Bye Poland, Lick Butt BackTrack!

First the good stuff: We’re getting on a train tomorrow to head back to Berlin for a few days before heading home. I absolutely love Poland and would come back in a heart beat. The country is beautiful, the people are the nicest people I’ve ever met and things here are just generally better. I’ve enjoyed the last couple of weeks I haven’t been at work, stressed out and having mental breakdowns every day, I’ve definitely enjoyed the time I’ve spent with my mom and all the rest I’ve gotten.
Now for the bad stuff, get ready, it’s long. First off, kind of off subject, Backtrack 5 can lick my ass-crack. Looks fine, has a lot of awesome features, great for security enthusiats like myself. But, if you’re going to release something so famous and widespread, for the love of God, BETA TEST! I’ve spent the last two weeks trying everything I could to get my wireless working on my laptop with Backtrack 5 with absolutely no luck. If you built it and then tested it on your laptop and called it good before releasing it, you should be beaten with the keyboard you programmed it with. I know, I know, you can’t test for everything, there’s no way to calculate and anticipate every single hardware configuration. That’s why Backtrack 4 was released as a, say it with me, B-E-T-A, and people got to report what was wrong and what didn’t work.
5 was just released, so I might seem to be a little hard on it. But, next time, if it works on one release, make sure it’ll work on another. Take all the drivers from the previous version and include them in the new one. “But that would take too much room!” Seeing as how the previous version was just over 1 gigabyte, that’s not that big of a deal. “We offer a great community full of people who are familiar with our program that can offer help.” No, you offer a forum where people who are up their own asses and feel like they’re too good to help, so they just talk down, berate and mock…pretty much everything but offer help. And that’s if you can even get your question posted! A moderator has to approve it first, so if they don’t like it, they won’t post it, you won’t get help, the world moves on.
It’s like asking a Mac user why Apple products are so awesome. You get a lot of fluff but no real answer, and a lot of attitude. The main answer I’ve seen and received is “Google it.” WOW! Great advice! I didn’t know there was this website I could go to to ask for help and get answers! That sounds like the greatest place on earth! I SHOULD’VE TRIED THAT FIRST! WHAT WAS I THINKING?!?! Or, my personal favorite, “This has been answered here a million times, do a forum search.” That sounds reasonable. Instead of just helping someone, your advice is to make them read through hundreds, if not thousands, of useless posts that have nothing to do with the problem they’re having, granted the shitty search function actually works and finds posts relating to the problem at hand. Kind of like using Google. Needle in a haystack.
Okay, I’m off my high-horse now. To contradict all that hatred and anger: Backtrack 4 was a godsend! It took 5 mintues to install my wireless card (which is completely confusing why it wouldn’t work on 5, but I digress). It had thousands of the most useful tools security enthusiasts and wanna-be hackers alike could really sink their teeth into. In fact, I love Backtrack 4 and will stick with it until Offensive Security releases a better, more stable version of Backtrack 5. Why didn’t I just start off swinging from Offensive Security’s nuts about Backtrack 4? Because I haven’t just spent 2 weeks trying to get my wireless working, with no luck, with 4. I also haven’t been mocked and called names because, for some reason, the damn thing just won’t work and somehow, that’s MY fault. Another great Backtrack forum past-time, blame the user and not the program.
Anyway, I’m leaving Poland tomorrow and my head cold is keeping me from tasting anything I eat or drink. I’m also pretty sure I won’t be able to sleep tonight or on the train tomorrow. I’ve pumped myself with antibiotics, Advil Cold & Sinus, cough syrup and sleeping pills. Since none of that worked last night, I’m willing to bet money it won’t work tonight. Hopefully I’ll at least try to get some rest on the train. I guess we’ll find out. Bye Poland! I’ll miss you dearly! PIECE!!!!!

~ by bobisguilty on May 25, 2011.