Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style. Date: 24 Jun 2025 19:16:30 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <103a6c8$qvlb$1@dont-email.me> <103d3kc$1or0b$4@dont-email.me> <103d5ad$1pavt$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net WODxbWBmy0UEeq95NCdf2gpL2iX4lOh+xaOk7qiqmMnPu7I5r3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:gXAcTKjZTPCjDchzcY7h3qre6fs= sha256:HQl8ttck6L1Uquh+Xe4pztlpano2qr6bJDhjM1ikyOU= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69098 On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 03:42:07 -0400, c186282 wrote: > On 6/24/25 2:42 AM, rbowman wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:13:52 -0400, c186282 wrote: >> >>> You can kind of FAKE 'drive letters' in -ix, but >>> it's still not quite the same. M$ introduced an 'improvement' >>> years back where you could only have a shared/named drive from ONE >>> IP address. Had to make fixes for that, lots and lots of aliases. >>> Nasty. >> >> There is the weird thing Cygwin does with drive letters. I don't think >> it's the same as the WSL /mnt/c convention. > > > Don't CARE who did it or WHY ... looks like M$ is trying to > freeze-out the -ix server universe. > > Just HATE 'em. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Linux Ballmer got fired a while back. theregister.com/2025/06/23/history_tech_selfie/ It was a charity event but it's an interesting combination.