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Netscape Restores RSS DTD, Until July

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-kinda-lame dept.

Randall Bennett writes "RSS 0.91's DTD has been restored to it's rightful location on my.netscape.com, but it'll only stay there till July 1st, 2007. Then, Netscape will remove the DTD, which is loaded four million times each day. Devs, start your caching engines."

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  1. You FAIL 1t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    influence, the private sex party and promotes our de-spite the

  2. Like I Said Before by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: -1, Troll


    Morons...

    IT geeks are some of the least intelligent designers of things in history.

    As an example, now I'm futzing around with a client's Windows XP system. He wants to move the hard drive with XP intact from one machine to a newer machine.

    Guess what? You guessed it! Can't be done.

    First, Windows won't move without a repair install (or maybe a sysprep - that technigue apparently has been known to work.)

    Then those Dell assholes rear their heads. He hasn't got a Dell reinstallation CD to do the repair install with. Okay, I can probably make one from the i386 directory. But it's not clear whether it will work on the new machine - or even if a Dell reinstallation CD will work. Because - and I can't get a straight answer from anyone as to which is true - either the Dell OS installers check for a Dell BIOS and won't load on any other machine - or they do. I've read it both ways on the boards and Usenet.

    If I can't do the repair install with the Dell reinstallation CD he's ordering, OR I can't do it from the i386 install CD I can build, OR via a sysprep (and all of these are risky, so I have to back everything up first anyway), he'll have to go buy another full retail version of XP (for half or more of the cost of the new machine) to do either a repair install or a clean install.

    NEVER buy Dell, HP or any of these assholes machines. Buy a white box, get a full copy of the OS.

    Better yet, switch to Linux - which can at least figure out its hardware at boot time instead of relying on a stupid ass Registry...

    I don't which is worse - geek morons or corporate management morons.

    --
    Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!