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Re: [News] Microsoft Bashes Outlook 2007

On Sat, 27 May 2006 17:09:27 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> I  suspect he uses Outlook 2000. His Webcasts suggest this. In any case, I
> binned  him. He RSS feed has something buggy, which causes my feeds reader
> to  crash (take 100% of the CPU capacity to be precise). This has happened
> 3-4  times already and has been rather disastrous as it affected other JRE
> applications (notably Firefox and Thunderbirds). Mind you, this RSS reader
> (RSSOwl)  has  not  crashed  since I started using it  in  2004.  When  it
> crashes,  items that I read in the sessions will remain marked as  unread,
> which is a /huge/ pain.

Oh, sure.  Blame him for your crappy software that can't accept a valid
feed without crashing.

http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fchris.pirillo.com%2Fwp-rss2.php

"Warning This feed is valid, but may cause problems for some users."

The users it causes problems with are people with broken software, since
the feed is valid.

> Rather  sadly, I will have to admit that Pirillo uses WordPress (on a WAMP
> stack  I suspect). It must be some third-party plug-in that breaks things,
> if  not the W in WAMP. Basically, I was among the ones to help him migrate
> to  WordPress  and  some days ago he reported a  bug  (plug-in  supposedly
> incompatible with 2.0), but we told him it must be Windows. Works fine for
> everybody else anyway...

Actually, no.  He uses Wordpress on Linux.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://chris.pirillo.com

Just more of your trying to blame Microsoft and Windows for your own
problems.

> So,  there  ya  go...  the  fine relief in 'mark  all  as  read'  or  even
> unsubscribe. When I did this to Scoble, this started a riot.
> 
> http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/03/04/better-mail-than-jail/

All it does is show how low you will stoop to advocate linux.  Lying and
deception is your stock in trade.

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