From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13204 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2009 10:19:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 13193 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jul 2009 10:19:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ew0-f217.google.com (HELO mail-ew0-f217.google.com) (209.85.219.217) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:19:18 +0000 Received: by ewy17 with SMTP id 17so91099ewy.2 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.102.9 with SMTP id z9mr806547ebb.93.1248257955463; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.2.99? (cpc2-cmbg8-0-0-cust61.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [82.6.108.62]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm1197207eyz.41.2009.07.22.03.19.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:19:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A66EAAB.9080402@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:19:00 -0000 From: Dave Korn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rest In Peace, Cancer-Boy!" Subject: Re: Zone alarm, you have failed me for the first time... and the last. (BLODA news) References: <4A63E16D.2010503@gmail.com> <4A64E479.2000007@etr-usa.com> <4A665996.2060605@gmail.com> <4A665BB5.4050601@etr-usa.com> <4A66E038.1000808@gmail.com> <20090722100300.GA28052@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20090722100300.GA28052@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2009-q3/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 22 10:47, Dave Korn wrote: >> Warren Young wrote: >>> Dave Korn wrote: >>>> Warren Young wrote: >>>>> Dave Korn wrote: >>>>>> Newer versions of ZA don't run on w2k >>>>> Is Win2K still running on old time zone data, or did MS finally cave to >>>>> the pressure to release that patch without requiring a $1000 payment? >>>> I have no idea. >>> You would know if it did, if you're in an area of the world where the >>> DST rules changed after MS declared "no more patches" for such things. >>> In most of the US, for instance, your system time would have been off by >>> an hour for several weeks during the year for the past two years. If >>> your locale's DST rules did change recently and you didn't notice a time >>> problem, MS must have relented. There was a huge stink over this. >> Well I'm in the UK, I dunno if the rules have changed at all recently, and >> every once in a while I notice my PC has or hasn't got got a DST change right >> or wrong, but never more than twice a year. >> >> My love of w2k is based on it being the most lightweight version of the OS >> in years, and it having also had the longest time to get debugged and stable, >> but obviously it's not suitable for a corporate environment. It still WJFFM >> in a home environment and there's still /quite/ a lot of new software coming >> out that's compatible enough to run on it. > > What I'm missing in W2K (and, FWIW, NT4) is the RDP server. This means, > I can't use rdesktop on my Linux machine to connect to the W2K box. > Rather, I have to open the console, or I have to use VNC. Neither the > console, nor VNC work as nice as rdesktop, for instance, for hardcore > copy/paste jobs. Absolutely, rdp is significantly smoother in use than VNC. According to a post I found (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-172645_36_0.html), you can install RDP on at least server versions of w2k. > Grrr. I hate it when marketing wins over technical aspects. Cue Bill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo cheers, DaveK