Re: End of support Windows Playstation

In article <443ce7aa$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Oliver Townshend"
<oliveratzipdotcomdotau> says...
The march of progress I guess...considering these (especially Win98SE)
are generally more stable than XP anything (especially SP2).

I disagree totally. Win98SE was the worst ever. XP SP2 is excellent.

XP Raw And Unpatched is great.

The service packs break fundamentals - my Iomega NAS A300u was reduced
to a pile of worthless metal when Microsofts updates and service packs
fundamentally BROKE the Samba client.

What's the use of being able to create a file on a NAS if you can't
subsequently delete it?

DUH!

Not just XP - MS broke W2003 as well. I had to go back to a naked XP
client. Since no-one ever reliably figured out which MS update was at
fault, I had to disable auto-update completely and just hope and pray
that no-one ever exploited any of the security holes that that left
unplugged.


Just to rub salt in the wound, my NAS box recently died. Kaputski. It
is an ex-NAS. It is no more. And the RAID-5 fault tolerance turned out
to be not very tolerant of an electronics failure in one of the drives.

The two surviving disks are moth-balled until I can afford the $000's I
was quoted for data recovery. I replaced the HD's with some new cheap-o
IDE drives, installed Windows 2000 Server and now at least have a file
server again.

So will I be updating my naked XP? Not on your life.

I had forgotten just how F-A-S-T XP was before all those security
updates and service packs got their hooks into it!

:)

--
Jolyon Smith
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