>
How many people would really try this? I'm not sure if this would work on modern windows, but it would certainly work in the old days, and you didn't see the masses of windows users accidentally deleting their harddrives.
>
An overwhelming majority of geeks and computer science graduates would rather give up that small measure of convenience. An overwhelming majority of non-geeks would probably rather have the easy version that works out of the box.
Slashdot Mirror
> How many people would really try this? I'm not sure if this would work on modern windows, but it would certainly work in the old days, and you didn't see the masses of windows users accidentally deleting their harddrives. > An overwhelming majority of geeks and computer science graduates would rather give up that small measure of convenience. An overwhelming majority of non-geeks would probably rather have the easy version that works out of the box.