[geeks] DST hell

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>Date: 2007/03/11 Sun AM 11:31:59 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] DST hell

>Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> Everywhere I've ever worked, Windows backups has been a PITA.
>> 
>> Of course, the whole thing is foobar.
>> 
>> Yeah, I know that VMS also does locking by default, but it also has tools to
>> deal with it and most admins won't put the system in a circular dependency
>> situation if they can avoid it.
>> 
>> Windows is so complicated, that it ends up locking itself out of itself all
>> the time.
>> 
>> That's why you have to reboot for even trivial application and utility
>> installations.
>> 
>> So stupid...
>
>I had a corrupted patch file I was messing with yesterday on a Windows
>box.  It was supposed to be about 6.5MB, but got truncated to 5.8K.
>Windows wouldn't let me delete it, *even after rebooting*, because it
>insisted there was a sharing violation.  What I eventually had to do was
>reboot the machine in safe mode command prompt only, log in as
>administrator, and navigate to it from the command line ... only then
>could I successfully delete it.

One "feature" I'd like to see in the environments I use (OS X, Solaris, Linux, and Windows XP/2003/Vista) is "Open command line in this folder" - it seems trivial, but I've never seen it mentioned by anyone...

Lionel