OT: redhat OT: XP-SP2

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:
> To say I am underwhelmed by XP is an understatement.  It's -marginally-
> bearable -if- you tone down the interface to classic mode.

Most times I as well click workstations back to "classic mode"

> Got SP2 installed and turned off the stupid Windows firewall immediately,
> since this system will sit behind a firewalling router anyway.

Dumb. It's a part of the network stack. It keeps your XP box from 
spewing packets out that you don't want going out or accepting ones you 
don't want. No overhead. Even while you disabled it, it still had to 
look at the firewall.

It's the best feature of SP2. Even behind a firewall.

We've got half a dozen W2K boxes and several dozen XP boxes. By far, 
it's a whole lot easier dealing with *every* support issue on the XP 
boxes rather than the w2k boxes.

YMMV

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Walter