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[Bill Vermillion]

Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets that will last an eternity, 
but on Tue, Aug 10 09:08 , Bill Campbell wrote:" 

> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 10 03:03 , Fairlight moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
> >change to take effect, and then said:" 
> >
> >> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:29:00AM -0400, after drawing runes
> >> in goat's blood, Brian K. White cast forth these immortal,
> >> mystical words:
> >
> >...
> >
> >> > the vacuous and the rigging up an OS that is nothing more
> >> > than a show-floor demo that makes the user think they are
> >> > actually operating their computer, which of course took off
> >> > like wildfire in our something for nothing culture.
> >
> >> Well -some- people are having second thoughts. You've seen
> >> the articles where IBM (amongst others) are recommending
> >> -avoiding- WinXP SP2 because while it increases security
> >> it breaks compatability in key areas, I trust? They're not
> >> garnering much support with this latest service pack.

> >The IBM memo was not as dire as your comment seems to imply.  
> >SP2 was released to manufacturing Friday and not even ready for
> >download yet so it's only been official for one business day.

> There was an article in InfoWorld about a month ago that was
> quite dire, and predicted major incompatibility problems with
> SP2.

I've learned to ignore all predictions and wait until the product
ships so I can see if the oracles were 1) on target, 2)
pessimistic, 3) optimistic, 4) blew it again.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com