[ale] OT: MS Media Services Probing PC?

[griffisb at bellsouth.net]

> 
> From: aaron <aaron at pd.org>
> Date: 2004/05/20 Thu AM 05:58:50 EDT
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: MS Media Services Probing PC?
> 
> Why the surprise?
> 
> Welcome to the digital millennium:  corporape conglomerate media control in 
> constant collusion with the convicted criminal corruptions of the Micro$haft 
> monopoly.
> 
> What I do find surprising is that an informed computer user would knowingly 
> infect their children with  the M$ eXcrement Pile virus and invite these 
> invasions of their personal privacy and civil liberties. ;-)
> 
> peace
> aaron
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:19, BruceG wrote:
> > What the?
> > 
> >       I was checking my router logs, and saw that when we were all snoozing, 
> > something at windowsmedia.com was scanning my kids WinXP laptop. 

Looks like it's time to get the Linksys 802.11G wireless card working. We installed SuSE 9.0 Pro, and Ethernet is fine - but I did not go figure out the wireless yet. (darn, not prism54, not Atheros)