I would bet that the majority of people bashing MS due to problems with SP2 have spent untold hours manually configuring the firewall on their Hello Kitty modded Linux box!
The truth is, SP2 blocks ports by default. Which is what it is supposed to do. The only thing MS could have done better was integrate port opening into their 'Made for Windows XP' cash cow. Hopefully they have already thought of this! If not, off to the Patent Office I go...
Please don't get offended, but I get sort of irked that people bash MS because they (the bashers, not MS) have discovered linux. Linux is great, but I doubt my Grandmother could get it to work on her antiquated PC.
I agree, it would be exciting if it wasn't coming through MS' ginormous pipes. But that fact isn't neccesarily an affront to BT. If every file I downloaded came from MS then I would say that BT or any other P2P program would be utterly useless. Unfortunately, not every P2P user has vast sums of money (perhaps the reason they are P2P users to begin with). It can therefore be reasoned that not every P2P user has an insane amount of bandwidth allocated to serving files to everyone else.
Basically, I am saying that BT has its' place as do most good (someday even great) ideas.
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I would bet that the majority of people bashing MS due to problems with SP2 have spent untold hours manually configuring the firewall on their Hello Kitty modded Linux box! The truth is, SP2 blocks ports by default. Which is what it is supposed to do. The only thing MS could have done better was integrate port opening into their 'Made for Windows XP' cash cow. Hopefully they have already thought of this! If not, off to the Patent Office I go... Please don't get offended, but I get sort of irked that people bash MS because they (the bashers, not MS) have discovered linux. Linux is great, but I doubt my Grandmother could get it to work on her antiquated PC.
I agree, it would be exciting if it wasn't coming through MS' ginormous pipes. But that fact isn't neccesarily an affront to BT. If every file I downloaded came from MS then I would say that BT or any other P2P program would be utterly useless. Unfortunately, not every P2P user has vast sums of money (perhaps the reason they are P2P users to begin with). It can therefore be reasoned that not every P2P user has an insane amount of bandwidth allocated to serving files to everyone else. Basically, I am saying that BT has its' place as do most good (someday even great) ideas.