From: "Rich Gauszka" 

The implications are worrying. If my DSL line goes down and can't be
restored for a week or so (  happened to me once ) would my computer
running Vista then become unusable?


"Geo."  wrote in message news:45971f88{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Mike N."  wrote in message
> news:6s5ep2dbupaq1op5jda98dnnjl05eis5op{at}4ax.com...
>
>>  Hee Hee, you want to actually USE your network?  Sorry, you have to be
>> running Server for that.  Limiting to 10 incoming connections wasn't
>> enough, now they have to limit to 10? outgoing connections as well....
>
> I promised myself I would run vista for a month before deciding if we will
> ever move anything to it. I gotta say, at this point I wouldn't even let
> my dog run this shit. I can't believe what they have done to my favorite
> OS. It's like they took a baby grand piano and turned it into one of those
> kids mini piano things like Linus from Charlie Brown plays.
>
> It's not even good as a toy OS. It phones home, it blocks my videos, it
> limits my networking, it stops me from playing solitare unless I let it
> phone home. It's fucking useless.
>
> Geo.

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