HackNBlog @ Salamanteri Server

No, I’m not using Windows on my own computer but at work I’m facing this issue right now:

Drive letter C: was very low on space and I noticed that there was a huge swap set in there while on D: there was plenty of more room. So I decided to disable swap on C: and enable swap on D: and let the system decide the swap size. It was not that big of a surprise that Windows was not capable to enable these changes without rebooting - after all, it’s still lousy system on updating it’s settings on fly.

What bugs the damn out of me that it did not give me the regular “reboot now?” window that I could just dismiss but a one with a moving bar - and it would have automatically rebooted after the bar had gone full if I had not pressed “reboot later” button.
Now I dont know what kind of stupid idiot monkey came up with the idea of serving the user with automagical reboot so that he don’t have to bother himself about it but rather be glad after coming from cup of coffee and having suddenly lost all the open programs and unsaved work there was still at the moment!!

It does not end here! The stupid monkey decided that it would be nice to repeat the popup after a while… Supposedly in case that the user would have gone to have a cup of coffee and the system could sneak itself to reboot without the user having a chance to tell it not to! It’s not that there is any critical reason to hurry the reboot - the system keeps working with the old setting until I (or windows) decides to reboot but apparently someone thought that this would really be a great feature giving a fullfilling user-experience (oh, it certainly would if it rebooted while I was having coffee).

…and people say that windows does not suck? Come now, a real system does not need a reboot to change swap settings around as much as you might want, let alone go clowning around this way. Microsoft, WTF!?

Author is a 29 years old linux zealot and hacker from Finland.

Tags: Microsoft, rant, Windows

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