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Microsoft Releases Changelist for Upcoming XP SP2
kylef writes "As we know from independent sources, Microsoft is busy readying Service Pack 2 for Windows XP. They have published on their website a changelist document (link goes to TechNet download page) detailing the nature of the security-related fixes and updates. The document is targeted towards XP admins and covers some interesting things such as the new Internet Explorer Pop-up Manager and various security policy changes. Some other juicy tidbits from the document: Internet Connection Firewall will be enabled by default, and there will be new support for something called "Execution Protection" which allows developers to make use of the NX (no execute) page guard flag on Intel's Itanium and newer AMD processors. An interesting read."
> detailing the nature of the security-related fixes
DMCA violation.
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I downloaded the doc file, and tried to open it with WordPad (which is supposedly compatible with MS Word (which I refuse to buy), at least up to the level of displaying the text (without tables/pics)
Guess what ? WinXPpro SP1 is very sorry for the inconvenience but decides to throw up on me (an exception that is) and bail out !
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
"wordpad.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.
You need to restart the program.
An error log is being created."
nice.
Was that the sound of the personal firewall market dying?
READY.
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The file is in the "OpenOffice.org MS Word doc" format. Wordpad does it's best to open this OpenOffice.org format but it' can't be expected to keep up with the regular format changes.
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Executio Protection
Old man Saddam could use feature that right about now.
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
...It's still buggering me to download the patch...
;-)
Windows is doing you from behind?
On reflection, could be accurate after all
Are they going to be upgrading to the new 2.6 kernel? I have a new chipset I was hoping would be supported.
Put identity in the browser.
You must be new here.
a p1 133?
No?
Well, I guess I stay with linux.
Preferences->Homepage->exclude stories->Microsoft.
I'm sure an enterprising geek could write a script to do that for them. You could even cron job it to give MS free days/weeks.
"Yeah sure! It's still buggering me to download the patch."
Well, I'm pretty sure that isn't going to work..
> So in other words IE was a pop up blocker, that html writers .
> can bypass at their own will
No. You just made that up. Read the article.
> Damn I wish I could add security features, and then poke holes in them.
I'm glad that you can't do either of these things.
Hey they just added Pop-Up browser blocking! I think asking for any more features is pushing it a bit. IE users will have to wait for Longhorn to get tabbed-browsing.
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Notepad opens it, at least on XP machines (where Notepad doesn't have the limit on length). Unfortunately, it doesn't look nice when you open it, and not all of it may be readable...
-PainKilleR-[CE]
On the other, other hand (what, three hands???)
It's called the gripping hand...
trolling on slashdot
poor substitute for a life
yet it still goes on
This section provides detailed information about the technologies included in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that help inform the user about security technologies and ensure that computers have current security updates. These technologies are either designed to help provide security or have been improved to provide more security than before.
This content is not available in this preliminary release.
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Uhm, why do I get modded flamebait for providing a link to a tool that allows to convert .doc -> .txt? Well, lick my balls Mr.Moderation...