

[w1z4rd]

Logged in and out of my guest account and I'm still here - perhaps I didnt have exactly the right combination to create the perfect storm necessary to delete all my files so test it at your own peril.

Okay thanks for that. I wont test it, is an update expected to fix this?

If you had said series 3 landrover I might have agreed but Xubuntu on this hardware . . . nothing F1'esque about it.

Then its a pity you cant get it to run... fyi... its not the hardware that f1`y in the analogy.

 

[bwana]

Okay thanks for that. I wont test it, is an update expected to fix this?

Of course - why wouldn't one expect it be sorted?

 

[w1z4rd]

Of course - why wouldn't one expect it be sorted?

I suppose I used a bad choice of words ( I should have said is an update expected soon to fix this)... when is the update (propriety vendors not limited to just Apple, are well known for trying to hide these flaws and on many occasions fixing them many months to a couple of years later) expected?

They are also not so transparent about when they intend to release the fixes for their bad coding.

 

[Sputnik]

I suppose I used a bad choice of words ( I should have said is an update expected soon to fix this)... when is the update (propriety vendors not limited to just Apple, are well known for trying to hide these flaws and on many occasions fixing them many months to a couple of years later) expected?

They are also not so transparent about when they intend to release the fixes for their bad coding.

10.6.2 is being seeded to the devs now.

If it fixes this remains to be seen.