Only it was back 30-some-odd years ago. My family and I were off to see my parent's old school friends living in Denver, CO area in '77 or '78 and we saw the Enterprise on the back of a jumbo sitting on the tarmac at Stapleton. Grandest sight ever at the time.

Can you specify which protocols that MS uses that "aren't always available in Linux?" Y'know, Kerberos works just fine, so does SMB and RDP and any other protocol you want to throw at it. Admit it -- the command line frightens you and you haven't the stones to figure out wine or virtualbox. This is this the typical bullshit FUD that Windows nimrods toss around in order to keep their customers sucking on the MS tit.

ROFL!! I keep seeing rejects in my mailserver log from Hotmail addressed to spamtraps that were only exposed in Usenet messages back in '02-'05, and if I do change rules to accept Hotmail sourced messages, they always turn out to be Nigerian confidence scams. Microsoft can just step the heck away from the podium.

Lilly Tomlin on SNL back in the '70s: "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company... *snort*"

I don't know what anyone's crying about. This is how it works. You put your product out there and hope someone sees it and likes it. If it's good enough it will succeed. If not, oh well.

Really, man. I saw it on a palmtop I did up for my wife and said, WTF??? Yeah, Unity is fine if you're a run of the mill user and for those guys who want all that flashy, spinny, whirly-twirly pretty desktop crap, but I simply haven't the time to figure out all over again yet another major change to my desktop. It seems like every time I turn around, some dope over at some distro maker''s shop gets all spun up about some new desktop, and then I have to find a new distro to get away from it. I'm on Mint now. At least I can keep a gnome 2 desktop on it and get some work done.

And I don't see why anyone else continues to use it. When I heard of the MS buyout of Skype, I immediately closed my Skype account and deleted the software. I want nothing to do with the criminal monopoly that owns it now.

Compare Spamhaus with your local reporter who focuses mainly on restaurant reviews. Every week, he visits a new restaurant and writes a review. Some restaurants may end up with a good review and get lots of traffic as a result. Some may end up with a bad review, causing lots of people to avoid their restaurant, thus losing business. Same principles apply here. It's like saying, "We tried to talk to the owner to get things fixed, but we couldn't. We're now leaning on the waitress, to see if she will help us contact the owner. We may have to talk to the cook and enlist his help, too."

You don't realize how SMTP or the Internet works, my friend. A2B is about to suffer from a death by a good number of admins simply adding their network addresses to private firewall and routers settings. You see, what I do at the border of my network is my business. I consult Spamhaus for their opinion regarding the reputation of email traffic. My mail sever is set to query the Spamhaus DNS servers whenever another mail server connects to deliver mail. It's not by default that my server is set that way; I took action to make it so. Spamhaus is simply a consultant in this relationship. They watch for spammy mail. It's their list and if A2B didn't follow the requirements to be removed, then others like me may have problems receiving your email, again by our choice. Now, I'll take a few minutes to ensure that A2B's network blocks are listed in my own border router's rules file so that any traffic received there is simply tossed on the floor, not that I would expect much traffic. But then, that's just me. I can't predict the behavior of any other system admin out there. Your move.

It's either that or you have been trolled. I'd bet on the troll bit because it's just ridiculous the lengths to which these attention whores will go to get a few chucks.

We have you right where we want you, meek and scared. Please leave your Liberty at the door, walk right in, get in queue over there, we'll give you your ID number and your occupational specialty. Then get in that line and we'll screen you with your urine sample to determine whether or not you use any substances that may somehow render your unable to work in our eyes.

It's all about control, folks, and you've lost every shred of it.

If the US is somehow socialist, I'd like my cut, please. I'm sitting here, working my ass off, wife sick with MS, and the bills are starting to fall behind. Please explain how I get my cut.

Glad to see that I'm not alone in that regard. I learned in 7th grade with a personal typing class. I took off and got right up to 60 wpm. I've typed medical transcription for years and years and I'm fast, probably more 85-90 wpm.

You must be rather young. You obviously don't remember the good old days, back when this site first started and was overrun with spam and trolls.

Patents were never an issue in this case. SCO never held any that were relevant to the case. No, it's been about copyrights and who has the keys to the castle that would open up the litigation win treasure chest. Unfortunately for them, SCO has gasped its last.