Microsoft am teh dumb3rs
Ok, I have to do a little Microsoft hating here. drubear tried to install the latest EVE update last night (and this morning), and evidently because it now supports Vista, it insists on copying everything to the C: drive, and his C: drive is full. Both of us built our PCs so that we separate our OSs onto their own (small) partition in case we have to re-install Windows. It's an old trick, but it works really well when it comes to crashiness.
Because I use my PC primarily for Adobe Creative Suite, all my Adobe apps sit on their own 180GB SATA drive, which is also where the swap for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign sit, with secondaries on a 200GB drive. Today I, too, ran out of space on my C: drive. It seems that the latest updates to Photoshop are now Vista-aware, and, regardless of where you set your swap in PS, it consumes space on the C: drive, too. In the middle of working with a layout, I got a PS crash and a warning that I'm dangerously low on space (ignoring the fact that I have over 230GB of space on other drives, and TOLD it where to find the free space.)
Why is Microsoft so stupid to think that everyone uses their PC the same way? I have no intention of ever upgrading to Vista (ever, ever), and do NOT want my apps on the same drive as my OS. I've built several dozen PCs over the years, and have avoided a LOT of problems by drive splitting. I've hacked redirects into my startup scripts so that anytime the OS or an app decides to copy something onto C: it gets rerouted to the proper drive. I've given the OS partition 8GB (read 'plenty') and now somehow it's full. Full of MS bullshit.
I'm glad to see Vista sales are dismal, and people sticking with XP. I hope MS takes a bath on their new flaky OS. I won't be buying it, and I hope others stay far away from it as well. If Apple wasn't so god damned arrogant and allowed you to build your own PC (and too damned expensive), I'd probably switch.
I feel better.
Because I use my PC primarily for Adobe Creative Suite, all my Adobe apps sit on their own 180GB SATA drive, which is also where the swap for Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign sit, with secondaries on a 200GB drive. Today I, too, ran out of space on my C: drive. It seems that the latest updates to Photoshop are now Vista-aware, and, regardless of where you set your swap in PS, it consumes space on the C: drive, too. In the middle of working with a layout, I got a PS crash and a warning that I'm dangerously low on space (ignoring the fact that I have over 230GB of space on other drives, and TOLD it where to find the free space.)
Why is Microsoft so stupid to think that everyone uses their PC the same way? I have no intention of ever upgrading to Vista (ever, ever), and do NOT want my apps on the same drive as my OS. I've built several dozen PCs over the years, and have avoided a LOT of problems by drive splitting. I've hacked redirects into my startup scripts so that anytime the OS or an app decides to copy something onto C: it gets rerouted to the proper drive. I've given the OS partition 8GB (read 'plenty') and now somehow it's full. Full of MS bullshit.
I'm glad to see Vista sales are dismal, and people sticking with XP. I hope MS takes a bath on their new flaky OS. I won't be buying it, and I hope others stay far away from it as well. If Apple wasn't so god damned arrogant and allowed you to build your own PC (and too damned expensive), I'd probably switch.
I feel better.