Re: Question about apparent denial of se

2003-07-18 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 02:27:08 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: > AFAIN M$ stopped all support to Win95. > Bastiaan They should be required by court order or by legislation to to continue to support Window$ 95, at least insofar as providing security patches is concerned. They need to do this a

Re: Question about apparent denial of se

2003-07-18 Thread Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ
AFAIN M$ stopped all support to Win95. Bastiaan On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:34:46 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:31:18 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > >> BTW, I saw in the paper this morning that M$ announced a major security >> hole in their Windows 2003 OS. > > Fox news t

Re: Question about apparent denial of se

2003-07-17 Thread Samuel W. Heywood
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:31:18 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > BTW, I saw in the paper this morning that M$ announced a major security > hole in their Windows 2003 OS. Fox news this afternoon said that there is a "crack in the windows", their words. Then they went on to say that M$ had announced th

Re: Question about apparent denial of se

2003-07-17 Thread Roger Turk
I use the "alternative operating system," Windows, only on rare occasions, like when I *have to* access a site that uses javascript or when a secure connection is necessary. However, I never know if it will boot, or I will get an error message, one of which is, "Explorer has performed an illega