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While some of it might be simply intellectual laziness, there are at least two other reasons for the simple 'reinstall' answer on Windows products. Those reasons are overwritten DLLs
and the infamous registry. Once the install of an app has modified the registry and overwritten some DLLs with new non-working DLLs, or older DLLs even the most intellectually non-lazy(?) person can find it impossible to reconstruct the system.
Mark
At 01:42 PM 5/9/00 -0400, you wrote:
>------- Forwarded message follows -------
>From: "Robert Raesemann" <[email protected]>
>
>The reinstall it thing is mostly a result of intellectual laziness. I doubt
>that people who take that approach would be very successful with Linux or
>any other OS, no matter how open it is. For the most part, these people
>don't know what they are doing and don't bother to try to learn when they
>encounter a problem. It is much easier to reinstall and hope the problem
>goes away. The scary thing is that a lot of these folks think that they are
>hot stuff and have no idea the depth of their incompetence (as I often put
>it: They don't have a clue and they don't realize that they don't have a
>clue so they aren't even looking for one). Everyone that I have ever met
>who is really good at anything has a healthy respect for the subject and a
>good idea that there are still many things that they do not know. They are
>essentially lifetime students. .... <clip>
and the infamous registry. Once the install of an app has modified the registry and overwritten some DLLs with new non-working DLLs, or older DLLs even the most intellectually non-lazy(?) person can find it impossible to reconstruct the system.
Mark
At 01:42 PM 5/9/00 -0400, you wrote:
>------- Forwarded message follows -------
>From: "Robert Raesemann" <[email protected]>
>
>The reinstall it thing is mostly a result of intellectual laziness. I doubt
>that people who take that approach would be very successful with Linux or
>any other OS, no matter how open it is. For the most part, these people
>don't know what they are doing and don't bother to try to learn when they
>encounter a problem. It is much easier to reinstall and hope the problem
>goes away. The scary thing is that a lot of these folks think that they are
>hot stuff and have no idea the depth of their incompetence (as I often put
>it: They don't have a clue and they don't realize that they don't have a
>clue so they aren't even looking for one). Everyone that I have ever met
>who is really good at anything has a healthy respect for the subject and a
>good idea that there are still many things that they do not know. They are
>essentially lifetime students. .... <clip>