RE: PowerTools DISASTER....and pain.

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

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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