That was special bonus software only distributed to "select" users... BIG ;->
----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Dumke To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 19:31 PM Subject: Re: OT: Service Packs - was Re: [softrock40] Re: XTALL Software What about Microsoft My Computer Freezing? That is a Microsoft product. Bill WA9PWR Perry - K4PWO wrote: The primary purpose of service packs are to serve as "roll ups" of all critical security patches to date. They also include non-priority "suggested" updates and some "optional" software patches that improve operation and fix "bugs". Microsoft may "sweeten" the service pack with enhancements and optimizations to the operating system. The biggest reason to apply service packs is that MS will support the previous service pack for only 12 months after the release of a new service pack. If you are at SP2, you will no longer get critical security patches after that period. This means that the most likely event will be that your PC will be turned into a SPAM or Denial Of Service attack "bot" when it is no longer patched. With that said, I also recommend that you avoid the installation of new service packs for at least 6-weeks after their release. The new Windows XP SP3 has known problems with some AMD CPU equipped systems and has problems with some Norton Security 2008 products. With in a few weeks, MS, Norton, etc. will release patched for these issues. 73 de Perry - K4PWO ----- Original Message ----- From: "henkkeppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 18:58 PM Subject: [softrock40] Re: XTALL Software Hi Cecil, I think you are right. My credo is: IT CAN ALWAYS BE BETTER and that could make upgrading valuable but still valid is always: what is the benefit of SP3 for me? If that is someting what I will never use then more specific: WHAT IS MY BENEFIT OF SP3? And if that is nothing for me why should I run the risk of installing it. Not everything that is new is per definition better. In the 80-ies when I had a commodore 64, about 30 years ago, I could do textprocessing, spreadsheet calculations, design schematic diagrams and PCB artwork, create presentations, calculated the RF long distance satellite communications capabilities and much much more. The graphics with sprites were not too bad, they gave you moving objects which could pass each other. There was a simple internet via telephone and bulletin boards. I had a 10MB Harddisk ($800then)which could contain all I needed and I could build all desired additions on the serial I3E bus which could measure al kinds of phisycal properties. I even designed a system that controlled the house of an friend of me in Spain, measured temp. and switched the heaters on or off, measure RH and could dry or add humidity, signalled when the alarm was activated and all this via the telephone. Of cours the international calls costed a fortune, especially because there werte no fast A/D convertors in those days but it worked. Now I have two notebooks on my desk; one 5 years old machine with 1G memory and Win XP + SP2 and the other one a half year old dual processor system with 2G memory and running Vista. On the attic I have a satellite receiver and with a 2.4GHz link I send the video and audio to the living room.In my old notebook I have a TV/Video PCMIA card with video input. Works fine and gives streaming video on my old PC. In the meantime I can do other things on this computer without interrupting this video. My new notebook has no PCMIA input but an Express card input so I cannot use the card which works fine in my old notebook. The last half year I bought 3 different USB TV/Video receivers but none of them worked. Windows Media Centre is Useless for this because it does not recognize any of the TV/Video USB units I bought for it. I found one software that did something: Ulead Video Studio. This gives mje video of one of the USB units I bought but stops every second for two seconds. I implemented a virtual computer with Win XP but that did not work properly because not all the new hardware was compatible with XP. There is one thing you should beware of: MICROSOFT DOES NOT LAUNCH A NEW SYSTEM TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY BUT ONLY TO GET MORE MONEY and if it is a social company: to keep more people having a good job and as such keep families happy. regards, Henk, PA0KEP Sometimes people become very wrong with their believes. I still remember the many recommendation for not to use winXP because it was giving blue screens ( Never had) and some other malicious problems. People use to say it was better to wait for the SP and then try it. Now same thing is happening to vista, SP3 is a good addition to your XP. 73 Not necessarily so, just because you are OK doesn't mean all is fine with others, a lot depends on what is installed on the PC to begin with and what kind of motherboard and drivers you have. I did a test install at work on 6 PC's running XP Pro SP 2 and upgraded them to SP3 the result, three were fine with absolutely no problems, 3 on the other hand died right then and there, the started getting the BSOD even in safe mode, so they had to be formatted and the OS re-installed . With that result SP3 will not be installed for a while until Microsoft get their act together. My two home PC's have SP3 and they are fine, the ones at work have Active Directory networking which not the same as home edition networking and that makes a huge difference I have noticed over the years. Cecil K5NWA www.softrockradio.org www.qrpradio.com "Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light." ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
