Newsgroup: it.comp.os.win.win9x
Titolo: Windows 98 Second Edition Shutdown Supplement

Domando scusa ma, l'aggiornamento di cui al subject e' o non e'
disponibile sui server Micro$oft?
Un ThinkPad richiederebbe tale aggiornamento prima di poter
effettuare un flash del BIOS.
Ho girato il sito Micro$oft da una parte all'altra, esiste la
pagina da cui dovrebbe essere scaricabile questo aggiornamento
ma NIENTE... Alla fine si finisce per saltare da una pagina ad
un'altra ma senza risultato alcuno.
Questo e' (dovrebbe?) essere il link:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239887/en-us
Non e' che utilizzando OS e browser _non_Windows_ quelli della
Micro$oft ti "cast#ano"? 
Guardando il sorgente della pagina, o l'immagine del pulsante
di download e' posizionato male rispetto al link, o e' messo
di proposito "fuori posto" per non permettere il download. E
comunque, anche aprendo il link (nascosto) non si recupera un
bel nulla... interessante...
Any help?

 Micro$oft ti "cast#ano"?
No: e' FINITO il supporto a 98 (jevenisseuncancro) e hanno tolto i file.
guardunpo'...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/18953

 Micro$oft ti "cast#ano"?
http://www.esnips.com/doc/a52b80ed-9283-4926-bd45-068321f492cf/Win98-shutdown-Patch
nello zip ci sono 2 file, il "win98shutdownnew.exe" riporta lo stesso n.
di KB (col vecchio sistema, il Q)
good luck. 

 good luck. 
Spero di averlo scaricato in tempi remoti e di averlo da qualche
parte, altrimenti quel ThinkPad rimane senza hard disk... :(((
Mah...

 passa piu' un bit)...
Tu hai grossa grisi.... a me lo scarica perffffettamente.
E hai anche posta :) 

 E hai anche posta :)
Posta? Veramente, quello nel campo from non e' un indirizzo valido
(ed e' anche specificato). Dove, ma soprattutto, a chi hai postato? =:|

 =:| 
ho tolto "invalid" e ho postato, ma se hai messo un indirizzo 100%
pacco...

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    master is brutal, or the mistress jealous, becomes of the poor
    girl? Certain recent cases show that she is sold to become a
    prostitute here or at Singapore or in California, a fate often
    worse than death to the girl, at a highly remunerative price to
    the brute, the master. It seems to me that all slavery, domestic,
    agrarian, or for immoral purposes, comes within one and the same
    category."
Every word uttered on this occasion by Sir John Smale, Chief Justice,
has value, but it is impossible for us to quote it all. Referring to
the purchase of kidnaped children from the kidnapers by well-to-do
Chinese residents of Hong Kong, without effort on the part of these
purchasers to ascertain from whence the children came, he says:
    "In each of these cases I requested the prosecution of these
    well-to-do persons, purchasers of these human chattels, who had
    bought these children, whose money had occasioned the kidnaping,
    just as a receiver of stolen goods buys stolen property without
    due or any inquiry to 

friends are dead or far away, who is
    struggling hard, in a hard world, to live uprightly and justly
    by the work of her own hands,--is she in no danger of this law?
    Lonely and friendless, and poor, is she in no danger of a false
    accusation from malice or from error? especially since under this
    law _homeless_ girls are particularly marked out as just subjects
    for its operation; and if she is accused, what has she to rely on,
    under God, except that of which this law deprives her, the appeal
    to be tried 'by God and my country,' by which it is understood
    that she claims the judicial means of defense to which the law of
    the land entitles her?
    "I will only add that this law has a fatally corrupting influence
    over the male youth of every country where it is in force. It
    warps the conscience, and confuses the sense of right and wrong.
    When the State raises this immoral traffic into the position of a
    lawful industry, superintended by Government officials, what are
    the young and ignorant to think? They cannot believe that that
    which the Government of the country allows, and makes rules for,
    and superintends, is really wrong."
Such measures as these have acquired a foothold in the United States
more than 

the petition was a statement of the situation:
    "Hong Kong is the emporium and thoroughfare of all the neighboring
    ports. Therefore these kidnapers frequent Hong Kong much, it being
    a place where it is easy to buy and to sell, and where effective
    means are at hand to make good a speedy escape. Now, the laws
    of Hong Kong being based on the principle of the liberty of the
    person, the kidnapers take advantage of this to further their own
    plans. Thus they use with their victims honeyed speeches, and give
    them trifling profits, or they use threats and stern words, all in
    order to induce them to say they are willing to do so and so. Even
    if they are confronted with witnesses it is difficult to show up
    their wicked game.... Kidnaping is a crime to be found everwhere,
    but there is no place where it is more rife than at Hong Kong....
    Now it is proposed to publish everywhere offers of reward to track
    such kidnapers and have them arrested.... The crimes of kidnaping
    are increasing from day to day."
This proposal on the part of Chinese merchants to form such a society
was cordially accepted by officials, and the Governor requested that
two police magistrates, whom he named, the Captain Superintendent of
Police and Dr. Eitel, should draw up a scheme to check kidnaping, in
concert with the Chinese petitioners. This committee met, and decided
that the objects of the "Chinese Society for the Protection of Wome

must in the Colony of Hong Kong, when brought to this country
they are utterly incredulous as to the good faith of police and other
officials. They must enter a complaint at the risk of their lives, and
if the officer of the law will not prosecute the case in spite of all
its difficulties (which are largely imaginary on the part of lukewarm
officials), then the girl must be returned to the master she has
informed against, to be in his power for him to vent his wrath upon
her. A case in point occurred in Oakland only a few months ago, and we
had a chance to interview the girl. The Captain of Police went through
the brothels of Oakland's Chinatown, accompanied by some missionary
ladies, in order to discover if possible any girls who would
acknowledge that they wished to come away. Every girl was questioned,
in the absence of the keepers, and not one, or perhaps only one, said
she wished to come away. There were some one hundred and fifty Chinese
slave girls in Oakland at this time, and one might say they all had a
chance to escape, and of their own will chose to remain. But was that
the truth? Not at all; the result did not prove 

gravely seated themselves whenever
the line of march was halted for a moment. Little boys progressed
painfully along with the rest, walking on their hands, with their feet
thrown up into the air, or spinning along on all fours like wheels,
or going through various other antics. And, contrary to anything that
could have happened away from the open ports of China, there were many
women in the parade, and girls too. They were on horseback, in sedan
chairs, borne on wheeled platforms, like our "Goddess of Liberty"
representations on the Fourth of July; walking, and sometimes riding
on bullocks. We counted 150 women in all. These were dressed and
painted up in such a style that a single glance showed they belonged
to the disreputable class, and their old "pocket-mothers," were to
be seen walking along close to them and keeping a sharp lookout over
their gaudily dressed slaves. Yet more painful was the sight of
the little girls, bound to heavy wires and placed in all manner of
contortions. Here was a girl about sixteen, standing cross-legged on a
moving platform, holding a spear in each hand, the spears crossed in