Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, > we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it > really is. Maybe even fix it. > Or better yet: use it to write an interface spec so we can get

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, > we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it > really is. Maybe even fix it. Why bother fixing it? It's too bloated and stupid in the first

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Art Boulatov
David Weinehall wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 04:05:50PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote: > > David Weinehall wrote: > > > > > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet > > > Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover > > > was made, the

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread J. Dow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, > we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it > really is. Maybe even fix it. Dave, my partner has legal access to the MS source code. In some of my own work I

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > > PS. Leningrad is the old historical name of the modern St. Petersberg but > > > we "old-timers" do still call it Leningrad, it seems more appropriate than > > > all those "modern" name-changes... ;) > > > > You're VERY

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:24:53PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > and 1924 the city got renamed again, this time to Leningrad. > > ok, then a quiz question - was it renamed before or after Lenin's death? > (hint, Lenin died in 1924). After his

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > and 1924 the city got renamed again, this time to Leningrad. ok, then a quiz question - was it renamed before or after Lenin's death? (hint, Lenin died in 1924). Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 04:05:50PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote: > David Weinehall wrote: > > > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet > > Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover > > was made, the city was renamed Leningrad (after

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Petko Manolov
David Weinehall wrote: > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet > Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover > was made, the city was renamed Leningrad (after V.I. Lenin). When the > Soviet Union finally fell to pieces and the Baltics

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > I should have put a smiley there shouldn't I? :) Don't you think I must be > well aware of the origins of names of former soviet cities if I spent 20 > (or almost 21) years of life there actually, the final and ultimate authority on whether

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > PS. Leningrad is the old historical name of the modern St. Petersberg but > > we "old-timers" do still call it Leningrad, it seems more appropriate than > > all those "modern" name-changes... ;) > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:48:35PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > > Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although > > Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- > > code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although > Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- > code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been copied to > a country in the former Soviet Union. > > I thought that this

Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Richard B. Johnson
Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been copied to a country in the former Soviet Union. I thought that this stuff had already been "released", but nobody wanted it because

Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Richard B. Johnson
Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been copied to a country in the former Soviet Union. I thought that this stuff had already been "released", but nobody wanted it because

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been copied to a country in the former Soviet Union. I thought that this stuff had

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:48:35PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been copied to

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: PS. Leningrad is the old historical name of the modern St. Petersberg but we "old-timers" do still call it Leningrad, it seems more appropriate than all those "modern" name-changes... ;) You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: I should have put a smiley there shouldn't I? :) Don't you think I must be well aware of the origins of names of former soviet cities if I spent 20 (or almost 21) years of life there actually, the final and ultimate authority on whether

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 04:05:50PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote: David Weinehall wrote: You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover was made, the city was renamed Leningrad (after V.I.

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: and 1924 the city got renamed again, this time to Leningrad. ok, then a quiz question - was it renamed before or after Lenin's death? (hint, Lenin died in 1924). Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:24:53PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: and 1924 the city got renamed again, this time to Leningrad. ok, then a quiz question - was it renamed before or after Lenin's death? (hint, Lenin died in 1924). After his death.

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
Tigran Aivazian wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: PS. Leningrad is the old historical name of the modern St. Petersberg but we "old-timers" do still call it Leningrad, it seems more appropriate than all those "modern" name-changes... ;) You're VERY wrong here. St.

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread J. Dow
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it really is. Maybe even fix it. Dave, my partner has legal access to the MS source code. In some of my own work I discovered

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Art Boulatov
David Weinehall wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 04:05:50PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote: David Weinehall wrote: You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover was made, the city was

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it really is. Maybe even fix it. Why bother fixing it? It's too bloated and stupid in the first

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it really is. Maybe even fix it. Or better yet: use it to write an interface spec so we can get wine to