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Ready or Not, Here comes Windows XP SP2
TheViffer writes "Beginning April 12, 2005 Microsoft will remove all temporary blocking of Windows XP SP2 by automatic update and Windows update which it has granted to those organizations that requested it. So unless you run Software Update Service (SUS), chances are you will get a mix of SP1 and SP2 running at the same time. Let's just hope you have these programs that are known to experience a loss of functionality when they run on a Windows XP Service Pack 2-based computer and these programs that seem to stop working after you install Windows XP Service Pack 2 patched, upgraded, or removed. Might be a good time for help desk personal to pencil in a week (or two) of vacation."
I'm going to upgrade XP now.... ummm....
Pacifist paratroopers yell, "Ghandi!" when they jump.
Your advice is as stupid as your grammar.
I am looking for a SWM that can keep his call times down to 5 minutes.
Maybe it's "help desk personnels" with dating ads? "M tek sks F 4 lvl 2 sprt"
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Tell that to Aunt Susie.
Glad I am running windows95! oh, wait...
Fuck this....o l/winxp pro/maintain/sp2brows.mspx#EFAA
Lots of web aplications are broken by this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn
So.. in order to fix cross-domain scripting, they fuck intra-domain scripting, and propose two piece-of-shit workarounds:
-Modify some register value... yeah, I'll tell that to thousands of clients.
-"Fix" your code as per the braindead example... which doesn't work in every situation brought up by this.
Yes I'm pissed because i'm trying to fix a retarded 3rd party javascript-bloated web interface that keeps throwing "permission denied" errors in perfectly valid pages since SP2 was introduced.
Fuck everything...
Tech: Hello, help desk .. .. I'm about 5'4" with dark hair, brown eyes, and a petite slim build .. I like walks on the beach, romantic dinners, poetry, science fiction, and smart geeky guys .. ..
User: Hi, I'm having problems with my hard disk
Tech: hold on, I'll be right there
Seriously though, this bypasses an installation prevention method that Microsoft released for businesses to use. It was either a GPO or registry setting. Either way, Aunt Susie already got SP2 last fall, when it first hit Windows Update. That's why I had to install some software updates for her back then.
to start using pencils.
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
Ah, yes, the MBSA. That's the program that keeps telling me I have a critical patch missing from Microsoft Outlook. The critical security patch? "Update for Office 2003 French Grammar Checker (KB873381)". From KB 873381: "This update significantly improves the process for finding and correcting grammar errors in French language documents..." Well, no wonder all those worms have been getting through our firewalls! (And by the way, the French grammar checker isn't even installed on the workstation in question.)
You let managers have access inside the firewall?! (Okay, maybe you have to let them inside the outer firewall, but still!)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You insensitive clod!
My Aunt uses SuSE.
When will the "bashing Microsoft makes me feel good" trend end?
When it stops feeling good.....never.
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
the first program listed that it blocks is " AOL Toolbar version 1.13.2" isn't this a good thing?
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