[plug] Windows is amazing

[Brock Woolf]

I am sorry but I would have to agree that doing those 2 things on
Windows is Amazing!
In fact it is so amazing I just can't believe it myself.
I can't believe that you got Windows to do those things.
But you are right about only one thing. That it is
amazing............for Windows :)

p.s. Microsoft software costs too much, doesn't do enough and does too
much all at the same time. Most of the time when it does too much, they
are undesired things that it does. Was that confusing? oh damn I must
have used Windows in the past for too long for it seems to have
scrambled my brain. Thank God i'm on a Linux-Rehab program :)



On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 11:50, Leon Blackwell wrote:

> I realise that this is off topic (the L in PLUG stands for..?), and I'm
> no fan of Windows, but these don't seem all that amazing to me.
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:37:05AM +0800, Michael wrote:
> > The cause was found to be windows picking up an IP by DHCP, but
> > forgetting to pickup the gateway despite connecting to it ;)
> 
> Any chance that this was on an unpatched Windows 2000 box with more than
> one network interface?  You might like to check out:
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;269879
> 
> Of course, this assumes that the DHCP server is actually issuing a
> default gateway, which it doesn't have to.
> 
> 
> > Restarted windows and it started working!. Somehow windows was
> > manipulating the text input and giving something else to the SMTP
> > server.
> 
> I'd be more inclined to suspect that this was a temporary issue with the
> SMTP server you were sending to, rather than Windows manipulating
> network traffic.
> 
> 
> Do we really need to spend all our time on this list bagging other OSes
> (particularly Windows)?  We get grumpy when Microsoft fans FUD linux, so
> perhaps we should set an example to follow and be careful not to do the
> same thing in return.
> 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/attachments/20040512/1a2eafcb/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smiley-3.png
Type: image/png
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/attachments/20040512/1a2eafcb/attachment.png>