__/ [ John Locke ] on Saturday 14 April 2007 00:14 \__
> "Beares apologized for having to punish all MPVs with the name
> "Richard" by withholding the CTP, and said if the person who posted
> the release "comes clean," he may "have some discretion as to what
> actions I take.""
>
>
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> Gad...sounds like a prisoner of war camp.
>
>
>
> "Windows Home Server is a new version of the Windows OS that lets
> users set up secure networks of PCs at home so they can share and
> store media files."
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> ...but can't Linux already do this for the home user ?
What's Linux? Sheesh. Don't tell anybody about it.
What are tabs?
What is RSS?
What?!?! A computer does not need to be rebooted? No defrag? No virus scans?
Okay, this is insane. Are you telling me that I can buy a modern Linux PC
from eBuyer for just 127 quid?
Sometimes, you see, ignorance works well for industry. Here's an E-mail I
received some time ago:
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| You probably know about this already. And sorry for the lousy scan
| quality.
|
| What is more interesting however, is the fact that this article,
| which mentions LINUX en passant, is nowhere to be found on the New
| York Times archive. All other articles published by the same author,
| Thomas Crampton, in the last few days, are easily downloadable.
|
| Could it be that Mighty$oft sent some message or did some calls to
| the New York Times to let them know that they were not at all pleased
| with this rather bad news for them. Imagine, if the masses in the US
| suddenly realized that such a cheap PC could never be sold here
| simply because Windows alone costs almost 400 dollars. Even if
| people usually do not learn much at school, one thing they are
| normally good at is adding figures. This all does definitely not
| smell good for the Gates-Ballmer "duumvirate".
|
| Thought you might want to know about this.
|
| [...]
|
| By the way, just to make sure I got my facts 100% right, I checked
| again this morning in their archives for that article.
| And, indeed, it is the only one missing in a long series of articles
| recently published by that author.
| Definitely sounds fishy.
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Here is a scan of the excellent article in question:
http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/screenshots/FRENCH_CHEAP_PC.jpg
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