Mike Powell wrote:
> | I am VERY RTC about MS patches, especially after reading of problems
> | they caused other folks in the previous couple of years.
>  
> Howdy, Ed!
>  
> I am also skeptical, but since my XP machine is not my primary, I went
> ahead and let it install SP3.  Didn't seem to cause any issues, BUT from
> the sticker on the front, it appears to be an Intel box.  I also read
> something about AMD issues.

I wish there were more like you here.  Yes, there can be problems with 
anything but NOT doing anything because you have an incorrect view of 
how things work and why patches are needed just leads to more problems. 
  I've said it here till I'm blue in the face but the folks who have 
resisted in performing updates because of irrational fears just create 
problems for the rest of us.  But they continue to believe they're not 
part of the problem.  I try not to get pissed off but it can be difficult.

As soon as I heard that SP3 was available, I started installing.  Yeah, 
I do like to be a first-adopter but the nay-sayers can use my 
experiences to make rational decisions based on fact, not fear.  I don't 
have any AMD machines so I would have missed that (I wonder if there's a 
way to get some VM software to use an AMD CPU?).  I do use Symantec AV 
software and it's working properly - prolly the version I'm using.

> About the only thing I use the XP machine for these days is for the few
> multimedia things that I can't seem to get working on Linux, and for
> testing my BBS's telnet connection!  ;-)

Yet another way for the naysayers to move forward rather than being 
stuck in the reactionary past.  While I agree completely that Linux 
desktop isn't as slick as it could be, it's far from being unusable.  If 
these folks would put as much effort in making it work for them as they 
do whining and calling names, they'd be so much ahead of the ball 
instead of behind it that it wouldn't be funny.  Jeez, Louise, just deal 
with it and move forward.

Thanks for being a bright spot!

-- 
Jeff Guerdat

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Grader" and a President who isn't?         Alan Shore in "Boston
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