Re: [H] 2k wireless
Since a lot of the code base for 2k and XP is the same, I would imagine that most attacks and vulns would be the same for both OS's. Bobby Heid wrote: Sorry about the offline email, I meant to reply to the list. I think that there is just more emphasis on XP than 2K. But there are still 2K updates that I have seen recently. Also, an XP vulnerability will probably get more resources than 2K ones. I think that hackers will still target 2K as there are still a lot of 2K boxes out there. Don't get me wrong, 2K is still a pretty good platform, but as more people move away from it, it will get harder to get help with. And don't forget that 2K will have support ended before XP. Bobby -Original Message- From: Winterlight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [H] 2k wireless At 01:45 PM 12/13/2006, you wrote: Oh no, there are many OS updates issued. Then there are media player, etc. updates. Bobby maybe XP needs more of them then 2k . One advantage of 2k is that it isn't a direct target like XP and soon to be Vista
RE: [H] 2k wireless
Sorry about the offline email, I meant to reply to the list. I think that there is just more emphasis on XP than 2K. But there are still 2K updates that I have seen recently. Also, an XP vulnerability will probably get more resources than 2K ones. I think that hackers will still target 2K as there are still a lot of 2K boxes out there. Don't get me wrong, 2K is still a pretty good platform, but as more people move away from it, it will get harder to get help with. And don't forget that 2K will have support ended before XP. Bobby -Original Message- From: Winterlight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [H] 2k wireless At 01:45 PM 12/13/2006, you wrote: >Oh no, there are many OS updates issued. Then there are media player, etc. >updates. >Bobby maybe XP needs more of them then 2k . One advantage of 2k is that it isn't a direct target like XP and soon to be Vista
Re: [H] 2k wireless
At 13:40 12/13/06, Winterlight wrote: It is time to clean off the drive and do a new install on my laptop = Thinkpad 1.13 P3M with a GB of P133 and a Hitachi Travelstar. I have XP on it now but I am thinking I would be better off with 2k. For one thing 2k takes a lot less space and horsepower and I would like to start running more things out of a VM and leave the primary OS for games and multimedia. 2k has a smaller footprint, quicker, and I don't think I need what XP offers since I will be using Firefox, and I don't have a fast enough video card to do anything game wise other then legacy games. XP offers, better security for IE, but I won't be using IE, and XP has hyperthreading support, ... I don't need it, and better multimedia support, but not in a area I can take advantage of with this laptop as the most I will be doing is listening to mp3s, watching a DVD or video file and maybe watching TV with a USB tuner. Anybody think I am missing something? ... that my reasoning to choose 2k over XP is wrong? The only thing I am not sure about is wireless, 2K SP4 supports WPA ...right? I won't have any problems with wireless security using 2k ...right? I'm running Win 2K on my laptop and I added an Intel mini-pci wireless card. The Intel driver/software that came with this wireless card included WPA support and it runs just fine on 2K. I don't know (kind of doubt it) if Win 2K has built in WPA wireless support. I have a separate hard drive (I can add/remove the two hard drives to change operating system) with Win XP installed for this laptop and I find the native WPA to be much more confusing than what came with the Intel wireless card. So I use the Intel networking support instead of XP's "wizard" based stuff which I couldn't get to work, probably because I wasn't willing to spend enough time on it. I only wrote this message because nobody has yet commented on Win 2K and WPA support. So my answer is yes, it's possible to do WPA on Win 2K. Regards, Bill
RE: [H] 2k wireless
At 01:45 PM 12/13/2006, you wrote: Oh no, there are many OS updates issued. Then there are media player, etc. updates. Bobby maybe XP needs more of them then 2k . One advantage of 2k is that it isn't a direct target like XP and soon to be Vista
Re: [H] 2k wireless
>>Security updates is one thing that will go away sooner for 2k than XP. >>Bobby > > the updates are predominately for IE, aren't they?... and I am not > going to be using IE Yesterday's monthly updates included fixes for Media Player, Outlook 2003, and Outlook Express. Gary VanderMolen
RE: [H] 2k wireless
At 11:44 AM 12/13/2006, you wrote: Security updates is one thing that will go away sooner for 2k than XP. Bobby the updates are predominately for IE, aren't they?... and I am not going to be using IE
RE: [H] 2k wireless
Security updates is one thing that will go away sooner for 2k than XP. Bobby -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:40 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] 2k wireless It is time to clean off the drive and do a new install on my laptop = Thinkpad 1.13 P3M with a GB of P133 and a Hitachi Travelstar. I have XP on it now but I am thinking I would be better off with 2k. For one thing 2k takes a lot less space and horsepower and I would like to start running more things out of a VM and leave the primary OS for games and multimedia. 2k has a smaller footprint, quicker, and I don't think I need what XP offers since I will be using Firefox, and I don't have a fast enough video card to do anything game wise other then legacy games. XP offers, better security for IE, but I won't be using IE, and XP has hyperthreading support, ... I don't need it, and better multimedia support, but not in a area I can take advantage of with this laptop as the most I will be doing is listening to mp3s, watching a DVD or video file and maybe watching TV with a USB tuner. Anybody think I am missing something? ... that my reasoning to choose 2k over XP is wrong? The only thing I am not sure about is wireless, 2K SP4 supports WPA ...right? I won't have any problems with wireless security using 2k ...right?
[H] 2k wireless
It is time to clean off the drive and do a new install on my laptop = Thinkpad 1.13 P3M with a GB of P133 and a Hitachi Travelstar. I have XP on it now but I am thinking I would be better off with 2k. For one thing 2k takes a lot less space and horsepower and I would like to start running more things out of a VM and leave the primary OS for games and multimedia. 2k has a smaller footprint, quicker, and I don't think I need what XP offers since I will be using Firefox, and I don't have a fast enough video card to do anything game wise other then legacy games. XP offers, better security for IE, but I won't be using IE, and XP has hyperthreading support, ... I don't need it, and better multimedia support, but not in a area I can take advantage of with this laptop as the most I will be doing is listening to mp3s, watching a DVD or video file and maybe watching TV with a USB tuner. Anybody think I am missing something? ... that my reasoning to choose 2k over XP is wrong? The only thing I am not sure about is wireless, 2K SP4 supports WPA ...right? I won't have any problems with wireless security using 2k ...right?
