It's not available at Windows Update yet, probably in a day or so. If you don't have a Windows Beta login, check out the torrent links that others have posted to get it.
XP SP2 final installed just fine over my RC2 installation. It barfed when I tried installing over a sliptstreamed install, but the way around the is to build a slipstreamed SP2 install and do an upgrade (which worked great with build 2162, the final beta that was pushed out - I've not tried it with SP2 final yet but I see no reason for it not to work... wait this is Microsoft am I nuts?).
Not so much decent healthcare, but affordable healthcare. Since my company switched providers I'm spending $400 a month on my families healthcare. Add to that a $1000 deductable and guess what? I've got the worlds most expensive prescription drug discount!
I know the current climate for healthcare providers isn't good with all the frivilous lawsuits, but something has to give.
I hope John Kerry lives up to his claims if he becomes president.
The Windows Beta site is really getting hammered right now and giving 500 errors so don't be surprised if you can't get in. I managed to download it from eMule and I'm sure torrents will appear soon. The filename is called:
Actually, in Revelation there's a verse that specifially states "all the creatures, of all the universe" (I'm quoting from memory here, I don't have a Bible handy to look up the exact quotation... anyone?) - which I've always used as my argument against those weird "Christians" who think we're some kind of divine planet that's the only thing capable of holding life.
I respect my religious upbringing, but I'm not blinded by it.
I had a similar piece of software that claimed to turn my 486SX into a 486DX with a "3-fold" increase in speed.
It didn't work of course, but it did allow me to run some software that insisted on an FPU (Quake 1 was... interesting:-)). My raytracing software actually ran noticeably slower with it as it tried to make use of the emulated FPU:)
Agreed, I've been installing SP2 since the first public beta with virtually no problems. I must say, I'm really impressed with their feedback on the problems I've reported as well. The bugs I reported in RC1 where all fixed, and I've not found any in RC2 or the newest beta (2162) either.
Microsoft are taking a step in the right direction with SP2 and I hope they do the same with 2000 SP5.
I think crawling, and rolling are learned behaviors, and walking, and the upright position are instinctive. Or, as you said it "bipedalism is not a learned thing in modern humans." I think you meant 'children learn that to function well they need to be upright, (due to their physical form) and so they learn to walk.' I think that they learn to walk because being upright is instinctively the right position to be in.
I think you're wrong about the crawling and rolling being learned. My son was crawling at 2 weeks old and rolled over at 3 weeks, he didn't have time to learn (since he was in a isolet at the time in Arnold Palmer hospital).
He was trying to stand from about 4 months, so I definitely agree with you there.
You are absolutely correct. My first typewriter that I used for many school essays was an ancient 1930s model that a friend gave me (weighed about 30lb!). It didn't have a 1 key so you had to use a lowercase "l". To make exclamation points you had to do a full stop, then hit backspace and add an apostrophe.
As an aside, I think all computer students should be forced to learn how to type on an ancient manual typewriter for at least a month before they're even allowed near a modern keyboard.
Wash your mouth out with soap and water, sunny Jim!
Rock is proper music played on musical instruments.
Techno handbag disco music is just a noise that comes out of machines. And just look on your local high street on a Friday or Saturday night and see the barely-clad, drug-crazed, orange, under-age youngsters queuing up to get into over-priced night-clubs to techno handbag disco the night away and possibly later surrendering their bodies to the nearest sentient being wearing the right brand of training shoes.
Zombies.
Give me some good old-fashioned guitar-based rock any day. Slayer, Voivod or even Metallica if things get desperate.
Alright, I'll bite.
Actually, I do agree with you for the most part but I think you're seeing things a little too black and white. My Father has the same attitude, music stopped in the early 1970's as far as he is concerned (what he doesn't know about the 60's music scene isn't really worth writing about).
About 99% of the music today is a bunch of crap, generated by a computer and sung by someone who cannot sing without a lot of post production work to make their voice sound good (but they do look very nice, don't they?).
Fortunately, we have a few innovators out there who are managing either
a) Merge modern instruments and the old together to make a really fresh sound. A few examples (that you may like): Metallica (they've been using sythesisers for years, in part), Korn, Nine Inch Nails
b) Are actually at making synthesised music without sounding like the rest of the garbage out there. Listen to bands like Astral Projection, Orbital, etc.
Just don't get me started on Rap music...
A message to ageing rockers; Don't change, you guys are cool:)
I have yet to find a Copy Protected CD that I've been unable to rip mp3's from (for personal use!). I've met a few that I can't do an exact copy of to another CD due to some clever protection, but in those cases I can always rip the tracks out and burn them back to a new CD - it's just a little more effort is all. They work with CDDB as well.
In the end, Copy Protection is a waste of effort, if you can play it, you can rip it.
At least in the current release candidates, Automatic Updates are not turned on by default (it asks you if you want them the first time you boot). Turning them on by default would be bloody dangerous.
We have been very, very lucky so far that (AFAIK) no MS security update has contained a bug serious enough to kill the OS, but it is only a matter of time before this happens. I prefer to be notified automatically of updates by that friendly little globe (or the friendly little shield in XP SP2), but wait a day or so before actually installing them - just in case.
Unfortunately, from experience I know that most users see the globe and consider it an annoyance to be ignored. I have actually had trouble tickets from some users asking me to make it go away. Which is why Software Update Services is such a good thing.
A mixture of dust accumlation on the solar panels restricting their ability to provide power, dust getting into the equipment eventually causing a failure, the batteries can only be recharged fully a finite number of times, the extreme temperature changes.
That's just a few of the things that can cause a failure, then we have environmental things like dust storms and the rover getting stuck in the sand to worry about.
It amazes me that they got to Mars at all in one piece, let alone that they've survived as long as they have. Definitely a testament to the people that built these remarkable machines.
Similar thing happened to me with Bank of America, they bounced my payroll check on no less then 3 occasions for no apparent reason costing me hundreds of dollars in bounced checks and many hours of inconvenience getting them all sorted out. I still can't write checks at some places thanks to them.
Most significant others get upset when you spend more time on your hobbies (in your case, playing computer games) than on them. It's part of life, deal with it, be grateful you have someone!
Why not involve her in the game? You may be pleasantly surprised and she may like it. Get involved with some of her hobbies as well. This is called building a relationship.
If she's not interested, you're just going to have to respect that and limit your time playing games. I'm pretty sure your SO is more important to you than video games, in the long run!
I'm sure she occasionally wants to spent time away from you and be with her friends as well, how would you feel if this was all the time?
Yes, use a WEP key, yes use MAC filtering. No they're not 100% secure but they'll slow most attackers down. Next thing is to secure your local network so even if he gets in there's not much he can get into.
Nothing is 100% secure, a determined attacker is going to get in eventually. Just don't make yourself an easy target.
Despite my best efforts to teach him otherwise, my next door neighbour still allows the entire world to get onto his wireless network and do whatever they please. Which makes my network much less desirable to attack:-)
Ok.. If you don't know what baseball is, raise your hand and Tommy will come over and hit you on the head with a tackhammer because you are a RETARD!
Actually, coming from Europe to the USA I only had a vague idea that Baseball was something like the sport of Rounders and was beloved of Charlie Brown. Aside from a few other countries it's not really well known outside of the US, which is a great shame since it's a sport I've come to love since moving here.
Here's a good introduction to the sport courtesy of Wikipedia. Or, better still just watch a few games. Warning: addictive!
The law by which Red Sox and Cubs are repelled by the World Series and especially by the prospect of each other's presence in it.
The Red Sox, at least claim that they have broken the curse by destroying (in spectacular fashion) the offending ball that ruined their World Series chances last year.
I'm still hedging my bets on a Yankees win this year, though.
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Yes, did it with the beta's and RC's whilst hammering away at them in testing. Seems to work well.
It's not available at Windows Update yet, probably in a day or so. If you don't have a Windows Beta login, check out the torrent links that others have posted to get it.
XP SP2 final installed just fine over my RC2 installation. It barfed when I tried installing over a sliptstreamed install, but the way around the is to build a slipstreamed SP2 install and do an upgrade (which worked great with build 2162, the final beta that was pushed out - I've not tried it with SP2 final yet but I see no reason for it not to work... wait this is Microsoft am I nuts?).
Not so much decent healthcare, but affordable healthcare. Since my company switched providers I'm spending $400 a month on my families healthcare. Add to that a $1000 deductable and guess what? I've got the worlds most expensive prescription drug discount!
I know the current climate for healthcare providers isn't good with all the frivilous lawsuits, but something has to give.
I hope John Kerry lives up to his claims if he becomes president.
The Windows Beta site is really getting hammered right now and giving 500 errors so don't be surprised if you can't get in. I managed to download it from eMule and I'm sure torrents will appear soon. The filename is called:
WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
Actually, in Revelation there's a verse that specifially states "all the creatures, of all the universe" (I'm quoting from memory here, I don't have a Bible handy to look up the exact quotation... anyone?) - which I've always used as my argument against those weird "Christians" who think we're some kind of divine planet that's the only thing capable of holding life.
I respect my religious upbringing, but I'm not blinded by it.
I had a similar piece of software that claimed to turn my 486SX into a 486DX with a "3-fold" increase in speed.
:-)). My raytracing software actually ran noticeably slower with it as it tried to make use of the emulated FPU :)
It didn't work of course, but it did allow me to run some software that insisted on an FPU (Quake 1 was... interesting
Vigilante justice is worse than the original crime. Let the proper authorities deal with it before it turns into one big mess.
Agreed, I've been installing SP2 since the first public beta with virtually no problems. I must say, I'm really impressed with their feedback on the problems I've reported as well. The bugs I reported in RC1 where all fixed, and I've not found any in RC2 or the newest beta (2162) either.
Microsoft are taking a step in the right direction with SP2 and I hope they do the same with 2000 SP5.
I think crawling, and rolling are learned behaviors, and walking, and the upright position are instinctive. Or, as you said it "bipedalism is not a learned thing in modern humans." I think you meant 'children learn that to function well they need to be upright, (due to their physical form) and so they learn to walk.' I think that they learn to walk because being upright is instinctively the right position to be in.
I think you're wrong about the crawling and rolling being learned. My son was crawling at 2 weeks old and rolled over at 3 weeks, he didn't have time to learn (since he was in a isolet at the time in Arnold Palmer hospital).
He was trying to stand from about 4 months, so I definitely agree with you there.
You are absolutely correct. My first typewriter that I used for many school essays was an ancient 1930s model that a friend gave me (weighed about 30lb!). It didn't have a 1 key so you had to use a lowercase "l". To make exclamation points you had to do a full stop, then hit backspace and add an apostrophe.
As an aside, I think all computer students should be forced to learn how to type on an ancient manual typewriter for at least a month before they're even allowed near a modern keyboard.
Wash your mouth out with soap and water, sunny Jim!
Rock is proper music played on musical instruments.
Techno handbag disco music is just a noise that comes out of machines. And just look on your local high street on a Friday or Saturday night and see the barely-clad, drug-crazed, orange, under-age youngsters queuing up to get into over-priced night-clubs to techno handbag disco the night away and possibly later surrendering their bodies to the nearest sentient being wearing the right brand of training shoes.
Zombies.
Give me some good old-fashioned guitar-based rock any day. Slayer, Voivod or even Metallica if things get desperate.
Alright, I'll bite.
Actually, I do agree with you for the most part but I think you're seeing things a little too black and white. My Father has the same attitude, music stopped in the early 1970's as far as he is concerned (what he doesn't know about the 60's music scene isn't really worth writing about).
About 99% of the music today is a bunch of crap, generated by a computer and sung by someone who cannot sing without a lot of post production work to make their voice sound good (but they do look very nice, don't they?).
Fortunately, we have a few innovators out there who are managing either
a) Merge modern instruments and the old together to make a really fresh sound. A few examples (that you may like): Metallica (they've been using sythesisers for years, in part), Korn, Nine Inch Nails
b) Are actually at making synthesised music without sounding like the rest of the garbage out there. Listen to bands like Astral Projection, Orbital, etc.
Just don't get me started on Rap music...
A message to ageing rockers; Don't change, you guys are cool
Yes, I know it's meant in humour, but if we do find life on Titan (a slim, but definite possibility) whose to say we aren't harming them?
I have yet to find a Copy Protected CD that I've been unable to rip mp3's from (for personal use!). I've met a few that I can't do an exact copy of to another CD due to some clever protection, but in those cases I can always rip the tracks out and burn them back to a new CD - it's just a little more effort is all. They work with CDDB as well.
In the end, Copy Protection is a waste of effort, if you can play it, you can rip it.
It's a lot easier to make one file read only and lock down the browser than screw around for hours with registry hacks that don't even work
Spyware is almost none existent
Users have repeatedly asked me how I got web browsing to run so smoothly at work and how do they get this "Mozilla thingy" at home :-)
...Automatic Updates turned on by default...
At least in the current release candidates, Automatic Updates are not turned on by default (it asks you if you want them the first time you boot). Turning them on by default would be bloody dangerous.
We have been very, very lucky so far that (AFAIK) no MS security update has contained a bug serious enough to kill the OS, but it is only a matter of time before this happens. I prefer to be notified automatically of updates by that friendly little globe (or the friendly little shield in XP SP2), but wait a day or so before actually installing them - just in case.
Unfortunately, from experience I know that most users see the globe and consider it an annoyance to be ignored. I have actually had trouble tickets from some users asking me to make it go away. Which is why Software Update Services is such a good thing.
Yep Kudos to Norton it was blocked for me also. XP SP2 blocked it successfully when I disabled Norton. Nice to know some fixes actually work.
To name a few:
A mixture of dust accumlation on the solar panels restricting their ability to provide power, dust getting into the equipment eventually causing a failure, the batteries can only be recharged fully a finite number of times, the extreme temperature changes.
That's just a few of the things that can cause a failure, then we have environmental things like dust storms and the rover getting stuck in the sand to worry about.
It amazes me that they got to Mars at all in one piece, let alone that they've survived as long as they have. Definitely a testament to the people that built these remarkable machines.
Similar thing happened to me with Bank of America, they bounced my payroll check on no less then 3 occasions for no apparent reason costing me hundreds of dollars in bounced checks and many hours of inconvenience getting them all sorted out. I still can't write checks at some places thanks to them.
:)
Guess why I don't bank with them anymore?
Most significant others get upset when you spend more time on your hobbies (in your case, playing computer games) than on them. It's part of life, deal with it, be grateful you have someone!
Why not involve her in the game? You may be pleasantly surprised and she may like it. Get involved with some of her hobbies as well. This is called building a relationship.
If she's not interested, you're just going to have to respect that and limit your time playing games. I'm pretty sure your SO is more important to you than video games, in the long run!
I'm sure she occasionally wants to spent time away from you and be with her friends as well, how would you feel if this was all the time?
Yes, use a WEP key, yes use MAC filtering. No they're not 100% secure but they'll slow most attackers down. Next thing is to secure your local network so even if he gets in there's not much he can get into.
:-)
Nothing is 100% secure, a determined attacker is going to get in eventually. Just don't make yourself an easy target.
Despite my best efforts to teach him otherwise, my next door neighbour still allows the entire world to get onto his wireless network and do whatever they please. Which makes my network much less desirable to attack
Yes, read this website.
Ok.. If you don't know what baseball is, raise your hand and Tommy will come over and hit you on the head with a tackhammer because you are a RETARD!
Actually, coming from Europe to the USA I only had a vague idea that Baseball was something like the sport of Rounders and was beloved of Charlie Brown. Aside from a few other countries it's not really well known outside of the US, which is a great shame since it's a sport I've come to love since moving here.
Here's a good introduction to the sport courtesy of Wikipedia. Or, better still just watch a few games. Warning: addictive!
Go Yankees!
The law by which Red Sox and Cubs are repelled by the World Series and especially by the prospect of each other's presence in it.
The Red Sox, at least claim that they have broken the curse by destroying (in spectacular fashion) the offending ball that ruined their World Series chances last year.
I'm still hedging my bets on a Yankees win this year, though.
I think my parents gave up trying to understand what I was doing on the computer within a couple of weeks of me owning one.
I just got the occasional "Isn't it just amazing what they can do nowadays?" after that...
Most non-Geek parents are the same, I think.
The Mariner 10 probe did a flyby of Mercury in 1975 and mapped 40-45% of the planet's surface.
The MESSANGER probe will launch in June and is expected to arrive in 2011.