XP SP2

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

It's official. A jihaad against Microsoft.

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[lrdjester.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we are in a discussion in computergeeks about the firewall right now.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/437460.html is the post.

[malgrep.livejournal.com]

There is an item over on slashdot about this too.

Clicky (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/17/0023206&tid=109&tid=128&tid=201)

The list of incompatibilities is just amazing. If we roll this out anytime soon I will be surprised.

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

I got a good list of the problems with it the other day from a friend.

Personally, I love my Sygate firewall. I don't need Microsoft's.

[dubhain.livejournal.com]

Microsoft firewalling is better than no firewalling at all.

That being said, I'll stick with my PIX 501, thanks.

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

This is true, yes. I had MS's firewall up in addition to the Sygate one for a while, but then I was having trouble connecting to one spot and disabled it during my troubleshooting. I ended up explicitely allowing the site through Sygate, then never bothered to turn MS's back on.

Haven't decided what to do with the SP yet, but I'll probably hold off a brief while, since some of the programs I use regularly are on the list of problem programs.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

Microsoft finally locks down it's OS and people are bitching? Come on, it's a little bit of pain and a whole lot of gain, and you can turn off the damned firewall if you have to.

[bdinger.livejournal.com]

Finally a voice of reason. I hear all this bitching and just want to bitch-slap everyone who says nay about sp2.

XP SP2 IS A VERY, VERY, VERY WONDERFUL NICE AND GOOD THING.

If only it would force you to leave the firewall on and not boot of you didn't have a virus scanner...

[reddragdiva]

I loved the Groklaw article on what Microsoft expects the bozo nontechnical consumer to do after SP2 breaks all their apps.

[dmsalem00.livejournal.com]

link plz

[reddragdiva]

Ah, d'oh!

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040817033940321

[mattdoesntcare.livejournal.com]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;842242

[lordstorm.livejournal.com]

Who needs WinFW when you have twin Debian servers running iptables on Pentium-I 166MHz machines? :D

[jonyoon.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!

[firthy.livejournal.com]

It's mind boggling.

Glad I've got XP Pro,