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Post #201,450 by folkert 3/31/05 1:40:41 PM Reply	Push technology, who was it that... Was the first "well known" company the did it. Damn I cannot remember. Something like net-connections or something like that. Frontier-something maybe. Nope, still not there. Guess the refresh rate wasn't fast enough and the ECC failed too. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [link\|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230\|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Military Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source]
Post #201,456 by jake123 3/31/05 2:27:46 PM Reply	Thought it was pointcast. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #201,494 by folkert 3/31/05 9:15:21 PM Reply	Told you there was Bit ROT. Pointcast was the name! -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [link\|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230\|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Military Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source]

Strange Firefox dependency on Windoze... - (scoenye) - (10) - March 30, 2005, 05:35:51 PM EST

Maybe... - (ubernostrum) - (9) - March 31, 2005, 04:38:55 AM EST

Firefox on Windows uses common dialogues... - (pwhysall) - March 31, 2005, 04:44:54 AM EST

There was no IE before Explorer became the file manager. -NT - (CRConrad) - (7) - March 31, 2005, 10:34:32 AM EST

I'm pretty sure there was... - (cwbrenn) - (6) - March 31, 2005, 12:37:40 PM EST

Push technology, who was it that... - (folkert) - (2) - March 31, 2005, 01:40:41 PM EST

Thought it was pointcast. -NT - (jake123) - (1) - March 31, 2005, 02:27:46 PM EST

Told you there was Bit ROT. Pointcast was the name! -NT - (folkert) - March 31, 2005, 09:15:21 PM EST

Yes, but that's *Internet* Explorer you're talking about now - (CRConrad) - (2) - April 1, 2005, 01:14:02 AM EST

er... yes. - (cwbrenn) - (1) - April 1, 2005, 11:53:28 AM EST

Ah, of course; how could I not see that? -NT - (CRConrad) - April 1, 2005, 01:18:02 PM EST

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