Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:48:11 -0700 From: Matt Staroscik <matt@wrongcrowd.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20041025154621.0482d690@wrongcrowd.com> In-Reply-To: <20041025215913.1E4A616A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20041025215913.1E4A616A4CF@hub.freebsd.org>
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At 02:59 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: >Just a side comment from the peanut gallery... > >I was referring to the fact that in most cases, the solution in the end >most often IS to just reformat and reinstall because there's so much >cruft/crap/crud in the registry and Windows directories that that is >the best solution, unless you want to spend an extra couple days trying >to sort everything out. I have been temping at Microsoft for a while now. They have a term for this operation: "flatten." As in, "CMS2002 is acting up on that box and authoring mode is broken... we need to flatten it. It's scheduled for next Monday." Here, deep in Mordor, it's a way of life. :) - matt
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