Adobe Troubles (longer)

[John Ferrell]

I will "sort of" agree with you.
XP is better than 98SE, but 98SE was better than anything before it. 2000 
don't count because it was not intended for the masses. It must be good, 
because a lot of business's are still using it!

The Windows Environment is flexible to the point of collapse. The 
development documentation challenges legalese for lack of clarity. Buffer 
overruns can be fixed, when are they going to really do it? Until they do, 
security is weak.

I fail to see the need to allow a hostile piece of software to permanently 
trash this mysterious thing they call the Registry. The Registry is a good 
place for what we called a "communications region" in the 1960's, but the 
failure to protect and preserve it is just plain stupid. History for a given 
application has always been better off in what nowadays refer to as a 
"cookie file".

Setup files never presented a problem whether you called them .par, .pro, or 
.ini. The Registry now conceals components to the point that you cannot 
purge a hostile component. The only reason I can see is that the registry 
also emulates a life cycle: eventually the system will get so mucked up that 
it will die! Obsolescence, planned and implemented!

It sure is cool when it is working. I guess that is why we put up with it. I 
don't really want it too change too quickly. There is enough unemployment 
already.

Fortunately, I enjoy wallowing around in the mud with technology. It must be 
really tough for those who expect things to work right...

Of course, there is always Apple. The training wheels are welded on over 
there....

John Ferrell
http://DixieNC.US

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lance Van Nostrand" <patterndude at comcast.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: Adobe Troubles (longer)


> This wasn't intended to be as long as it turned out so my apologies up 
> front, and computer literac;y is not a requirement for pattern flying, but 
> I have a few points to bring up about computer systems that might change 
> your mind.
>
> When software does not work as intended it is not usually the operating 
> system. 


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