POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Random fact of the day : Re: Random fact of the day Server Time
30 Jul 2024 00:18:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Random fact of the day  
From: Invisible
Date: 7 Jun 2011 04:09:38
Message: <4deddcc2$1@news.povray.org>
On 06/06/2011 08:52 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 6/6/2011 11:10, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> Actually, last time I tried it, you can't do this in Windows either.
>
> Not only can you dismount it, when you remount it, you have the same cwd.
>
> Since every drive has a cwd, it would be impossible to dismount any
> drive if you couldn't dismount one where you had a cwd set.

Oh I see. You're saying that you can dismount it even if there's a 
remembered path. I'm saying you can't dismount it if it's the *current* 
path.

>> What was a good idea 40 years ago is not necessarily a good idea today.
>
> That doesn't make it a kludge or a wtf or a random. It makes it an idea
> whose time has passed.

A kludge to rush something to market a few months earlier is still a 
kludge 40 years later, yes.


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