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Windows XP SP2 Impressions

Posted by michael on from the do-you-feel-lucky? dept.

A roundup of concerns and problems with Windows XP SP2 from the early adopters: Many, many users are reporting problems with SP2 limiting outbound TCP/IP connections. This appears to be nailing anyone who makes heavy network use of their machine, including especially users running P2P applications. A Microsoft blog rounds up some reports, as does SANS. Microsoft has objected to people helping them distribute SP2.

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  1. Oh for God's sake... by Theatetus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now they're just marking every article "IT" to piss off the color-scheme whiners...

    Annoyingly enough, the "it" subdomain sticks with you if you click on any link in the sidebar that doesn't specify another section.

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    All's true that is mistrusted
    1. Re:Oh for God's sake... by petabyte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What someone needs to do is write the firefox extension that simply converts any it.slashdot.org url to slashdot.org and hence kills what is possibly the worst color scheme in history (next to the games.slashdot.org color scheme).

  2. I'm glad I read this now by AvantLegion · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'll hold off updating to SP2 until after I finish downloading all that pr0n I have queued on my P2P clients.