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MSN Messenger goes dark (or 1 Degree of seperation, .Net leaves 75 Million without service)
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| Stefanie Olsen
Posted on 01/06/2003 12:58:14 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: KneelBeforeZod
shouldn't matter anyway, since a court has AOL on their way to being the only instant message provider anyway, right?
And what court would that be?
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posted on
01/06/2003 2:04:55 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: Bush2000
typo, not a court, but a patent...
To: KneelBeforeZod
Unlikely. If AOL tries to enforce that patent, they're going to get their heads handed to them. There's plenty of prior art. IRC, for one thing. Novell had an application more than a decade ago which allowed you to see which users were online. And Gawd knows how many mainframe time-sharing and Unix systems allow you to see who's online.
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posted on
01/06/2003 2:32:05 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: KneelBeforeZod
That's yet another brin-dead patent brought to you courtesy of the idiots running Fedgov. According to my manpage for 'talk', "The talk command appeared in 4.2BSD." That would put it sometime around 1982 or so.
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posted on
01/06/2003 4:01:37 PM PST
by
zeugma
To: HamiltonJay
Probably the cleaning lady unplugged the server.
To: Bush2000
Back to my firewall. I am suspicious that theonly sites I noticed being blocked were eBay, hotmail, and Windows Update. This smells a bit like I got a product intended for export to some country that would like these sites blocked. I don't know about eBay, but Windows Update offeres 128 bit encryption modules.
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posted on
01/06/2003 6:14:48 PM PST
by
js1138
To: js1138
Maybe you just needed a firmware update. Did you try?
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:00:40 PM PST
by
Bush2000
To: Bush2000
Yup. I went through several levels of support. The thing isn't that complicated. It's supposed to work right out of the box, pretty much.
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posted on
01/06/2003 7:06:38 PM PST
by
js1138
To: HamiltonJay
I still can't log in.
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posted on
01/07/2003 12:52:59 PM PST
by
Frapster
To: Frapster; Focault's Pendulum
We have experts on that subject around here!
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posted on
01/07/2003 12:55:46 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(Bad Redcloak. No biscuit.)
To: Redcloak
It says (Bad Redcloak, no biscuit) beside your name. Why is that?
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posted on
01/07/2003 1:10:22 PM PST
by
Frapster
To: Frapster
Cuz I'm teasing the hapless Focault's Pendulum.
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posted on
01/07/2003 2:00:17 PM PST
by
Redcloak
(Am I logged in?)
To: mykdsmom
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