That's why businesses pay for a support-level agreement. When a problem comes up, it doesn't default to the standard EULA-with-disclaimers. Instead, the terms of the contract apply.

I've seen it. Not a lot, but occasionally. Someone saying (seriously, not sarcastically) they don't want a large share of computer users to use Linux. Some say they really like being in a semi-exclusive little community. Others fear the whole Linux experience will get dumbed down to fit lowest common denominator of user, missing the point that FOSS let's anyone who really wants to make the software as simple-to-use or complicated as they want.

You shouldn't sign YOUR posts when posting AC, either.

No it doesn't, it leads to what it says, the winhelp2002.mvps.org site's host file page. Oh, yes, you're AC, the easy, cowardly way to troll!

I just went through and checked those registry settings on a laptop with a default Windows 7 SP1 install, and that's how they're already set, except for the built-in administrator account, which on Windows 7 is disabled by default, so any other setting is meaningless. Maybe it was different before SP1, I didn't have a Win7 machine then.

So you're saying you don't know how to avoid race conditions in your program? Poorly written software can do this on ANY operating system. The problem is with the program you say you wrote, not MSE or the OS.

For that they'd have to have sex - you know, like with another person.

The MTA's trains are named after colors. Most run above ground, but the subway is called the Red Line. Unless it's the Purple Line, although that still gets called the Red Line a lot.

Yes, because two media moguls would never twist news coverage to force a government into a war it didn't want just to feed their circulation rivalry.

Bryan with a Y is my mother's maiden name and a perfectly valid spelling of the Irish name. It's the same name as Brian, Brien, or any other spelling and is named after the first high king of Ireland. Furthermore, I'm gonna say Anonymous Coward is gay because AC is short for, oh, say, Anally Content.

... and extremely small values of five

but does anyone else think it looks like Balmer's doing a "sieg heil" in the picture at ItWorld.com?