same ol' microsofty goodness

[rone]

CRN Test Center engineers evaluated a release candidate two (RC2) version of [Windows XP Service Pack 2], and upon completion of the install on three out of five systems, the machines blue-screened.

[...]

[Engineers] had to rename "spuninst.txt" to "spuninst.bat" and execute the batch command "batch spuninst.bat." When that process was completed, a rollback of the Service Pack file should have occurred. That didn't happen.

[...]

After that process finished, some interesting events occurred.

Maybe vspope is smarter than i think for sticking with 98SE.

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[vspope.livejournal.com]

Maybe.

I'm not a total Luddite; when I buy my next PC, it'll have XP on it, as that's pretty much the home standard now.

But then I read articles like the one to which you linked.

And then I read other articles about how new XP installs often get infected by worms before they even manage to connect to Windows Update, let alone download and install the appropriate updates.

And then I look at the $100 price tag to upgrade to such glories.

And then I itch.

[plambert.livejournal.com]

*cough* OS X *cough*

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

If only more places put out games for OS X at the same time as Windows...

[skipernicus.livejournal.com]

"And if a frog had wings, it woldn't bump it's ass a-hoppin'." Nonetheless, I own a Mac, and I love it.

For my pc (which is strictly an entertainment machine), I still use 98, for a host of reasons:

1) it works.
2) It's paid for.
3) Uh, I'm not done playing games from the 90s.
4) Uh, number 2 again.
5) I'm cheap.
6) The install didn't require me to go online.

[vspope.livejournal.com]

I like Macs; I have a loaded IIfx within arm's reach right now. (Cost $18K when an old employer bought it, got it for free, has 128MB RAM in it. Long story.)

I have MacOS 8.1 installed on my PC via Basilisk II, but I use it mostly for Maelstrom and other Ambrosia titles.