Scott,
i know things are REAL slow over there in europe.corp.microsoft.com
and you are restricted to your 56k modems, but over here in the
states, we've been using DSL for almost 2 years.
1.5 megabits per second!! Wooooooohooooo!
and hey, none of my *.dat file are 5 mb in size.
try 5 kb.
(hoping no one died in Scott's family, he sure can lash out!)
Kireau Kendrick
The Cybercafe Search Engine
Cafe Cybercaptive, San Mateo, CA
http://cybercaptive.com
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Scott Carrie wrote:
> I am sure most people on this list know when you connect up you modem is
> handshaking and getting it's IP stack info - hence flashing lights. I would
> love to know what kind of modem you are talking about as sending a >5 mb
> file in a few seconds defies the laws of physics on my 56k modem.
>
> By all means you are entitled to an opinion of you own, try to base it on
> fact not fiction, and if you are going to tell everyone about it make sure
> you can back it up if asked
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kireau kendrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 09 November 2000 06:50
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [cc] interesting article about microsoft
>
>
> Excellent Brian! yeah i can relate to a lot of that. you know you
> cannot delete msie cookies? there is an undeleteable index.dat file
> that summarizes them and restores them when you restart. but i found
> out how - boot to dos prompt - delete them when windows is not
> running. another invasion of privacy file is that user.dat. drag that
> file over wordpad sometime and look inside it - it has a record of
> everything you/your computer has ever done since its first boot. i
> deleted that thing too. and you know that login window for microsoft
> networking that comes on when you boot? never use your real name in
> that window. it attaches to your cookies and sends them out to every
> advertiser on the internet. better to use something like root or admin
> or billgates. and system.dat - that is a huge file - storing every
> little thing your computer does, that really isn't necessary. ever
> been online with no windows open but all the sudden you see data
> transmitting? C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WUCRTUPD.EXE - sending those private
> files back to M$. open up scheduled tasks you will find it there. hard
> to delete too. it says:
>
> This task is created by
> Windows Critical Update Notification program
> and should not be modified or removed.
>
> uh huh. sure M$. i don't think so. go to the advanced menu in
> scheduled tasks and select STOP.
>
> heheee
>
> Kireau Kendrick
> The Cybercafe Search Engine
> Cafe Cybercaptive, San Mateo, CA
> http://cybercaptive.com
>
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Brian TheGreat wrote:
>
> > Yes of coarse it will affect us. It will be more money
> > paid by the customer to microsoft intsead of the
> > cafe's. Why do you suppose M.$. is doing it. It's the
> > big "sell nothing but services" game. That way you pay
> > and pay and pay and.... Get it? So this is something
> > to avoid like the plague. Imagine a world without
> > ownership? It's a story of total dependancy. Not only
> > of momopolistic operating systems, but of all
> > software. I can't even buy a gateway computer without
> > a microsoft operating system. It wouldn't even work if
> > I tried to use UNIX instead, because the modem is a
> > "win" modem. If I get a computer these days, I have to
> > choose a windoze machine or specially order/build it
> > myself out of special peices. It won't get better,
> > only worse, till we all vote with our pocketbooks.
> > They are getting into this now, but next move will put
> > the software rented in the former customers home and
> > you are brushed aside. In the end, everyone will pay
> > more. Look at the ludacrous prices M.$. elready
> > charges for their entrenched software. Of coarse it's
> > cheap to free to educators. That's so they can
> > indoctrinate the future to a microsoft view of
> > computers. What are those other strange programs
> > anyways? Avoid M.$. where-ever possable. They are
> > selling perceptions and brand rather than efficiency
> > and self control or flexability. M.$. wants it all:
> > The internet, OSes, Apps,... Imagine them controlling
> > Intel? We already almost don't have any choice. It's
> > their way or the highway. Lack of a choice is a lack
> > of freedom. M$ is already too powerfull considering
> > their monopolistic behavior. It's not about being the
> > best at something anymore, it's about being the
> > nastiest at everything. What's wrong with Paradox for
> > a local database & Oracle for network database? Lotus
> > 1-2-3 for a spreadsheet? What software are students
> > taught by default? What software does the Govt. use?
> > What about writeing a letter with the wonderful
> > application called WordPerfect? (probably the best
> > word processor and not a microsoft product)
> >
> > Are M.$. OSes/Apps.:
> >
> > cheaper? no.
> > More efficient on system resources? Insufficient
> > memory to answer question.
> >
> Faster?.....................................................................
> ......................
> > Compact? bloat bloat bloat.
> > Secure? Ha ha ha.
> > More stable? "It should be called windows Blue Screen
> > of Death."
> > Can you control what's happening to your machine, etc.
> > better? Not a chance.
> > Do you like haveing IDs attached to your documents? Do
> > you like haveing I.E. grab control from netscape and
> > refuse to let it back? What nasty little things are
> > happening inside your computer that you can't see
> > happening? What is the reason you just about NEED to
> > have 64meg of ram on your computer these days. (other
> > than CAD or other Graphics rendering software) On this
> > licenseing thing...if we snoose, we die as an industry
> > unless we just want to be a restaurant with computers.
> > Imagine if you bought a boat and were told you
> > couldn't rent it or loan it to others? What if you
> > were sold a horse and told that only one person could
> > ride it? So what gives software sellers the right to
> > say how you can use the computer you bought? Why can't
> > you send the disc back to the company for a refund if
> > you don't agree to that agreement that you never could
> > read without: buying , opening, and beginning to
> > install the software. Microsoft wouldn't keep tabs on
> > your useage and information for
> > marketing(advertisers), and strategic planning while
> > you use their software online right? Oh...did you
> > think you could use it offline? Maybe...it might wait
> > till you connect again to report back to daddy Gates,
> > or just decide to connect for you. In any case, I'm
> > sure cookies, active-X, java, and such would probably
> > be required. Imagine how my firewall would act...
> > By the way, isn't ASP supposed to stand for Active
> > Server Pages?
> > I send this to you through M.$.I.E. on a win'95
> > computer over a win-modem through the ISPs M$N.T.
> > machine to yahoos' M$IIS machine to your M.$.N.
> > account where you read it on your win'98/winME/win2000
> > machine with M.$. Outlook/express and cut& copy it to
> > your M.$. Word document and it is assigned a secret
> > ID#
> > I know it will be directed over seas (at least to the
> > UK) where it is filtered by the echelon spy network (I
> > will reject 2 persistent cookies when I click send,
> > but first I must re-logon to AOheck because it boots
> > me every 3.47 minutes if I lock my firewall)
> > This all makes me so weary.
> >
> > Brian Frasier.
> > NorthEast Digital.
> >
> > --- from skyblu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Below is a VERY interestint article about Microsoft.
> > > Do you think they will
> > > work with smaller cafes? I wonder how this will
> > > affect all of us???
> > >
> > > Karen
> >
> >
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