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|    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.              --        ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.51        * Origin: My Westcoast Point (1:153/757.21)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 106/201 129/331 134/100 153/0 757 7715 218/700 221/1       SEEN-BY: 221/6 229/110 317 426 428 664 700 240/1120 266/512 280/464       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 292/854 301/1 113 317/3 320/219 335/364 341/66 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 712/848 920/1 5020/1042 5058/104       PATH: 153/757 221/6 301/1 229/426           |
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