Re: automatic bug reporting

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From: Ann Barcomb
Subject: Re: automatic bug reporting
Date: 08:49 on 30 Sep 2005
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, David Champion wrote:

[...]
> Apparently the Mozilla Foundation, or whatever moniker of implied
> respectability they're calling themselves lately, has learned its
> manners of irony from "Heave Ho" Ballmer & co.  This is strikingly
> reminiscent of ~"Windows has detected that you pushed the power switch.
> Please do not push the power switch; choose 'turn off my computer' and
> allow Windows Shutdown to push the power switch for you.  This will save
> your valuable data."~  Or whatever it is that it says when you reboot
> after it crashes and destroys your valuable data.

At work I have a Windows machine.  When I leave work I tell it to shut
down, then turn off the monitor and leave.

A couple of times I've come back the next day to see the computer still
on with a message telling me that it couldn't launch a program because
Windows is shutting down.  There's an 'ok' dialog and after I click it
it finishes the shutdown (those times that it isn't frozen and in need
of a hard reboot, that is).

Now why would I care about starting an application if I was shutting down
the computer?   And wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that if you don't
get acknowlegement within a certain period (~5 minutes?) that the user
assumed you did what you were supposed to do and left the room?  Especially
if there isn't anything the user can do other than agree...why not give
a status message at the next bootup if it's that important (although it
isn't)?
There's stuff above here

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