Windows XP SP2 In Release

mr_tommy writes "Service Pack 2 for Windows XP has been released to manufacturers (RTM), is available to MSDN customers, and will soon be available to all via Windows Update and Microsoft sites. At ~ 250 megs, the download is big, and Microsoft will be offering the option of getting it on CDs. The much awaited Service Pack comes with many security updates (new NX and DEP protection), extra features (firewall, security center), and improvements for Windows. New versions of IE and OE come with the release, as well as improvements in the wireless networking field. So far, the service pack seems to be very stable (no known major issues) and does seem to speed up most systems. A review of SP2 Final with some limited download links is available at Neowin.net. I'd urge all users (pirate users too) to deploy the service pack and benefit from the genuine effort Microsoft have made with regards to security in this release." We did cover this recently but since this is a major deal, we figured people would want to know more.

Comments

GOD this color scheme SUCKS

[JeanBaptiste]

click here for the normal slashdot green

seriously taco, this sucks. whats next, white on white?

Re:GOD this color scheme SUCKS

[Kenshin]

All of Slashdot's colour schemes suck.

There's no getting around it. It's true the statement that code developers know nothing about aesthetics other than how to please themselves.

Re:GOD this color scheme SUCKS

[dubious9]

Yeah, I hate replying to offtopic post (especally when I hate mod points). But I will complain in every thread that the color scheme is god-damn awful. I've not heard anybody that likes it, only people that don't mind it.

And I hate having to remove the 'it' in it.slashdot.org to get normal green back. I can't figging read it like it is. Yeah, bitch, bitch offtopic whatever, but come on. Props to parent for complaining again.

Re:GOD this color scheme SUCKS

[gmhowell]

I've not heard anybody that likes it, only people that don't mind it.

Taco will respond in a journal entry in another month (maybe) saying that while all of us trolls bitched about the color scheme on shit.slashdot.org, he received thousands upon thousands of emails saying how brilliant it was.

I think the solution is clear.

Re:GOD this color scheme SUCKS - Agreed

[kryocore]

That was my first thought when I clicked on this article... Glad someone else agrees.

Re:Think about new ways to harm our country

[Anonymous Coward]

President gaffes in terror speech

HELP PLEASE

[Roark Meets Dent]

When I run the service pack 2, it unpacks its files and then says: "Could not verify the integrity of the file update.inf. Please verify the cryptographic service is running." It IS running, I even tried restarting it and no luck. What to do?

Re:SP2

[Martin Blank]

Yes, I can call him an elitist. And if Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, or Bill Gates wants to use it, I'll call them elitist, too.

It's confusing enough for most users to deal with the billion-bytes vs. GB issue on hard drives without introducing yet another measurement system, not to mention one that is in some cases difficult to pronounce and in the most common cases just sounds stupid and invites ridicule.

For decades, it was understood that a kilobyte was 1024 bytes, with kilo having a slightly different meaning in the computing industry than elsewhere. "Gauge" as a measurement system still in common use around the world has different meanings depending on its application (wires based on the size of the hole from which they were drawn, shotguns based on the number of lead balls of the barrel's inside diameter were required to make up a pound, railways based on the distance between rails, steel the thickness of sheeting [borrowed, apparently, from wire gauge], and the amount of Plaster of Paris used in mixes to change dry rates). There's no reason, aside from a need to prove oneself to be "above" the common user, to make this kind of inane change.