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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970418161816.009e3e40@visigenic.com> from Tim Oneil at "Apr 18, 97 04:18:17 pm"
To: toneil@visigenic.com (Tim Oneil)
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> 
> >Re-installs are pretty common in the user world.
> 
> I disagree. I used NT 3.5.1 for a year, the only thing I did to it 
> was apply a patch when they became available, and then upgrade (so to
> speak) to NT 4.0 when it came out. I would really like to know
> what symptoms I should look for coming from my workstation that
> let me know when its time for a re-install. Do you mind?
> 
One of the problems is the cr*p that builds up when you are
designing/debugging/hacking OCX's...  Also, the version management
is really nasty -- note the problem with VB5 being incompatible
with new OCX's.  You can quickly/easily mess up an NT config, with
little recourse other than reinstall, or forage around a bunch
of dll's or ocx's to find the one that is the wrong version.  That
is very tricky on NT.  I have seen people "just give up."

John