OT: XP SP2 Security Hole

[Bill Vermillion]

On Sat, Oct 02 21:33 , Bob Stockler, showing utter disregard for 
spell-checkers gave us this: 

> On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 08:17:18PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> | 
> | The plus side of XP2 is that it is supposed to be completely
> | reversible, which are far more than some of the patches that MS
> | had put out in the past - pariticularly in regard to hard disk
> | drivers.

> That's a benefit . . . if it works.

> I have a Windows Me box that, every now and then M$ tells me needs
> to be upgraded.

> Every time I've tried it (3 or 4 times) it gets exactly 70% through
> the installation of the upgrade, and then hangs - forever.

I had that too.  I finally reinstalled the OS.  Not a disk wipe,
but install on top of the operating OS.

Considering other OSes [ Unix primarily ] have been performing
upgrdes that weren't problematic for 20 years [ at least not major
problems as I've had with MS things ] you would think they could
get things right eventually.

I was under the impression the MS trained their programmers to do
things the MS way - and in nature that's thought of an inbreeding
and often brings out the worst traits.

I had a friend who an EXCELLENT programmer and finally MS came
after him and made him an offer he could not refuse.  He was so
good in programming that a pre-IBM-PC SW firm offered him a great
job and he quit college and resigned his Air Force ROTC and moved
away 1/2 way through his sophomore year.

After working for that company for about 2 years MS came after him
and they seldom hire people without degrees.  As MS continued
he became the main liason person between Compaq and Microsoft.
He's probably retired by now enjoying millions.  He joined
MS in '84 or '85 and when he was here in Orlando we jointly
ran a national computer group.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com