techMonday, September 11, 2006
Internet from the gas company? and More evidence that Micro$oft just plain sucks
Some people somewhere may soon be able to connect to the internet through their gas pipes - probably not me or you.
Microsoft sucks (already knew that - but here's some more evidence). A recent patch from MS introduces a bug which causes data corruption in compressed files - since WinXP seems to default to file compression in some cases (I keep seeing all those blue filenames on other people's computers and I doubt that these people even know what compression is, let alone know how to enable it - though the OS may trick them into it somehow) well this means that a lot of people are going to loose a lot of data. I'm not sure if this is an update or something you have to choose to install, but I suspect update - aren't you glad that all the people who are always calling you for computer help have automatic updates enabled.
Microsoft sucks (already knew that - but here's some more evidence). A recent patch from MS introduces a bug which causes data corruption in compressed files - since WinXP seems to default to file compression in some cases (I keep seeing all those blue filenames on other people's computers and I doubt that these people even know what compression is, let alone know how to enable it - though the OS may trick them into it somehow) well this means that a lot of people are going to loose a lot of data. I'm not sure if this is an update or something you have to choose to install, but I suspect update - aren't you glad that all the people who are always calling you for computer help have automatic updates enabled.
