21st August 2007, 8:57 PM
It's worse than that. Windows, and OSX actually, both insist on creating a bunch of files I don't want being made on every portable drive I temporarily hook up to the thing. No, I DON'T want you using this drive for recovery data. No, I don't want you creating virtual memory files. Stop doing that.
What's worse is that's the default setting, which only means one thing. Even when I configure MY computers to not do that nonsense, everyone else's will do it anyway.
What's worse is that's the default setting, which only means one thing. Even when I configure MY computers to not do that nonsense, everyone else's will do it anyway.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)