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4:30 pm : Stocks may have closed with substantial losses Friday, but the extent of the downturn was far better than many initially feared.

Index futures were limit down ahead of the session's opening bell, which occurs when trading is halted in order to pace losses amid frantic selling efforts. That had participants spooked and anticipating a large scale sell-off.

But I thought they lost the war, even with Perl Harbor...

Writely = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor? by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- In response to my post Blog swarm on Writely, Gary Edwards (who is steeped in OpenDoc and OpenOffice) penned this TalkBack:To understand why this deal is Peal Harbor for Microsoft, and a declaration of all out war for Google, i think one has to make a leap and consider that this isn't about applications. It's about [...]

Reproduction from Mark Ghosh's site:

1) Download and install Windows XP Service Pack 2

2) Find the following files (normally in your c:\windows\servicepackfiles)
- ntkrnlmp.exe
- halmacpi.dll
and copy them to your c:\windows\system32 folder. (This is considering your new motherboard has ACPI support. I know that these files will support non-ACPI computers as well, but that has not been tested)

3) Open up boot.ini in your text editor and find the following line: