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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."
Nope. The thing about a decent firewall is that you *can* in most cases trust its security. However, the thing about Microsoft products is....
Are they serious? This is the type of crap that they stick in an important SP!?! A fucking pop-up killer?? how hard could this have been to implement 5 years ago? what about fixing vb-script worms in outlook? _now_ they decide to turn the firewall on by default? why dont the older nt's have firewalls? It seems that NT doesnt stand for New Technology, it doesnt even have the technology of running water. Thats not even the tip of the iceberg that gets bashed into by corporate servers every day. If you are running an important system with Windows, your gonna get a big titanic hole in the side of your PC. Patch _that_ Microsoft!
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Will any recent version of a desktop Linux distribution work on a P1 133?
No.
I guess I'll stay in the real world.