Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Service - Error occurred during "OpenSCManager".

[Olivier M. <om...@ti...>]

Le 21-mars-07 =E0 10:43, Paul Reeves a =E9crit :

> I still get the feeling that MS have produced a crappy solution to a
> problem that they created for themselves. And, as usual, it has a
> complexity level designed to bamboozle about 99.9% of the population.

Oh yes, crappy solutions.  Go try to find one official, politically =20
correct directory where an installed program might want to create, =20
read and write files that will be shared by all users who will run =20
that application...

There somehow is one which is CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, but the access =20
rights are such that a standard user (w2k, winxp, vista) won't be =20
able to write there.  The only provided solution is to have the =20
installer update the rights of that location.  Which all softwares I =20
have seen doing so, do wrongly, trashing some other special rights.  =20
Adding more crap to the crappy crap.

There might come a day when poor Windows subjects will have to pray =20
Bill The Great before clicking the Start button... ;-)

Really so much time and money to get to *that* (vista)?
And people still think they get access to a masterpiece of the 21st =20
century technology?
Bah...


> BTW, in case anyone missed it, here is an amusing article about the
> quality of MS developer documentation:
>
>    http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/03/08/msdn_gloom/

Along the same line, the documentation for the Win32 API DeleteFile =20
which you can read here (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/=20
aa363915.aspx) in its newest version still gives invaluable advices =20
to developers, advices I could not live without:

"To prevent loss of data, close files before you attempt to delete =20
them."

Yeah sure. Thanks Mom.

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Olivier Mascia