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Rod Speed wrote in message ...
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>Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote in message news:7pgnu1$dle$1@mochi.lava.net...
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Why didn't Microsoft think of this when they started?
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>>> There are awkwiditys with any OS.
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>>> You dont have to fart around recompiling
>>> the kernal, unlike unix quite a bit of the time.
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>> Did I mention recompiling kernals and such?
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>You have always been, and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.
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>Yes, unix does the drive labelling better, and the install
>etc much worse. There are awkwiditys with any OS.
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>> I asked about one simple feature that Microsoft, in its infinite
>> wisdom, did not implement. And by now they wish they had.
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>Its always easy with 20/20 hindsight.

Yes, granted.
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>> 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.
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>Having to recompile the kernal is a joke.

I'm sorry, I thought you could remember more than one item at a time.
I never mentioned anything here other than the volume label/drive letter
situation.  There are many things that Unix/Linux does better than
Windows, and many things that Windows does better instead. That is
not the point of this chain.  Granted we are argueing here, but can't
you please stick to the topic at hand?
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>All OSs have their awkwiditys.
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