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  1. Re:If Sun is on the ropes... on ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free! · · Score: 1

    It was a free download before it was bundled, and upgrades from 1 (or was the first one 2) to 6 were free. I think it is also free for Mac version, but I am not sure.

  2. Re:Some are harder to fool than others... on Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    I used to use that successfully too. The only problem was that Outlook has no way to supress the "new mail notification" icon in the task bar for filtered messages. I got tired of being told I have new spam every ten minutes.

    I switched to PopFile, for which there is an Outlook plugin called Outclass. This has worked more ore less as effectively as SpamBayes, but it has one important advantage. It disables Outlook's notification icon in the tray and generates its own.

    Peace at last.

    I am using this combination with an Exchange server. It also works with POP.

    PopFile
    Outclass
  3. Re:And in another article in the same issue... on A Look at Microsoft's Regulatory Problems · · Score: 1
    Yet in other markets that have nothing to do with PCs, such as mobile phones, set-top boxes and games consoles, the company is far less successful. Odd, that.
    Amazing... A software company's software products have been more successful than their hardware products. Must be that monopoly thing.
  4. Re:but what about typos? on Bill Gates Forecasts Victory Over Spam · · Score: 1

    Knowing Microsoft, it would probably say

    Your total: $6.18

  5. Re:RedBull will kill you. on Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    I know that a diabetic cannot process sugar properly. However, I have never seen anything that says that sugar consumption itself can cause diabetes. Does it in fact?

  6. Re:FORTRAN? on Oldest Supported Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fortran is a computer language, not software. Do you know of a particular Fortran compiler that is more than 30 years old that is still supported?

  7. Re:How many spams have 800 numbers? on Attacking the Spammer Business Model · · Score: 1

    I think not all 800 numbers are toll-free, so you might want to be careful.

  8. Re:I work for Genie on DMCA Doesn't Protect Garage Door Remotes · · Score: 1
    The Genie garage door opener companay (parent company Overhead Door Corporation) has nothing to do with the Chamberlain company (makes Liftmaster openers) that initiated this law suit.
    http://www.geniecompany.com/About/parentcompany. htm
    http://www.chamberlain.com/corp/chamberlain_prod _fam/
  9. Re:Prior art on IBM Applies for Password Manager Patent · · Score: 1

    For quite a long time (since Windows 95), Windows has allowed you to click a checkbox labeled something like "remember this password" when a password dialog is presented. Subsequent instances of the same dialog will have the password automatically filled in. The stored passwords are specific to the account you use to log in to Windows itself, and are protected by the Windows login password.

  10. They rebuffed Microsoft? on Google Rebuffs Microsoft Takeover Bid · · Score: 1, Funny

    I didn't even know they buffed them.

  11. New HTML mail threat... on Microsoft Voice Command Almost Here · · Score: 1

    ...receiving an HTML-formatted e-mail with background sound that issues a voice command that is dutifuly followed by the computer.

  12. More realistic version on Microsoft Voice Command Almost Here · · Score: 1

    Potential Linux e-mail threat: "To protect your computer agains the worm described above, open a command prompt and enter the command rm -rf ~ You will then be protected."