> There always seems to be some excuse. "Everybody knows not to do this on > Tuesdays" or Wednesdays, or whatever. The bottom line is that I needed to > do something fairly ordinary and it didn't work and the reason it didn't > work was at their end.
That's your excuse when you play in traffic at rush hour, isn't it? I didn't get hit at 11 AM! > I don't know of any responsible manager who applies SPs before they have > been out for many months. We let guys like you do M$' beta testing. You get what you pay for. Two months is plenty of time for any significant problem to be ferreted out. I haven't had a problem with an SP since Windows NT SP3 in '97 or '98. Actually, it's been longer than I thought; XP SP3 was released over a year ago. Heal thyself. > That looked like a great idea. Thanks for pointing it out. > > But then I started reading M$ tech notes on it. "Download this, then > download that, then configure this and configure that, then download some > more and configure some more. Then if 'A' then don't do 'B'." On and on. > Looks to me like it would be an even worse experience than the original > problem it is supposed to solve. And no guarantees that it would even > work or continue to work without lots of maintenance. I guess you see > that as normal, but I see it as just another M$ mess. Whatever. Cue cursing the darkness. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
