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Microsoft Releases SP4 for Windows 2000
Snake_Plisken writes "I checked Windows Update today on a lark and found that Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 has been released." You can read a short CNet article discussing the media player patches as well as one more about
the fixes in SP4.
But when are they going to release a service pack for Windows NT4?
I'll wait until it's been ported to Linux.
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AWWWWW...I just got SP3 installed last night!
CB
free ipod and free gmail!
Someone post the diffs between SP3's and SP4's EULAs :)
What do you think we are? a bunch of piraters?
Here's the Service Pack:
1 00 0101001100100000000001111110101010010101010101...
10101010010010001010111101000001010110100111111
Yeah, right! Come out of the closet. You like Microsoft! This guy can't be trusted ;)
Honk if you're horny.
Another Microsoft patch? It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays...
Downloading it right now.
In your case, with 100 Win2K boxes, I would suggest installing it on one or two, monitoring the results, and then publishing it incrementally using Software Update Services from a Win2K Server. This at least removes you from the picture and you can go view some porn while it goes off on it's own.
Slashdot, reporting on a Windows update, without making some kind of wise-crack about it?
Did Microsoft buy OSDN?
..There's a-dooin's a-transpirin'
Now I can upgrade from Windows 2000, SP3, hot fix 06052003, ntoskernel patch 5.0022, security rollup 05142003. Yea!
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
325038: Calendar Type May Change to Japanese Emperor Era When Outlook Runs
I checked Windows Update today on a lark...
:)
Quick! Somebody port Linux to a sparrow so we can stay ahead of the curve!
Today songbirds, tomorrow fur bearing mammals!
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
Another SP.. means it's time to backup everything "just in case".
Stupid murphy's law. Why can't you be more like moores law? At least we get some benefit from you!
Anyone who is subscribed to the WKML knows that this path has been in CVS
for ages. Good news though, Palmer Cox will be maintaining the old versions
for all of you ancient Win98 types.
Can't wait to get my hand on Longhorn, I heard Andrea Billcangeli is working
on a better DRM architecture.
we just got done with testing on sp3 and gave the ok for the techs to install it yesterday.
you're all figments of my deranged imagination
And to think that in 1990 that was written as a joke... now it seems like a rather accurate description of reality.
Beep beep.
We all know what this means, another service pack will be hurried out shortly to fix whatever awful bug this one introduces... :-)
I checked Windows Update today on a lark...
That just says it all right there, doesn't it? Checking the patch levels on the most widely used operating system in the world is considered a flighty, fickle act one does in a moment of insanity.
It's almost enough to make me wish I didn't relate to the sentiment.
The latest service pack apparently has about 675 bug fixes.
Great. Only 62,325 more! Go Microsoft!
Who writes these webpages? Did somebody look at the HTML source of this page? Ever heard of a tag?
And then people complain that some browsers can't render so many pages. I really can't blame anybody at KDE that Konqueror can't render this crap. Some web designers lack a brain. Sorry for this off-topic rant, but I really would like to read this without having to launch a different browser.
Actually more than that - they counted as high as 65535, but then their bug-reporting software went titsup.
My next sig will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush
Pfff, I viewed it in IE (not my choice, attending an oracle class right now), and it looks like crap. One can only assume this web master never even looked at his page in any browser.
I don't know what you're looking at, but I'll give $5 to the first person to track down that web master, etch "tr valign=top" into a baseball bat and hammer him over the head with it.
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
Who writes these webpages? Did somebody look at the HTML source of this page? Ever heard of a tag?
What are you takling about? It renders fine on IE 6.0 SP1 with all of the hotfixes when run on Windows XP with the latest service pack and all relevant hotfixes and WHQC certified viedo drivers, Assuming you do not have Mozilla/Netscape, Java, Lotus Notes, any Oracle product, or any software licensed under the GNU public license installed on your computer.
What more could you possibly want?
This is great:
"Computer Is Unresponsive When Hibernating"
If you click through to the details it means that the computer is freezing when going into hibernation. Not while it is hibernating.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
So where is the list of things that they accidentally broke, broke whilst trying to fix other things, or didn't quite fix right?
Or do we have to wait another couple of weeks for that one...
Beep beep.
The rain in Spain...Err...nevermind.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
Comment?!
There is no service pack for the "french" version of W2K, like there was for the 2nd service pack. I do hope they end up making one or that it doesn't matter which one you install...
I downloaded the 2nd service pack *twice* last time: one time in english (to realise it wouldn't install) and one time in french.
Fun-fun-fun.
Semantics is the gravity of abstraction
Here's my favorite: (Under security fixes)
Vulnerability in Terminal Services Licensing May Permit a Malicious User to Generate Additional Client Licenses in Terminal Services Licensing
Ooh! That nasty hacker is going to make you a software pirate!
Steven V.
I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
I am!
I rate pi at 3.14159
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
It was about time they got the "Eject PC" command to work properly! It's an important feature for those of us who use Win2000 on their fighter jet cockpit computers. I once lost my entire address book because the darn PC wouldn't eject before a crash landing...
Is that the list of fixed bugs or new features?
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
You missed:
313371 Samba becoming too compatible, break it Directory services
</joke>
I also like:
One-Hour Delay Occurs During Startup with a USB Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse
I want to know who figured that out.
-B
"319313: You May Receive a "Tape Drive Requires Cleaning" Error Message When You Try to Back Up" - Microsoft SP4 Changelog
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it
--
One by one the penguins steal my sanity...
Did you see this one?
325039: Turned off the groaning sound when Internet Explorer visited "Slashdot.org".
Interestingly enough, the only two languages SP4 appears to be available in, currently, is English and German.
Not to say that Microsoft is authoritarian or anything, but I can just hear Colonel Klink saying it now...
Ve Haff Vays of MAKING YOU UPGRADE!!!
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
"- The "Eject PC" Command May Not Work Intermittently"
They fixed it so the Eject PC command does work intermittently?
I guess a little knowledge kills the humor for me.
Correct. You see, jokes are primarily supposed to be funny. Realism isn't a priority.
For example, in reality, all your base are not in fact belong to us. In fact, I suspect you are have no base at all. It's a pity, I know, but that are the way it is.
Not that your post wasn't informative, mind you. It was. But you missed the point.
Yah, but no one can beat how much Finnish there is in dat Linux!
*ducks*
My favourite bug (from this given list, of course) would have to be:
322377 Computer Is Unresponsive When Hibernating
Doesn't that seem somehow normal to you?
I checked Windows Update today on a lark
Are you using an update of the Avian Carrier standard? Or is there simply a lack of pidgeons in your area?
If its a new standard, can we see some benchmakrs, and comparisons with the Avain system. Also does it support IPv6?
Thanks
We each only use a small part of Windows.
Some of us smaller than others...
-- The world is watching America, and America is watching TV.
"Any operating system can be made stable if you know what you're doing."
:P
Alright, I'll bite - WINDOWS ME!
Christ Almighty couldn't make WinME stable with the help of a dozen M$ software engineers and Gates himself. A stable WinME box? Heh. If such an animal existed, up would be down, black would be white, and I'd be able to get a tan.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Once, I had 24days of uptime on Windows 95. That's why I prefer it to Linux, it doesn't take years before you can brag about your uptime !
"Any operating system can be made stable if you know what you're doing."
:P
Alright, I'll bite - WINDOWS ME!
The solution for Windows Me is a little less intuitive. It involves a large hammer and a lot of smashing. After that, not only will your computer will never crash again but you'll feel a lot better too.
Sometimes I think MS Bob is the Voldemort of the IT world- "you-know-what" or "the app that must not be named".
;-)
This is borne out by the sort of vaguely ill look and flinching exhibited by anyone else when you mention its name.
When I'm on an XP machine the first thing I do is wonder whose office I'm in, 'cause it certainly ain't mine.
As another poster mentioned: switch to the old style control panel.
I used XP for a while, but I spent 90% of that time switching the theme to classic, the windows to classic, the file manager to classic, the control panel to classic, the start menu to classic, the mouse control to classic, the font to classic, the desktop to classic, the sounds to classic, the...
You get the picture right? I suppose it would have made the little girl who created the UI with their crayons cry if they made it easy to turn all that crap off.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Unexpected Delay When You Log Off
They finally fixed that? Wow, that's probably going to be my number 1 reason to install SP4.
Yeah, now its an "Expected" Delay When You Log Off.
Oh well, my code isn't perfect either...
WBGG
~WBGG~ "And I'm so sad like a good book I can't put this Day Back a sorta fairytale with you" ~Tori Amos