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Everyone Dies
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Posted - 2008.06.17 16:39:00 -
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CCP > Microsoft
The problem is WINDOWS not EVE.
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Vaal Erit
Science and Trade Institute
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Posted - 2008.06.17 17:00:00 -
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Hey man, EVE is a cold, dark, harsh place. Even the software is cold, dark, and harsh. Everyone in EVE is out to get you, even the software.
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Resamo
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Posted - 2008.06.17 17:16:00 -
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 Originally by: Jacob Mei
You would think that in regards to the boot.ini file that micro$oft would have some sort of failsafe in place. Something like "Warning, you are about to delete a file critical to your computers start up, proceed?"
The amount of complaints in vista with the popups asking if you are sure you want to do something that may effect your computer. But as soon as something goes wrong and there was no popup people ask "why was i not warned this could mess up my system"
Microsoft is in a damned if they do damned if they dont position about those stupid warnings and i dont envy them, the really problem is programing something that people will actually use because at the end of the day the users are what mess things up on there system then complain that you let them mess things up, but if you dont let them mess things up they complain that they are not allowed to mess things up.
And this was just brutal on ccp's part how on earth does that get released, no test deployments?
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Jim McGregor
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Posted - 2008.06.17 17:18:00 -
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Edited by: Jim McGregor on 17/06/2008 17:18:55
My boot.ini is now wearing body armor.
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Its dead, Jim.
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Thorek Ironbrow
Ironbrow Industries Co.
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Posted - 2008.06.17 17:19:00 -
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old
But anyway, back to the point... I'm awesome :D |
Princess Jodi
Cutting Edge Incorporated
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.06.17 17:21:00 -
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I heard it DID get extensively tested - all on systems which had the operating system on the C: drive and all programs installed on the D: drive!
While that may be the way some people 'prefer' to set up their systems, its not the way that ALL systems have historically been set up. So their tests worked just fine on the dual-partitioned drives: But if you had everything on C:, you were screwed.
Moral: Don't let youngsters be the only ones who make IT decisions. Things that they take as common place might be in total contrast to the way things have historically worked. Experience >>>> Youth.
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Digital Solaris
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Posted - 2008.06.17 17:35:00 -
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He is drumming on his little drum of self-importance too eager, and alittle too much. He also blows the whole thing out of context and I quote: "The boot.ini botch is inexcusable. Having been located on the root of the C: directory since Windows 3.1, it's not like it's a little-known file. In other words, keep your platform knowledge within a decade of the latest developments, and never name your files after anything that appears by default on the root of the hard drive in Windows."
I can turn this the other way around, you'd think that a powerhouse such as Microsoft, with such firm grip on the market share, would foresee something like this at some point of Windows development that they had a little brainstorm and came up with something a little more innoative, bought, stolen or otherwise. But I reckon this is why Microsoft feels threatened by the open source community and Apple.
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Danton Marcellus
Nebula Rasa Holdings
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Posted - 2008.06.17 17:43:00 -
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Still running without the boot.ini
Should/would/could have, HAVE you chav!
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Wynona
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2008.06.17 18:37:00 -
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LOL, top 5 world recognition for a colossally stupid mistake. 
My experience with this company is we're not dealing with patient mature businessmen here. The boot.ini was a result of their youthful haste. This 'youthful haste' is rooted firmly in the senior game managers too, and it's gonna drive the final coffin nail if they don't trade it for maturity and wisdom. I think the boot.ini incident would never of happened if CCP employees weren't their own best customer. If CCP didn't allow their employees to anonymously play Eve against the player base, then overzealous pee-pee dances and temper tantrums wouldn't get in the way of getting the job done in a calm, well thought out professional manner. (*this item contains a hint)
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Tippia
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.06.17 18:53:00 -
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Originally by: Beltantis Torrence
Because if its locked how is an administrator going to edit it? You need admin privileges to install software and you also need admin privileges to edit that file.
…except that you don't actually need admin privileges to install software, unless either a) the installer programmers are incompetent, or b) you're installing a system-wide service.
Even Windows handles user-level installs just fine – once again, the problem lies with the third-party programmers who aren't clever enough to let their installers work on limited accounts.
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