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Unofficial Windows98SE Patch
usrid0 writes "A service pack for Windows 98 Second Edition has been released. Big deal, right? It is if it doesn't come from Microsoft. "
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I think I got this one in an email a few days ago.
here
http://www.cygwin.com
http://www.mozilla.org
Yep, it's Windows 98, alright.
The neutrality of this sig is disputed.
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Is he the guy that's been emailing me Security Updates for months now? I don't need to use 512M with Win98SE, so he can stop now. Thanks!
Microsoft cannot vouch for the validity or quality of download packages offered by third parties not sanctioned by Microsoft."
How could they? They can't even vouch for their own products. How in the world are they going to vouch for someone else product?
It is now 2004. This is a operating system from 1998. WTF? In other news, I have finally developed fixes for the 1946 Packard Station wagon's carburator issues. Anyone driving a 1946 Packard on a daily basis can get the kit from me. Details will be given on a headline on /.
Humor from a Genetically Molested Mind
. . .some stranger offering me unofficial service packs.
As opposed to the strangers offering you nats and firewalls?
KFG
Of course you can trust him! The URL has the word "security" in it! I get e-mail from Citibank, eBay and PayPal all the time, and since the URLs in those e-mails contain the word "secure" somewhere, I know I can trust them with my account details and passwords. I mean, come on, a patch for a silly computer operating system is nothing important compared to my bank accounts!
Gotta appreciate Citibank et al's customer service though. Even though I'm not one of their customers, they send these helpful e-mails as if I were one.
Help savingAmigaOS and a free PowerPC market
He has had 6 years to work on it :-)
That's all very well, but where are the service packs for MS-Windows 95?
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
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I tried to emerge -k windowssp2, but the ebuild wasn't found.
Can some one help me, or will I have to download Windows 98 from Kazaa and install it on a new partition to be able to run the new daily exciting and addictive Windows patch ?
Any help will be appreciated.
Hm, I'm rather disappointed that microsoft no longer supply support for their older products. I currently use windows 1.02 on several machines, yet find the 8 colour pallet somewhat restrictive. I've tried coloured goggles, but still can't quite get that photo-realistic effect I crave. The last user supplied patch I recall was a fairly simple batch file affair, something along the lines of:
@echo off
format C:
phew...I was wondering what the dialogue saying "Einer Generel Protection Fuhrer" was all about...
I wonder if this will improve performance or even work under Virtual PC for Mac. Ever since I upgraded to 6.1 Windows XP performance became horrendus.
I thought the only thing the 6.0->6.1 updater did was change the Connectix logos to Microsoft logos? Apparently, all Microsoft has to do to make software run slower is slap their name on it.
is better than ME.
I can't believe they actually took 98 and made it worse by dimensions.
Somebody's written a patch for Windows ME but it
leaves only 3 lines of the original code intact.
MS11 is probably a Spinal Tap joke in this case.
" Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [Pause] These go to eleven. "
The e-mail reads:
Dear friend,
Use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now! More than 500,000 already infected!
Not to be pedantic, but in a quick review, I spotted 13 grammatical errors made by "Curly Locks" in his last 19 posts. I also noted that his posts are often one or two-lines and often get modded 0. Incidentally, his native tongue is clearly English - you can tell from his sloppy sentence structure.
... "an" is a very common word and was not included in your search but including "an" in your search invalidates the adwords which is good for me.
1)4/20/04: "Robertson deserves a lot of our thanks and a prize for enlivening our days, we need people like him to make life more fun and interesting."
2)4/21/04 "In 1992 I remember..."
3)4/21/04 ". So maybe these micro-stores are trickier than people think"
4,5)4/22/04 (2 errors) "The real question is this, whether IP will continue alone, or will IP networks get superceded a superstructure containing secure trusted authentication."
6)4/24/04 "I think you should switch career."
7)4/24/04 "Instead of employing a few scientists to do something, instead we just stick out a request into cyberspace and get everyone to do it for free."
8)4/25/04 "However the fact that it can only go "right..."
9)4/26/04 "Hi Andy, Look at the top..."
10)4/26/04 "There is nothing wrong with that, in fact it is very healthy."
11)4/27/04 (Starts off) "interestingly typing AXA gives different results from typing AN AXA even though google spits out the message:
12)4/27/04 "Some guy out there is a genius, funniest site in years."
Only a fool would mod his post interesting.
Last Friday, Windows enthusiast Alper Coskun posted something ...
"He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."
Other than shareholders, to whom are they accountable?
The US DoJ, the EU Commission (who actually take action, it seems), their customers, etc.
If MS release a patch that hoses systems or installs a rootkit, then a great many people will be clamouring for their blood. If some random guy on the net does it, everyone will be clamouring for his blood too. The difference being, you have to find him first, then hope that he's not in a country that won't extradite or prosecute him. MS has offices everywhere, and so can be held accountable by a great many governments.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
... if it WAS from Microsoft!
(Fix the damn memory limit bug for instance)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Yes, but if Microsoft gives us a patch for a Microsoft program and it fucks us all over, we can come back and say, "Stupid evil Microsoft fucked us over." If some other guy gives us a patch for a Microsoft program and it fucks us all over, it's our own fault.
:)
This is slashdot, we can blame microsoft even if they are not to blame.
Damn microsoft and their evil global warming!
See its fun.
Phew. For a while i thought you said "better WMD and US support."
/dyslexic
Don't install this on non-english versions of Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition. I don't think it will really break anything, but at least you will get mixed languages all over the place.
;)
:P)
I find it ironic that he speaks this warning in English about the Non-English versions of Windows
(And please don't bother with the "Don't assume the people that have non-english versions of windows don't understand English, I'm not that dense!
Join the TWIT army now!
Marshall? Wow, that IS obscure!
"and curse yourself for not doing proper backups?"
:)
Eh? Backups? Screw backups. I never backup, and my server has a 5-10 year old hard-drive. I like to live dangerously/stupidly!
Anyways, I wouldn't curse myself. I'd pop in my knoppix cd, tar & gzip all my important files, and ftp them to my server, reformat & reinstall.
If you've never tried knoppix, it's a great linux livecd distro, http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html or http://www.knoppix.net/.
Sometimes I take it to school, fire up ethereal, and sit and watch what everyone is doing in between playing games. It's definitly fun, especially catching teachers on porn sites.
So next time you're on a public computer, remember, big brother is watching you
Ok, I'm done now.
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