Re: ***** sp2 bREAKS eVERYTHING!!!!! *****

From: aleecat (aleecat_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:55:02 -0800

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:

> "suggesting a new OS is perfectly reasonable."
> Possibly, but that link was not posted as "suggesting a new OS is
> perfectly reasonable."
> It was posted as "patch that can fix this."
> Now if you are saying Linux is a patch your point may be valid.
>
> Amy said one thing then sent unsuspecting people somewhere else.
> It is not relevant if the site is clear for what it is, it is not at
> all as Amy suggested.
> Is that typical behaviour expected from Linux users.
> Do they feel it is necessary to deceive to get people to their sites?
> If the above is true, I guess this is acceptable...to them.
> But I doubt most Linux users support deception as a valid tool to
> advertise the product.
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/
>
>
> "Dick Kistler" <dickkist@nospam-hotmail.com> wrote in message > Again,
> the site is perfectly clear as to what it is. If you construe from
> > the incoherent post of the OP that his problem is with Windows
> > itself
> > suggesting a new OS is perfectly reasonable. It is entirely possible
> > that a Linux install would go much better than his experience with
> > SP2. I can't see the problem. It's just that I don't see Windows as
> > the only solution to all problems. Besides, I don't know from the
> > OP's
> > post what his question is, and this may actually be the right answer
> > for him.
> >
> > If the OP is clueless enough to unwittingly blow his Windows install
> > away,
> > he will have learned a valuable lesson. Maybe this would be
> > important
> > to him in the long run. My opinion is that you can't protect the
> > clueless
> > if they insist on remaining clueless. But my guess is that the OP
> > has figured
> > out what is going on, and is not as dumb as you assume him to be.
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> "Robert E. Wijnberg" <rob@bekijk.het.maar> wrote in message
> >> news:ch7u67$icp$1@taurus.wijnberg.xs4all.nl...
> >>> Michael Solomon (MS-MVP Windows Shell/User) wrote:
> >>>> At the very least, post what it is. Are Linux fans so hard up
> >>>> for
> >>>> new adherents that they can't at least abide by truth in
> >>>> advertising. This is not a patch, it fixes nothing, it is a
> >>>> completely separate
> >>>> operating system and if you install without realizing this, you
> >>>> might wipe out your current setup.
> >>>>
> >>> Said this, I wonder why they called this a *service pack*.
> >>> MS is using the user community as their free test lab.
> >>> What has this post to do with Linux?
> >>> I'm using both and I've never seen these kind of problems on Linux
> >>> systems.
> >
> > Fedora Core 2- NVidia drivers, Lucent Winmodem drivers, etc.
> >
> > This kind of thing happens so often in Linux that we don't even
> > notice it any more.
> > Linux and its applications change so quickly that we see the SP2
> > problem every
> > time we update. Or at least I do. Maybe there is some advantage in
> > this. However,
> > Linux developers are continually using their users as a "test lab."
> > It's the only
> > way that the OS can advance.
> >
> > The truth of the matter is that as time goes on, OS's grow and
> > change. This can happen
> > in big lumps, like SP2, with lots of pain, or in small lumps, like
> > Linux, being pecked to death
> > by ducks. The clueless are ill equiped for either scenario, and will
> > have massive difficulty
> > coping with either if they insist on remaining clueless..
> >
> > *** Kistler
>
>
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