Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Oct 2007 22:10 UTC
Gnome GNOME 2.20.1 has been released. "This is the first update to GNOME 2.20.0. The update fixes all known and unknown crashers, even for those modules which haven't released a new version (gnome-terminal)."
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WTF?
by BluenoseJake on Thu 18th Oct 2007 23:06 UTC
BluenoseJake
Member since:
2005-08-11

How can you fix something that is unknown?

RE: WTF?
by Hiev on Thu 18th Oct 2007 23:09 in reply to "WTF?"
Hiev Member since:
2005-09-27

they have superpowers, that's why GNOME rocks!!!

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RE[2]: WTF?
by raver31 on Thu 18th Oct 2007 23:28 in reply to "RE: WTF?"
raver31 Member since:
2005-07-06

lol, even though I had my sarcasm detector switched on, I still found this funny.

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RE: WTF?
by tyrione on Thu 18th Oct 2007 23:14 in reply to "WTF?"
tyrione Member since:
2005-11-21

SQA doesn't cover all boundaries. There will be sequences that have yet to flush out latent bugs triggered by behaviors not tested.

It happens to all platforms.

The "unknown crashers" is a poor description of what it really means in this context.

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RE[2]: WTF?
by BluenoseJake on Fri 19th Oct 2007 00:00 in reply to "RE: WTF?"
BluenoseJake Member since:
2005-08-11

I doubt any QA process will flush out all unknown bugs. Statements like that only raise expectations to unrealistic levels

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RE: WTF?
by leech on Fri 19th Oct 2007 10:23 in reply to "WTF?"
leech Member since:
2006-01-10

I recall at one point there being an update to Internet Explorer that said something similar.

"This update eliminates all previously addressed security vulnerabilities as well as any newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. Download now to protect your computer from these vulnerabilities."

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RE: WTF?
by meianoite on Fri 19th Oct 2007 11:18 in reply to "WTF?"
meianoite Member since:
2006-04-05

How can you fix something that is unknown?


As Donald Rumsfeld(*) so poetically put it:
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.

:)



(*): IMHO he (and everyone who took high positions in the government and the military of the U.S.A. for the last... hm, 70 years or so) is a dick. But what a funny quote ;)

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RE[2]: WTF?
by bandido55 on Fri 19th Oct 2007 13:35 in reply to "RE: WTF?"
bandido55 Member since:
2006-10-02

Rumsfield didn't say anything new. What he said was a variation of Johari window.1) things known to all (public); 2) things known to you but not to others (secrets); 3) thinks known to others but not to you (individual unawareness); and 4) things unknown to all (collective unawareness)

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