Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 22:12:24 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Matt Staroscik" <matt@wrongcrowd.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEIIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041025154621.0482d690@wrongcrowd.com>
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We use the term: "Nuke and repave" I'll have to remember that. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Matt Staroscik > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 3:48 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows > > > At 02:59 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: > >Just a side comment from the peanut gallery... > > > >I was referring to the fact that in most cases, the solution in the end > >most often IS to just reformat and reinstall because there's so much > >cruft/crap/crud in the registry and Windows directories that that is > >the best solution, unless you want to spend an extra couple days trying > >to sort everything out. > > I have been temping at Microsoft for a while now. They have a > term for this > operation: "flatten." > > As in, "CMS2002 is acting up on that box and authoring mode is > broken... we > need to flatten it. It's scheduled for next Monday." > > Here, deep in Mordor, it's a way of life. :) > > - matt > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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