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Forum: Games Topic: Still playing EVE? New patch kills WinXP. started by: GORDON Posted by GORDON on Dec. 06 2007,14:45
< http://games.slashdot.org/games/07/12/06/1312254.shtml >Sheesh. Oops. Posted by TheCatt on Dec. 06 2007,15:13
That's awesome.
Posted by TPRJones on Dec. 06 2007,15:17
Yep, last night at some point when I rebooted my computer (after installing a Windows update from Microsoft), my system croaked. boot.ini was gone. It was a bit annoying, although easy enough to fix. I didn't find out why until today.
Posted by TheCatt on Dec. 06 2007,15:47
Didn't know u still played?
Posted by TPRJones on Dec. 06 2007,15:50
I started up again a couple of weeks ago. It's fun again, although it probably won't last much longer.
Posted by GORDON on Dec. 15 2007,08:16
Here's their "oops, our bad, here's what happened."< http://myeve.eve-online.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=526 > Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 15 2007,10:40
Least they tried to explain it. This is worlds better than anything OSI ever said.
Posted by TheCatt on Dec. 15 2007,11:48
I read that as "we're kinda dumb, lazy, and rush things out."
Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 15 2007,11:56
(TheCatt @ Dec. 15 2007,13:48) QUOTE I read that as "we're kinda dumb, lazy, and rush things out." Yeah, it looks like a simple enough construct in the script that it should've been checked. Posted by TPRJones on Dec. 15 2007,14:43
Looks like they just got complacent. After awhile the simpler commands (like delete) are things you just assume you know the details of how they are going to work. You should still test it, but sometimes you get complacent.Now if they had put it in with a leading /, then yeah, that would have been pretty stupid. Posted by Malcolm on Dec. 15 2007,15:11
Software Q&A folk should be naturally suspicious of any code.
Posted by Vince on Dec. 15 2007,19:51
QUOTE Why doesn't Windows protect its system startup files? That's a good question, one that I have asked myself in these last few days and wish I knew the answer. But of course I'm not going to blame Microsoft for our mistake. Windows doesn't protect those files and therefore software developers must take care not to touch them. We should have been more careful. Kudos to the guy on that one. Especially since it's so trendy to blame poor programming practices from software vendors on Microsoft now days. |