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and of course a stunning failure of testing that it got out into the world as a live problem.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 07:10:44 AM EST
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I'm guessing they didn't have an automated test case for that - it's pretty outlandish - and few of their beta testers or developers use guest accounts, at least on the machines they installed pre-release versions on. It also depends on the details of the case where the bug manifests.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 07:35:57 AM EST
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You would have thought that would be on the list of "Things we must test, because the beta testers probably wont"

It will be now.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 07:42:39 AM EST
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That's how things get on the list.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 07:48:35 AM EST
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When in the distant past I worked in Software quality control, a lot of effort was put into working out where  beta testers were more likely not to go, so where extra effort would likely be required., and guest accounts would have been right up there on the list. of course as you say, it depends what kicks this off  when it happens, and errors will always get through. (The old Windows xp has 6000 errors campaign, was the result of calculating out testing time and number of lines of code)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 07:57:00 AM EST
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Has an update already been provided?  My snow leopard waiting period was drawing to a close.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 07:49:21 AM EST
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10.6.2 is in the pre-release phase - I'm guessing it'll be held up while a fi for this is rolled in.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 07:50:30 AM EST
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According to the register, they're aware, and working on a fix.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Oct 13th, 2009 at 08:00:39 AM EST
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