Slashdot Mirror
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.
Phisrt Poast Piss Frost YEAH
Mmmmmm...patching iceberg holes with cellophane tape. Thanks, Microsoft.
blog |
gay post
Obligatory first post.
Sirius Black dies at the end of the latest Harry Potter book. And Leopold Bloom dies at the end of James Joyce's Ulysses. How you like dat? FP BITCHEZ
Does this include anything like the lovely mess they introduced with SP1 for windows XP? If it does, I won't bother installin it on my work computer.
I do it wrong
Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.
Massaging my nutsack she....
WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!
Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]
"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"
I DO IT WRONG!!!!
I continue to hump her alabaster form. Glistening with beads of sweat, she bites her lip in delight as I tear her ass open with my engorged dick.
"Queen Amidala!!" I shreik as I near climax.
She looks up at me and screams, "You are so alive in me, unlike *BSD or VA Software!!! Fill me with seed!! Yes, Yes, Yess!!!!"
"For me you are calling, hhhmmm?"
"YODA?!? What the fuck, can't you see I am using the force here?"
He savagely kicks my Natalie aside, he pulls out his large green penis and impales me...
I DO IT WRONG!!
All your sporkz are belong to the dead homiez!!
This troll was reposted from the Troll Library [slashdot.org] without permission of the original author. If you object to this post, or if you wish to add your troll to the Troll Library, please reply to this message.
But when are they going to release a service pack for Windows NT4?
I FARTED AND SHIT CAME OUT
FP?
As with other OS service packs through Windows Update, you won't be allowed to download/install it without a valid license.
~Berj
I'll wait until it's been ported to Linux.
Best Windows Freeware
AWWWWW...I just got SP3 installed last night!
CB
free ipod and free gmail!
Any brave souls out there already applied this yet? I am looking at about 100 Win2K boxes that will potentially need this...so anyone with feedback would be greatly appreciated.
fart
and my PC reboted directly into BSOD.
I thought windows XP was the service pack!
// Empires come and go we live forever
Someone post the diffs between SP3's and SP4's EULAs :)
OMG where has slashdot come to?
Instead of publishing every minor version release of linux, it also started publishing a story for every patch from microsoft.
--
Karma 50, and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
Go here for the change log to Windows 2000 Service Pack Four. Some of the changes are quite amusing.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
And we just upgraded from NT-SP6 to 2k-sp3. Another week of pain for us.
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.
And here you can read about the newest security leak which is not patched by this servicepack ;) :)
That guy who analysed the buffer overflow also found a funny easteregg in the buggy dll file.
Another Microsoft patch? It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays...
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.
I'll wait until it's been ported to BSD
As always, please read before blindly updating...
SP4 FAQ
Lists of fixed bugs
DavaK
The Scary part is, I've found Win2000 to be the most stable and reliable Windows ever released. 63,000 defects? I wouldn't doubt it. The part that worries me with how well 2000 works, how many defects do the 9x, XP, and NT versions contain?
The preceding post was not a Slashvertisement.
Slashdot slashdots itself!
>duckhide
Don't pick up the pho*(@)$*@&@!@ NO CARRIER
I find it absolutely hilarious that the day after they release MS-021 and MS-022 they release SP4, which only includes up to MS-019. Just in time to make the SP not-so-up-to-date!
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.
I'd bet anything SP4 is just a big f*cken piece of spyware. SP3 was close. SP4 is probably even worse. Makes Win2K act more like XP.
I bet this enables DRM to help with that damn DMCA, lousy RIAA! God, I wish someone would patent "ability to restrict user's rights" so we could get through all this crap. Anyone know if this patch uses any SCO code? Either way, with those dummies at Microsoft, it'll screw SOMETHING up. Thank god they don't have any such issues with Linux, even on something as small as my Zaurus. Is IE updated in this SP? Mozilla seems to be working fine for me. Ha!
This Post is Slashdot Approved
dicks
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.
Excellent post and link.
Mod it up, Slashbots.
Do MS programmers get extra options if they release products with buffer overflows? It seems like every third security flaw is caused by buffer overflows.
and you have poopy smell and poopy on your dinky.
...is the one that gave Microsoft access to the system with power to add/remove software.
Bill Gates labelled this bug a "critial" security hole and asserted that its closing demostrates Microsofts commitment to secure computing.
"We want to ensure the public that we mean it when we call Windows the safest operating system in the world. And to continue to support this assertion, we began work today on Service Pack Five that will fix the security holes introduced with Service Pack Four," Gates said in an interview with the New York Times this morning.
It doesn't hurt to be nice.
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
abortion
At least it shows they still offer support for older products, rather than completely abandoning like with 3.1, 95, and 98. Although with the advent of new EULAs, activation, and the repealment of stand-alone IE one must wonder if there will be an SP5, or will it simply say "Oh, I'm sorry, Windows 2000 is now obsolete. Give us $200 and we'll give you XP"
Not trying to troll, but it's happened in the past, and given the circumstances surrounding current versions of Windows and Microsoft's business model, it seems more likely than not.
WTF! 63,000 bugs.
Sheesh.. Do they have a quality control department?
do you have any concept of how software development works in large corporation sir
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 am here today to dicuss my discust with Gentoo Linux! Why can't they make a version of XFree86 that works! I mean, all of a fing sudden gentoo fucking crashes when startx ran. I even reinstalled it three times with different versions of X and it's FUBAR. Its not my hardware, its gentoo and its policy putting unofficial (and therefore unsupported) patches for no reason into their ebuilds. I have now threw by gentoo disc in the bin and have installed a REAL linux distribution.
It's not linux that is not ready for the desktop, it is half assed distros like gentoo, debian and gnu/hurd that are not ready for the desktop.
I am now comforatble on my shiny new gnome 2.3.1 desktop which unlike the gentoo version, dosen't slow to a halt when a cron job is runining.
Support Qualtity, it may not be free, but you DO GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!
And you wondered why it was forked today.....
-1, troll^H^H^Hue.
And thus this is that was needed to have IE free windows Bug Fix 810649
</sarcasm>
[alk]
This has to be the funniest fix:
Calendar Type May Change to Japanese Emperor Era When Outlook Runs
The information in this article applies to:
* Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
* Microsoft Windows XP Professional
This article was previously published under Q325038
SYMPTOMS
When you run the Japanese version of Microsoft Outlook, the calendar type may change to the Japanese Emperor Era type.
CAUSE
Outlook uses the GetLocaleInfo and SetLocaleInfo functions to calculate using Japanese Emperor Era in the calendar. However, because of a timing problem with the functions, Outlook cannot revert to the original calendar type correctly.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
322389 How to Obtain the Latest Windows XP Service Pack
The English version of this fix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.
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.
how long will it take now to install win2k and all the service packs? a couple of my friends who have worked with win2k said that it takes a few hours to install because of all the patches , drivers, and reboots inbetween.
> "I allege that SCO is full of it" -Linus
The latest service pack apparently has about 675 bug fixes.
Great. Only 62,325 more! Go Microsoft!
I heard he was dead!
Never let a lack of data get in the way of a good rant.
Supreme Court Strikes Down Gay Sex Ban
By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court struck down a ban on gay sex Thursday, ruling that the law was an unconstitutional violation of privacy.
The 6-3 ruling reverses course from a ruling 17 years ago that states could punish homosexuals for what such laws historically called deviant sex.
Laws forbidding homosexual sex, once universal, now are rare. Those on the books are rarely enforced but underpin other kinds of discrimination, lawyers for two Texas men had argued to the court.
The men "are entitled to respect for their private lives," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote.
"The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime," he said.
Justices John Paul Stevens (news - web sites), David Souter (news - web sites), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (news - web sites) and Stephen Breyer (news - web sites) agreed with Kennedy in full. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (news - web sites) agreed with the outcome of the case but not all of Kennedy's rationale.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) and Clarence Thomas (news - web sites) dissented.
The court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda," Scalia wrote for the three. He took the unusual step of reading his dissent from the bench.
"The court has taken sides in the culture war," Scalia said, adding that he has "nothing against homosexuals."
Although the majority opinion said the case did not "involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter," Scalia said the ruling invites laws allowing gay marriage.
"This reasoning leaves on shaky, pretty shaky grounds, state laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples," Scalia wrote.
Thomas wrote separately to say that while he considers the Texas law at issue "uncommonly silly," he cannot agree to strike it down because he finds no general right to privacy in the Constitution.
Thomas calls himself a strict adherent to the actual words of the Constitution as opposed to modern-day interpretations. If he were a Texas legislator and not a judge, Thomas said, he would vote to repeal the law.
"Punishing someone for expressing his sexual preference through noncommercial consensual conduct with another adult does not appear to be a worthy way to expend valuable law enforcement resources," Thomas wrote.
The two men at the heart of the case, John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner were each fined $200 and spent a night in jail for the misdemeanor sex charge in 1998.
The case began when a neighbor with a grudge faked a distress call to police, telling them that a man was "going crazy" in Lawrence's apartment. Police went to the apartment, pushed open the door and found the two men having anal sex.
"This ruling lets us get on with our lives and it opens the door for gay people all over the country," Lawrence said Thursday.
Ruth Harlow, one of Lawrence's lawyers, called the ruling historic.
"The court had the courage to reverse one of its gravest mistakes and to replace that with a resounding statement," of gay civil rights, Harlow said.
"This is a giant leap forward to a day where we are no longer branded as criminals."
As recently as 1960, every state had an anti-sodomy law. In 37 states, the statutes have been repealed by lawmakers or blocked by state courts.
Of the 13 states with sodomy laws, four â" Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri â" prohibit oral and anal sex between same-sex couples. The other nine ban consensual sodomy for everyone: Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
Thursday's ruling apparently invalidates those laws as well.
The Supreme Court was widely criticized 17 years ago when it upheld an antisodomy law similar
I'll wait until it's been ported to BeOS.
now that's funny!
If this was Apple they give it a dot rev and charge $129 for it.
So when will MS start using bittorrent? I know I should be able to download this faster than 60K/s :-\
Well, you know, it's hard and time-consuming to check to make sure that every time you put something into a finite memory space that it'll fit!
And time == money.
Well they can tell if you have an INVALID license pretty easy.. via pirated serial numbers.
... I hope they don't read this and get any funny ideas )
If they restrict downloads to be available only people that have *registered*, that will make it even easier for them.
Then, later on when you have to provide some of the original registration info, it will cut down even further on the ability for some of us to get patches that never register out of desire for privacy. ( eeek
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Per the appealate court ruling, SP4 removes Java from your Windows PC...
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
Microsoft SP4 for WIndows 2000 ATE MY BALLS!
I hate to say it, but when I read changelogs for many Linux apps (or the kernel), they simply say "Fixed bug in foo.c". That doesn't tell me a whole lot as an end-user.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
look at thatr window. the hate for microsoft really blows my mind. i mean, it's true hate.
Before upgrading to SP4, make a back up! I will on my workstations. Use a drive image software like Norton Ghost. If SP4 is bad, then restore the image(s). These utilities are life savers. :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
People cite this '63,000 bugs!' statistic as if it's proof that the software is bad.
It isn't. It's proof that the software WAS bad.
Win3.1/95/98/ME were all total garbage. WinNT was better. Windows 2000 is *very good*; it is at least as stable as Linux is, and it is MORE stable as a desktop.
(I'm differentiating between "the operating system" and "the services" here; I think IIS is much less stable than is Apache, and Microsoft DNS sucks rocks. But the fundamental Win2K OS itself is as good or better than Linux, and enormously MORE stable as a desktop.)
Yet, this is the operating system that "has 63,000 bugs, so it must be crap!". Poor thinking. This means that they finally developed a method to CATCH and FIX the bugs. This means that PREVIOUS iterations of WIndows sucked, not that Win2K does.
Let me start off by saying I am a Linux user and love it, but it always amuses me when Microsoft issue patches, the chuckling that comes from the Linux community...Like Linux never needs patching, in fact Linux is patched ALOT.
We all know the people exploiting security holes and writing virii for Windows computers are Linux users...What would happen if people as skilled as the Linux community turned on Linux...I'll tell you, patches would be released as quickly and with as much fanfare as for Windows.
Is Linux a better OS than Windows..YOU BET, but lets be realistic.....LET THE FLAMING BEGIN!
So, did this SP actually install without any errors?
Not really, once you remember that the *printf *scanf families have return values.
All's true that is mistrusted
I'm not looking at the terms of the EULA to confirm this, but I've read that MS Service Packs are cumulative, in that when you install SP4 you are agreeing to install SP3 (along with its EULA). If true, this means that by installing SP4 you are agreeing to the terms of SP3.
Nope, no sig
um, not to be a M$ apologist, but buffer overflows constitute the majority of all security flaws.....in all software. it's not just Macro$haft. and it's more like 1 out of every 3 security flaws is NOT a buffer overflow.
you're all figments of my deranged imagination
Win2003 which is 3 months old?
You never move to a new MS Server product until at least SP 1 and usually SP 4-5.
Except this is what it was: a trojan, but with an all new date, and an all new filename. Someone has just rereleased this baby.
Fortunately, a few things clued me in:
(1) It said it was from Microsoft. But the URL said from a Verizon ad.
(2) It called me a Microsoft Client. I've never felt so humiliated. I do *NIX or Mac.
(3) It claimed to fix ALL the known security flaws in Windows. This one should have been obvious.
(4) It was advertised to work on Win9x, ME, and 2000. My guess is that Microsoft doesn't do a whole lot for Win95 people who haven't upgraded. I could be wrong.
(5) It included an executable. [??? how did that slip past my ISP??? They normally strip executables.]
Anyhow, for those of you who use Windows, be aware [once again, and again and again] that those trojans are not to be run.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
I guess you don't have any hardware that needs drivers.
MS Windows 2000 and run it on a 64 bit processor?
I guess you'll have to pull your head out of your ass before you start posting comments.
Of course, the existence of the bug in the first place never put their customers at risk. What a crock of shite. Reminds me of MS's recent purchase of a virus protection sooftware company.
1. Sell software with security holes
2. Sell protection against those same holes
3. Profit!
The arrogance is astounding.
I sure hope it runs under winex!
Anyone else besides me ever see the DHCP Microsoft server when it used to say "Dynamic Hose Configuration Protocol" in an unpatched NT 4 box??
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
See once again Bill Gates was right.
If only we'd all been happy with 640kb there would be far fewer places for potential buffer overflows in Microsoft applications.
But, oh no, we insisted on colour and sound and Bob - okay perhaps not that last one; each guzzling Megabytes of RAM, and look where that has led us!
Best wishes,
Mike.
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
In a related story, the RIAA said it would be using this exploit to find out who has mp3s on their computer.....
Windows articles are supposed to be irrelevant on Slashdot. CmdrTaco has sunk to a new low here... we expect this B.S. from Hemos but not from Rob.
Clearly service packs don't follow the Star Trek rule.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Update: "Fist Sport" explained. (05/17/01)
---
---
It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
Linus Torvalds is an anagram of SLIT ANUS OR VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
Richard M. Stallman , spokespervert for the Gaysex is Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of MANS CRAM THRILL AD.
Alan Cox is barely an anagram of ANAL COX which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, [Buy At Amazon] is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for SECONDARY RIM and CORD IN MY ARSE. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for "Felch Male" - a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, "felching" is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into "e-male."
As far as Richard "(cock)Master" Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following:
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about "flaming," who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
Is this why you were touching your penis in
One security hole in windows media player, sometimes ya gotta really wonder where these's boys are really coming from.
I was actually looking for a place to find Microsoft's EULAs online. Does anybody know of such a place? Or should I start my own site?
By the way, could you help me? Please?
OH NOES!!! IT APPEARS YUO DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY FOR DIS HERE PIZZA! WAHT EVER ARE YOU GOING TO DO!?!?
... is that foo.c has more bugs than the 63000 Windows bugs mentioned elsewhere.
Not only that, but just about every Linux kernel and every textbook that is used to teach students seems to use foo.c!
Unlike many linux distros which include hundreds of packages with fatal bugs.
Well, there goes my uptime.
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.
as in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=261186
--open--
Now that Windows Server 2003 or .net or whatever (2003 maybe?) is nearly done.
"I wonder what it's like living in a constant haze of stupidity" - Hiei, Yu Yu Hakusho
What, but I thought that Slashcode is GPLd?
Yes, this is true, however that is not what I am talking about. As an aside, it is worth mentioning that when having GPLd Slashcode, Taco is determined to get as much out of it as possible; rather than simply making the code available for all to use and modify for their own gains, Taco uses this solely to get free labour. Anyone who has submitted a valid bug report and received the Taco Response(tm) of "Well code up a patch and we'll include, else fuck off." will know what I mean here.
Well then, what do you mean?
As you may be aware, Slashdot recently included a set of fields [slashdot.org] that you can fill in with your instant messaging details.
Sounds neat - people can contact me in realtime! I still don't see the GNU tie-in...
Yes, doesn't it? However look again at the list:
See anything missing? Hint: it's a very popular messaging system. That's right, MSN Messenger is missing! For some people, such as me, this makes the feature entirely useless as I only use MSNIM. All my friends use MSNIM, so why should I install another client just to receive messages from Slashdot users?
Sounds like an oversight to me. The OSS doesn't ban oversights.
Oh, to be young and naive. Such a bug report was submitted [sourceforge.net] by Super Trooper, a diligent Slashdot reader. The text of the bug and Taco's response are included:
Yup, not a bug. This means one obvious thing - it was deliberate.
Cut to the chase. So Taco is a Microsoft hating fuckwit who probably phoned up the few friends he has to boast about how his omission of MSNIM will singlehandedly bring down Micro$$$oft. Will you please tell me how this means Taco goes against the spirit of the OSS movement?
OK, you win. For those of you who have looked at the definition of open source software [gnu.org] will be interested to look at clause 5: The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
Now, this is one of the single most sensible, rational parts of the open source and free software philosophies. Were this clause not there, it would be a slippery slope to begin by excluding oppressive regimes, then maybe unethical companies, then maybe companies who make lots of money already...
Hmm. I see what you're getting at.
Yes, exactly. The point is, the overarching principles of free software sensibly include everyone. This makes perfect sense, and guarantees true freedom of software. By deliberately and arguably even actively not supporting MSNIM, Taco has demonstrated that he cares more about childish ya-boo-sucks posturing than he does about the freedom of software; the freedom of choice. I have no choice; Taco has effectively said that I must use a different messaging system if I want to use this software's feature. Taco has removed my freedom of choice.
I think it is fair to say that RMS
-- You are such a fucking fag
With Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, the software maker added various security and compatibility fixes and provided support for USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 and for wireless Internet connections. Im pretty sure my computer already supports USB 2.0. I want some Hi-Speed USB support instead.
I'm trying to read the EULA before I try to install it. But there does not seem to be any link to read the EULA so that I can decide if i agree to the agreement before i go thru the trouble of downloading it.
Can anyone please just copy/paste the text of the SP4 EULA?
thanks
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
I use linux, and I know for a fact that there aren't any buffer overflows in linu\026\073\065\0121\073\043\032\013
[root@localhost]#
Installed it, no problems thus far. Windows 2000 Advanced Server, but I use it as a personal workstation, not a server. Actually fixed a problem I was having with UserEnv, and my profile not being closed when I logged out of the network or something. SP4 fixed it right away, which was nice.
Over a year ago I fould an easy to reproduce blue screen crash in windows 2000 caused by debugging an application when a menu is open. I stumbled onto it by accident and found an easy way to reproduce it. I couldn't find a way to contact MS though, I searched everywhere on their page and could only find info about their pay number for support... nothing about submitting detailed bug reports. I haven't checked to see if the bug has been fixed in SP3 yet, let alone SP4. If it hasn't, how could I tell them about it?
Speed Demos Archive - Lots of speed runs!
Where are these items found? I know what Automatic Updates is, but the two items you mentioned aren't anything I've ever worked with before.............
fooÂfaÂraw ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ff-rÃ)
n.
1. Excessive or flashy ornamentation.
2. A fuss over a trifling matter.
-- dictionary.com
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of **insert current Slashdot topic**. Sweet!
Can someone post a BitTorrent Plz.
Thanx!!!
They are two services that you can control through the "Computer Management" or "Services" management consoles. Try right clicking on My Computer and selecting "Manage". There should be a whole bunch of things to destroy in there if you have admin rights.
Thank bob for these. I've been waiting for these for a long while. Hibernate is a real time saver, but I can do with less device problems and without the occasional corrupt MBR when using it.
Interestingly enough, XP does an excellent job at hibernating, but my next laptop will be running OSX. I can't see myself paying out for an XP upgrade. Pretty colors, system restore, and it breaks PGP for only 150-200 dollars? No thanks.
Now get back to sucking my cock!
Slashdot is assimilated by Microsoft. You all MS fans...
bbbrrrrr I'm going to look for an other site
Total of 65,000 bugs - estimated 28,000 are âoerealâ problems
> 21,000 âoepostponedâ at time of release (Feb 2000)
> 27,000 âoeunfinished workâ or âoelong-forgotten problemsâ
The original source was a ZDNet article quoting a Microsoft memo. The article is no longer online. I have more related information here.
Developers: We can use your help.
Post it to NT-bugtraq?
Because XP feels so flashy, childish and dumbed down, I'd either go to Linux or Win2k if my current XP install goes completely ka-boom. 99% of what I've done with XP is make it like 2k, but once that was done I don't see any technical reason to downgrade either.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
read the license. you can legally run it.
I've been holding out from applying SP3 from the few Win2k boxes I support for two main reasons.
One is the EULA that came with SP3. It's sounding like that has improved a lot, maybe even enough to quiet those paranoid voices I hear in my head everytime thoughts of Microsoft come around.
But the other big sticking point for me is Microsoft's habit of including functionality 'upgrades' with their fixpacks. DRM support, etc.
Bug fixes are important, but I'd really prefer not to incur any functionality/policy changes along with the bug fixes.
Anyone know how SP4 is with regards to these?
Ignorance killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
After actually taking the time to read all of those fixes (I hope some of them actually work) I'm going to immedatly start testing this for deployment. Contained within that mass of different security issues, are some basic and very important ones that I've had to deal with.
As a rult, aoof the odd service packs are garbage and cause more problems than they fix, but I may actually go from SP 2 to SP 4. Since, again, the rule of thumb is the odd ones are evil and the even ones clean up the mess from the odd ones.
Hopefully I'm not alone in seeing the good in this. That is of course asusming it actually works.
The MD5 sum for W2KSP4_EN.EXE is:
a4ef6c91d418418b287cefe31f958175
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
I can't for the life of me understand some of the comments I read in response to this article about SysAdmins who are actually INSTALLING this thing right now to a bunch of users without testing!
This isn't a flame against Microsoft, it makes sense to fully test anything like this, be it OSX, Redhat, Windoze, whatever. Those that are deploying without testing are doing SysAdmin's in general a complete disservice-- it makes us all look bad when something goes wrong.
It just doesn't make any sense to me to even consider deploying before it has been out a while and tested. A service pack is a cumulative rolloup of security fixes and bug fixes and occasionally some enhanced features. Yes, there are additional fixes that haven't been distributed yet, but unless you HAVE to install it, you can wait a couple of weeks and test it in production before deploying it to everyone in your company.
Look at Winnt SP3 and SP3a. They released SP3a shortly after 3 because of some problems with the service pack. Frankly, I wouldn't want to be the sysadmin who installed it on all my clients to discover all the problems! Crazy!
"Look! There! Evil, pure and simple from the Eighth Dimension!" --Buckaroo Banzai
Yes, but that's _AFTER_ the buffer's been overrun.
snprintf is the one that's needed.
Advanced users are users too!
When I installed SP3, it removed all my "pre-SP3" hotfixes, presumably because those fixes were all contained in the service pack. When I installed SP4, it failed to do this, leaving about 10 hotfixes or so in my add/remove programs list, which is annoying clutter. I clicked on change/remove for each of these and received an error (apparently the keys to delete these hotfixes have been deleted), which also allowed me to remove the entry from the list. I had a single pre-SP5 hotfix, which allowed me to remove it (i.e., it did not return the same error as the pre-SP4 ones), although I did not continue. So it appears that SP4 does correctly remove the ability to delete the hotfixes (as they no longer exist), but neglects to remove them from the list. -Dan
Debian GNU/Linux - Security Alerts from 2003
36 out of 130 of the security vulnerabilities reported by Debian this year (as of June 26th) were caused by buffer or stack overflows.
your->mouth->insert(your->foot);
to note:
Windows XP Professional
Product Availability: December 31, 2001
Mainstream Support: December 31, 2001 - December 31, 2006
Extended Support: December 31, 2006 - December 31, 2008
Windows XP Home Edition
Product Availability: December 31, 2001
Mainstream Support: December 31, 2001 - December 31, 2006
Extended Support: Operating systems designed for consumers do not have an Extended phase
they bot end the mainstream spport, but the home version does not have esxtneded support. All other 'consumer' version of window has/had it.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I won a free copy of Win2K during a promotional giveaway that Microsoft was running when it was first released. I've never had to pay for a Windows OS in my life, and I never will, and this way I can still run Windows legally.
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Windows fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Windows machine (a Pentium 4/3.2GHz w/8 Megs of RAM) for about 2 hours now while it attempts to copy a 2 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 2 hours. At home, on my Macintosh SE running Mac OS X, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this PC, the same operation would take about 2 seconds. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, Internet Explorer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Photoshop is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various PCs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a PC that has run faster than its Apple II counterpart, despite the Intel's faster chip architecture. My IIe with 64 megs of ram runs faster than this 3.2GHz PC at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the PC is a superior machine.
Windows addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Windows over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I once spent 2 1/2 months trying to get them to acknowledge a bug EXISTED before my "pet tech" went to a 2 week class and gave me the option of starting over with a different flunkie or closing the call...
(We came up with a work-around ourselves the very next day.)
Simple maths:
Pentium IV 3.0gig cpu + 1gig RAM + WinXP/2K = 486DX66 w/16MB RAM.
"Defect #24013: There's a post-it note icon on Internet Explorer 6 that is mileading. It looks like the notes icon in Outlook 2000." A lot of them are probably design considerations.
The GUI is confusing and misleading, but 63,000 problems? Come on, how many icons and groupings can a default win2k have wrong? I doubt they have 10,000 help pages. The rest of those errors are clearly software bugs the user does not see till a BSOD, rooting or something else squirlly happens. This is why Windoze 2000 can't run more than a few days in a row. It's riddled.
I wouldn't these types of statistics too seriously
Me neither. Trust your observations to tell you that software simply sucks. The statistic happens to agree with those observations.
63,000 is a huge number, but you have to remember that Windows runs on a very broad range of machines. Not only that, but there are tons and tons of people running it who are supplying defect reports.
Balderdash! Windows2000 runs on intel 386. Wince runs on ARM. That's it. What do you think this is, free software that's compiled to specific x86 processor families, Motorola, ARM, Alpha, Spark and just about every other modern processor? No, this is the borg one size fits all. You will not be able to apt-get nice new win32 software ever, you will always be at the mercy of the service patch that requires you to give up hope of privacy.
There'll be a day when Linux has that many defects, if it doesn't already. All it takes is complexity.
Pull your head out of your closed source place please. Free software has fewer bugs and does more than any dinky windoze distro will ever. The complextiy you are thinking of is a legacy of all the dirty tricks M$ used over the years to kill of software rivals. That does not exist in free software and never will. This is why free software PCs don't have to be turned off until the power fails.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
It's like hitting your hand with a hammer. It feels so good when you stop.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
You can actually make a copy of your 2K CD-ROM and patch it with SP4 so that your fresh reinstall will be 2KSP4 right out of the gate. See here for more info. I've done this with SP2 and SP3 with great success.
Note: This only saves you the one reboot required after SP4. So you will still need to patch IE, WMP, etc... separately if you use them, and incur any reboots their installers require. However, you shoudn't need to reapply SP4 after each of those since it's your base install.
Balamas always.. , Please use the mirrors, Check the change log.
err..wait wrong...thr....n/m
You paid $5 more than I did.
Well, actually that's not true; the CDR cost me ~CDN$0.40.
Anyone know how badly this breaks terminal services? Damned MS, they never could make a service pack that didn't break terminal servers in some way or other.
With so little likely return, no sense is spending the resources on it when the next home OS will have long been out already.
Home users upgrade much more often than business users.
-
..with Active Directory's group policy. Just create a GPO, set software installation to assign and point it at update.msi (the extracted flavor of win2ksp4.exe). Link the GPO at (site | domain | OU, take your pick) and go away. It'll get installed.
Geek used to be a four letter word. Now it's a six-figure one.
>I think they're at SP6 for that one....
SP6a actually, SP6 had some problems.
Microsoft officially stops selling NT4 licenses
and providing support on the 30th of July, which is next monday.
I will still be running it for some time to come.
NT4 includes version 2 of IE. IE2 is so old it dosn't support http1.1 and can't access virtual hosted sites cutting it off from a lot of the web.
With mozilla it is practical to run NT4 without installing a later version of IE. Installing IE4+ and ending up with bits of IE jammed into the system DLL's significantly slows down NT. Without IE it is pleasent to use on a 200MHZ machine given plenty of RAM.
I want a new version of NT4 with updated drivers and USB support which I would happily roll out instead of 2k. Microsoft plans to maximise revenue direct otherwise.
So uh when you ask for a patch to this problem, is that MS or Norton that you would call? Really this is unacceptable.
If we don't make light of everything, we are just stumbling in the dark - Blank
NT wasn't even originally developed for x86. It was developed for an intel processor that I can't remember the name of. When that processor failed to materialize, NT was ported to x86. NT also ran on PPC and Alpha machines as well. Hell, it was that way until late in the Win2K beta days when MS pulled support for the other architectures. Granted, it never ran on anywhere near the number of architectures that linux / BSD has, but that's not because it isn't portable, just because MS doesn't really need it to right now.
Geek used to be a four letter word. Now it's a six-figure one.
...it's not stable, when you can crash it by holding right-CTRL and hitting Scroll Lock twice! 0840v90e79876(*&F^D*&2638 NO CARRIER
Farting & cumming at the same time is the ultimate release. It has happened to me twice. WOW!
M$ blows
90 day uptimes, brags the NT dude, ha ha ha.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
FIXME: Users can still play whatever they want. Look into/correct this.
"These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re:
Selling or distributing any product in Canada is a funny thing to try to do in Quebec. The Quebec, Office De Lingue Francais or the language police (as the rest of Canada calls them), have most likely given MS shit for ignoring language laws on their software packaging.
If the MS eula is not distributed en Francais, then some smart French Canadien could dispute it, and would no dought win. You cannot even sell Corn Flakes in Canada without French on them. Of course I have never eaten Frenched corn flakes so I do not know how French on them tastes. However, my wife is French and she tastes great!
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
I just installed sp4, and stupid me for not selecting backup existing files. Now whenever I open windows explorer I got a blue screen and my laptop reboot immediately.
A lesson to learn, not to trust new software especially from MS
I am no microsoft fan. I run Linux at home, my work desktop, and almost every server I build... However...
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.
My place of employment utilizes two Windows ME boxes to display NetView statistics on HUGE plasma screens in our main support center.
Now, I know that they don't do much but display netview, but in my year and a half there, I have never seen them go down or crash. We've only had to reboot them due to power outages.
Sig.i>
What the? How the hell is this post off-topic?
Someone's been smoking too much weed...
sorry folks, but unless i'm reading something wrong - and i totally admit that i may be - but it appears that MS had made some massive wholesale changes to their EULA...
/. MS cynic.
i can't believe that this has happened.. i'm sure i'm missing something... this is completely not their way. Yes, i am an official
previously, SP3 mentioned that they basically retained the right to modify, delete, or install software to ensure that DRM was functional...
SP4 is not at all that way.... i know.. scary.. but it appears that they no longer believe your computer is THEIR computer.
d. Windows Media Digital Rights Management.
    Content providers are using the digital rights management
    technology for Windows Media contained in this Software
    ("WM-DRM") to protect the integrity of their content
    ("Secure Content") so that their intellectual property,
    including copyright, in such content is not misappropriated.
    Portions of this Software and third party applications such
    as media players use WM-DRM to play Secure Content
    ("WM-DRM Software"). If the WM-DRM Software's security
    has been compromised, owners of Secure Content ("Secure
    Content Owners") may request that Microsoft revoke
    the WM-DRM Software's right to copy, display and/or
    play Secure Content. Revocation does not alter the
    WM-DRM Software's ability to play unprotected content.
    A list of revoked WM-DRM Software is sent to your
    computer whenever you download a license for Secure
    Content from the Internet. Microsoft may, in
    conjunction with such license, also download
    revocation lists onto your computer on behalf of
    Secure Content Owners. Secure Content Owners
    may also require you to upgrade some of the WM-DRM
    components in this Software ("WM-DRM Upgrades") before
    accessing their content. When you attempt to play
    such content, WM-DRM Software built by Microsoft
    will notify you that a WM-DRM Upgrade is required
    and then ask for your consent before the WM-DRM
    Upgrade is downloaded. WM-DRM Software built
    by third parties may do the same. If you decline
    the upgrade, you will not be able to access content
    that requires the WM-DRM Upgrade; however, you will
    still be able to access unprotected content and
    Secure Content that does not require the upgrade.
    WM-DRM features that access the Internet, such
    as acquiring new licenses and/or performing a
    required WM-DRM Upgrade, can be switched off. When
    these features are switched off, you will still be able
    to play Secure Content if you have a valid license for
    such content already stored on your computer.
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
Yes, I definitely posted that in Photoshop.
And BTW, SEs shipped with 1MB of RAM and maxed out at 4MB, the closest thing to a color SE was the Color Classic/Color Classic II.
Eat recycled food - it's good for the environment, and OK for you.
I've seen most Windows versions install. I've used most Windows versions. My question is, why does Windows have a tendency to rattle disks, alot.
For example, when W2k installs, there is a point (after it has booted) where the floppy activates, and stays that way for a few seconds. What is it doing except making noise?
When you asked W95, W98 and newer versions to do an auto search for new hardware to install, the primary hard disk made the most awful sound. It sounded like HDTach running or something. What was the OS doing to the hard disk?
Any answers or further anecdotes appreciated.
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
After installing Win2K SP4 my Visual Studio debugger flaked out - running the debugger hung dev studio and my app. Grrrr!!!
Applied SP4 to a test machine and all has been well so far, but will need several more days hammering on it hard. I have found Win2000 to be very stable and reliable. Oh sorry, I forgot I was on Slashdot, were any positive thing said about Microsoft must be prefaced with:
1) I'm no fan of Microsoft, but...
2) I'm forced to use it at work, and...
3) I'd hate to admit it, but..
4) It's painful to say so, but...
... is somewhat troubling. I am unable to cleanly reboot the box (it just lays there like a lame date), and I had to remove two instances of a file called mobsync.exe in order for my system to regain stability. With this file running, I was unable to run any instances of the explorer (including control panel) and the entire system became unstable. Luckily, I was able to bring up the Task Manager to kill it, and used Find to find/delete the files. The file protection box will pop up, of course, but you can decline to have the files reinstalled.
Just my experience so far...
"You're getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic."
"Thank you, Master Control"
-Sark and the MCP
I normally don't bite for trolls, but I couldn't help:
:-P
The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
The *LICENSE* doesn't discriminate. It's the GPL. The GPL doesn't descriminate.
If Taco wants to discriminate against all people that are under 5 feet tall and stop them from using Slashdot, it's his perogative. But he can't stop 4-foot people from using "his" GPL'd code.
Hmm. I see what you're getting at.
Um... ok... Do you often have conversations with yourself?
I have no choice; Taco has effectively said that I must use a different messaging system if I want to use this software's feature.
IF you want to use the software. It's his software! Copy it and make percent-dot or hash-dot (pound-dot) or something. He won't stop you.
PS. Just use the Jabber field. Everyone who sees @hotmail.com will figure it out.
*OR* you can just not set your IM client field. He isn't forcing you to.
Oooh, he decided he doesn't want an MSN option. He must be evil!
Maybe there's another reason; all he said is it's "not a bug". Hell, it could even just be "wishlist enhancement" instead of "bug".
Computer may stop responding for up to one hour durring startup
...oh...of all the things I thought would turn out to be a "feature"...
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
For your reading pleasure:
SUPPLEMENTAL END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000 SERVICE PACK 4
PLEASE READ THIS SUPPLEMENTAL END-USER
LICENSE AGREEMENT ("SUPPLEMENTAL EULA")
CAREFULLY. BY INSTALLING OR USING THE
SOFTWARE THAT ACCOMPANIES THIS SUPPLEMENTAL
EULA, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS
SUPPLEMENTAL EULA. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, DO
NOT INSTALL OR USE THE SOFTWARE AND, IF
APPLICABLE, RETURN IT TO THE PLACE OF
PURCHASE FOR A FULL REFUND.
THIS SOFTWARE DOES NOT TRANSMIT ANY
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
FROM YOUR COMPUTER TO MICROSOFT
COMPUTER SYSTEMS WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT.
1. GENERAL
This EULA is a legal agreement between you (either an
individual or a single entity) and Microsoft Corporation
("Microsoft"). The accompanying Microsoft software
includes computer software and may include associated
media, printed materials, online or electronic
documentation, and Internet-based services
(collectively, the "Components"). The Components are
provided to update, supplement, or replace existing
functionality of Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional,
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft Windows
2000 Advanced Server, and Microsoft Windows 2000
Datacenter Server (the "Software"). Your use of the
Components is subject to the terms and conditions of
the end user license agreement (either from Microsoft
or some other entity) under which you have previously
licensed the Software (the "Software EULA")
and this Supplemental EULA.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VALIDLY LICENSED COPY OF
THE SOFTWARE, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO
INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE COMPONENTS
AND YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS UNDER THIS
SUPPLEMENTAL EULA.
2. GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF YOUR USE
OF THE COMPONENTS
a. Installation and Use.
Provided you comply with all applicable license terms and
conditions contained in the Software EULA (which are
hereby incorporated by reference except as set forth
below) and this Supplemental EULA, Microsoft grants
you the right to reproduce, install and use one
copy of the Components on each of your computers
that is running a validly licensed copy of
the Software ("Computers").
b. Reservation of Rights.
The Components are protected by copyright and other
intellectual property laws and treaties. Microsoft
Corporation or its suppliers own the title, copyright,
and other intellectual property rights in the Components.
All rights not expressly granted to you in this Supplemental
EULA are reserved. The Components are licensed, not sold.
c. Capitalized Terms.
Capitalized terms used in this Supplemental EULA and not
otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned
to them in the Software EULA.
3. AUTOMATIC INTERNET-BASED SERVICES.
The Software features described below are enabled by
default to connect via the Internet to Microsoft
computer systems automatically, without separate
notice to you. You consent to the operation
of these features, unless you choose to switch
them off or not use them. Microsoft does not
obtain personally identifiable information
through any of these features. For more
information about these features, please see
your Software documentation or the Microsoft
online support site.
a. Windows Update Features.
Under the Software's default configuration, if you connect
a device to your Computer and the correct device driver is
not available on your Computer, then Windows Update
features on your Computer (including Device Manager
and the Plug & Play CDM Module) automatically attempt
to check Microsoft computer systems via the Internet
for the correct device driver. Having this happen
With NT, MS released 3 bad SP's: 2, 4 and 6. :). On WIn2k though, sp2 was very good, sp3 was crap. It has to be so that SP4 is great ;) (it works ok on the testserver that's routing my internet conne**NO CARRIER**
Never underestimate the relief of true separation of Religion and State.
Total number of bugs: 63,000. .191111MB/bug
SP4: 675 bugs fixed, 129MB patch;
By the time they fix them all: 12GB footprint!
Cygwin's traceroute reveals something interesting: $ tracert.exe download.microsoft.com Tracing route to a767.ms.akamai.net [193.189.170.200] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms tm.213.143.68.1.nm.telemach.net [213.143.68.1] 2 20 ms 10 ms 20 ms SiOL-TM.siol.net [212.30.64.241] 3 20 ms 10 ms 20 ms 213.250.19.202 4 * 30 ms 20 ms www.whitehouse.gov [193.189.170.200] Trace complete.
Using traceroute to find the reason why downoad.microsoft.com is so fscking fast in Slovenia reveals something interesting:
$ tracert.exe www.whitehouse.gov
Tracing route to a1289.g.akamai.net [193.189.170.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 20 ms 30 ms 20 ms tm.213.143.68.1.nm.telemach.net [213.143.68.1]
2 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms SiOL-TM.siol.net [212.30.64.241]
3 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms 213.250.19.202
4 20 ms 30 ms 20 ms www.whitehouse.gov [193.189.170.200]
Trace complete.
Or metamod the mod.
My service pack 4 doesn't even work! Heres the error message i get after it unpacks: "The core system file (kernel) used to start this computer is not a Microsoft Windows file. THe Service Pack will not be installed." What?
I used ME as my gaming OS until just recently. The coder trolls finally wrote vid drivers for XP
that could give me better frame rate with my 9700 AIW. Before you rebut, my standing as a forty-something technology professional who has forgotten more than you twenty-something punks will ever know gives me the right to say whatever the f**k I feel like saying. Flame away, but I'll be too busy making money(you know, the thing you don't do from your mom's basement while you dick around with Linux) to read any of them.
so I installed it and now my w2k won't boot, it just
starts up, blue screens and restarts!
I'm typing this from my redhat install, how do i uninstall this plague?
-me
Does that mean Windows 2000 isn't an Enterprise OS after all?
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
So, if i don't update my department's machines before i'm off to holidays, something terrible might happen. And if i do update, and then head off for holiday, something will.
OK, maybe those machines will stay up for when i am away (yeah, right).
~rL
Has anyone out there applied SP4 to a two-node Windows 2000 Cluster yet, and if so how did things turn out? Clustering services for Windows is very sensitive sometimes, however I will take any opportunity to stabilize that I can!
... [Insert decent Sig]
MD5 checksum of "D:\setup\patches\W2KSP4\W2KSP4_EN.EXE":
a4 ef 6c 91 d4 18 41 8b 28 7c ef e3 1f 95 81 75
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
W2K came out in 1999. There have been 4 major SvcPacks released for it that contain bug fixes and added features (all at no charge).
Apple release OS X in 2001. First it was 10.0, then it was 10.1, then 10.2, and now 10.3 Each point release costed around $150. And, OS X just *really* reached a stable, useable condition around late 10.1 or early 10.2
So, MS wins this category too. Now, let's compare market share...
2000 Has inconveniences, and they aren't technical. The tools are hidden through one more layer of shortcuts.
XP has problems. Stuff is better hidden, and default options are offensive. Hmmm, I'll check my C: drive, "warning, looking at this can damage windows," I want to do it anyway, hey there is nothing here, "yes I want to see contents of C: drive (after tracking down option), hey, windows directory isn't here...
I can deal with technical limitations, but stupid child-proofing pisses me off.
You got me into this! You were the ideologue! I'm only a poor assassin! - Twenty evocations, Bruce Sterling
I installed SP4 and rebooted. I noticed that every thing was running v e r y s l o w l y. I found a process in task manager that was sucking up all my cpu cycles. I uninstalled it and my system works to speed. I don't know about this SP4. Has anybody had a good install?
Today is an ephemeron, doomed to the crypt of yesterday.
I never liked it 'cause it sounded too much like a verb.
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
Never update or make a change on Friday or before a holiday. This is a best practice.
As for SP4, I'll wait a few weeks before I upgrade my wife's laptop (on the off chance Microsoft will have to pull it or update it).
Take your "266 machine" and your script kiddie toys and play with these people. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, take your $100 bill, fold it till it's all sharp corners and shove it up your ass.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
ghey
You will have to DoS them all. When they put you in jail, you will wish it was only a pointy $100 bill.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
does anyone know how to completely disable windows file proection (WFP) on sp4? i've tried the same technique for sp3 and unfortunately it doesnt work. (i patched sfc.dll
my blog
Installed SP4 on a working stable networked box. After installation, the PC could access the LAN and the router, but could no longer access the Internet. Checked the network settings - nothing had changed. Checked (and reset) the router. Uninstalled and reinstalled the TCP/IP stack. Still no go. Finally uninstalled SP4 and everything's back to normal. I guess I'll wait for SP5.
[Insert pithy quote here]
Last night I applied sp4 to several computers, All of the computers that did not contain an nvidia card came out alive. However the computers containing nvidia cards WOULD NOT BOOT, not even into safe mode. I am further investigating the matter and will post my final analysis upon completion. Just a word of caution for the weary.
I have mandrake 9 boot loader on my win2k machine.
"The core system file (kernel) used to start this computer is not a Microsoft Windows file. The Service Pack will not be installed. For more information, see Knowledge Base article at http://support.microsoft.com."
Note: it does not say WHICH article.
PS: I hate microsoft.
Um, no. Windows is no where near to where Linux is in security. The so called training is simply a PR move.
You can believe what you want, but it's still wrong. And MS patches are a pain in the ass to install. I don't like having to agree to yet another EULA, restart, and wait forever for each patch to run itself. Mandrake Linux's updater is much easier.
PS, if you aren't a troll, why are you afraid to sign your name to your post?
#include "sig.h"