Bill Gates as he presents the Windows Media Player system crash

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Eric Gill wrote:

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The movie clip everyone is looking for,

You mean, "This is the virus no one wants."

In article <vvAEd.3058$>,
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The movie clip everyone is looking for, Bill Gates as he presents the Windows Media Player system crash

I wonder which new Windows virus that was.

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In article <100120052239438736%>, Steve Moody
wrote:

In article <vvAEd.3058$>,
wrote:

The movie clip everyone is looking for, Bill Gates as he presents the Windows
Media Player system crash

I wonder which new Windows virus that was.

DUH! It says it was "Windows Media Player", the biggest virus of them all. 😉

DUH! It says it was "Windows Media Player", the biggest virus of them all. 😉

That’s not true, found this on the web about Windows, but it is also applicable to the media player:

Is Windows a Virus?

No, Windows is not a virus. Here’s what viruses do:

* They replicate quickly – okay, Windows does that.

* Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so – okay, Windows does that.

* Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk – okay, Windows does that too.

* Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh… Windows does that, too.

* Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that’s with Windows, too.

Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.

So Windows is not a virus.

It’s a bug.

Waldo

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In article <vvAEd.3058$>,
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The movie clip everyone is looking for, Bill Gates as he presents the

Windows

Media Player system crash

I wonder which new Windows virus that was.

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Sort of seen this in a few newsgroups, but, never seen the original (no don’t mail me it). Then I’m using news.individual.net as my news server and they don’t allow binaries to be posted to non binary groups which this is.

Rob

In article <110120051823281945%>, Anybody
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DUH! It says it was "Windows Media Player", the biggest virus of them all. 😉

No. The SUBJECT of the post says Windows media Player. The attachment is what I’m talking about. It was named BillGates.mov.exe and contains the new Windows virus that I was wondering about.

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In article <120120051645287704%>, Steve Moody
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In article <110120051823281945%>, Anybody
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DUH! It says it was "Windows Media Player", the biggest virus of them all. 😉

No. The SUBJECT of the post says Windows media Player. The attachment is what I’m talking about. It was named BillGates.mov.exe and contains the new Windows virus that I was wondering about.

Why do so many people not understand that 😉 is a smiley that means it was a JOKE?? Don’t take everything so seriously or as 100% truth, especially on the Internet. :-\

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:39:43 -0500, Steve Moody
wrote:

In article <vvAEd.3058$>,
wrote:

The movie clip everyone is looking for, Bill Gates as he presents the Windows Media Player system crash

I wonder which new Windows virus that was.

Kaspersky AV Pro reports it as

"Backdoor.Win32.Small.ct"

"Waldo" wrote in message

Is Windows a Virus?

No, Windows is not a virus. Here’s what viruses do:
etc

Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

No alternatives to Windows yet 😉 At least I don’t use Outlook/IE…

Waldo

In article , Waldo
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Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

No alternatives to Windows yet

Open your eyes!

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Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

No alternatives to Windows yet 😉 At least I don’t use Outlook/IE…

Are you blind too? Or just idiotic?

Steve Moody wrote:

In article , Waldo
wrote:

Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

No alternatives to Windows yet

Open your eyes!

Mention one single SERIOUS alternative…

Waldo

Stu Dapples wrote:

"Waldo" wrote in message

Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

No alternatives to Windows yet 😉 At least I don’t use Outlook/IE…

Are you blind too? Or just idiotic?

Mention one single SERIOUS alternative…

Waldo

OSX? Unfortunately it’s not available for any other platform but Mac… For x86 I can’t imagine alternates. And please, don’t mention Linux, it just doesn’t have appropriate sofware available.

Sami

P.S. this wasn’t cross-posted for a purpose.

Waldo wrote:

Steve Moody wrote:

In article , Waldo
wrote:

Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

No alternatives to Windows yet

Open your eyes!

Mention one single SERIOUS alternative…

Waldo

sofware=software, of course… 🙂

Sami wrote:

OSX? Unfortunately it’s not available for any other platform but Mac… For x86 I can’t imagine alternates. And please, don’t mention Linux, it just doesn’t have appropriate sofware available.

Sami

P.S. this wasn’t cross-posted for a purpose.

Waldo wrote:

Steve Moody wrote:

In article , Waldo
wrote:

Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

No alternatives to Windows yet

Open your eyes!

Mention one single SERIOUS alternative…

Waldo

In article <csb9pv$jr4$>, Waldo
wrote:

Steve Moody wrote:

In article , Waldo
wrote:

Right. If you’re so clever and knowledgeable why this in your headers: "User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)"?

No alternatives to Windows yet

Open your eyes!

Mention one single SERIOUS alternative…

Depends what you want to do.

If you want just a games machine, try PlayStation, Nintendo or even {shudder} XBollux.

If you want a computer, then try Apple or one of the Linux / Unix replacement OSes … even the dead BeOS.

Depends what you want to do.

If you want just a games machine, try PlayStation, Nintendo or even {shudder} XBollux.

I don’t play games, so can’t speak of those game consoles…

If you want a computer, then try Apple or one of the Linux / Unix replacement OSes … even the dead BeOS.

As Sami already remarks, for Linux/Unix is not enough appropriate software available (I mean the catergory like the creative suite). For server purposes, Linux is good.

Apple is a dead end (at least in Europe). It is just too expensive and not fast enough (or do we have that problem only in our company???).

Waldo

In article <csejmn$f68$>, Waldo
wrote:

If you want a computer, then try Apple or one of the Linux / Unix replacement OSes … even the dead BeOS.

As Sami already remarks, for Linux/Unix is not enough appropriate software available (I mean the catergory like the creative suite). For server purposes, Linux is good.

Apple is a dead end (at least in Europe). It is just too expensive and not fast enough (or do we have that problem only in our company???).

This isn’t the place to go into all the details, but those expense and speed of Apple computers ideas are both a myth to a large degree. For a start you save a ton on after-purchase Microsloth IT support, plus Macs use a totally different chip design so trying to compare a 3GHz Pentium X to a 1.8GHz GX is pointless when based on just those numbers.

Apple has also just released the Mac Mini, a US$499 computer (although you do have to add a monitor and keyoboard / mouse to theat price).

This isn’t the place to go into all the details, but those expense and speed of Apple computers ideas are both a myth to a large degree. For a start you save a ton on after-purchase Microsloth IT support, plus Macs use a totally different chip design so trying to compare a 3GHz Pentium X to a 1.8GHz GX is pointless when based on just those numbers.

The IT support for Mac is not so perfect as you state (neither is the Windows…). I know both chip designs and I know you can’t always trust the numbers of the benchmarks, but when a dual G5 is losing of a single P4, I am starting to get worried. Anyway, running our own applications on both systems (both single CPU, P4 vs. G5) performance is still in favor of the P4, no matter how much you hate Intel.

Apple has also just released the Mac Mini, a US$499 computer (although you do have to add a monitor and keyoboard / mouse to theat price).

Yeah and what are the specs of the Mac Mini? I like the case though 😉

In Europe, the prices of Mac systems are much higher than in the USA. That is also a reason why their sales are decreasing here rapidly. On the other hand, Mac has never been here as big as in the USA. Only in the graphics industry it was very common, but that is also shifting.

Waldo

In article , Waldo
wrote:

This isn’t the place to go into all the details, but those expense and speed of Apple computers ideas are both a myth to a large degree. For a start you save a ton on after-purchase Microsloth IT support, plus Macs use a totally different chip design so trying to compare a 3GHz Pentium X to a 1.8GHz GX is pointless when based on just those numbers.

The IT support for Mac is not so perfect as you state (neither is the Windows…).

It’s not that Apple’s IT support is perfect, but simply you don’t need it anywhere near as much.

I know both chip designs and I know you can’t always trust the numbers of the benchmarks, but when a dual G5 is losing of a single P4, I am starting to get worried. Anyway, running our own applications on both systems (both single CPU, P4 vs. G5) performance is still in favor of the P4, no matter how much you hate Intel.

It depends greatly on what you’re doing and how you measure it (most benchmark tests are ridiculous things that nobody in the real world actually does or does so occasionally that they wouldn’t even notice their machine is "slower"), but it is often slower and more difficult to do actual work on a Windoze computer than it is on a Mac … once you’ve learnt to use the Mac of course.

Apple has also just released the Mac Mini, a US$499 computer (although you do have to add a monitor and keyoboard / mouse to theat price).

Yeah and what are the specs of the Mac Mini? I like the case though 😉

It’s the lowest-end model they make, so it’s not very expanable and the specs are pretty hopeless for "power users", but it is a great machine for the average secretary, home user, etc.

In Europe, the prices of Mac systems are much higher than in the USA. That is also a reason why their sales are decreasing here rapidly. On the other hand, Mac has never been here as big as in the USA. Only in the graphics industry it was very common, but that is also shifting.

The prices on Apple on almost everything Apple makes recently dropped, some of them quite significantly. You also have to remember that Apple’s computers include things like Ethernet that are often missing from cheapo Windoze PCs.

It’s not that Apple’s IT support is perfect, but simply you don’t need it anywhere near as much.

Neither does modern versions of Windows. I agree with you for WinSuxx 95/98/ME (juk!).

It depends greatly on what you’re doing and how you measure it (most benchmark tests are ridiculous things that nobody in the real world actually does or does so occasionally that they wouldn’t even notice their machine is "slower"), but it is often slower and more difficult to do actual work on a Windoze computer than it is on a Mac … once you’ve learnt to use the Mac of course.

If the same application runs nearly 60% faster on P4 than on G5, I surely use the P4. Especially if nearly all apps are doing so… I agree that most benchmarks are useless figures, but if two G5’s can’t even come close to one single P4, then there is something really wrong.

User interaction is of course also an important issue in overall performance, but once you configured Windows XP properly (i.e. getting rid of the Pokemon user interface), it works pretty good. I have no problems using OS-X either (or OS 9, although I prefer OS-X).

It’s the lowest-end model they make, so it’s not very expanable and the specs are pretty hopeless for "power users", but it is a great machine for the average secretary, home user, etc.

For the same price, I can get a machine twice as fast (and sooooooooo ugly, but that is general PC issue) with more RAM and a bigger HDD.

The prices on Apple on almost everything Apple makes recently dropped, some of them quite significantly. You also have to remember that Apple’s computers include things like Ethernet that are often missing from cheapo Windoze PCs.

You’re not up to date. I can’t think of any mainstream mainboard of the past 3 years that hasn’t ethernet. The only thing that is missing on a lot of PC mainboards is firewire (on that point you’re complete right, USB 2 sucks for external harddrives!!!). Even mainboards of around EURO 50 have S-ATA, RAID, USB 2, gigabit LAN, etc.

Waldo

One who opens such file really is looking for a wholot of troubles….

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