NASTY HOTMAIL AND THE YAHOO BUG

HOTMAIL GETS NASTY

Microsoft has pulled another fast one: an anti-Linux "feature" in HOTMAIL.
I can read my mail, but I can’t write any: the compose screen won’t accept keyboard input.

Their customer service has admitted that it won’t work with Linux.  Evidently having almost all the money isn’t good enough– they want it all.
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This tactic is just plain mean-spirited, and it sure isn’t going to convince me to go out and buy Windows, or anything else Microsoft sells.

KOPETE KONNECTION

Recently I’ve had trouble connecting to Yahoo IM with Pidgin and
Kopete, on my Linux machine.  I just ran across the solution.  Yahoo’s
DNS setup has a bug which Windows forgives but Linux doesn’t.  So,
enter the following in your hosts file.  Presto, Kopete connects.  It
may work with Pidgin too.
66.163.181.193    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.106    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.107    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.166    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.167    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.168    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.169    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.170    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.171    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.172    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.173    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.174    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.175    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.176    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.177    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.178    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.179    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.180    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.181    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.182    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.183    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.184    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.185    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.186    scs.msg.yahoo.com

66.163.181.187    scs.msg.yahoo.com

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TO MY FELLOW VOTERS

Thank you!
Thank you for standing in line, for however long you had to, to help
elect Barack Obama. You have given new hope for our country to have the
kind of honest, humane, and just government that we so richly deserve,
and new hope for the world to work toward peace and harmony.

If you didn’t vote for Obama, I forgive you. Thanks for voting anyway.
I hope you will give Obama a chance to show he is the President for ALL
the people.
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Now that MSN seems to have sold hotmail to the phone company, I wonder
if live spaces may be next to go. So, why not check out Multiply, where
I now do most of my blogging. My page is:
http://cosmicrat.multiply.com
and of course my main website:
http://www.cosmicrat.com
otherwise known as
Cosmic Cabdrivers’ Guide to the Universe.

–captain rat

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–Captain Rat
captainrat@cosmicrat.com
It’s a friendly universe!
Help make the world friendly, too:
support peace and human rights for everyone.

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