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To: HolgerDansk
Actually, his "facts" and "studies" have holes that you can drive a truck through.

Like the hole in firefox may be a better analogy.

The truth of the matter is that Open Source has saved Microsoft on more than one occasion, notably the advent of the Internet in the early 90s.

That is far from the truth. My understanding was Microsoft just about missed the boat for the Internet. If they weren't nearly a monopoly at the time they would have missed the boat. They had to turn on a dime and get IE out the door to try and get back out in front. The Internet nearly cost Microsoft its dominance. Many people have marveled at how they turned on a dime and got back in the lead, but they were definitely behind the 8-ball and had to do what no other large company could do to get back in front.

123 posted on 09/14/2005 3:38:36 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: All
OK. I see a lot of computer people on here so I'll give it a shot.

This lady I know has a community web site, there are only 14 registured posters on there so she's no finincal threat to anyone.

The question I have is, when you post a comment on her site, the timestamp is wrong. Let's say you posted at 1:00 p.m. the timestamp shows you posting at 4:30 a.m. I fixed my timestamp by going into my profile page and setting the clock - 5 hours GMT.

How does she fix it where it automatically sets everybodies posting time correctly?

124 posted on 09/17/2005 3:07:09 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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