Re: AVR compilers

From: David (david.nospam_at_westcontrol.removethis.com)
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:21:49 +0100

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:00:15 -0500, mc wrote:

>
> "David" <david.nospam@westcontrol.removethis.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2005.01.13.09.17.42.795000@westcontrol.removethis.com...
>
>> Despite claims, desktop windows is still
>> basically a single-user system.
>
> Not in my lab. We have roaming user profiles. Any user can sit down at any
> PC and get his own desktop and his own files. This quickly reveals to us
> which pieces of software don't follow Windows standards!
>

You are unusual - very few use a full roaming profile setup (as distinct
from just file-server based home directories) successfully. The reason is
simple - lots of software doesn't work properly with it, because it is not
a natural way for windows to work. Many offices which need the effect of
roaming profiles prefer to use a windows terminal server setup instead,
although obviously that doesn't work for everything either.

>> Why someone thought that a directory such as
>> "d:\Documents and Settings\David.DAVID1700\My Documents" is a good idea,
>> compared to just "d:\home\david" or even "d:\david" is beyond me.
>
> It becomes David.1700 only if you've logged in 1700 times and each time the
> machine crashed and didn't delete the previous one.

Actually, the machine name is DAVID1700, so this indicates a
locally-authenticated user.

>
> But in any case you can easily identify this directory through an
> environment variable.

You can, to some extent - but it can cause other problems. I've got too
much software that I have to run to be able to mess too much with default
settings (even having windows installed on drive d: causes trouble
sometimes). I've also had windows (w2k) crash and corrupt a fair amount
of my "documents and settings" area, so I prefer to leave it for programs
that insist on using it, and store my files elsewhere.

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