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Re: Linux Rocks!!!

  • Subject: Re: Linux Rocks!!!
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:15:50 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Kelsey Bjarnason spake thusly:
> [snips]
> 
> On Wed, 09 May 2007 14:19:17 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>>>> Posted from IE6. :-S
>>> Hey, I've got a working copy of IE6 on this here box, too.  IEs4Linux, and
>>> all that.
>>>
>>> Why?  Dunno.  Cuz I can?
>> Good app. Installs win32 application by just typing in an address (no user
>> intenvention required).
> 
> Yeah, it's MS's first real attempt at a proper package manager.  Now, if
> they could just make it so it works at the _user's_ request, rather than
> at an _attacker's_ request, they might have something.

Well Microsoft *is* the attacker ... so it all works out great.

Microsoft: What will we disable today?

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K.
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| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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