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XP SP2 Adoption Lagging Overseas
Vizquel wrote to mention an eWeek article reporting that Microsoft is frustrated with the lack of Service Pack 2 usage overseas. From the article: "During a keynote at the Security Summit East here, McKee said Microsoft has so far distributed more than 250 million copies of XP SP2 to provide a hardened shell around the operating system but the low upgrade levels remains a disappointment."
He then hurtled a chair in the direction of Japan.
I failed. I miserably found an algorithm able to quickly & easily factorize any large number. Damn I am so ashamed that I am gonna destroy all my work, and live as an hermit in one of those distant mountain. How the hell could someone found an intelligent use of such an algorithm ? Pffft.
I had a lovely working PC card that read all my digital camera memory cards... Worked like a charm with XP SP1. Installed SP2. Reader stopped working... Wouldn't recognize any memory card. Called SanDisk, the maker of the PC card.. They said they had reports of SP2 breaking the functionality of the card. It was a Microsoft problem. One of the tech guys at SanDisk told me that it is an unwritten rule to avoid all even numbers Microsoft Service Packs. Wish I knew that one before I installed it. The PC Card still doesn't work and so I hope it magically starts working with SP3... So I wouldn't doubt SP2 usage is low... That is what MS gets for breaking the way things work...
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"provide a hardened shell around the operating system but the low upgrade levels remains a disappointment."
Damn user error! You have to do work to get a safe system!
"Scud Storm!" -- Jeremy of PurePwnage.com
In response to the perceived aggression from a U.S. company the nations of Japan, India, China, South Korea, Malaysia and New Jersey called their ambassadors home from their respective embassies in Washington, D.C. New Jersey Governor Richard Codey, having been alerted by his aides to the fact that New Jersey is part of the United States, further chose to close his Washington embassy, calling the move "yet another cost-cutting victory for the taxpayers of the Garden State."
At 9:15 PM East Coast U.S. Time Friday, Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ryozo Kato issued the following statement: "Itte mairimasu." U.S. State Department officials declined to translate or comment on Ambassador Kato's statement, mainly because nobody could be found who was fluent in Japanese.
That's a bunch of fckgw.