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iTunes 2.0 Installer Deletes Hard Drives
Cheviot writes: "It seems Apple's new iTunes 2 installer deletes the contents of users' hard drives if the drives have been partitioned. I personally lost more than 100gb of data. More information is available at Apples Discussions board. (registration required). Apple has pulled the installer, but for hundreds, if not thousands, the damage is already done." The iTunes download page has a nice warning about the problem. Ouch.
Oh yeah, because EVERYONE on this damn planet can read, debug, and fix code.
Will you OSS zealots get it through your head that having the code doesn't mean jack shit to 99.9% of the population?
a dual-boot to the head...(whap!)...OW!
ok, this is a slight tangent I have to point out, but then again I'd just be NIT-picking.
Give a man a fish, and if he makes a crack pipe out of it, well, you've got serious problems to deal with.
Yes, I'm a tenacious, longwinded, esoteric SOB who needs therapy...why else do you think I'm posting here?
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
I attempted to mod this as offtopic; slashdot had a tizzy and decided I'd chosen 'underrated' (which I can assure you I didn't). Fortunately, posting this content-free message should at least undo the moderation damage.
/. there has only been 2 times a "funny" comment has brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard.
Ok, finally someone with the cajones to speak up for their moderation efforts.
I will start by saying that I disagree with this being offtopic, because there is a connection, however vague, that programming shell scripts involves the use of c/c++, does it not?
In some cases moderation is both subjective and objective, just like humor.
In all the time I've been reading
Keep in mind, this is over, ?what? 5 some odd years.
On the other hand some of the funny comments that are highly rated get a smirk, guffaw or even a "hurmph" of mild amusement.
To "understand" where I am coming from go here.
If you have ever done any programming you will find that what happened to Apple was one of those unfortunate things that happens to a lot of programmers from time to time...nobody knows knows it all, dude.
If you fail to see the humor in the above link, then I don't know what to tell you... well, besides: try programming in c, c++, pascal, assembler or any of the other languages that are
listed and they you might see my point.
To mod down what you don't understand speaks volumes about the type of person you are.
Realize I don't say that as an attack, but as a way to force you to think, in much the same way you forced me to think about my post.
Was my post offtopic. Objectively, no because it was on topic and there was a connection that was obfuscated by my attempt at humor.
Was my comment funny? Again, humor is subjective that is up to the reader/moderator to decide, really.
(I have to thank you, really, because I've been modded down so much lately for my attempts at humor. You've made me see that not everyone has such a broad range of experience in computers that I have. I'm not being egotistical when I say that because that is how it has been put to me and I've gotten and lost jobs because of it.
See? I strayed off topic...didja notice?
ahem..)
Oh, and you should be modded up for the "content free" crack...even I found it funny.
But being objective you should be modded down as flamebait/overrated/offtopic for the very same comment...
oh, and a brief snippet from what I posted in another discussion:
(on a side note, modding me down as overrated because of my +2 bonus makes about as much sense as hating people for being intelligent...Oh, wait, that is what happens to "us" nerds all the time... I just answered my own question, never mind...so, being different is ok, as long as you are different like everyone else? Heh, makes sense...NOT!)
Of course it was taken out of context by an AC saying I was confusing a +2 bonus with intelligence.
I honestly did no know whether to say "boo-hiss" or "touche"....perhaps saying it was a reward for reasonably intelligent posting.
I'll STFU now with what followed the snippet above: Yes I'm an esoteric, tenacious, longwinded SOB.
I'll never need therapy as long as I can post to slashdot.
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
It will be punishment enough.
(this will help some people to follow along, for I forgot (thank god) about some of these languages...maybe that is why 'code == speech'..heh what a connection"...anywho...)
Ok time to make you C the error of your ways, before looking at the ++ side.
We are not going to dole out useless pearls of wisdom because everyone should be aware by now software is not made on an assemblerly line...damn, that LISP is coming back, sorry.
There is a certian Basic Motif that creates this Paradox that creates a Revelation: Programmers are human and machines execute mistakes with alarming speed.
So, go FORTH and remember it will be a cold day in Cobol when you get on that FORTRAN and have to make Smalltalk or some Hypertalk over a cup of Java and hope and Cray you won't be NeXT.
And if you have Access to a Window seat, you'll see that the Sun will rise again.
MOOving forward, Apple, remember the old Adage that "IBM is sometimes and acronym for It's Better Manually or I've Been Misled".
Yes, I'm making and ASP out of myself right now, but I had to Scheme a little bit to be this SASsy.
All your XBase are belong to US!
'Moose out (of his mind I'm sure some of you are saying).
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)