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From: Mayayana on 6 May 2010 09:23 | They don't own it, they don't control it => they don't want it. | So, once again, they set out to replace it with something "better". For | whom? I've no idea. | Imagine yourself as Steve Ballmer. You're watching Steve Jobs seemingly going off the deep end with a campaign of crazed autocracy. Abusing Apple customers... Abusing developers... Yet Apple keeps making more and more money. That evokes an image in my mind of Steve Ballmer jumping up and down, moving in pogo-stick circles, shouting "HOW DO THEY DO THAT?!" ....Well, monkey see, monkey do. :) | we'll be exposed to all the web-based "nastiness" that's out | there. Every other week we get more and more security fixes for our | browsers Good point. That's another of the reasons that I wouldn't use a web forum. They generally require javascript, which is implicated in nearly all online security problems.
From: Larry Serflaten on 6 May 2010 10:32 "Phill W." <p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@-o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote > Every other week we get more and more security fixes for our > browsers but just how the H*** /do/ you catch a virus or get otherwise > "hacked" via Usenet??? I tried to give them a clue a couple years back... https://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=389684&wa=wsignin1.0 (requires sign-in) LFS
From: Mayayana on 6 May 2010 09:46 | | Sometimes people chuckle and look heavenwards when I admit to being a | diehard Windows 98 user. ....I always say, if something ain't broke, | don't fix it. I'd still like to know what, exactly, all the bells and | whistles in XP/Vista/Windows 7 do for productivity. I just switched to XP, finally, after getting a new monitor. I had to get a new graphics card to get a good display option, and the card has no '98 driver, of course. I'm fairly happy with the move, delighted that now I can download and use just about anything without worrying about supported versions. (That scenario should last about 6 months. :) But I put a lot of work into making the move. I had to write my own custom hacks just to do things that worked easily in Win98: changing icons, making all folders the same size, reassigned the Desktop to C:\Windows\Desktop so that that commonly used path is not 87 characters long, etc. I had to get deeply into researching services and firewalls. (I'm still not happy on the firewall front. I settled on Online Armor Free as one of the top reviewed and least bloated, but it makes unnecessary disk access every 5 seconds! So I'm still doing research on firewalls.) All in all, I see XP as a bloated mess that needs a great deal of cleanup to be efficient, and a great deal of education/fine tuning to be safe. I also get odd, funky behavior that I didn't used to get. XP is more brittle than '98. One day I experimented with replacing comdlg32.dll, in an attempt to get a Desktop icon in Save dialogues. (Who's the nut who came up with the idea of removing that?!) When I rebooted, XP complained about a possible corrupt file and refused to do anything from there. I had to boot into '98 and put the old file back. XP never asked if I wanted to run boot-time checksums. And I can't find a way to turn it off. Likewise, I removed RPCSS in Win98, but if I just shut off RPC in XP I won't be able to reboot again. Yet I have no use for RPC. It's just a useless security risk. ...The list goes on. XP just seems much too easy to break. NT in general is meant to be set up as a corporate workstation, controlled by admins, and used by employees who write My Word docs all day and put them in My Documents. On the good side, in addition to support for more software and hardware, I find that XP is more efficient "under the hood". Large VB projects are hard to load in '98, for instance. And my own software seems to run notably faster in XP, all things being equal, than in '98. BUT...and it's a big but...that's only true when XP has been cleaned up, with dozens of pointless services turned off.
From: dpb on 6 May 2010 09:46 Karl E. Peterson wrote: .... > I'm using MesNews these days. But I couldn't even log in with telnet... > .... I think now I recall that it did take a while from the initial receipt of account authentication e-mail before the 'bot updated the login registry database there...I'll bet if you try again today it'll work. --
From: dpb on 6 May 2010 09:52
MM wrote: .... > Thinking, as I occasionally still do, about Microsoft's handling of > classic Visual Basic, I would demand (were I American) of any future > presidential candidate a new law that made it mandatory for any > software company to provide support for 50 years once a certain number > of the product had been sold, e.g. one million. And I would further > make it the law that ALL the source code would have to be held in > escrow in case the company went out of business. And further yet, if > the company went bankrupt and no one came forward to buy the escrowed > source code, it would be turned into open source. .... Have you had any candidates on that side of the pond propose such a policy? :) -- |