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   Message 527 of 1,004   
   August Abolins to Tim Schattkowsky   
   Winpoint for XP   
   22 Feb 22 18:19:00   
   
   MSGID: 1:153/757.21@fidonet f9ad69bd   
   REPLY: 2:240/1120.29 393a9b03   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   Hello Tim Schattkowsky!   
      
   ** On Tuesday 22.02.22 - 19:58, you wrote to me:   
      
      
   Re: XP   
      
      
    TS> ..just running XP gives me the creeps as its level of   
    TS> vulnerability is breathtaking. Not sure today, but there   
    TS> was a time when it took reliably less than a minute for   
    TS> any fresh installed XP system without firewall software to   
    TS> be infected with a busload of shit by just connecting the   
    TS> system to the internet and waiting.   
      
   Operating *any* OS without a firewall between it and the     
   internet should be a concern.   
      
   Do you run Win7+ WITHOUT a firewall? Accusing XP to be bad when     
   a firewall is DISABLED is not a fair test of viability.   ;)   
      
      
    TS> However, the only thing I am aware of is that the "new" WP GUI standard   
    TS> Font (Segoe UI) started shipping with Vista. I have no idea, if the font   
    TS> can be manually installed on XP. However, when the font is missing, WP   
    TS> will just fallback to the default system font, which should be a   
    TS> non-issue.   
      
   If it's a TTF file, then it should work.   
      
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     ../|ug   
      
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