
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 22:51:04 +0100
From: "Daniel Strychalski" <dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw>
Reply-To: anti_ms@Oeh.Uni-Linz.ac.at
Subject: Murky Stuff


Got this from a friend who didn't indicate the source:
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"THE PRODUCT MICROSOFT DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE"
     
Microsoft Corporation could be accused of 'running scared' from the
competition to its much criticised World Wide Web authoring add-in for Word,
"Internet Assistant".  An enterprising small UK company, Eon Solutions Ltd,
have produced a superior product "EasyHelp/Web" which Microsoft have vetoed
from being advertised in their bi-monthly magazine "Microsoft Advantage".
     
Eon Director, Jeff Hall, said "I am very disappointed that the door has been
closed on the most focused group of potential users of our product.  When I
placed the ad I was not informed that it had to be approved in this way.
EasyHelp/Web is also a Word 6/7 add-in, but not only does it produce HTML
files in a much more intuitive way than Internet Assistant, it also produces
Windows Help files from the same Word source document."
     
"I'm not sure whether it's because we distribute it as shareware or because
Microsoft are embarrassed at the quality of their product when compared to
ours.  Either way we will now have to find another method of targeting
Microsoft users"
     
EasyHelp/Web can be downloaded from http://www.eon-solutions.com/
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Dan Strychalski   dski@cameonet.cameo.com.tw



             Undocumented Windows95 Error Codes

The following is a list of undocumented Windows 95 error codes which
somehow got overlooked when printing the documentation.

     WinErr 001: Windows loaded - System in danger
     WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
     WinErr 003: Dynamic linking error - Your mistake is now in every file
     WinErr 004: Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong
     WinErr 005: Multitasking attempted - System confused
     WinErr 006: Malicious error - Desqview found on drive
     WinErr 007: System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware
     WinErr 008: Broken window - Watch out for glass fragments
     WinErr 009: Horrible bug encountered - God knows what has happened
     WinErr 00A: Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
     WinErr 00B: Inadequate disk space - Free at least 50MB
     WinErr 00C: Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More! More! More!
     WinErr 00D: Window closed - Do not look outside
     WinErr 00E: Window open - Do not look inside
     WinErr 00F: Unexplained error - Please tell us how this happened
     WinErr 010: Reserved for future mistakes by our developers
     WinErr 011: Window open - Do not look outside
     WinErr 012: Window closed - Do not look inside
     WinErr 013: Unexpected error - Huh ?
     WinErr 014: Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of.
     WinErr 018: Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. Buy
                       a new one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore.
     WinErr 019: User error - Not our fault. Is Not! Is Not!
     WinErr 01A: Operating system overwritten - Please reinstall all your
                        software. We are terribly sorry.
     WinErr 01B: Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error. Next
                        time you will get a penalty for that.
     WinErr 01C: Uncertainty error - Uncertainty may be inadequate.
     WinErr 01D: System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code.
     WinErr 01E: Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
     WinErr 01F: Reserved for future mistakes of our developers.
     WinErr 020: Error recording error codes - Additional errors will be
                        lost.
     WinErr 042: Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos-box. The
                       virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will
                       automatically be closed and the virus will be
                       activated again.
     WinErr 079: Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed.
                       Please click the left mouse button to continue.
     WinErr 103: Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered.
                       Additional errors may not be displayed or recorded.
     WinErr 678: This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play
                       another game?
     WinErr 683: Time out error - Operator fell asleep while waiting for the
                       system to complete boot procedure.
     WinErr 815: Insufficient Memory - Only 50,312,583 Bytes available
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       Lee "Dances with Plastic Ladies" Rhodes BSc. (Hons.)
    Doing post-grad work in data communications don't you know

  The first thing was, I learned to forgive myself.  Then, I told
    myself, "Go ahead and do whatever you want, it's okay by me.
                                                   - Deep Thoughts
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 14:20:29 +0100
From: "Graham Lea" <100137.655@compuserve.com>
Reply-To: anti_ms@Oeh.Uni-Linz.ac.at
Subject: Microsoft's business practices


Troy Johnstone asked:
>Is there some place on the net where people have been keeping track of 
>all the things that M$ has done in the industry?  I would like to send 
>some of my friends the address so they can see for themselves what kind 
>of business practices go on with M$.

I write the Billwatch column in COMPUTING, the UK weekly with the largest
circulation.

I also edit MICROSOFT MONITOR, a monthly newsletter, and recently completed
CITIZEN MICROSOFT, a study of Microsoft's business practices, and the
antitrust case against Microsoft (in which I assisted the FTC, the US
Justice Department, and the European Commission).

Recent Billwatch columns (subject to hiatus) can be seen at:
http://www.vnu.co.uk/bc/ctg
followed by the choice of a date, then the selection of Opinions

My primitive homepage is at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/heme
ages/Graham_Lea

Graham Lea
Heterodox Computer Industry Analysts
email: 100137.655@compuserve.com

Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 01:40:03 +0100
From: "Paris Miller" <quark@dnaco.net>
Reply-To: anti_ms@Oeh.Uni-Linz.ac.at
Subject: M$ Domain name listings!


Here is a COMPLETE list of micr0s0ft.com's domain names:
This is complete as far as i know.
Host or domain name            Internet address              
 microsoft                      server = atbd.microsoft.com            
 atbd                           131.107.1.7
 microsoft                      server = dns1.nwnet.net                
 dns1                           192.220.250.1
 microsoft                      server = dns2.nwnet.net                
 dns2                           192.220.251.1
 dondu3                         131.107.2.138
 rhinohound                     131.107.1.211
 mikemas2                       131.107.1.122
 listman                        157.54.17.251
 mmstest1                       131.107.1.108
 atbd                           131.107.1.7
 rred18                         131.107.7.12
 rred19                         131.107.7.11
 mmstest2                       131.107.1.109
 malcolmp1                      131.107.1.238
 mmstest3                       131.107.1.110
 mmstest4                       131.107.1.111
 localhost                      127.0.0.1
 panic                          157.54.17.148
 netmail                        131.107.1.3
 internet_ras                   131.107.19.44
 updates                        131.107.17.23
 tide01                         131.107.3.11
 tide02                         131.107.3.12
 tide03                         131.107.3.13
 tide04                         131.107.3.14
 tide05                         131.107.3.15
 tide06                         131.107.3.16
 tide07                         131.107.3.17
 tide10                         131.107.3.20
 tide08                         131.107.3.18
 tide11                         131.107.3.21
 tide09                         131.107.3.19
 tide12                         131.107.3.22
 popi                           server = pop-1.popi.microsoft.com      
 pop-1                          131.107.2.230
 harry                          131.107.2.159
 tide14                         131.107.3.24
 tide15                         131.107.3.25
 sodax                          131.107.244.1
 jericho2                       131.107.19.102
 tide16                         131.107.3.26
 scooby                         131.107.243.40
 jericho3                       131.107.19.103
 tide17                         131.107.3.27
 jericho4                       131.107.19.104
 daphne                         131.107.243.47
 transfer                       198.105.232.9
 tide20                         131.107.3.30
 tide18                         131.107.3.28
 jericho5                       131.107.19.105
 tide21                         131.107.3.31
 tide19                         131.107.3.29
 library                        131.107.2.141
 www                            131.107.2.175
 jericho6                       131.107.19.106
 bartok                         131.107.1.168
 mms14                          198.105.232.17
 jericho7                       131.107.19.107
 jericho8                       131.107.19.108
 amrish                         131.107.2.20
 saranac                        157.55.96.173
 www                            131.107.19.43
 rover1                         131.107.1.187
 rover2                         131.107.1.188
 rover3                         131.107.1.195
 rover4                         131.107.1.196
 rover5                         131.107.1.197
 mms28                          198.105.232.18
 rover6                         131.107.1.198
 ntwow                          131.107.1.239
 tcpip                          131.107.1.120
 rover7                         131.107.1.199
 blue                           131.107.2.127
 rover8                         131.107.1.200
 netops                         131.107.1.192
 csdproto                       server = dns1.csdproto.microsoft.com
 dns1                           131.107.11.11
 csdproto                       server = atbd.microsoft.com            
 atbd                           131.107.1.7
 pct                            131.107.1.119
 mms                            131.107.1.107
 air-born                       131.107.2.10
 psg                            131.107.2.52
 aaronco2                       131.107.1.173
 davidtr                        131.107.1.123
 abash1                         131.107.3.23
 tom                            131.107.2.156
 drgweb                         131.107.2.214
 flexcomp                       131.107.1.117
 www-drg                        131.107.1.189
 cuai-96                        131.107.1.102
 mahler                         131.107.1.194
 gymflkd                        131.107.1.144
 firewall                       131.107.1.6
 jballard                       131.107.1.125
 drg                            131.107.2.215
 sla                            131.107.1.206
 pogo                           131.107.1.249
 mmscontent                     198.105.232.16
 wawatcp                        131.107.1.170
 venus                          131.107.2.66
 imail1                         157.54.17.73
 lizard                         131.107.1.232
 imail2                         157.54.17.74
 aag                            131.107.1.186
 henrysa2                       131.107.1.124
 snowcrash                      131.107.1.154
 chopin                         131.107.1.172
 internet                       131.107.19.100
 devlab                         131.107.1.203
 phoenix                        131.107.2.157
 luist                          131.107.1.169
 asis_siglan                    131.107.1.207
 mms1                           131.107.1.106
 craftsman                      131.107.2.58
 milkx                          157.54.17.41
 keithmo                        131.107.1.156
 andyni                         131.107.1.171
 nb2-nsfnet                     131.107.1.231
 research                       131.107.1.182
 mail                           131.107.243.138
 ftp                            131.107.1.183
 testarossa                     131.107.1.180
 shack                          131.107.1.15
 exchtest                       131.107.2.161
 berlioz                        131.107.2.105
 www                            198.105.232.4
 www                            198.105.232.5
 www                            198.105.232.6
 shaggy                         131.107.243.30
 exchange                       131.107.243.48
 soda                           131.107.1.250
 rodan                          131.107.2.158
 jballard2                      131.107.1.120
 uls                            131.107.2.89
 mars                           131.107.2.65
 vbinet1                        131.107.1.148
 bamford                        131.107.1.248
 vbinet2                        131.107.2.9
 design1                        131.107.2.251
 design2                        131.107.2.252
 ftp                            198.105.232.20
 www                            198.105.232.14
 ftp                            198.105.232.1
 atdialup13                     131.107.243.114
 atdialup14                     131.107.243.115
 atdialup15                     131.107.243.116
 atdialup16                     131.107.243.117
 atdialup17                     131.107.243.118
 atdialup18                     131.107.243.119
 atdialup20                     131.107.243.121
 atdialup19                     131.107.243.120
 atdialup21                     131.107.243.122
 atdialup22                     131.107.243.123
 atdialup23                     131.107.243.124
 atdialup24                     131.107.243.125
 atdialup25                     131.107.243.126
 atdialup26                     131.107.243.127
 atdialup27                     131.107.243.128
 atdialup30                     131.107.243.131
 atdialup28                     131.107.243.129
 atdialup31                     131.107.243.132
 atdialup29                     131.107.243.130
 atdialup32                     131.107.243.133
 atdialup33                     131.107.243.134
 atdialup34                     131.107.243.135
 atdialup35                     131.107.243.136
 atdialup36                     131.107.243.137
 atdialup37                     131.107.243.138
 atdialup40                     131.107.243.141
 atdialup38                     131.107.243.139
 atdialup41                     131.107.243.142
 atdialup39                     131.107.243.140
 atdialup42                     131.107.243.143
 atdialup43                     131.107.243.144
 atdialup44                     131.107.243.145
 atdialup45                     131.107.243.146
 atdialup46                     131.107.243.147
 atdialup47                     131.107.243.148
 atdialup50                     131.107.243.151
 atdialup48                     131.107.243.149
 atdialup49                     131.107.243.150
 at-ras                         131.107.243.101
 atdialup1                      131.107.243.102
 atdialup2                      131.107.243.103
 atdialup3                      131.107.243.104
 atdialup4                      131.107.243.105
 atdialup5                      131.107.243.106
 atdialup6                      131.107.243.107
 atdialup7                      131.107.243.108
 atdialup8                      131.107.243.109
 atdialup9                      131.107.243.110
 atdialup10                     131.107.243.111
 atdialup11                     131.107.243.112
 atdialup12                     131.107.243.113
 msrcat                         131.107.1.101
 rajeshk                        131.107.2.167



--
Paris Miller
quark@dnaco.net

Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 02:18:57 +0100
From: k3070e5@c210.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
Reply-To: anti_ms@Oeh.Uni-Linz.ac.at
Subject: Anti-M$ _FAQ_




               Informations about the ANTI-M$ Mailing list:
               ============================================
 
This is a periodical posting to the anti_ms mailing list containing 
the following topics:

Q: 1.) How can I post messages into this mailing list?
Q: 2.) When I post to Anti-M$ i get the message rejected ...
Q: 3.) I want to unsubscribe but it doesn't work.
Q: 4.) Is there a way to get collected messages from the list?
Q: 5.) How can I access old messages from the archive?
Q: 6.) Is there a global help file on the list-processor?
Q: 7.) Are there Anti-M$ statistics?

Happy posting!!
1996, XRiS, listadmin. (chris@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at)

------

Q: 1.) How can I post messages into this mailing list?

A: There are 2 different ways to contribute your own postings to Anti-MS.
   You can either simply make a reply to a post you received to from the
   list or start a new thread with mailing to "anti_ms@oeh.uni-linz.ac.at".
   Note that you have to be subscribed to the list to mail to all people
   who are signed to the list.

   Please always use the subject line in your submitted emails. 

------

Q: 2.) When I post to Anti-MS i get the message rejected ...
  
A: Probably you are using a mail account, i.e. fred@internet.net, but when you
   want to post the message you are sitting at a workstation and your outgoing
   emails are then from: fred@hard.internet.net. This is a sendmail.cf problem
   and you should ask your provider/sysadmin for a solution.

------

Q: 3.) I want to unsubscribe but it doesn't work.

A: Seems that you have the same problem as in Q/A #2. Your email adress from
   where you subscribed isnt your real email adress. Please ask your SysAdmin
   to help you out. Therefore you could mail to listproc@oeh.uni-linz.ac.at
   with "recipients" in the first line of the mail body to check out what was
   the real email adress from where you subscribed. If you are not able to
   exit the list you can leave me mail at my private emailbox at:
   
          chris@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at.

   I will unsubscribe you then from the list manually.

------

Q: 4.) Is there a way to get collected messages from the list?

A: Yes. All you have to do is mail to the listprocessor at:
   listproc@oeh.uni-linz.ac.at and within the mailbody you need to write
   "set anti_ms digest". Then you will receive all the messages in digest
   mode. That means you get a collected mail containing a maximum of 2000
   lines or all collected mails from within 48 hours.

------

Q: 5.) How can I access old messages from the archive?

A: The simple way is to launch your web-browser and connec to the following
   URL: "http://microsoft.is.lame.org:8001/~chris/ANTI_MS/archive". There are
   sub-sections with the html-ized old messages. 
   Note: about 50kBytes big index files.

------

Q: 6.) Is there a global help file on the list-processor?

A: Sure. You can get a help text with all commands of the mailing list
   software when sending a mail to "listproc@oeh.uni-linz.ac.at" and the
   word "help" in the body of the email.

------

Q: 7.) Are there Anti-MS statistics?

A: Yes. Please send your requests to "listproc@oeh.uni-linz.ac.at" were
   you write "recipients anti_ms" or "statistics anti_ms" if you want to
   see the people who are subscribed to the list or get a brief summary
   how many messages each one posted.

------

I would be happy if somebody could "translate" this broken english
to something that sounds like english. 

And perhaps somebody could draw a ascii "Anti-M$" banner??

Thanks!
-- 
Christoph J. Mutter a.k.a. CyBaWAMSY on #schweine     _O_/  o--------o
email: chris@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at              / |    | M$ suX |
try http://microsoft.is.lame.org:8001/~chris/HATE/   _/ \_  o--------o
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@SONG: "Start Me Up"
(Jagger-Richards, 1981)
(HaXoReD by Dis/Dem 1995)
(Sorry Mick.. had to be done)

If you start me up,
If you start me up I'm sure to stop

You can start me up,
You can start me up I'll always stop
I've been running slow
You got me just about to blow my top
You can start me up, you can start me up,
I'll never start, never start, always flop

You make a grown man cry,
  you make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry,
Spread out the code, it aint lean
I crawl rough ride in a lame, lame machine
Start it up

You can start me up
Click on the starter, give it all you've got
(you got, you got)
I can't compete
With other coders and their greater feats
If you rough it up
If you like it you can slow it up, slide it up
Slide it up, slide it up
Don't make a grown man cry,
  don't make a grown man cry
Don't make a grown man cry,
My files delete, my screen goes green
My hands are tired, she's a lame, lame machine
Start it up

(Don't) Start me up
Ah... you've got to... you've got to
Never, never, never start
Start it up
Ah...start it up, never, never, never
 You make a grown man cry
  you make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry
Gates has sinned, it runs at slower speed
I'll send your data places that you've never, never seen

It you start it up,
Love the day when we will never start
Never start, always, always, always flop
Don't tough it out
Never start, never start
You, you, you make a grown man cry
You, you make a dead man come,
you, you, you make a dead man come

=-=-=-=-=-=-=

windows-nt.elc

BTW anybody got the source for "windows-nt.elc" already? ;-)
is this what you're missing?

Take a look at this. Straight from MicroSoft ;-)
Note: The ^H in the program means "BACKSPACE"...

/*
                        TOP SECRET Microsoft(c)  Code
                        Project:          Chicago(tm)

  Projected release-date:

  Summer 1994^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSpring 1995

*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dos.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include "win31.h"
#include "evenmore.h"
#include "oldstuff.h"
#include "billrulz.h"



/*
  Reference:
  Internal memo #99281-95 from:
                        William H. Gates III
                            to:
                        Executive managers Chicago(tm)-project

  William H. Gates III wrote:
  "I have serious doubts about the 'EASY' installation-definition.
   It might prevent customers to think that they actually bought something
   _good_. Therefore I want the installation-definition to be 'HARD'.



                                                Carry on,
                                                        God^H^H^HBill
  "
*/
#define INSTALL = HARD

void main()
{
        while(!CRASHED)
        {
                display_copyright_message();
                display_bill_rules_message();
                do_nothing_loop();
                if(first_time_installation)
                {
                        make_50_megabyte_swapfile();
                        do_nothing_loop();
                        totally_screw_up_HPFS_file_system();
                        search_and_destroy_the_rest_of_OS/2();
                        hang_system();
                }
                write_something(anything);
                display_copyright_message();
                do_nothing_loop();
                do_some_stuff();
                if(still_not_crashed)
                {
                        display_copyright_message();
                        do_nothing_loop();
                        basically_run_windows_3.1();
                        do_nothing_loop();
                        do_nothing_loop();
                }
        }

/*
  Reference:
  Internal memo #99683-95 from:
                        Executive managers Chicago(tm)-project
                            to:
                        William H. Gates III

  Executive managers Chicago(tm)-project wrote:
  "Dear Sir,
   Since we have found that this last piece of code within the 'if'-statement
   will never execute, we descided NOT to include it in the final code.
   This way we will save atleast another 5 megabytes of consumer-diskspace!

                        Thank you for listening to us,
                            the executive managers of the Chicago(tm)-project
  "
*/
/*
        if(still_not_crashed)
        {
                write_cheer();
                finished();
        }
*/
        create_general_protection_fault();
} 
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