We use the term: "Nuke and repave"
I'll have to remember that. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Staroscik > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 3:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows > > > At 02:59 PM 10/25/2004, you wrote: > >Just a side comment from the peanut gallery... > > > >I was referring to the fact that in most cases, the solution in the end > >most often IS to just reformat and reinstall because there's so much > >cruft/crap/crud in the registry and Windows directories that that is > >the best solution, unless you want to spend an extra couple days trying > >to sort everything out. > > I have been temping at Microsoft for a while now. They have a > term for this > operation: "flatten." > > As in, "CMS2002 is acting up on that box and authoring mode is > broken... we > need to flatten it. It's scheduled for next Monday." > > Here, deep in Mordor, it's a way of life. :) > > - matt > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
