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to: Geo.
from: Antti Kurenniemi
date: 2007-03-05 09:49:44
subject: Re: The DST fiasco

From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Could be they *want* it to be overpriced. If it was too cheap / easy to
get, they'd end up having to support the older OS's far longer than they
want. You know, make it painful for the users so hopefully they'll
upgrade...


Antti Kurenniemi

"Geo."  wrote in message news:45eb9252{at}w3.nls.net...
> If it's that simple to fix the problem, why is MS charging $4000 for a
> fix?
>
> Geo.
>
> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
> news:n2gmu2lcjiqln10aa0ukfv5tugum8r8945{at}4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:01:15 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>>>"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>>>news:e80mu2t12e1dlbgleockh60otapq1uis9g{at}4ax.com...
>>>
>>>>>So turn it into a cron job.
>>>
>>>> Sure, if they're networked in.  But what if they aren't?
>>>
>>>You go around to each machine and using your USB stick you load the cron
>>>job
>>>on each machine using it's cron.
>>>
>>>The problem with NT and W2K is that the time zone controls this so you
>>>have
>>>to actually change time zones instead of the clock, ie -400 or -500GMT
>>
>> Or import this registry update, or do any of the other things listed
>> in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387.
>>
>

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