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On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:28:55AM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
> 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:
it raises the question, but doesn't beg it. http://begthequestion.info/
> 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?
UNC wouldn't be so horrible if hostnames could have functional aliases,
so you could move mountpoints around and still have a single namespace.
maybe there's some way to do this with active directory, but my
co-worker couldn't figure it out, and I've disavowed myself from the
windows world maintenance. maybe somebody here knows?
> Or are they too busy coming up with gonzo menu bar hokum instead?
>
> http://shellrevealed.com/blogs/shellblog/archive/2006/09/20/What-happened-to-the-menu-bars_3F00_.aspx
now take a look at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/ui/overview.mspx for what
they're doing for office 2007.
I really don't quite know what to say...
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