BillW50 wrote:
> "Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message news:slrndktuqt.jcu.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> Hi Moe... It must have been along time since you have either Updated
> a Windows machine or actually had used one. As this used to be MS'
> SOP, but now they lock them down tight

yes, they do - they lock them down so tight that seriously experienced
WinBlows Sysadmins are chasing their tails trying to find out Why TF
their systems don't work any more!!

(since the XP SP2 anyway).
> The tradeoff of course is that newbies

and sysadmins

can't get anything to work
> anymore.
>
>
> In June 2004, the ISO/IEC working group responsible for
> maintaining eight-bit coded character sets disbanded and ceased
> all maintenance of ISO 8859, including ISO 8859-1, in order to
> concentrate on the Universal Character Set and Unicode. In
> computing applications, encodings that provide full UCS support
> (such as UTF-8 and UTF-16) are finding increasing favor over
> encodings based on ISO 8859-1.

You obviously totally fail to realise that 7-bit ASCII and Extended
ASCII (aka ISO 8859-1) are, and will continue to be recognised subsets
of UFT-8 and UTF-16. If you don't realise this, then you obviously have
no clue as to what Unicode is all about, or how it works.

> I use HTML email when I need to use tables, bullets, newsletters,
> pictures, etc. It's all part of the MIME standard. Nothing wrong
> with that. Plain text is about 50 years old now.

But you seriously misunderstand that presentation and content _should_
and _must_ be separated - that is precisely why we are in the M$ induced
horror of ActiveX, etc, etc.......

> It is time for some to quit hanging on to the old past. It is
> time some people actually start using all of that computing power

It has fuck all to do with computing power!! My Linux server is a P-II
350 - it does its job - it sits there and *serves*

>
> Since the bad guys always finds loopholes in the law, I believe you
> should blame the lawmakers IMHO. As I feel they are failing us
> *all*. Blame the cause and not the symptoms.

OK - I can go with that one! Perhaps we need to start with the US & GB
governments who are happy to promulgate illegal wars.

> And there is nothing wrong with Microsoft products per se.

In the words of JM `You cannot be serious'

> Bill (using a Toshiba 2595XDVD under Windows 2000)
> -- written and edited within WordStar 5.0

OK, well I see you are not toally beyond redemption then, Bill ;)

Steve