__/ [ Kelsey Bjarnason ] on Tuesday 03 April 2007 02:10 \__
> [snips]
>
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:19:33 -0700, The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
>
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch
>> <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote
>
>>>> Clicking Continue UAC kicks in. The entire screen will be dimmed and a
>>>> single prompt will appear saying that "Windows needs your permission to
>>>> continue" because there has been a request to do a "File operation"
>>>> by "Microsoft Windows". There's a detail button which reveals
>>>> "{3AD05575-8857-4850-9277-11B85BDB8E09}".
>>>
>>> Oh please. This is a result of someone trying to create a folder outside
>>> of his user profile. Let's see you, with a non-root users, create a
>>> folder under /bin without having to jump through some hoops.
>>
>> Yeah, but at least there one gets a "permission denied"
>> -- assuming it's allowed at all. (I have "/" up in
>> Nautilus, and the menu entry for "Create Folder" is
>> totally disabled.)
>
> Zackly. Proper behaviour is simply disable the function. Konq, for
> example, generally removes "delete" and the like from the menu if one
> doesn't have permissions to delete; makes things easy. Same for, oh,
> create directory, say.
>
> That aside, the notion of spewing a GUID at the user is insane; it's on a
> par with OE issuing what appear to be VB hex error codes instead of
> meaningful messages.
>
> Then again, Windows has _never_ gotten the concept of logging and
> reporting right. Check the event logs; they're riddled with complete
> gibberish. Why would one expect a _user_ app to have decent reporting,
> when the really serious, system-level stuff is such complete and utter
> tripe?
It's not just OE. How about those dial-up errors? "I'm getting 691. I'm
getting 691..."
Then there are the lookup translation tables, making up for poor error
reports.
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