Grab AOL 6 While You Can

Well I went to aol.com (so you didn't have to!) and they are still offering downloads of 7.0.

You know, Jack post the most useless shit, EVER. I seriously don't think ANYONE here would be using AOL to get on, and I betcha that 99% of Shack-ers don't give a flying fuck about AOL. Not to mention that he overstates the obvious and has some of the most retarded responses to some important articles.

Way to go Jack!

Yes AOL still jacks winsock. I had to walk 2 people through reinstaling tcp/ip today that had the infamous AOL JACKED MY WINSOCK bug.

blah, AOL sucks... heh

WTF?!?

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1288860525

Who the hell pays $20 for an AOL CD?

AOL IS DA BOMB!!! IT MAKES THE INTERWEB FUN!!!

AOL sucks. By itself it lowered the average IQ on the net by 50%. 'nuff said.

Is Jack Matthews == Jon Katz?

The only thing I give thanks to AOL is AIM. Other than that, AOL can kiss my hairy ass...

I remember when AOL used to distro their software on floppies for free. Those were pretty handy.

AOL+Windows==NETWORK SETTINGS FROM HELL

More recently, PlayMedia was signed by Napster to produce a proprietary '.nap' music format for the sharing company's upcoming copyright-protecting service.

Haha, yeah right. If MS can't shove their format down people's throats (yet) .nap is going nowhere.

I thought WinAMP was back to using Fraunhoffer.

Ok, what?

Last I knew, the MP3 decoder in Winamp was written by Justin Frankel. Earlier versions of Winamp had an MP3 decoder licensed from somebody else, but they sued when Justin and friends started Nullsoft, because the decoder had only been licensed to Justin individually - not a company. Justin said that they were using his now anyway, so it didn't matter. What ended up hapenning was that Nullsoft sold out to AOL, and AOL wrote a cheque for the company that was suing Nullsoft to the tune of quite a few million. That's why Nullsoft sold out, so they could continue.

So all this stuff mentioned in the article is strange, unless they mean a part of Winamp other than the MP3 decoding.

Oh yea, and all MP3 decoders are licenses from Fruanhoffer and Thomson Multimedia, they own the rights to the codec.

Do people who use AOL even know how to use a media player?

/me begins to stockpile AOL 6.0 disks

I know that AOL 6 uses a "packet catcher" program (packethsvc.exe) that relays over to the AOL client on NT/2K machines. Of course, they REALLY should've programmed it as a service, but nope, they did the exact same thing that Creative did with devldr32.exe

Hey as long as AOL keeps putting out those free DVD cases I am a happy camper, keep sending them to me!

AOL breaks computers whether they work or not...

down with AOL

I wouldn't be surprised if AOL's response to this is to buy PlayMedia outright and then lay off everyone there.

AOL has now finished installation. Do you want all your file associations to be fucked?

YES no

YES!!!!

Now those 100 AOL 6.0 CD's that have been clogging up my mailbox are RARE LIMITED EDITIONS worth millions!

umm.. maybe not

OMG, I only have like 87 of those CD's where am I gonna get more?

The Revenge of GNUTELLA

Crap, now where am I going to find all those free coasters?

"Grab AOL 6 While You Can"
...Uh....no thanks.

Friend of mine installed AOL 7.0 for his family (I know, that sounds mean, but they aren't computer savvy) and he said it horked out their network settings, same as 6.0 was said to do.

I do know that AOL will disable DNS when it installs its own network adapter... otherwise people need to make sure they click "No" when asked if they want AOL to be their primary bearer of Internet and mail. Clicking "Yes" is what brings on problems.

blah .... 10 chars my ass

Why would anyone want to grab AOL ever?