From: "Geo." 

Actually I was talking about slammer and it's affect on SQL servers all
over the place (I wasn't really thinking about at MS because they install
from an internal server instead of installing from CD).

Geo.

"Rich"  wrote in message news:3e381f62{at}w3.nls.net...
   George was going on about Slapper at Microsoft.  You can rant on other
topics if you want but it makes no difference.

   I also gree that George's conclusions are unsupported by his premise and
argument but since the premise was false, the rest falls apart anyway.

Rich

  "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3e3808c2{at}w3.nls.net...
  I don't think i'd agree with it being a false premise, at least for a
  majority of us users out here -- products are on CD and the copy
protection
  is that activation crap and the product key.

  Anyway, i don't see what he is saying would work either, most people don't
  have the bandwidth to be downloading a CD everytime they want to do an
  install...

  - Bob Comer


  "Rich"  wrote in message news:3e3805ce$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     From below, that installs are from CD and that the products are copy
  protected.  His full rant probably contains more.

  Rich

  "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
  news:3e378a2a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
  What false premise?

  - Bob Comer


  "Rich"  wrote in message news:3e378899$1{at}w3.nls.net...
     The first problem with George's rant is that it is based on a false
  premise.

  Rich

  "Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in message
  news:3e3762ee{at}w3.nls.net...
  That really sounds likea a good idea. Unfortunately I think it will
probably
  never happen :-(


  Antti Kurenniemi

  "Geo."  wrote in message
news:3e374ea7{at}w3.nls.net...
  > yes I read all about it. It occurs to me that a big part of the
  > problem with how they are dealing with this problem is
  > actually related to copy protection. One of the things that
  > causes all these unpatched machines to continuously be
  > available is that people are always doing new
  > installs/re-installs for whatever reasons. They are forced
  > to use the original CD which of course contains unpatched
  > code, then apply service pack and lord knows how many
  > hot fixes.[snip]

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