*sigh*

I hope this won't be the case for Australia. Such large downloads quickly swallow the cap limits which many ISPs have. We are on a 3gig plan and although it may seem alot it quickly goes with such downloads for updates .

No way! Forget it, I'm gonna go ballistic if that's the case... what will happen to Ravenshield and Day of Defeat . Damn Australian ISP's.

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{Song in the tone of Jingle Bells}
Oh Micro$oft, Micro$oft, what a crock of sh(beep)t
Stick your stupid software right up your smelly bit!
{/endsong}

This (for some reason) harldy surprises me. Microshaft seem to like trying to control everything in the name of "customer satisfaction". First they need to get a product out of the door that people are satisfied with, THEN worry about people distributing freely distributable software.

Also alot of people in the UK are still on dial-up, and with the ever incresing size of Microshaft updates, are customers really expected wait one hour just for 10meg of the download? And what happens if it will take longer then 2 hours? Most ISPs cut you off and you have to dial back in again, and start your download all over again. Even with Broadband it still takes a while to get a 100meg download.

Linux is starting to look nice (OS4 would be better tho )

Gemini

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haha thats what you guys get for beeing a pc user.. move to amiga and you wont get such crappy problems.

cheers

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See my blog and collection website! . https://www.blog.amigaguru.com

Looks like Halloween has come early this year. It?s that time of year when Microsoft starts creeping through the wood work scaring the pants off of people.

Forget Halloween, forget Friday 13th, and forget Nightmare on elm street, this is The Night Microsoft Attacks.

So Amigans beware, your in for a scare.

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@ Bobie 1&2

Looks like the end is neigh for Australia. Microsoft striks agane.

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#icrosoft® publishes Windows2000 bug list

Now, #icrosoft®'s WinXP has to built exactly the same way!

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-vortexau, who's A1 XE-G4 remains at half-RAM !
A2000HD (from 1991) 060 64Mb PicassoII with OS3.5 . . . still working.

I wonder if I'm the only one here who thinks that M$ got its name from a cruel assessments of the boss' package. Billy-Boy, on the vague chance that you're reading this (or that one of your butt-slurping sycophants is) take my advice and buy that glass vaccuum tube thing. Screwing the world over time and time again won't make your penis any bigger...

/me wonders how long this post lasts before it gets yanked (pun intended!) by the moderators...

Doug

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logicalheart wrote:
You know that pretty sound you play when the computer starts?
You need another one to play when the computer is actually ready to use.
Maybe add more for malfunctions and then we'll have music all day.

If Microsoft has only explicitly banned covermount distribution of thir updates, then hopefully they will still make redistributable packages for inclusion with software (e.g. DirectX is usually included with PC games) and it might still be okay to distribute them electronically.

If you go to a trustworthy P2P index site and check their legit section they will probably have a large variety of patches, etc available too. Are there any unofficial Windows update sites?

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Sod M$

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