"Are you proposing that Microsoft has a "black ops" department, whose sole purpose is to cause Windows to behave incorrectly when 3rd party software is run?"
Now I'm not saying that this is occurring with Firefox, but I feel it's worth pointing out that Microsoft has done shady things on at least two major occasions:
1) Back when there was an alternative to MS-DOS (DR-DOS), Windows spat out bogus errors to make it looke like DR-DOS was incompatible with Windows.
2) Microsoft's infamous 10 incoming connections limit that was introduced in Windows NT 4.0 to kill competing web servers which ran on Professional. Microsoft wanted to force people to purchase Server just to run apache. It was later shown that Professional and Server contained the same executable code and that a collection of registry changes distinguished the products.
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Sometime over winter break, my university (University of Maryland at College Park), decided to effectively block all bittorrent traffic. It's exceptionally frustrating that they refuse to respond to inquiries about the decision. Their action, IMHO, also contradicts the Acceptable Use Policy which clearly states that "The University does not limit access to information due to its content when it meets the standard of legality." Sadly, this trend is only going to get worse at my school, in view of the recent news coverage.
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Now I'm not saying that this is occurring with Firefox, but I feel it's worth pointing out that Microsoft has done shady things on at least two major occasions:
1) Back when there was an alternative to MS-DOS (DR-DOS), Windows spat out bogus errors to make it looke like DR-DOS was incompatible with Windows.
2) Microsoft's infamous 10 incoming connections limit that was introduced in Windows NT 4.0 to kill competing web servers which ran on Professional. Microsoft wanted to force people to purchase Server just to run apache. It was later shown that Professional and Server contained the same executable code and that a collection of registry changes distinguished the products.
omg, it hates me... trying one last time Java 1.5
Fix that first link. It shouldn't have a slash at the end:
a tu res.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/fe
Ah. I'm not a dmoz.org editor. Thanks for the link, but most people will want to try this link.
Sometime over winter break, my university (University of Maryland at College Park), decided to effectively block all bittorrent traffic. It's exceptionally frustrating that they refuse to respond to inquiries about the decision. Their action, IMHO, also contradicts the Acceptable Use Policy which clearly states that "The University does not limit access to information due to its content when it meets the standard of legality." Sadly, this trend is only going to get worse at my school, in view of the recent news coverage.
Uh oh... looks like winamp will have to remove the "OS" section of their skins site, since the I-have-a-pole-up-my-ass-precendent is being set...