[plug] Windows is amazing

[Daniel Pearson]

Since no one else has mentioned it yet.. Brock, could we please have text only 
posts? ;)

Cheers,
Daniel

Quoting Brock Woolf <ultima160 at iinet.net.au>:

> 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.
> > 
>