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Windows XP SP3 Released To Manufacturing
mike_diack was one of many readers to send word that Windows XP SP3 been released to manufacturing. It will be available to OEMs and enterprise customers on April 29. Here is a summary of features and changes. The company will wait till "early summer" to enable SP3 downloads through Automatic Updates.
Vista isn't nearly, even remotely, as bad as Slashdotters think it is. Have you actually tried it, or are you just parroting others?
In any case, it's not even in the running for "shitty." MacOS 7.0, before it was patched, would permanently corrupt itself if you removed a Font from the System Folder. THAT'S shitty. Vista is nothing close.
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No, this commment would classify you as a bit of a n00b. You still using Ubuntu? You can get broadcom cards to work using firmware from linuxwireless + the b43 kernel module. I personally prefer to just compile the Zen Kernel from git (not to be confused with Xen). It's bleeding edge and fast. http://waninkoko.info/?q=node/14 Otherwise, just build the kernel module and get the firmware. I'm graduated from Kubuntu to Arch, and now am switching from Arch to Gentoo so I can have even more control and more speed.
Getting Broadcom support is not as easy as the one-click that some people imply.
First you have to know that you need ndiswrapper
You have to know how to get the wrapper
You have to know which of the many versions matches your wireless card
You have to install it (which for me required several sessions with a terminal window)
You have to figure out how to get your wireless security set up
You have to figure out why you can ping the router but firefox cannot find the server