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  1. Re:Jesus! on Bobby Fischer Found · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And he was fucking nuts back in 72 as well. He's always been paranoid. He went apeshit before the 72 tournament refusing to play if there were any cameras or recording devices in the room. I believe he forfeited at least one game because he imagined there was a camera there.

    I was 11 years old at the time but I remember it pretty clearly. I was aware back then that he was kooky anti-semite.

  2. Edwards for VP! on Red Hat Vs. The Lawyers · · Score: 0, Troll

    Look for this sort of lawsuit crap to rule American life even more when the lawyers/Democrats take over

  3. Re:Good on them on Microsoft Delays Windows XP Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    >>The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

    The day referred to here is the day the electors vote in their respective state capitals, which is not election day. It's usually in mid-December I believe.

  4. Re:A clear advantage on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not quite done yet. You have to restart your browser first.

  5. Re:Other Famous Version Number Skips on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 1

    Whe Word for Windows and Word for DOS version numbers were out of sequence and they unified them by eliminating the DOS version and moving the Windows version to 6. Convenient excuse, same stupid version number inflation.

  6. Watcom C started it all on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 1

    I think it was around 1988 or 89 and Watcom C came out with an initial version of 6.0 to leapfrog Microsoft C 5.0 out of the gate.

    Seriously.

  7. Re:I wonder what'll happen in the EU on Appeals Court OKs Microsoft Antitrust Settlement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This gets Score 5: Interesting? If they disagree with me they must be corrupt?

  8. Re:Moron. on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Parent is right. The original SPF checks only the envelope, not the fake From: grandparent says he uses.

  9. more old news on Microsoft Revamps Licensing Plans · · Score: 3, Informative

    Once again /. breaks a month-old story.

  10. The Linksys problem was a false report on NetGear Also Has Remote Access Wide Open · · Score: 3, Informative
  11. How can you say this? on Microsoft Changes Tune Again On SP2 Installs · · Score: 1

    I actually have a quote from Microsoft in there officially saying it's not true and I got it quickly. The guy who was originally quoted elsewhere as saying they wouldn't stop pirated installs was just wrong.

  12. Old news on Microsoft Changes Tune Again On SP2 Installs · · Score: 4, Informative
    We reported this weeks ago.
    • Microsoft Corrects: No XP SP2 for Pirated Copies
      By Larry Seltzer
      May 11, 2004
      Despite reports indicating that Microsoft Corp. was planning to allow users with pirated copies of Windows XP to install Service Pack 2, the company has confirmed to eWEEK.com that this will not be the case...
  13. Re:Details: , Issued: April 13, 2004 on Windows Users Fear Korgo Virus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >>the 011 patch also killed about 5% of the machines it was installed on before the May 4 update

    Where'd you get that number

  14. read your usage agreement on Comcast Thinks About Stopping Zombies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Comcast cable modem customers aren't allowed to run mail servers anyway, so I doubt the side-effects would bother them

  15. They're radically different on Yahoo Submits DomainKeys Draft To IETF · · Score: 1

    SPF only validates the envelope, not the message headers. It does nothing to prevent phishing by messages that have a valid envelope and spoofed from: headers.

    Domain Keys signs the entire message including headers. The downside is that it requires reading the DATA.

  16. imbecils! on Novell Sued Microsoft Through Caldera? · · Score: 1

    Is there someone who *just* figured this out? Obviously this company was founded in order to sue other companies. It was Noorda's company for Crissake!

  17. Re:Support ? on Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT · · Score: 1

    Because it's important to them to get customers moved off of old generations and on to new ones.

  18. Re:Support ? on Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT · · Score: 4, Informative
    See Retiring Windows NT Server 4.0: Changes in Product Availability and Support:
    • January 1, 2004 - Beginning on this date, non-security hotfixes are no longer available.


    • January 1, 2005 - Beginning on this date, Pay-per-incident and Premier support will no longer be available. This includes security hotfixes.

      January 1, 2005
      (or later) - Online support will no longer be available
  19. Re:Biographies and a correction on Alan Turing, the Inventor of Software · · Score: 1

    I agree heartily on both points. I bought the Hodges biography several years ago when it was only available in England, now it's in print in America. A bit long and detailed at times, but it seems very complete.

    And the error on the page identifying the enigma machine as the bombe was pretty sloppy.

  20. MS does NOT get the money on Microsoft Will Sell Whitelist Services For Hotmail · · Score: 2, Informative

    The bond is held by BondedSender, i.e. IronPort, not Microsoft. According to their site "Proceeds from bond debits are not retained by IronPort Systems and are instead shared with third-party non-profit organizations."

  21. Re:My personal feelings on OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't know the Mac version. It's always been in the Windows version.

  22. Re:My personal feelings on OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated · · Score: 1

    >>Things are sometimes in places you don't expect them thanks to MS Office training (e.g. Word Count is in document properties...

    And Tools-Word Count

    (always been there)

  23. Re:grr. on On The Privacy Subtleties Of GMail, Other Webmail · · Score: 2, Informative
    >>I'd like to be able to delete old emails permanently if I should choose to do so. What's wrong with that?

    This issue has been greatly overblown. From one of the Gmail FAQs:

    • Does Gmail intend to keep copies of my email even after I've deleted it, or closed my account?

      No. Google keeps multiple backup copies of messages so that we can recover them in case of errors or system failure. Even if a message has been deleted or an account is no longer active, messages may remain on our backup systems for some period of time. This is standard practice in the email industry, which Gmail and other major webmail services follow in order to provide a reliable service for users. However, Google will make reasonable efforts to remove deleted information from our systems as quickly as is practical.

  24. Re:Applaud on LUG Pres Resigns Over Military Linux Use · · Score: 1

    No question about it, the guy's a certifiable moron. Maybe he should stop driving his car, since the military uses them too.

  25. Re:Disagree, this assumes they fail playing catchu on The Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide · · Score: 1

    >>Anyone remember when NT was released?

    The first pre-release version of Windows NT was released at the July 4, 1992 PDC in San Fancisco. I know, I was there and I wrote the first hands-on review of it for PC Week. The shipping version, I believe, was in 93.