[plug] Bill's enhanced standards (Re: [plug] Massive DoS attack?)

[Craig Ringer]

> Hmmm... what weird characters? Yes, I did use MS Outlook to post that
> message, and yes, maybe it is Bill's "enhanced" version. I'm trying to
> switch to Ximian Evolution. *whinge* My Linux box is too small and too
> slow for usual work (Pentium 166's used to be cool, some time ago :P) so
> I'm stuck with my still-under-warranty WinXP box, with evil things on
> it, like MS Outlook and so on. But once the warranty's gone, I'm gonna
> gut it and put a shiny Linux installation on there. :)

Warranty? What's the warranty got to do with it? I haven't heard of a 
system warranty that prevents _software_ changes (kinda makes the system 
useless), not even OS upgrades / additions.

You could always dual boot, its not that bad (depending on what you want 
to do, of course).

Anyway I'm sure there'll be a "follow the bloody standard" checkbox in 
outlook somewhere... though I do hope you update your virus definitions 
_every_ _single_ _time_ you connect to the 'net, given that you're using 
outlook.

> BTW, I hear a rumour that the WinXP "kernel" (if it can be called that)
> has got some Linux kernel code in it and that that may account for its
> stability over previous Win9x releases... Anyone got more info on that?

_very_ unlikely. There are far too many skilled zealots out there with 
decompilers and code analasys tools, it'd get noticed - especially if MS 
tried it. More likely your rumor originally referred to BSD code, which 
all MS Windows releases have contained (TCP/IP anybody?) and perhaps 
more recent releases have added more BSD licenced code from, say, 
freeBSD. Hell, MS use zlib extensively.

Anyway, everybody knows the GPL is evil. After all, microsoft told me 
so. *sigh*.

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