Re: WinXP SP1 out next Monday - but can you avoid it?

2002-09-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Gary Jeffers wrote: You know, sometime we are going to have to abandon MS. Who is that we? Some of us, in fact a rather large fraction, probably, has never used Redmondware. If you think the bulk of computer users in general, then you can wait until hell freezes

Re: WinXP SP1 out next Monday - but can you avoid it?

2002-09-03 Thread Harmon Seaver
Forget dualbooting -- the best combo is a Mac for any of the DTP or graphix stuff you can't do on linux (and Macs are far beyond windoze in that respect anyway) and then linux for everything else. I do have both VirtualPC for the mac with '95 on it, and also Vmware for linux with '98 on it, but

WinXP SP1 out next Monday - but can you avoid it?

2002-09-03 Thread Gary Jeffers
My fellow Cypherpunks, I found this link about WinXP SP1 . SP stands for service pack. The article tells of some nasty goodies that MicroSoft has included in it. The 2nd link has more info.. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26911.html