[geeks] DST hell

[Phil Stracchino]

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.


Only on Windows....


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