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By: The Inquirer ES : Bug.gd, el primer buscador de bugs que además los soluciona

The Inquirer ES : Bug.gd, el primer buscador de bugs que además los soluciona — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:26:11 +0000

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By: bug.gd blog » Blog Archive » Coverage summary page

bug.gd blog » Blog Archive » Coverage summary page — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:26:16 +0000

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By: POLIN

POLIN — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:05:26 +0000

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By: ReCrunch

ReCrunch — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:41:23 +0000

Bug.gd solves a non-problem…

[TC] Bug.gd: Collaborative Search And Bug Solutions:

The idea is simple enough and addresses a real problem. A user is presented with an error message, they search bug.gd to see if anyone has solved it. If someone has a solution great, if no one foun…

By: share.websitemagazine.com

share.websitemagazine.com — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:06:47 +0000

Bug.gd: Collaborative Search And Bug Solutions…

Billed as “humanity’s last remaining hope against computers” Bug.gd is aiming to build a collaborative search and answers database of computer bugs….

By: Ramesh Soni

Ramesh Soni — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:10:29 +0000

Are they targeting just microsoft product?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:33:09 +0000

I think this solves one of the biggest problems with Google and Yahoo’s results. I often come across a forum describing the problem, but the follow up is either a non-helpful “Don’t worry. I fixed it.” or is non-existent. The automated reminders might be enough to get people to help others.

In any case, Google will eventually pick up anything put into bug.gd, so there is nothing stopping anyone from still using Google as a first stop.

By: Dallas Freeman

Dallas Freeman — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:41:09 +0000

I think this is an excellent idea, although there are already other alternatives (Yahoo Answers and Google Answers). I think someone needs to make a service to wrap them all up.

I like the follow up service though, I hate it when people don’t submit their solutions to bugs etc on forums.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:36:03 +0000

Useless, I just search Google “with my problem” – never lets me down.

Could be good for lamers though..

By: The Hater

The Hater — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:00:58 +0000

Actually, let me take one step further..who the fuck designs sites that are this ugly? Did they outsource the work to Stevie Wonder?

By: The Hater

The Hater — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:58:36 +0000

Yeah, this is some of the ugliest design ever. Listen up, stupid ass engineers – take an HCI course or two.

By: Amir Michail

Amir Michail — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:23:09 +0000

Related work:

Helping Users Avoid Bugs in GUI Applications
http://people.e...ions/icse05.pdf

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:02:59 +0000

Great service, just not necessary if you use Vista.
http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com
The Death of 3rd Party Security Vultures and Such!
McAfee Inc., Trend Micro Inc., CA Inc. and especially Symantec, … say goodnight! We are about to announce MS ForeFront 2.0!
Let me make it clear that while I have tolerated these “anti-virus” vendors for years, something about their very existence has not set very well with me. I mean, having a bunch of multi-million dollar companies that depend solely on there being bugs, leaks, holes, exploitables, mistakes, oversights and problems in Windows dosen’t speak very well of Microsoft. They are like carrion, buzzards, jackels, … protecting a rotten carcass from other smaller vermin. They always argue, “But, Bu-bu-but you need us!”, maybe that was true in the past, but no longer!

VISTA IS BULLETPROOF!

None of these quacks bag of tricks are any longer necessary!
Between WGA and Forefront the OS and Genuine MS apps are totally impervious to attack! They are so secure that many times even the registered owners have trouble gaining access to the computer! So then how could any hacker?

These vultures will kick, choke and whine as the user-base realizes this truth, but I say good riddance, your success reflected badly on us anyway.

By: Bjorn

Bjorn — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:33:11 +0000

Wow they use a ton of vertical space for absolutely nothing. Like half the initial screen.

By: sky

sky — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:27:55 +0000

This is just standard bug tracking thing, like Bugzilla. There is absolutely
nothing in it. Is this some first year college porject?

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:20:55 +0000

I am not so sure about this venture. You can get answers in Google, Yahoo!, etc. The only case where I can see the validity of something like this is for corporations that do not allow their employees direct Internet access. But what company will not let their tech employees have access to the web to solve problems? Yeah .. I know .. I would be surprised

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:28:42 +0000

yeah you can just search in Google and find a solution. i.e this weekend I got FIOS installed…and got a problem…my computer refused to resolve the ip address.

So I went into cmd and did ipconfig and got an error “can’t find RPC server”, quick venture to google and I got to a thread on a techforum specifically asking the same question. 4th Solution down told me to go look in DHCP to see if I can restart it…after I couldn’t I searched for that paritcular error “can’t start because of dependnacy” and found out that when I uninstalled Norton Antivirus it didn’t uninstall fully because of bad code…and I had to manually remove a dependnacy from the DHCP which caused it to fail to start.

Boom 15 minutes later problem got fixed

Anyways…unless my computer has thousands of problems per week, I’ll just Google instead of going to a specific site for bugs.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:46:20 +0000

Format C:\ may have been their solution. No where does it say they had to submit the best possible solution – just what they did to resolve their problem. If you don’t like someone’s solution you can down rate it with the little red bug. If someone else has a better solution you can uprate so others will know its a better solution.

There will always be retards to submit bogus solutions – you’d just have to be careful and use your best judgement to fix your problem.

By: BRadC

BRadC — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:48:00 +0000

Whilst I commend the goals, the implementation is perhaps open to abuse of unsavvy users. For example, look at the solution given in this example:
http://www.bug....h/details/65199

Solution? Format c:\

Excellent.

By: sky

sky — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:33:01 +0000

Useless. Google can do it already.

By: weirdo

weirdo — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:26:06 +0000

They create wrong web 2.0 down shadow. Why is upside “beta” on right side instead of left side?

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:56:32 +0000

Good endeavour for Computer Users.

http://tekno-wo...ld.blogspot.com

By: i'm Ronald Lewis

i'm Ronald Lewis — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:50:07 +0000

@3
If she’s not putting out, use your hand to please yourself.

“…f’n bitch”

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:52:51 +0000

Browse
you’re wrong. It’s buy her diamonds, or get her drunk. Cars usually don’t work.

By: Browse

Browse — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:51:11 +0000

“Problem: Girlfriend not putting out.
Solution: Buy her a car.”