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Windows XP Home: obsolete sooner than you expect
Ars Technica ^
| 3 January 2006
| Ken "Caesar" Fisher
Posted on 01/04/2006 9:59:39 AM PST by ShadowAce
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posted on
01/04/2006 9:59:40 AM PST
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
01/04/2006 9:59:57 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce; All
Get Root !
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:01:30 AM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(Trust in the YHvH for ever, for the LORD, YHvH is the Rock eternal. (Isaiah 26:4))
To: ShadowAce
On another topic, my XP keeps trying to update me to Service Pack 3 but I don't have the disk. How can I stop it from trying to do something it cannot do?
To: GermanBusiness
How can I stop it from trying to do something it cannot do? As someone not overly familiar with Windows, I would suggest try to turn off Automatic Updates.
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:07:56 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
They tried to end support for NT4, but got hammered for it. They ended up supporting it for more then a year longer then they wanted to.
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:09:07 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
("I would rather be a free man in my grave then living as a puppet or a slave." - Jimmy Cliff)
To: ShadowAce
Home's a POS anyway. And the upgrade from it to Pro can toast your existing apps and data (thank God I had backup!) even if you don't make any mistakes on your own.
That said, there are advantages to a subscription licensing architecture but you're completely at the mercy of a marketeer who decides it's time to jack up the prices. I run both Microsoft and Red Hat at home and am in a position to say "no" to Bill's boys. Not everyone is.
To: GermanBusiness
XP Home or Pro?
You can shut off auto updating.
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:12:28 AM PST
by
Sensei Ern
(Now, IB4Z! http://www.myspace.com/reconcomedy/ "Cowards cut and run. Heroes never do!")
To: TXBSAFH; ShadowAce
They tried to end support for NT4, but got hammered for it. They ended up supporting it for more then a year longer then they wanted to. Win 2000 is NT5
XP is NT5.1
It's still the same crap code of NT !
Get Root !
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:12:28 AM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(Trust in the YHvH for ever, for the LORD, YHvH is the Rock eternal. (Isaiah 26:4))
To: GermanBusiness
Do you mean Sp2? There is no Sp3 yet for XP. You shouldn't need a disk, you can get the update online through Windows Update. If you are prepared to deal with the setting changes (Google XP service pack 2, you should be able to find some pages on what it changes, and how to make sure everything works afterward), it is a recommended update that actually takes some pretty large steps towards making Windows secure.
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:14:38 AM PST
by
Little Pig
(Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:16:23 AM PST
by
null and void
(A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change his tagline - Jigsaw)
To: XeniaSt
Linux is the ultimate windows service pack. Hey do you know of someone who makes a laptop with a decent linux release on it?
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:16:33 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
("I would rather be a free man in my grave then living as a puppet or a slave." - Jimmy Cliff)
To: ShadowAce
Hmmmm....
Open Office...Check
Firefox...Check
Thunderbird...Check
Linux...Comming soon
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:16:54 AM PST
by
ElTianti
To: TXBSAFH
"Linux is the ultimate windows service pack. "
Great. I'll bet my copy of Office XP will run a lot faster on Linux, right?
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:19:35 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: ShadowAce
XP Home is closer to Me.
XP Pro is closer to 2000.
Companies like Best Buy, Dell, Hp etc have been making a killing off selling Home knowing people would want to buy the Pro upgrade.
To: TXBSAFH
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:21:05 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: XeniaSt
XP is NOT NT5.1
Not even close. you just showed your cards.
To: MineralMan
I'll bet my copy of Office XP will run a lot faster on Linux, right? Mine does.
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:21:46 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
OKAY....so we have XP Home on a laptop here at home....what should we do....our desktop has XP Pro......any suggestions out there? (And, I'm not looking for smart a** remarks/suggestions.)
To: MineralMan
Yes it will. You can get an emulator that will run it. In fact I know of a sysadmin who built a custom image on his dell laptop that ran win2k and office on an emulator. He would fire it up on the weekends when he had duty to remote in on a vpn to fix issues.
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posted on
01/04/2006 10:23:26 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
("I would rather be a free man in my grave then living as a puppet or a slave." - Jimmy Cliff)
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