__/ [ yttrx ] on Thursday 22 February 2007 17:00 \__
> This works every time.
>
> Generate a directory of over 10,000 files and directories. In my case,
> I used winrar to untar/gunzip an old backup from one of my freebsd
> machines, totalling about 2.5 gigs with about 177,000 files and
> directories.
>
> Then, take that folder that you just made, and drag it to the recycle
> bin.
>
> Watch Vista choke on it somewhere around 4-8,000 files recycled.
> Go have some lunch and coffee and come back 30 minutes later, notcing
> that it's choking in exactly the same spot, and that the window has
> become unresponsive.
>
> So right click on the window and close it, confirming the close in
> the subsequent dialog box. Watch explorer itself suddenly quit and
> never come back.
>
> Call your engineer buddy over at Cogent, who knows more about networks
> and operating systems than any windows fuckhead on COLA and laugh at
> microsoft for about ten minutes, trading Vista horror stories.
It took them 6 years to fix a notorious Windows 95 bug. The bug led to
freezing of the O/S that could last a quarter of an hour. It happened when
you deleted a large number of files, so one wonders if there's a connection.
it'a classic example of Microsoft ignoring bug report and procrastinating
the handling of urgent requests.
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