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As many people may be aware a “Oink” a web site which amongst many other things.

Was used by a invite only membership to share music via Bit Torrent

Bit Torrent being a “peer to peer” file sharing technology

Was closed down recently by the British and Dutch police.

I find it strange that you can now access a site at the same address claiming to be Oink.

Indeed their is even a login and password box.

The original website “oink” no longer excists their servers being confiscated by the police.

Is this a trap setup by the the police to catch users logon and password and verify their ip.

While I don’t condone piracy I would suggest any old users of Oink AVOID using it.

I had a thought about Vista..

When XP first came out it sucked real bad, everyone hated it, gamers avoided it like crazy.(even I hated it)

XP required more pc horse power, than windows 98/windows 2000/NT and as a result didn’t perform as well

XP required above average kit, and would turn a ok machine under win98/win2000 into a badly performing one.

Maybe people resented this and didnt see any point in xp at all.

Also many of the the new features in xp took a long time to be understood and appreciated by most people.

This is the current problem with Vista. Its sweet spot performance wise is a lot higher than xp and probably always will be.

However in a couple of years no one will care since PCs will be far beyond that vista sweet spot and it wont matter.

In fact in the future vista will probably start to out perform XP,.

As XP does now with 98/W2K with kit less than a couple of years old.