This reminds me of another great hack in the Seattle area in Washington State. There is a geocache disguised as a library book on the shelf in a public library. The plastic protector is an exact match to the rest of the books on the shelf right down to the font on the decimal number. To see a write up on this publicly hidden cache, visit www.geocaching.com. Do a hide and seek from the menu on the left side of the page. Do a keyword search on "Overdue". The only thing this hack is missing is the pocket for the check out card on the inside. It has been there for almost a year.
Too bad they keep trying to sell the stuff that is incompatible with my hardware. If it won't work with my in-dash MP3 player, my RIO and my CD burner, then you can't sell it to me.
I just did the math. in 18 months time I used a pint and a half of color ink (1/2 pint of each color). At $14 per half pint, I spent $42 for the pint and a half. A pint and a half is a little less than 750 mL. The HP78A cartridge costs $56 and holds 38 mL of ink. $42 worth of ink eliminates the need to buy about 20 cartridges at $56 for a total of $1120.00 $1120 - the $42 for the ink is a savings of $1078.00. Thats just for the color cartriges. The black ink is a little cheaper, but higher usage, so it's payback rate is similar to the color. If I trash a printer half way through this cycle, I'm still way ahead in the bank account. I've almost saved enough to buy another new computer.
Actualy I want to save my $56 color print cartridges for my high resolution digital camera prints on glossy paper. I don't want to pay the same rate for a typical web page printout on plain paper. The banner ads are not that valuable. The draft printing is what I use the well used refills for. I now have the choice of buying color ink at $56 per 38 mL or $28 per pint (HP78A). Since 1 liter = about 1 quart, a pint is about 500 mL. $28 worth of ink eliminates the need to purchase over $700 in cartridges. (13 refills per pint color and 11 refills black on a 42 mL cartridge) There is aditonal savings of not tossing out a cartridge that used mostly yellow from printing mapquest street maps. The decision to refill for draft printing was a no-brainer. My last ink order was right about $100 and included 2 pints of pigmented black and 3 half pints, one of each color. The savings is well over $1500.00 in cartridges not purchased. I even use refilled cartridges for photos until the first sign of streaking starts to appear, then it becomes a draft cartridge.
The cartridge chip contains a serial number. There is no sensor on ink level. The printer keeps track of the amount of use of each nozzle. When a cartridge has had so much use, the printer assumes it is empty. The printer refuses to use the cartridge only because it remembers it by serial number. If that same cartridge were put in another printer, the printer will recognise it as a new full cartridge whether it has been filled or not. The service mode of the 900 series printers will print out the serial numbers of the current cartridges along with nozzle counts and estimated ink levels AND the serial numbers of the previous set of cartridges.
I can't find the information on the website. Care to give a more direct pointer? Sure, I posted the home page for the supplier as I didn't want to be single printer specific. However the instructions for the HP printers is here. http://www.atlascopy.com/_inkjet/000001ae.htm It includes all the revelant codes to do the service mode printouts including the print cartridge serial numbers and estimated ink levels. No PC required to access this information. It prints hardcopy.
Info for other printers is also given. It's a goldmine of useful information regarding refilling. I recommend spending time reading to pick up all the tips and tricks.
Modern DVDs *do* come out in HDTV format... Check the spec. HDTV is not widescreen. HDTV is not NTSC. It's a high resolution digital format. Where is the HDTV output on a DVD player? Anything that is just NTSC or PAL (butchered versions with Macrovision) is not HDTV regardless of the aspect ratio. Show me the digital HDTV output!
I got this at work. Our on the ball IT staff was already prpared. The tag from the IT staff simply said attachment quarentined and named the virus and the full filename. I love a good IT staff. My text was a little diffrent. It prompted me to save the attachment then exit to the DOS prompt and run it. My guess is that is to kill the anti-virus monitor.
realized that she was using refilled cartridges. I do a fair amount of photo printing on an HP printer. (digital camera buff) I usualy can not tell any diffrence in inks (OEM/my refills) until the cartridge has been filled about 4 times. Then I start to note some bleeding and streaking. By all means, compare the refilled against an OEM ink. If it's substandard, find one that isn't. They do exist. For non-believers to whom I show my supplies, I keep a pair of prints. One is OEM ink and the other is cartridges on the 3rd fill. I can't tell the diffrence and neither can my visitors. I have to see my notes on the back to tell them apart. Buying a refilled cartridge is risky because you don't know if it's the first or 10th refill. I put hashmarks on mine for each refill. If the ink is poor quality, find another supplier. Refill it yourself to keep track of the printhead wear. My last order was for 3-1/2 pints of ink. It'll last about a year for photos.
Ask if your phone mail can be protected by a PIN. If enough people ask for the feature, they may get the idea to provide one before the competetion does. E-mail sent to your phone without the PIN gets discarded.
I haven't watched Bugs Bunny lately, but I heard that there was humour on several levels, thus entertaining the child [because it's a cartoon] and the adult [because it's witty]. I haven't either, mostly because none of the networks carry it. It's now primium content requiring a subscription (cable/dish/cartoon network) to receive. I haven't seen it on ABC, NBC, CBS on Saturday mornings in years. It seems to have been replaced by infomercials.
I'd be happy to pay US$250 a year to have all my TV without ads. No product placements either. I've got my credit card handy.
Are you prepared to pay more and more as they move the target? That's what I got cable for. Later it turned into tons of Lifetime and Sports Ilistrated adverts. Now the commercial free stuff is on the premium channels. Notice even now some of them are running adverts? How long will it be before the commercial free stuff is all PPV? Pay per view is not commercial free in a theatre anymore. Advertisers will pay what ever it takes to get their placement where the eyeballs are. Money talks. I have dropped cable entirely about 12 years ago. It got too expensive for the little time I spend on the tube anymore. I get the news on TV, but to get the rest of the story, I go online. I now find the real content online. In the US, the lack of real content (studios will not release good features due to fear of taping) is what is killing the adoption of HDTV. I don't see any progress in this field until DVD's come out in HDTV format. I don't have to sit and wait 4 minutes at a time waiting for ads to end before I can find more content while online. I can hit the go button and move along to the content.
But when it comes to an ISP.. we have a problem. An ISP that subscribes to this, sure, it's their choice, but it's awfully hard to explain to the client that they have to instruct their ISP to stop using this service. And the odds of the ISP stopping? Not likely. For most ISP's it's a simple choice. Do you want your service to go down frequently due to overloaded connections and mailboxes, or do you want to loose a dissastified consumer while retaining the rest. It's a simple choice for most ISP's.
Flash can not be set to not run by default. If it could be set up to provide a box with a play button, I might reinstall it. Most flash content is very intrusive advertising. Even some of the ads with a moving background (race car) unchecking play and loop did not stop the moving background. These ads that were unstoppable (very annoying) were what motivated me to remove the Macromedia products. If I visit a site (rare) that actualy uses flash for content, I boot up another computer with flash to view that page. It is not my primary machine. The only way to shut the ads off was to remove flash. I e-mailed Macromedia support regarding this several months ago and did not receive a reply. Now if I visit a site like Yahoo, with IE, it prompts do I want to install flash Y/N. It would be nice to have it installed and have it ask do you want to play the annimation by doubleclick Y/N? Until they fix this lack of basic controls, I can not reinstall flash on my primary machine.
Last time I had to maintain several laser printers, every time some dingbat (read: the boss) went and ordered a recycled toner cartridge, the printer(s) died within a few weeks of using it.
Unfortunately if I destroy a printer after 4 refills and just throw the thing out, I have spent less money than just buying 4 sets of cartridges. It's this low risk/high benifit that has prompted me to take the plunge on refilling. Color ink at $56 per 38 mL or $14 per half pint. It doesn't take many refills to cover the cost of trashing a $200 printer.
I have addressed the issue of the HP smart chips and the issue of needing to replace the print head due to wear and reduced quality. Web graphics are generaly low resolution and do not need the high res/high cost of a new cartridge. I use a refilled cartridge for when browsing the web. Most of the time I use my older printer (color cartridges $48 per twin pack) instead of the new printer (same size cartridge at $56 each). The old printer does not use a chip. The smart chip in the HP78 cartridges is simply a serial number and nothing more. The printer remembers this number and the one before it. Rotating between 3 cartridges fixes the problem on resetting the estimated ink levels. Another way to reset the printer's memory of used cartridges is described in the discussion section on www.atlascopy.com. They also have information on getting into the service mode of the printer. In that mode, you can print out the nozzle counts for the cartridges as well as estimated ink levels as a percentage along with the current cartridge serial number and the prior serial number. These remembered serial numbers is what keeps you from refilling the current cartridge or the one just before it. The printer remembers it is out of ink. Because I print lots of digital photographs, I have been filling these. The money saved on cartridges could have easly paid for a color laser printer. (looking at it the other way; the printer would have cost more to use than buying a color laser printer for my volume of photo printing.) About $100 in ink buys 2 pints of black ink and 3 1/2 pints in color ink. I shudder to think what that would have cost buying that much ink in the little 38 mL cartridges. I'm on my 3rd pint of black ink in the last 18 months. The black cartridges get about 5 refills before I can notice any print diffrence compared to a new cartridge. Color I notice diffrences after about the 3rd refill. The color is difficult to refill because an air bubble may make a color quit printing unexpectedly. Black is usualy good for about 10 or more refills for draft and web page printing.
Anyplace they pull that stuff, I eliminate from my commute. I let the local businesses know why I no longer visit and shop in that location. In Multnomah county, Portland OR, there was an action to stop curising on SE 82nd. They ticked for everything including passing the same spot more than twice in two hours. Heaven help you if you forgot your cell phone, turned arround and fetched it, or went to the bank before going to the stores. I got a parking ticket while in my car. I pulled over onto a business lot after hours (no on street parking) to continue a conversation I was having on a 2 way radio. The ticket was for being on the property without the owners permission. I wrote the business to obtain permission to visit the business and get the ticket voided. My letter went un-answered. That was a huge un-welcome mat. I was unable to determine if the ticket was at the request of the business or just something that was part of the anti-crusing effort. Since I couldn't find out, I avoided the area like a pague, even during normal business hours. It seems lots of other people did also. Builders Square, Albertsons, Hanna Car Wash, Southgate Cinimas, and many other businesses have closed and left. The area is now mostly limited to vacant buildings, pawn shops, thrift stores, and used car lots. In the next county to the South in Clackamas, business is booming. In a free and mobile society, people do vote with their pocketbooks. They know when they have been robbed and will take action to reduce running the gauntlet of theives. I moved out of the county.
Why not move your email to a platform which is not sensitive to all this (Microsoft-spexific) virus/worm nonsense?
Can you say not my choice. I'm a worker bee in cubicle farm and have no choice of platform on a machine shared by 4 shifts? It's an NT/Office platform.
-without the knowledge of the employee or their families-
Nice troll. I heard the same radio program. The big complaint was when an employee died, the family did not recieve the bennefit. There was no mention the employee or the family bothered to pay the premium. Both could have taken out a policy if they wanted to be the benificiary. It was a case of sue for the money whether you have a right to it or not! Too bad the broadcast distorted the picture so the family looked like the victim they were not. Now if they billed the family for the premium and then kept the benifit, then you would have a real issue!
If you didn't rip off the box without paying for the treats, he might treat you a little better. Many of the honor systems in some places get dragged into failure because one or two users are not honorable. Since your shop has only 3, you might ask the candyman how much shrinkage he is experiancing. He is trying to make a living in one of the riskiest ways possible. Trusing other people to do the right thing.
I finaly printed my address book out on paper. I put the address on it as a barcode. Now I e-mail people and put in addresses in via the free scanner provided by Radio Shack. Now if everyone would delete their electronic address books, much of the MS spread security problems would go away.
Not many people would drop the convience so I don't see this as working. Too many users just can't be bothered to keep up on security and are way too willing to run an attachment sent to them that is supposed to keep them from getting a virus. It's OK to send me a virus warning. Don't send me an attachment to fix it. I'll check the usual trusted sources for the description and measures to fix it. Too many viruses are spread via social engineering.
...And when the corporate director of IT says everybody must support Windows 2004 then what?
Then I write up and submit the cost estimate for the new hardware, software, per seat licenses, etc., and the implimentation stratagey including data transfer/outages impact statement.
I follow all that with a budget and personel request for them to get approved by the budget department.
Seriously though, if this isn't a show of how much of a monopoly they are, I don't know what is. Next thing you know, they'll force MS-TCP/IP out.
Did I miss something? I thought Windows XP home version did drop TCP/IP from the LAN choices. Did they add it back in? I thought that was one of the things they did to keep it from being used in a business environment. The home version was made incompatible with most company LAN's forcing the use of the PRO version instead. I don't run XP so I could be mistaken here.
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This reminds me of another great hack in the Seattle area in Washington State. There is a geocache disguised as a library book on the shelf in a public library. The plastic protector is an exact match to the rest of the books on the shelf right down to the font on the decimal number. To see a write up on this publicly hidden cache, visit www.geocaching.com. Do a hide and seek from the menu on the left side of the page. Do a keyword search on "Overdue". The only thing this hack is missing is the pocket for the check out card on the inside. It has been there for almost a year.
Too bad they keep trying to sell the stuff that is incompatible with my hardware. If it won't work with my in-dash MP3 player, my RIO and my CD burner, then you can't sell it to me.
I just did the math. in 18 months time I used a pint and a half of color ink (1/2 pint of each color). At $14 per half pint, I spent $42 for the pint and a half. A pint and a half is a little less than 750 mL. The HP78A cartridge costs $56 and holds 38 mL of ink. $42 worth of ink eliminates the need to buy about 20 cartridges at $56 for a total of $1120.00 $1120 - the $42 for the ink is a savings of $1078.00. Thats just for the color cartriges. The black ink is a little cheaper, but higher usage, so it's payback rate is similar to the color. If I trash a printer half way through this cycle, I'm still way ahead in the bank account. I've almost saved enough to buy another new computer.
Actualy I want to save my $56 color print cartridges for my high resolution digital camera prints on glossy paper. I don't want to pay the same rate for a typical web page printout on plain paper. The banner ads are not that valuable. The draft printing is what I use the well used refills for. I now have the choice of buying color ink at $56 per 38 mL or $28 per pint (HP78A). Since 1 liter = about 1 quart, a pint is about 500 mL. $28 worth of ink eliminates the need to purchase over $700 in cartridges. (13 refills per pint color and 11 refills black on a 42 mL cartridge) There is aditonal savings of not tossing out a cartridge that used mostly yellow from printing mapquest street maps. The decision to refill for draft printing was a no-brainer. My last ink order was right about $100 and included 2 pints of pigmented black and 3 half pints, one of each color. The savings is well over $1500.00 in cartridges not purchased. I even use refilled cartridges for photos until the first sign of streaking starts to appear, then it becomes a draft cartridge.
The cartridge chip contains a serial number. There is no sensor on ink level. The printer keeps track of the amount of use of each nozzle. When a cartridge has had so much use, the printer assumes it is empty. The printer refuses to use the cartridge only because it remembers it by serial number. If that same cartridge were put in another printer, the printer will recognise it as a new full cartridge whether it has been filled or not. The service mode of the 900 series printers will print out the serial numbers of the current cartridges along with nozzle counts and estimated ink levels AND the serial numbers of the previous set of cartridges.
Visit any jewler. Don't forget your VISA card.
I can't find the information on the website. Care to give a more direct pointer?
Sure, I posted the home page for the supplier as I didn't want to be single printer specific. However the instructions for the HP printers is here. http://www.atlascopy.com/_inkjet/000001ae.htm
It includes all the revelant codes to do the service mode printouts including the print cartridge serial numbers and estimated ink levels. No PC required to access this information. It prints hardcopy.
Info for other printers is also given. It's a goldmine of useful information regarding refilling. I recommend spending time reading to pick up all the tips and tricks.
Modern DVDs *do* come out in HDTV format... Check the spec. HDTV is not widescreen. HDTV is not NTSC. It's a high resolution digital format. Where is the HDTV output on a DVD player? Anything that is just NTSC or PAL (butchered versions with Macrovision) is not HDTV regardless of the aspect ratio. Show me the digital HDTV output!
I got this at work. Our on the ball IT staff was already prpared. The tag from the IT staff simply said attachment quarentined and named the virus and the full filename. I love a good IT staff. My text was a little diffrent. It prompted me to save the attachment then exit to the DOS prompt and run it. My guess is that is to kill the anti-virus monitor.
realized that she was using refilled cartridges.
I do a fair amount of photo printing on an HP printer. (digital camera buff) I usualy can not tell any diffrence in inks (OEM/my refills) until the cartridge has been filled about 4 times. Then I start to note some bleeding and streaking. By all means, compare the refilled against an OEM ink. If it's substandard, find one that isn't. They do exist. For non-believers to whom I show my supplies, I keep a pair of prints. One is OEM ink and the other is cartridges on the 3rd fill. I can't tell the diffrence and neither can my visitors. I have to see my notes on the back to tell them apart. Buying a refilled cartridge is risky because you don't know if it's the first or 10th refill. I put hashmarks on mine for each refill. If the ink is poor quality, find another supplier. Refill it yourself to keep track of the printhead wear.
My last order was for 3-1/2 pints of ink. It'll last about a year for photos.
Ask if your phone mail can be protected by a PIN. If enough people ask for the feature, they may get the idea to provide one before the competetion does. E-mail sent to your phone without the PIN gets discarded.
I haven't watched Bugs Bunny lately, but I heard that there was humour on several levels, thus entertaining the child [because it's a cartoon] and the adult [because it's witty].
I haven't either, mostly because none of the networks carry it. It's now primium content requiring a subscription (cable/dish/cartoon network) to receive. I haven't seen it on ABC, NBC, CBS on Saturday mornings in years. It seems to have been replaced by infomercials.
I'd be happy to pay US$250 a year to have all my TV without ads. No product placements either. I've got my credit card handy.
Are you prepared to pay more and more as they move the target? That's what I got cable for. Later it turned into tons of Lifetime and Sports Ilistrated adverts. Now the commercial free stuff is on the premium channels. Notice even now some of them are running adverts? How long will it be before the commercial free stuff is all PPV? Pay per view is not commercial free in a theatre anymore. Advertisers will pay what ever it takes to get their placement where the eyeballs are. Money talks. I have dropped cable entirely about 12 years ago. It got too expensive for the little time I spend on the tube anymore. I get the news on TV, but to get the rest of the story, I go online. I now find the real content online.
In the US, the lack of real content (studios will not release good features due to fear of taping) is what is killing the adoption of HDTV. I don't see any progress in this field until DVD's come out in HDTV format. I don't have to sit and wait 4 minutes at a time waiting for ads to end before I can find more content while online. I can hit the go button and move along to the content.
But when it comes to an ISP.. we have a problem. An ISP that subscribes to this, sure, it's their choice, but it's awfully hard to explain to the client that they have to instruct their ISP to stop using this service. And the odds of the ISP stopping? Not likely.
For most ISP's it's a simple choice. Do you want your service to go down frequently due to overloaded connections and mailboxes, or do you want to loose a dissastified consumer while retaining the rest. It's a simple choice for most ISP's.
Flash can not be set to not run by default. If it could be set up to provide a box with a play button, I might reinstall it. Most flash content is very intrusive advertising. Even some of the ads with a moving background (race car) unchecking play and loop did not stop the moving background. These ads that were unstoppable (very annoying) were what motivated me to remove the Macromedia products. If I visit a site (rare) that actualy uses flash for content, I boot up another computer with flash to view that page. It is not my primary machine. The only way to shut the ads off was to remove flash. I e-mailed Macromedia support regarding this several months ago and did not receive a reply. Now if I visit a site like Yahoo, with IE, it prompts do I want to install flash Y/N. It would be nice to have it installed and have it ask do you want to play the annimation by doubleclick Y/N?
Until they fix this lack of basic controls, I can not reinstall flash on my primary machine.
Last time I had to maintain several laser printers, every time some dingbat (read: the boss) went and ordered a recycled toner cartridge, the printer(s) died within a few weeks of using it.
Unfortunately if I destroy a printer after 4 refills and just throw the thing out, I have spent less money than just buying 4 sets of cartridges. It's this low risk/high benifit that has prompted me to take the plunge on refilling. Color ink at $56 per 38 mL or $14 per half pint. It doesn't take many refills to cover the cost of trashing a $200 printer.
I have addressed the issue of the HP smart chips and the issue of needing to replace the print head due to wear and reduced quality. Web graphics are generaly low resolution and do not need the high res/high cost of a new cartridge. I use a refilled cartridge for when browsing the web. Most of the time I use my older printer (color cartridges $48 per twin pack) instead of the new printer (same size cartridge at $56 each). The old printer does not use a chip. The smart chip in the HP78 cartridges is simply a serial number and nothing more. The printer remembers this number and the one before it. Rotating between 3 cartridges fixes the problem on resetting the estimated ink levels. Another way to reset the printer's memory of used cartridges is described in the discussion section on www.atlascopy.com. They also have information on getting into the service mode of the printer. In that mode, you can print out the nozzle counts for the cartridges as well as estimated ink levels as a percentage along with the current cartridge serial number and the prior serial number. These remembered serial numbers is what keeps you from refilling the current cartridge or the one just before it. The printer remembers it is out of ink. Because I print lots of digital photographs, I have been filling these. The money saved on cartridges could have easly paid for a color laser printer. (looking at it the other way; the printer would have cost more to use than buying a color laser printer for my volume of photo printing.) About $100 in ink buys 2 pints of black ink and 3 1/2 pints in color ink. I shudder to think what that would have cost buying that much ink in the little 38 mL cartridges. I'm on my 3rd pint of black ink in the last 18 months. The black cartridges get about 5 refills before I can notice any print diffrence compared to a new cartridge. Color I notice diffrences after about the 3rd refill. The color is difficult to refill because an air bubble may make a color quit printing unexpectedly. Black is usualy good for about 10 or more refills for draft and web page printing.
Anyplace they pull that stuff, I eliminate from my commute. I let the local businesses know why I no longer visit and shop in that location. In Multnomah county, Portland OR, there was an action to stop curising on SE 82nd. They ticked for everything including passing the same spot more than twice in two hours. Heaven help you if you forgot your cell phone, turned arround and fetched it, or went to the bank before going to the stores. I got a parking ticket while in my car. I pulled over onto a business lot after hours (no on street parking) to continue a conversation I was having on a 2 way radio. The ticket was for being on the property without the owners permission. I wrote the business to obtain permission to visit the business and get the ticket voided. My letter went un-answered. That was a huge un-welcome mat. I was unable to determine if the ticket was at the request of the business or just something that was part of the anti-crusing effort. Since I couldn't find out, I avoided the area like a pague, even during normal business hours. It seems lots of other people did also. Builders Square, Albertsons, Hanna Car Wash, Southgate Cinimas, and many other businesses have closed and left. The area is now mostly limited to vacant buildings, pawn shops, thrift stores, and used car lots. In the next county to the South in Clackamas, business is booming. In a free and mobile society, people do vote with their pocketbooks. They know when they have been robbed and will take action to reduce running the gauntlet of theives. I moved out of the county.
Why not move your email to a platform which is not sensitive to all this (Microsoft-spexific) virus/worm nonsense?
Can you say not my choice. I'm a worker bee in cubicle farm and have no choice of platform on a machine shared by 4 shifts? It's an NT/Office platform.
-without the knowledge of the employee or their families-
Nice troll. I heard the same radio program. The big complaint was when an employee died, the family did not recieve the bennefit. There was no mention the employee or the family bothered to pay the premium. Both could have taken out a policy if they wanted to be the benificiary. It was a case of sue for the money whether you have a right to it or not! Too bad the broadcast distorted the picture so the family looked like the victim they were not.
Now if they billed the family for the premium and then kept the benifit, then you would have a real issue!
If you didn't rip off the box without paying for the treats, he might treat you a little better. Many of the honor systems in some places get dragged into failure because one or two users are not honorable. Since your shop has only 3, you might ask the candyman how much shrinkage he is experiancing. He is trying to make a living in one of the riskiest ways possible. Trusing other people to do the right thing.
I finaly printed my address book out on paper. I put the address on it as a barcode. Now I e-mail people and put in addresses in via the free scanner provided by Radio Shack. Now if everyone would delete their electronic address books, much of the MS spread security problems would go away.
Not many people would drop the convience so I don't see this as working. Too many users just can't be bothered to keep up on security and are way too willing to run an attachment sent to them that is supposed to keep them from getting a virus. It's OK to send me a virus warning. Don't send me an attachment to fix it. I'll check the usual trusted sources for the description and measures to fix it. Too many viruses are spread via social engineering.
...And when the corporate director of IT says everybody must support Windows 2004 then what?
Then I write up and submit the cost estimate for the new hardware, software, per seat licenses, etc., and the implimentation stratagey including data transfer/outages impact statement.
I follow all that with a budget and personel request for them to get approved by the budget department.
Seriously though, if this isn't a show of how much of a monopoly they are, I don't know what is. Next thing you know, they'll force MS-TCP/IP out.
Did I miss something? I thought Windows XP home version did drop TCP/IP from the LAN choices. Did they add it back in? I thought that was one of the things they did to keep it from being used in a business environment. The home version was made incompatible with most company LAN's forcing the use of the PRO version instead.
I don't run XP so I could be mistaken here.