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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.
I'll wait until it's been ported to Linux.
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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.
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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.
And to think that in 1990 that was written as a joke... now it seems like a rather accurate description of reality.
Beep beep.
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.
Actually more than that - they counted as high as 65535, but then their bug-reporting software went titsup.
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The rain in Spain...Err...nevermind.
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
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
"- 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.
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.