Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken.

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* Chris Devers <cdevers@xxxxx.xxx> [2006-09-22T10:28:55]
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, sabrina downard wrote:
> > Stupid, steaming pile of shit.  If you're going to auto-allocate drive 
> > letters to removable storage media, maybe you should consider 
> > allocating drive letters that aren't already in use?  Just a thought.
>  
> Which begs the question: will Vista still map mounted volumes to 
> letters, or are they finally going to rip off the ways the rest of the 
> world does things so that problems like this won't be possible anymore?

In Windows 2000, already, a drive could be mounted like a directory.  It just
wasn't sufficiently pushed to become the Right Way.  Despite the fact that
volumes could be mounted at directories, people started pushing the use of UNC
paths, like //server/path/to/dir, which totally failed to work in 16-bit apps.
Then to solve this, admins mount drives, instead of directories -- which, had
they been used to begin with, would have solved this without needing two ways
to get at things.

Auuuugh.

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rjbs

• Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken. Chris Devers 15:28 on 22 Sep 2006
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