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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:12:24 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Matt Staroscik" <matt@wrongcrowd.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows
Message-ID:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEIIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041025154621.0482d690@wrongcrowd.com>

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We use the term:

"Nuke and repave"

I'll have to remember that.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Matt Staroscik
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 3:48 PM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows
> 
> 
> 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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