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Re: How do experts install freeware CutePDF Writer into "C:\My Programs"?

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From: Rod Speed
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:42
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Marco Kesseler <find.me@access.for.all> wrote
> Rod Speed wrote

>>> ORGANIZATION: Besides the untenable
>>> flatness of the C:\Program Files directory,

>> Just your pig ignorant fantasy.

>>> nobody in their right mind would willingly
>>> organize programs by their brand names.

>> Wrong again, most obviously because that is trivial to automate
>> and anything else requires manual intervention at install time.

>>> That mixes programs at any one level of hierarchy
>>> that have absolutely nothing to do with each other
>>> than they share a common letter in the alphabet.

>> Irrelevant. What matters is how easy the right one is to find.

>> That will always be more reliable by manufacture than by category.

> Right. So now I have to move the MacroMedia stuff into the Adobe folder?

Dont know, dont, care. If it offered something
at install time, you likely can specify that there.

>>> Just like the Start Menu is filled with items
>>> organized by a four-year old on LSD.

>> In spades. You're always welcome to reorganise that any way you like.

> Given this remark, it is utterly beyond me, how you rant against someone who 
> WANTS to organise stuff her way.

Your problem. I wasnt commenting on her wanting to organise
things any particular way, just pointing out that her assertion
that Program Files has a flat structure is just plain wrong and
rubbing her nose in the reason its organised by manufacturer,
because that requires no manual intervention at install time
and that is obviously very desirable.

What matters is how easy a particular directory is to find
in Program Files if you need to find it, and you usually dont.

<reams of your puerile shit flushed where it belongs?

> Then don't, and let us have a polite discussion.

Just how many of you are there between those ears ?

She was nothing like polite with her rant about how its done by default. 
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From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: How do experts install freeware CutePDF Writer into "C:\My Programs"?
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:42:16 +1100
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