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Unofficial Windows98SE Patch

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the who-do-ya-trust dept.

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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  1. patch for Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    here

  2. Already installed a couple of unofficial patches. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.cygwin.com
    http://www.mozilla.org

  3. Winner: Most Pointless Screenshot of the Year by horati0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep, it's Windows 98, alright.

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  4. Is he the guy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  5. guarantees... by deadmongrel · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?

  6. "Windows 98" - *98* - 1998! - GET A LIFE by drsmack1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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 /.

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  7. Re:The eternal question: by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . .some stranger offering me unofficial service packs.

    As opposed to the strangers offering you nats and firewalls?

    KFG

  8. Re:The eternal question: by Seehund · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  9. So what by Mitchua · · Score: 5, Funny

    He has had 6 years to work on it :-)

  10. Patch for freeBSD. by nlinecomputers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Get your patch for FreeBSD here

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  11. Will WINE support Windows 98 SP2 ? by waskyo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  12. Windows 1.02 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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:

  13. Re:The eternal question: by Afrosheen · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. "

  14. I don't need this by jack_csk · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Microsoft" already sent out random e-mails to windows users, with patch as an attachment.
    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!

  15. but the blame game is fun by LupusUF · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.