OT: XP SP2 Security Hole

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Transpower at aol.com propounded (on Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 11:41:11AM
-0400):
| In a message dated 10/2/2004 9:08:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
| fp at wjv.com writes:
|
| > Transpower at aol.com, the prominent pundit, on Sat, Oct 02 11:19      
| > while half mumbling half-witicized:                                 
| >
| > >One positive thing about XP SP2:? I installed it several days
| > >ago and I must say that my computer (specifically disk reads and
| > >writes) appears to be much faster than with SP1.
| >
| > Appearances can be deceiving.  In other words, do you have any
| > benchmarks you ran before and after.  I do that on disk systems and
| > save the results in the Unix servers.
|
| No benchmarks yet; my demo copy of Performance Test ran out.  Next
| time I do a backup I'll let you know if there's any difference.  By
| the way, backing up 13 GB used to take 1 hour, 20 minutes on an HP
| Ultrium LTO; after changing settings so that system cache (rather than
| programs) is optimized (and setting System Mechanic so that XP writes
| the cache every 2 seconds), I got the backup time down to 20 minutes!
| And shadow copy now works properly.

Speaking of backups, on OSR 5.0.7, I've installed a SCSI Iomega REV
drive.  A complete backup which took 62 minutes to a DDS-4 tape takes
20 minutes to a REV drive.

-- 
JP