Richard Steven Hack wrote:
[SNIP]
Ah, yes, Partition Magic 5.0 and Partition Magic 8 STILL can't handle
my partition table AT ALL - even though Ranish, GNU parted, BootItNG,
and of course Windows and Linux themselves have absolutely no problem
with it.
Just out of interest - what is so "different" about your partition
layout? I'm boggling at what it could be...
Really makes you wonder how PM can be the "market leader" in partition
management when their flagship product can't even READ a perfectly
functional partition.
Because for 99.99999999999999999...% of machines that it lands on it
works fine, just like 99.99999999999999999999999999...% of cars produced
at factory X are fine, but there is a lemon every now and then.
Representative of the entire software industry IMO.
Well, yes and no.
The real problem with the software industry is that:
- the people who know _how_ to do it know _nothing_ about
managing it
- the people who know _how_ to manage it know _nothing_ about
how it is done.
When you run in to these sorts of problems, it is usually some
management droid's fault.
But it may just be that you've run in to some half-wits idea of how to
code, "How could you want to have more than 50000 lines in your
document, no-one could write that much," is a common failing in the
amateur leagues. (Note I am referring to "paid" so-called professionals
here, not OSS or Freeware/Shareware developers (but some can be just as
bad))
People think that the "Dilbert" cartoons are fiction, often they
understate the reality.
Cheers,
Gary B-)
