Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, > we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it > really is. Maybe even fix it. > Or better yet: use it to write an interface spec so we can get wine

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, > we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it > really is. Maybe even fix it. Why bother fixing it? It's too bloated and stupid in the first place..

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Art Boulatov
David Weinehall wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 04:05:50PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote: > > David Weinehall wrote: > > > > > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet > > > Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover > > > was made, the

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread J. Dow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If Bill said 'screw you' to the blackmailer and made the press release, > we should see the source on web sites soon. Then we can see how bad it > really is. Maybe even fix it. Dave, my partner has legal access to the MS source code. In some of my own work I discove

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Dmitri Pogosyan
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > > PS. Leningrad is the old historical name of the modern St. Petersberg but > > > we "old-timers" do still call it Leningrad, it seems more appropriate than > > > all those "modern" name-changes... ;) > > > > You're VERY wro

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 02:24:53PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > and 1924 the city got renamed again, this time to Leningrad. > > ok, then a quiz question - was it renamed before or after Lenin's death? > (hint, Lenin died in 1924). After his dea

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > and 1924 the city got renamed again, this time to Leningrad. ok, then a quiz question - was it renamed before or after Lenin's death? (hint, Lenin died in 1924). Regards, Tigran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 04:05:50PM +0300, Petko Manolov wrote: > David Weinehall wrote: > > > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet > > Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover > > was made, the city was renamed Leningrad (after V.I

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread dave
On 27 Oct, Tigran Aivazian wrote: [snip] > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_993000/993933.stm > > I hope nobody will buy Microsoft products from now on, now that they are > not only filled with internal bugs but also with external ones introduced > by the guys from Leningrad... :)

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Petko Manolov
David Weinehall wrote: > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the name before the Soviet > Union was formed and Russia marched into the Baltics. When the takeover > was made, the city was renamed Leningrad (after V.I. Lenin). When the > Soviet Union finally fell to pieces and the Baltics

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > I should have put a smiley there shouldn't I? :) Don't you think I must be > well aware of the origins of names of former soviet cities if I spent 20 > (or almost 21) years of life there actually, the final and ultimate authority on whether "old-t

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, David Weinehall wrote: > > PS. Leningrad is the old historical name of the modern St. Petersberg but > > we "old-timers" do still call it Leningrad, it seems more appropriate than > > all those "modern" name-changes... ;) > > You're VERY wrong here. St. Petersburg was the nam

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 01:48:35PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > > Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although > > Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- > > code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been co

Re: Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although > Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- > code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been copied to > a country in the former Soviet Union. > > I thought that this stuf

Off-Topic (or maybe on-topic)

2000-10-27 Thread Richard B. Johnson
Reports are that Microsoft has been broken into. Although Microsoft spokesmen deny it, reports are that the source- code for Windows/2000 (professional) has been copied to a country in the former Soviet Union. I thought that this stuff had already been "released", but nobody wanted it because th