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On 18 Aug 2004 18:03:23 -0700, millie4@adelphia.net (Millie) wrote:
>The links you gave in your message were evident to me tr
Glad to hear that. They were hard to miss weren't they (all colored
differently, underlined and with a big fat http:// sitting at the
front)?
>appreciate you bringing this to my attention because I had no idea
>there was a problem and had done as microsoft had suggested by putting
>my computer on automatic for the upgrade. I reversed that.
That was the purpose of the original post and of course, the original
links so the attuned could see that this was NOT original to me but
was being posted around the Internet by others and posted on certain
PC publications. Of course, the link clueless took attention away
from the purpose of the post and got into a semantic thing with a
person that was nothing more than the messenger of what was being said
and posted around the web.
>One word of advice though tr, even though most people understand how
>links work and that anyone following the links you gave would see
>immediately that you were writing what the person in the link had
>said
Yep, sort of stuck right there in the open for anyone with a clue to
see and follow.
>you must show patience for those that don't understand how links
>work.
Patience toward those that don't react falsely because of not having a
clue to how links work is fine but when they react and post falsely
because of not having a clue as to how to follow the links PROVIDED
for conformation of/from the source of what was said.... then they
need to be insulted. I have no tolerance for those types what so
ever.
>Again, thanks for posting all this information on this sp2 and the
>problems that seem to surround it. It looks as thought microsoft
>wasn't going to make any statements about the problems before an
>unknowing population installed the darned thing.
They do have a history of doing such... I see that today my
auto-update warning told me that SP2 was ready for download. Of
course, due to MS's sorted history, I am going to hide and watch
before jumping on this one. Maybe wait for SP2.12345 to come out and
that list of 200 non-compatibles to go down (grin).
>You know, I think I am starting to distrust them. Millie
They don't have a track record supportive of trusting do they?
I did read on the ZoneLabs Forum (makers of Zone Alarm Firewall), that
some suggest downloading SP2 but NOT to install it yet. Then
disconnect from online and halt all firewalls, AV's, PopUp blockers,
Ad/Spyware watchers and other background processes going on. Next,
install sp2t and then turn off all its features. Then reconnect to
online and reboot.
Well, why install it in the first place if you are going to do it that
way? I'm not the smartest guy in town even though I do know how and
when to follow a provided link, but this seems to be canceling the
purpose of installing it in the first place.
Following some other forums this morning, I see that there are those
that let it install and have seen no negative side effects what so
ever from it while others are reporting everything from a single
application going down to whole systems going down. One of my
engineers said he just got off the phone with a friend that said their
AutoCad went down after installing SP2 while another office running
the same version of AutoCad is doing fine after the SP2 install.
I guess that's what scares me the most about this thing.... It would
appear from what I am reading that no one, not even MS knows what the
effects will be on any single or collective set of systems or
applications. Why does A's Widget program go down while B's Widget
program is un effected?
I think what is going on.... AND... this is what I am saying so those
Link Challenged types out there can actually flame me for what I say
from this spot forward because it is '*** What I Think ***'.... I
think MS has been under such pressure to finally do something about
all their security holes that they have "Rushed" to release what they
perceive to be the fix or all fixes, SP2, before it has been
thoroughly tested and before a lot of questions about all these
application clashes with it have been properly addressed.
Regards,
TR