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[lyssie]

Dunno how many of you have metaquotes on your flist, or whatever. But there's an asshat who's posted something that takes advantage of an XP hole. It crashes your computer. *shrug*

ETA: Journal's been deleted, entry is gone. metaquotes should be safe again.

Comments

[cosmic.livejournal.com]

*laughs at self* You know what was about to do?Go to metaquotes to check it out. Which would have meant my computer crashing. Because, obviously, me? Not that bright. Hee.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*whaps* Only if you turn off flash and images, first.

[edana-ni-emer.livejournal.com]

Yay for the terminally old-school. I have ME, so all it did was give me a 300-scroll-downs friends page. :-)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

...honey? ME sucks ass.

Also, I think it's a problem with the NVidia video card. Probably not limited to XP, but that's where the hole seems to be.

[edana-ni-emer.livejournal.com]

But nothing *newer* than ME is DOS compatible. And I had to hack *it* to make it run some of the older games that I'm still addicted to. When I get my new box, I'll get a better OS, but I'm keeping this one, and it's going to stay ME for the rest of it's little life.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

Actually, XP is generally more compatable with running DOS games than other versions of Windows. Sometimes needs a bit of a stick taken to it, but more often than not... ;)

Could always make a small DOS partition, too.

J

[edana-ni-emer.livejournal.com]

I never had that experience. Of XP working better, that is. No matter what I did to it, it refused to run Masters of Magic. Just dead refused.

And it's only a 20gig drive. I'd rather not have to partition it.

Thanks for the warning!

[tarzanic.livejournal.com]

Any idea when it was posted or what the subject line is? I turned images/Javascript/etc off and went to look. No "luck," but it may have been deleted by now.

Re: Thanks for the warning!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Nope. But, yeah. 's been deleted.