BackupPC - a brief rant

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Why the hell couldn't the computer just have said to set the clock
>> manually, since it couldn't manage to do it itself, instead of some
>> moronic number code?


Liam Proven:
> I know this was a rhetorical question, but:
> 
> These days software is expected to be localised into hundreds of
> different languages. Until that is done, the programmer does not know
> and must not assume what script/alphabet/language/character set an
> error might appear in, let alone what words it will contain.

That's all well and true, but you'd expect an American english program
to have error messages in that language, at least.  Sure, by all means
put an easy to copy and paste error code for uses to search for more
info it needs it, as well, but put a written message along with it.

It's just the sort of moronic thing that we'd come to expect with
Winblows.  What could have been an easily user-fixable thing (reset the
clock), becomes a service call for average users who don't know how to
get past error number x0e4343243 which gives no clue, nor any way to
find out what it might mean if you can't do a google search.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.