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Oh goody, Microsoft's up to old tricks!
The last time I booted my work PC to a message informing mt that Windows was applying update 3546 of 47257, when it finished and rebooted itself I found an error message relating to Roxio Creator Starter, which Dell preinstalled on this machine when we bought it. I also discovered shortly after that the built in DOS functions for networking (ping, tracert, etc) were no longer recognized as valid functions. After a bit of head scratching I thought to look in the ENV variable via the PATH command; it had been wiped clean.
I manually rebuilt it using another computer in the office for a reference list of items that should be in the string list, but it's incomplete. Still, it got me back running to some extent. But that didn't solve the Roxio problem with startup. I obtained the Roxio re-installation CD that came with the computer and ran it yesterday; voila, it fixed the error message! 
So this morning there's a problem on our network, and went went spelunking in the dark underbelly of things using nslookup. Whoops... back to square one; command not recognized! Grrr Another peek using PATH revealed that the Roxio installation completely wiped my existing strings, and replaced them only with those required by Roxio; everything else is gone.
Some programmers deserve to be shot, and whoever wrote the installation script for this product should be first in line!!!!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: Microsoft's up to old tricks!
Roger Wright wrote: the Roxio installation completely wiped my existing strings, and replaced them only with those required by Roxio; everything else is gone.
So how are you going to blame Microsoft for a cr@p installer from Roxio?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Windows Update created the chain of events, just like the bad old days. MS is much, much better at updating without destroying than they used to be, but they still have their bad days. Like all of us...
Roxio, I presume, merely learned from their fine example of selling untested, defective products.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: their fine example of selling untested, defective products.
Microsoft do not, have not, and will not sell "untested, defective products".
All their defective products are fully tested.
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That's memorable. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Microsoft Automatic Corruptdates. Turn them off.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
After all we've all got work to do right?
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Today a distro-upgrade (ubuntu) bricked the GuruPlug.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Game over - We Won!
Considering how many we detonated in Nevada, it's a wonder that people there object so strenuously to building the Yucca Mountain disposal site. Their kids all glow in the dark, sport two heads and have hooves already; what (more) have they got to worry about?
Will Rogers never met me.
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You ain't seen nothing until you've seen the Tsar bomb[^].
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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You realize that all of you guys are now in the NSA terrorists list for talking about certain things?!!
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...and so are you for using the 'T' word 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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185 teachers walk into a bar.
Barkeep says, "Sorry, I can't serve you."
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You have no class
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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because one ate five?
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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We only serve single malts in this bar. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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One of the teachers leans over the bartender and replies, "You are about to be schooled."
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"We just came for your final draft."
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I believe your kids are in out classes and report cards are coming out soon, aren't they?
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"10 points from Slytherin"
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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You've said enough bad things about alcohol to your students.
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The 185 teachers said:
Mr Fink has had 34 drinks, if he drinks 17 more he will have drunk exactly half as many drinks as Mr Martini. How many drinks has Mr Martini had?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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