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- megamod, on 10/12/2009, -84/+1172...but hey it's a Mac it just works!
- maskedm564, on 10/12/2009, -29/+782Need all your data wiped out in moments? There's an app for that!
- jerryparid, on 10/12/2009, -49/+713Its a feature
- aimhelix, on 10/12/2009, -21/+457they even delete the files for you, and you don't have to do a thing!
Windows 7 doesn't have that feature. - pjvdg, on 10/12/2009, -60/+485Don't worry it only happens when you copy paste something. We all know apple users don't use that.
- thewisemonkey, on 10/12/2009, -5/+394Well, they did say that Snow Leopard frees up an extra 7GB for you...
- BigVi, on 10/12/2009, -31/+375Hey at least there are no virus' right?
- clouds31, on 10/12/2009, -18/+275Wanna delete all your user data? There's an app for that.
- tdmeth, on 10/12/2009, -9/+262Who needs viruses when the OS wipes your data for you!
- ancalagon73, on 10/12/2009, -13/+231You know I had to call up Mac support for wireless problem I was having and I was actually told by the tech, "I don't know, it's just supposed to work."
- shil01, on 10/12/2009, -25/+218This is not possible. Next you're going to tell me there is a new Windows OS on the horizon that looks promising...Is this bizarro world?
- norman619, on 10/12/2009, -42/+234Yeah that's no bug. It's the latest security feature.
- D4RK354B3R, on 10/12/2009, -13/+188Take that Windows 7!
- ancalagon73, on 10/12/2009, -6/+1441. I happen to have experience with computers going back to the C64, and diagnosing and fixing problems has kept me employed for well over a decade.
2. What would make you think I could give a ***** about what you do or do not believe? Who are you? Nobody important to me. - bigmahlman, on 10/12/2009, -39/+172one small step for snow leopard, one giant leap for windows 7
- Fhwqhgads, on 10/12/2009, -23/+137owned
- darkpath, on 10/12/2009, -7/+118sudo rm -rf /
... *****. - waj5001, on 10/12/2009, -13/+119It's a self-aware attempt to cut down on "Apple Smugness".
Good snow kitteh. - Paal, on 10/12/2009, -19/+114ouch.
i think i'll wait just a little bit longer on snow leopard - leetleo, on 10/12/2009, -21/+109To be fair, Windows has this feature too, the only problem is that Microsoft crippled it into manual activation. Snow Leopard's streamlined design facilitates the automatic implementation of this feature, something that you M$Fanbois wouldn't know anything about.
- greendalek, on 10/12/2009, -46/+125Can we see some more independent verification of this, in a few more news outlets, before we start calling it a "widespread problem" and run with it? So far this only seems to be confined to user complaints on a single blog, and we all know what an objective cross-section of data THOSE are. Somebody point out some more URLs please?
- AndrewSaysHello, on 10/12/2009, -20/+97Windows 7 doesn't do that... is it a feature I can download somewhere?
- tnoy, on 10/12/2009, -1/+77I've had a guy at the genius bar tell me that WEP and WPA2 were the same thing.
- wTheOnew, on 10/12/2009, -5/+76You know, by clicking the reply button we know what you're replying to...
- bingostud722, on 10/12/2009, -5/+74@mrBitch
Yeah, but Windows server doesn't consistently and smugly claim to "Just work"..
Plus its a Server OS, a lot more difficult to build/maintain than a personal computer OS - mekura, on 10/12/2009, -12/+76New bugs appear in most major revisions of operating systems. Mac, Windows, and Linux all have this issue - the code base is so large that there are bound to be incompatibilities that haven't come up in beta testing.
If you're serious about avoiding problems like this (though thankfully often not of this magnitude), wait for at least two months after the OS goes mainstream for such issues to be sorted out.
And of course, ALWAYS keep backups of data, even if that means just dragging a few important folders to a flash drive every few weeks. - alarchy, on 10/12/2009, -6/+64http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageI ...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID= ...
There's other ones on the Apple forums. It was all linked through this post... - edlowe0, on 10/12/2009, -10/+67Is this what MS/Danger was using to store Sidekick data?
- MikeSD34, on 10/12/2009, -1/+58You would have to have upgraded from leopard, and have had an activated guest account before the upgrade.
- Daimwn, on 10/12/2009, -16/+69This reminds me several years back. I had noticed an issue of OSX magazine when OSX first came out ,with the headline in giant happy lettering:
"1000
BUGS
FIXED!"
Proclaiming their greatness....in shipping with over 1000 bugs... - brblol, on 10/12/2009, -2/+54Guess it doesn't exist then.
- MxM111, on 10/12/2009, -1/+51You know, sometimes putting /s at the end of the post is an insult to the reader's intelligence .
- cryinlion85, on 10/12/2009, -1/+49dude, even System Restore doesn't f with your docs.
- Altotus, on 10/12/2009, -10/+57Can anyone reproduce it? I can't seem to trigger it (based on their description).
- 6minuteabs, on 10/12/2009, -10/+55Because digg comments about DOS are so damn important that you have to find it easily later. Stop being a douche.
- awhiteflame, on 10/12/2009, -2/+45viruses.
- VitriolAndAngst, on 10/12/2009, -7/+50If you want credible information about Macintosh bugs and work-arounds go to MacFixit.com.
This problem only seems to happen to Guest accounts that are active on Upgraded Leopard installs -- that's an environment that is more public like a school or Kinkos I would think. I certainly wouldn't be happy if it happened to me out of the blue -- but it sounds like a problem that is going to bite someone who has a system that wasn't their primary one -- you know; public (guest) access.
It sounds like a bug that would make it through lots of developers and beta testers because this is NOT their setup. The Guest Account is designed to destroy all traces of itself on logout -- so it's probably a simple bug where the protected and unprotected accounts are not being transferred to the daemon that cleans up. If it's real -- Apple should be able to post a fix for this quickly.
The work-around might be to simple disable a Guest account and then Re-enable it, thus updated the database of NON-guest accounts. - Xoan, on 10/12/2009, -15/+58Jesus, I tried to follow the links on that site, kept getting taken to advertisers instead of the evidence when I try to click through to the "forum" containing the evidence. Neowin sure has a lot of ads, even with an ad-blocker in place. I don't trust a site that is so desperate for ad revenue that they ***** around with the links to the supported evidence. For all I know, it's a bunch of Windows users who were told "rm -r -f /*" is the way to switch users from the Mac command line.
I _can_ believe Apple foobared... they do... regularly. But I don't trust this site to be my primary source for Apple bug reports. - GoingPostal, on 10/12/2009, -4/+46@mrbitch. I have had Windows Home Server since it's release and have had no problems with it and have recovered my main computer from it perfectly.
- Speedy7, on 10/12/2009, -2/+44Who did I offend?
- Megor, on 10/12/2009, -2/+40Because the Iphone didn't have cut and paste for years
- megamod, on 10/12/2009, -1/+37wth...is this freaking twitter?
- phpchris, on 10/12/2009, -1/+37@2caster3
Unlike WEP which is crackable no matter what the password is set to, WPA can ONLY be cracked if you have a weak password and it gets brute forced. - verdantx, on 10/12/2009, -4/+39MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T STORE ALL YOUR PRIVATE DATA IN A CAT, IDIOT.
- tnoy, on 10/12/2009, -5/+39@robdazomba
I use OS X and Windows every day, and both of them fail occasionally at day-to-day tasks.
I went from using OS X a couple hours a day, to about 10 hours a day now that I was given a Macbook Pro as my primary work machine. I was kind of surprised how many issues I've run into with it. It "just works" provided that you only want to do what Apple wants you to do, or the only thing you ever do is email and web. Overall, I've been rather disappointed with OS X. Before having to use it 10+ hours a day, I would always give it praise as being ahead of all the others. - Elranzer, on 10/12/2009, -15/+47The Apple Store "Genius Bar" is the most ironically named establishment there ever was.
But then again, where I live, the Apple Store and the gay bars have pretty much the same people in it. - GoingPostal, on 10/12/2009, -3/+35You should probably change your name to SteveJobsbitch.
- digginamish, on 10/12/2009, -0/+32I'm not sure; there's lots of decent anti-apple humor here, but you must have crossed that line of environmental chic and mentioned a real, endangered creature. :0
- fallingdamage, on 10/12/2009, -1/+33wait..
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