Morning Steve Lamb,
> How am I going to access that message on the new machine? :)
Well, by copying it/account in, i believe ;-P Sure, this might not
always be practicable.
> Because Windows is still considered a single-user environment and people
> don't move from one machine to the other. This is quickly becoming not the
> case as computers become more pervasive.
Oh, what I agree! Sure, why should I change/add a hard-drive? Why
should I want to uninstall a program entirely simply by deleting it's
directory? Who would want to backup his software installation just by
copying it on another media? And yeah, I could go on about this :-)
> To think, Unix got it right 20-30 years ago yet there are still
> people who don't get it when others say that Microsoft has seriously
> stifled innovation. :)
And even with MSWare it was easier once. Not that DOS was anything
like an exemplary OS, but most software used local settings and the
global ones were easy to handle (2 little files is overviewable) And
when a game company (namely: Sierra) insisted on it's own directory,
you just fixed it by moving stuff around a little. Windows leaves me
with less and less power over my organizational structure.
Okay, to put an end to all this angry off-topicness, I just hope RIT
goes the right way and incorporates all those registry settings into
a directory-internal file.
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+--Jast........................
|on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222
:with The Bat! 1.36
