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Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released
asa writes "Today mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.5 Beta, available for Linux,
Mac OS X, and Windows. This beta release features lots of bugfixes, the inclusion of a spellchecker for Messenger and Composer, and lots of minor feature improvements to Navigator, Messenger, Composer and Chatzilla. More information is available at the Mozilla Release Notes."
Dear Sir/Madam:
I am Mr. Darl McBride currently serving as the president and chief executive officer of the SCO Group, formerly known as Caldera Systems International, in Lindon, Utah, United States of America. I know this letter might surprise you because we have had no previous communications or business dealings before now.
My associates have recently made claim to computer softwares worth an estimated $1 billion U.S. dollars. I am writing to you in confidence because we urgently require your assistance to obtain these funds.
In the early 1970s the American Telephone and Telegraph corporation developed at great expense the computer operating system software known as UNIX. Unfortunately the laws of my country prohibited them from selling these softwares and so their valuable source codes remained privately held. Under a special arrangement some programmers from the California University of Berkeley did add more codes to this operating system, increasing its value, but not in any way to dilute or disparage our full and rightful ownership of these codes, despite any agreement between American Telephone and Telegraph and the California University of Berkeley, which agreement we deny and disavow.
In the year 1984 a change of regime in my country allowed the American Telephone and Telegraph corporation to make profits from these softwares. In the year 1990 ownership of these softwares was transferred to the corporation UNIX System Laboratories. In the year 1993 this corporation was sold to the corporation Novell. In the year 1994 some employees of Novell formed the corporation Caldera Systems International, which began to distribute an upstart operating system known as Linux. In the year 1995 Novell sold the UNIX software codes to SCO. In the year 2001 occurred a separation of SCO, and the SCO brand name and UNIX codes were acquired by the Caldera Systems International, and in the following year the Caldera Systems International was renamed SCO Group, of which i currently serve as chief executive officer.
My associates and I of the SCO Group are therefore the full and rightful owners of the operating system softwares known as UNIX. Our engineers have discovered that no fewer than seventy (70) lines of our valuable and proprietary source codes have appeared in the upstart operating system Linux. As you can plainly see, this gives us a claim on the millions of lines of valuable software codes which comprise this Linux and which has been sold at great profit to very many business enterprises. Our legal experts have advised us that our contribution to these codes is worth an estimated one (1) billion U.S. dollars.
Unfortunately we are having difficulty extracting our funds from these computer softwares. To this effect i have been given the mandate by my colleagues to contact you and ask for your assistance. We are prepared to sell you a share in this enterprise, which will soon be very profitable, that will grant you the rights to use these valuable softwares in your business enterprise. Unfortunately we are not able at this time to set a price on these rights. Therefore it is our respectful suggestion, that you may be immediately a party to this enterprise, before others accept these lucrative terms, that you send us the number of a banking account where we can withdraw funds of a suitable amount to guarantee your participation in this enterprise. As an alternative you may send us the number and expiration date of your major credit card, or you may send to us a signed check from your banking account payable to "SCO Group" and with the amount left blank for us to conveniently supply.
Kindly treat this request as very important and strictly confidential. I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100% legal and risk-free.
Signed, GNAA president
PS. If you have mod points and would like to support GNAA, please moderate this post up.
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Leave to ESPN to slam Amazon. Go Jocks Go!
AC
1.49999999999?
what is up with the moderators today??? who the hell modded this as a troll? i posted something earlier today, and it got modded down to infinity. sheesh
I just got DSL and I am switching over to Linux. I am going to give this a test in penguin.
Broken, broken moderation system.
yay for mozilla! :)
..but when will they make thunderbird able to auto-open links in a new tab instead of having to click something to do that.
Matt
You have 1 Moderator Point! Use it or lose it! Is that a threat? -vapid
I was running Mozilla 1.2 on win98 for a while because IE6 had gone into 60-second-hang mode every time a form came up.
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Tried upgrading to 1.4 but it was constantly crashing, so I went back to 1.2
Then again I'm running win 98 because I'm too stupid/addicted-to-games to switch to Linux.
And one of my wife's hard drive died on her Mac, that's what's really pissing me off.
evanchik.net
I'm with marc anderseen. So what? Is this going to change the world? Someone please wake me up when we get to that point.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Except he's wrong. What the parent was going on about is the way IIS -always- ignored usual HTTP handshaking protocol when dealing with IE, saving it a couple of acknowledgements. It's bad enough with Slashbots running around all over the place without people trying to be smart about it.
This is so not working. I'm trying to lose karma on this thread and I'm up 4 already. Can someone mod this offtopic please?
- Chris
Truely great satire makes one wonder if the joke is really a joke. Kudos.
you WERE trolling, right?
You wrote "beleive" instead of "believe."
Obviously, one of my enemies had mod points today.
This guy is way out there
i would have modded it funny.. but then again... many trolls are funny. there is some overlap there... leading to the conclusion that the mod-terms should be updated.
http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html
' m-so smart/cool-ADD-disabled-and-don't-have-time-to-che ck" phenomenon, but mostly it's just laziness.
I note that the above site doesn't appear to have been updated in a while (or is that, "awhile"?) but it's still relevant.
Some errors can legitimately be explained by the, "I-was-typing-so-fast-and-made-mistakes-because-I
One thing I've noticed about the best Slashdot comments (+5, where I read) is the care taken with the structure and spelling.
However, some people intentionally misspell things trolling for corrections.
Having a sense of humor doesn't mean you'll laugh at anything. It means you know what is funny. the "fu" message was not funny.
Icon tweaking is a terribly Windows 3.1 passtime.
Isn't there anything better to do with your time?