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I am sorry but I would have to agree that doing those 2 things on Windows is Amazing!<BR>
In fact it is so amazing I just can't believe it myself.<BR>
I can't believe that you got Windows to do those things.<BR>
But you are right about only one thing. That it is amazing............for Windows <IMG SRC="cid:1084365106.3063.21.camel@localhost" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0"><BR>
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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 <IMG SRC="cid:1084365106.3063.21.camel@localhost" ALIGN="middle" ALT=":)" BORDER="0"><BR>
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On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 11:50, Leon Blackwell wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>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:
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<A HREF="http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;269879"><U>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;269879</U></A>
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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.
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