Complete List of Bugs Fixed in SP2

callipygian-showsyst writes "Microsoft has published the complete list of bugs fixed in Service Pack 2. They range from the obscure like: 'File Appears to Be Deleted Although You Do Not Have Permissions on the OS/2 Warp4-Based Server' to the serious-sounding: ' Stop error message on a blue screen when you transfer data to a USB device in Windows XP'"

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Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[USAPatriot]

Of the list of slashdot topics, only Microsoft and the Windows icons are of a derogatory and belittling nature.

Why is it so hard that the editors can't use the appropriate icons for them?

It's time this site starts to grow up.

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[dave420]

And that means you get away with being immature how, exactly? Or, is this just another really, really good example of the double-standards this site has with Microsoft?

Whatever MS does, good or bad, is branded bad and accepted. Whatever linux does, good or bad, is branded good and anyone who says otherwise is a troll.

Re:Microsoft and Windows Topics Icons

[Paul Crowley]

Because we fucking hate the bastards! Slashdot is not a corporate news portal - it's still fundamentally a fan-run advocacy site. It's ludicrous to imagine that Slashdot should pretend to be neutral, or mature, about these things

Re:What I want to see...

[slashrogue]

Score:5, Insightful? If this were a Linux distro getting an update, this would be marked as a Troll or Flamebait. At the very least, Funny would be more appropriate.

Re:Very long list

[LnxAddct]

You have no idea what you are talking about. Most apps use some kind of lib or something to access their configs, that keeps the config to a standard, at least internally to the app. If you have another application that needs to access that config, its usually fairly easy to do so. What your saying is, its good to make it easy for any application to access any other application's configuration. How often do you just randomly pick a registry entry and decide to use it for something? When you write your program you know what you'll need and you predefine the config files or in your case the registry. As long as you know what your accessing and how to access it, nothing else matters. The worse thing about the registry is how easily it becomes corrupted. Also, as far as I know there is no tool bundled with Windows to allow you to edit the registry from the command line. So what do you do when your registry is hosed and you can't boot to a gui? I may be wrong, but I don't beleive there is a way to edit it easily from DOS, and booting into Linux is useless because the registry isn't editable with a text editor or something simple like it should be. The registry is a great idea in theory, but horrible in practice.
Regards,
Steve

Re:This is news?

[Stevyn]

I agree. After I switched to linux I noticed how many people make it seem they're running linux (because of their pro linux comments and being modded up for praising linux), but run windows. Look how many people comment on big microsoft stories. Sometimes it's over a thousand.

I want to see slashdot's webserver statistics showing what people are really running. I wouldn't be surprised if it's only 10-15% of people running linux.

I think in addition to our karma, we should have a linux-o-meter linked to our ID name. That would expose that asshole who shouts out "winblowz," "Micro$oft" and all that other childish crap who's really running windows xp in his mother's basement. There's nothing wrong with people using windows. Hell, I use it at work. It's just when the slashdot "politics" skew the reality of the situation that it starts to get aggrivating.

And by the way, yes I did switch to linux to seem cooler on slashdot because that is all that matters in life.