Re: PowerTools DISASTER....and pain.

[Marcin Kowalski <marcin kowalski hotonline com>]

Thank you for your constructive criticism. Maybe it should be directed 
at the developer.
It is true that all I want is acknowledgement of my tragic loss :~-(.

I do appreciate that Open Source works because many people write much 
software, I just want someones' ears to box - and some form of social 
responsibility. But I shall try to contact them



Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> Do you really think that the developer did this on purpose? The time you
> spend ranting here could be much better spent talking to the developer,
> although I hope you do that politely and constructively.
>
> Murray Cumming
> www.murrayc.com
>
> murrayc usa net 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: garnome-list-admin gnome org [mailto:garnome-list-admin gnome org] On
> Behalf Of Marcin Kowalski
> Sent: Dienstag, 25. November 2003 10:37
> To: garnome-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: PowerTools DISASTER....and pain.
>
>
> Why is this completely evil piece of software in the public domain at all (I
> know it isn't public public, but still)
> I'm all for user based testing but this is completely ridiculous, to
> actually delete filesystem files - is their a greater evil ? It's like
> releasing a piece of code that does a rm -rf on your fielsystem and then
> saying it was only a pre-release... NO Excuse really.
>
> I can't think of many viruses that do such a thing, and this is supposed to
> be a tool ...
> Obviously I am deeply scarred.
>
> btw, all I get with R-Linux is a whole bunch of inode files, which I would
> now have to link together... does anyone have any advice regarding FS
> recovery....
>
>
> Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
>
> DO NOT USE Powertools - here is my sad tale :
>      
>
> s/Powertools/gnome-system-tools/ I think.
>
>  
> Woa - after three days of compilation (including dependency 
>      
> tracking 
>    
> and
> general mayhem) I finally got 0.27.1 compiled and running on an old 
> PII-233(256mb RAM) - Redhat 8.0...
>      
> You need to report this to the gnome-system-tools 
> maintainers, so no one else suffers the same fate.
>    
>
> Also, the latest version is 0.29. An earlier version of gnome-system-tools
> also destroyed my Red Hat network settings (I had backed them up manually,
> so I could get the files back again, and gnome-system-tools apparently does
> that.) I reported it. Apparently it was fixed.
>
> Murray Cumming
> www.murrayc.com
> murrayc usa net
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