Had somebody flip me this url as a sign-up site for Longhorn Beta.
https://connect.microsoft.com
Looked authentic at first on IE6 but when I ran it on Firefox alarm bells started to go off everywhere about the validity of the security certificate. So is this place real of just a phishing expedition by some very talented hackers...
Real or Fake Longhorn Sign up site?
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HagarTheHorrible
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Real or Fake Longhorn Sign up site?
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "HOLY CRAP! WHAT A RIDE!"
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "HOLY CRAP! WHAT A RIDE!"
Real or Fake Longhorn Sign up site?
It's the real McCoy.
If you feel unsure whether you have a 1 or l or i or I because fonts look alike, you can always type in the name as you see it.
I accepted the certificate - Microsoft is very clumsy sometimes about authenticated certificates which is just the perversity of power -and did a traceroute on the destination that came up. It's well inside the Redmond complex.
If you go to https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/ and find ShowIP, you'll have a right-click IP address always on screen to do traceroutes and more with. It makes it very simple to check ownership and authenticity of sites.
If you feel unsure whether you have a 1 or l or i or I because fonts look alike, you can always type in the name as you see it.
I accepted the certificate - Microsoft is very clumsy sometimes about authenticated certificates which is just the perversity of power -and did a traceroute on the destination that came up. It's well inside the Redmond complex.
If you go to https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/ and find ShowIP, you'll have a right-click IP address always on screen to do traceroutes and more with. It makes it very simple to check ownership and authenticity of sites.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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HagarTheHorrible
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- Joined: Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:52 pm
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Thanks Big Dog! Appreciate the info and the suggested update for Firefox!!
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "HOLY CRAP! WHAT A RIDE!"
but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting, "HOLY CRAP! WHAT A RIDE!"
Real or Fake Longhorn Sign up site?
Thanks as well I was still on 0.9. Much better than IE. Do you use linux as well?
Real or Fake Longhorn Sign up site?
Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't.
I used Slackware, for years, and I occasionally loaded RedHat to see what it was doing. If I were enterprise-dependent, I might feel that was a good server route to take. It depends on why I want to go there.
This year, I put Ubuntu on and I was so impressed by the package selection versatility, and dependency automation, and the release speed, that I think I'll probably stay with that for the time being. It may be a Debian offshoot, but it's cracked all the Debian drawbacks, for me.
I've never got away from a need for at least one Microsoft Operating System machine, though. There's applications that only exist in a MSOS flavour, that WINE can't cope with adequately. Some legal forms packages, for example, or Blackstones - material that small producers can't afford to develop multiple variants of, who haven't gone near Java implementations yet. So, I have a vertical-market support station too, can't get away from it, with XP loaded.
I used Slackware, for years, and I occasionally loaded RedHat to see what it was doing. If I were enterprise-dependent, I might feel that was a good server route to take. It depends on why I want to go there.
This year, I put Ubuntu on and I was so impressed by the package selection versatility, and dependency automation, and the release speed, that I think I'll probably stay with that for the time being. It may be a Debian offshoot, but it's cracked all the Debian drawbacks, for me.
I've never got away from a need for at least one Microsoft Operating System machine, though. There's applications that only exist in a MSOS flavour, that WINE can't cope with adequately. Some legal forms packages, for example, or Blackstones - material that small producers can't afford to develop multiple variants of, who haven't gone near Java implementations yet. So, I have a vertical-market support station too, can't get away from it, with XP loaded.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious.
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
Real or Fake Longhorn Sign up site?
I'm experimenting with Suse linux but like you I can't get away from Microsoft. I have some proigrammes I need that only work with MS. I do use open office as well though.