From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 21 20:20: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE25437B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:20:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8M3JpF78960; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:49:51 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:49:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: David Kelly Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft Quality Control (lack of:) Message-ID: <20000922124951.S66887@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 07:40:42AM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 21 September 2000 at 7:40:42 -0500, David Kelly wrote: > You'd think Microsoft would know better than to use their own > software to handle customer's money. Especially know better than to > "test" on live accounts. > > http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Sep2000/20-e2919.html Can you read that? I get a thin blue bar on the left of the screen, then a text par about a third of the width, with the text overlapping the blue bar. There's obviously something missing too: Davis doesn't know Gates, the chairman of Microsoft Corp., but she and her husband gave his company their checking account number while purchasing a computer in March. The Huntsville cou"Don't do any automatic withdrawals out of your checking account with a debit card." Ken Davis of Huntsville, the victim of a Microsoft billing error ple received a $400 rebate on their computer when they agreed to a three-year contract for Microsoft's Internet network. The contract required a credit card and gave Microsoft authority to withdraw $21.95 a month from the couple's Compass Bank account through a Visa debit card number. That looks seriously broken to me. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message