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Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote in message
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> Rod Speed wrote in message ...
>> Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote

>>>>> That is one of the nice things I remember from Linux, and the
>>>>> little Unix I saw in the military.  You create a partition, either
>>>>> the whole hard disk, or only part of it, and give it a volume
>>>>> label.  Then you can access it with that volume label.

>>>>> Why didn't Microsoft think of this when they started?

>>>> There are awkwiditys with any OS.

>>>> You dont have to fart around recompiling
>>>> the kernal, unlike unix quite a bit of the time.

>>> Did I mention recompiling kernals and such?

>> You have always been, and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.

>> Yes, unix does the drive labelling better, and the install
>> etc much worse. There are awkwiditys with any OS.

>>> I asked about one simple feature that Microsoft, in its infinite
>>> wisdom, did not implement. And by now they wish they had.

>> Its always easy with 20/20 hindsight.

> Yes, granted.

>>> Why do you think they finally have the Active Directory?  Not to mention
>>> the industry standard things like fully qualified domain names,  URLs, and
>>> UNCs. Networked computers being able to use 26 resources is a joke.

This is just plain wrong anyway. There are other ways
to use networked resources that aint limited by that
drive letter limitation, without using active directory.

>> Having to recompile the kernal is a joke.

> I'm sorry, I thought you could remember more than one item at a time.

I'm not at all sorry that you cant manage any
better than this, it gives me something to laugh at.

> I never mentioned anything here other
> than the volume label/drive letter situation.

Like I keep telling you, you have always been and always will be,
completely and utterly irrelevant, as it what you have mentioned.

> There are many things that Unix/Linux does better than Windows,
> and many things that Windows does better instead.

Indeed. So there aint the slightest point in hyperventilating
about the undoubted cruditys with Win9x drive lettering.

OS choice is about the totality of the OS, all the areas
it does better, and all the areas it does worse, when
they are relevant to what you want to use it for.

And the drive letter limitations with Win9x are easy enough to work around anyway.

> That is not the point of this chain.

You dont get to rule on that any time soon.

> Granted we are argueing here, but can't you please stick to the topic at hand?

Request denied.

>> All OSs have their awkwiditys.