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... -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agr...@poofygoof.com "silly brewer, saaz are for pils!" -- virt
