Unofficial Windows98SE Patch 417
usrid0 writes "A service pack for Windows 98 Second Edition has been released. Big deal, right? It is if it doesn't come from Microsoft. "
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson
Nice Virus (Score:2, Funny)
patch for Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Already installed a couple of unofficial patches. (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.mozilla.org
Winner: Most Pointless Screenshot of the Year (Score:5, Funny)
"... keeping my win98 systems..."??? (Score:3, Funny)
Q.
Is he the guy? (Score:5, Funny)
guarantees... (Score:5, Funny)
How could they? They can't even vouch for their own products. How in the world are they going to vouch for someone else product?
"Windows 98" - *98* - 1998! - GET A LIFE (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The eternal question: (Score:5, Funny)
As opposed to the strangers offering you nats and firewalls?
KFG
Re:The eternal question: (Score:5, Funny)
Gotta appreciate Citibank et al's customer service though. Even though I'm not one of their customers, they send these helpful e-mails as if I were one.
Re:patch for Windows (Score:0, Funny)
So what (Score:5, Funny)
MS-Windows 95? (Score:3, Funny)
Patch for freeBSD. (Score:5, Funny)
Will WINE support Windows 98 SP2 ? (Score:5, Funny)
Can some one help me, or will I have to download Windows 98 from Kazaa and install it on a new partition to be able to run the new daily exciting and addictive Windows patch ?
Any help will be appreciated.
Windows 1.02 (Score:4, Funny)
@echo off
format C:
Re:Don't install this on non-english MS Windows (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Will it work for Virtual PC for Mac (Score:3, Funny)
I thought the only thing the 6.0->6.1 updater did was change the Connectix logos to Microsoft logos? Apparently, all Microsoft has to do to make software run slower is slap their name on it.
Pouring soda over your keyboard (Score:3, Funny)
I can't believe they actually took 98 and made it worse by dimensions.
News just in.... (Score:2, Funny)
Somebody's written a patch for Windows ME but it
leaves only 3 lines of the original code intact.
Re:The eternal question: (Score:5, Funny)
" Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [Pause] These go to eleven. "
I don't need this (Score:4, Funny)
The e-mail reads:
Dear friend,
Use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now! More than 500,000 already infected!
Re:patch for Windows (Score:3, Funny)
What's the big news? A patch for Win98SE has been available here [mandrakelinux.com] for quite some time now.
Only a fool would mod this guy interesting (Score:2, Funny)
1)4/20/04: "Robertson deserves a lot of our thanks and a prize for enlivening our days, we need people like him to make life more fun and interesting."
2)4/21/04 "In 1992 I remember..."
3)4/21/04 ". So maybe these micro-stores are trickier than people think"
4,5)4/22/04 (2 errors) "The real question is this, whether IP will continue alone, or will IP networks get superceded a superstructure containing secure trusted authentication."
6)4/24/04 "I think you should switch career."
7)4/24/04 "Instead of employing a few scientists to do something, instead we just stick out a request into cyberspace and get everyone to do it for free."
8)4/25/04 "However the fact that it can only go "right..."
9)4/26/04 "Hi Andy, Look at the top..."
10)4/26/04 "There is nothing wrong with that, in fact it is very healthy."
11)4/27/04 (Starts off) "interestingly typing AXA gives different results from typing AN AXA even though google spits out the message:
12)4/27/04 "Some guy out there is a genius, funniest site in years."
Only a fool would mod his post interesting.
Okay, that's ONE... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The eternal question: (Score:4, Funny)
The US DoJ, the EU Commission (who actually take action, it seems), their customers, etc.
If MS release a patch that hoses systems or installs a rootkit, then a great many people will be clamouring for their blood. If some random guy on the net does it, everyone will be clamouring for his blood too. The difference being, you have to find him first, then hope that he's not in a country that won't extradite or prosecute him. MS has offices everywhere, and so can be held accountable by a great many governments.
Re:So what (Score:4, Funny)
He has had 6 years to work on it
And he still put out a patch faster than the multi-billion dollar company known as Microsoft.
It would be a big deal... (Score:3, Funny)
(Fix the damn memory limit bug for instance)
Re:Patch for freeBSD. (Score:3, Funny)
oh and here.. [freedesktop.org]
oh and here.. and here...oh and over there!
but the blame game is fun (Score:5, Funny)
This is slashdot, we can blame microsoft even if they are not to blame.
Damn microsoft and their evil global warming!
See its fun.
Re:Patch for freeBSD. (Score:3, Funny)
Cool!! We've started a recursive loop here!
Re:Do you trust Windows 98? (Score:2, Funny)
Phew. For a while i thought you said "better WMD and US support."
/dyslexic
Re:Only a fool would mod this guy interesting (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Don't install this on non-english MS Windows (Score:3, Funny)
I find it ironic that he speaks this warning in English about the Non-English versions of Windows
(And please don't bother with the "Don't assume the people that have non-english versions of windows don't understand English, I'm not that dense!
Re:The eternal question: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Microsoft patch vs some other guy patch (Score:2, Funny)
Eh? Backups? Screw backups. I never backup, and my server has a 5-10 year old hard-drive. I like to live dangerously/stupidly!
Anyways, I wouldn't curse myself. I'd pop in my knoppix cd, tar & gzip all my important files, and ftp them to my server, reformat & reinstall.
If you've never tried knoppix, it's a great linux livecd distro, http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html or http://www.knoppix.net/.
Sometimes I take it to school, fire up ethereal, and sit and watch what everyone is doing in between playing games. It's definitly fun, especially catching teachers on porn sites.
So next time you're on a public computer, remember, big brother is watching you
Ok, I'm done now.