so all Windoze users are now relying upon the good will of the Communist
Chinese government not to leak Billy Bob's source code, hackers world
perfect storm. most of the network/system penetrations and worst
viruses/worms are coming out of se asia.
William may as well have given them your bank account, credit card and
social security numbers from his scans of your computers on upgrades.
the Commies could not even keep our satellite launch targeting technology
safe, Motorola-Loral sat phone launches.
Cliff N7HIY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Will Matney" <craxd1@verizon.net>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Metric Conversion
> See below;
>
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> On 8/11/05 at 2:41 AM R.Measures wrote:
>
>>On Aug 10, 2005, at 9:23 PM, David Kirkby wrote:
>>
>>> Mike wrote:
>>>> Thanks Mark for the heads-up on the converter. Unfortunately, it only
>>>> works on XP or later OS.
>>>
>>> A standard microsoft trick, to get you to upgrade the OS.
>>
>>Indeed. Dollar Bill's pursuit of mammon is so relentless that he won't
>>even spend the bucks for a decent haircut.
>
> I'll about give 20:1 odds he cuts it himself or gets one of his house
> keepers to do it free.
>
> If it wasn't for some of the lawsuits, he would be getting by with a lot
> more than he does. I also heard about him letting the Chinese government
> have the source code to Windows so they would buy it. What gets me is that
> a bunch of the illegal software sites there are on government servers.
> Plus the government has been guilty of using the cracked software for
> years. He'd sh*t if a competitive version of Windows came out of China! I
> for one would get a big kick out of it.
>
>
>>>
>>> For some applications, such as drivers for hardware, firewalls, network
>>> monitoring software etc, it would be more work to write the program to
>>> work on multiple versions of Windows.
>>>
>>> For a metric converter, that is very different. There is no reason on
>>> earth why it could not be made to work on any version of Windoze.
>>>
>>> Of course, just because it says XP only, does not necessarily mean it
>>> will not work on an older version, although the installer might refuse
>>> to install it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> At 18:57 8/10/05, AA6DX - Mark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I recently found/installed the new Microsoft converter/calculator,
>>>>> and
>>>>> really think it's just swell ... you can get it from them, or .. to
>>>>> make it
>>>>> easy .. from one of my websites, here ..
>>>>> http://members.cox.net/kenwood/
>>>>> 73 .. Mark AA6DX
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: <amps-request@contesting.com>
>>>>> To: <amps@contesting.com>
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:49 PM
>>>>> Subject: Amps Digest, Vol 32, Issue 19
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> 73,
>>>> Mike, K4GMH
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>>> --
>>> David Kirkby,
>>> G8WRB
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>>
>>Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734. www.somis.org
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>
> Best,
>
> Will
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