Re: is XP SP2 RC2 advisable for the average FCKGW user?

From: gls858 (gls858_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:31:31 -0500

Donald McDaniel wrote:

> "newton klea" <nuklea@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:6a18cd0.0406231045.4143101b@posting.google.com
>
>>"Mike Brannigan [MSFT]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com> wrote in
>>message
>>
>>>Windows XP SP2 works perfectly well with legally licensed copies of
>>>Windows XP.
>>
>>not true! i own a oem version of xp that came with my laptop. after
>>installing xp sp2 last week my laptop is dead as door nail when it
>>comes to connectivity to outside world. i can connect to my wireless
>>admin port and internal webserver just fine but when i attempt to go
>>outside ie just sitting there doing blank page stare...no time out or
>>anything. disable proxy that came with sp2 is no help neither. if i
>>boot up my pc with no wlan card and then pluck it in later the linksys
>>not even assign me an ip. before i can do wlan card insert before,
>>during or after the boot up and i was ready to go. my immediate choice
>>is to back out this crap...even backing out it screwed up all of my
>>previous setting. my concern right now is to get internet connectivity
>>so i haven't test all of my other apps yet. sad that i'm spending time
>>to fix what this piece of crap is doing to my computer. my advice, if
>>you have no problem with your computer security, skip this upgrade.
>>you probably need a phd in cs to make this work. a simple proxy and
>>virus scan apps from third party work better than what ms is giving
>>us.
>
>
> Why don't these people ever use proper puctuation in their rambles?
>
> Haven't you ever heard of separating your thoughts by using short, concise
> paragraphs?
> Haven't you ever heard of using commas or semi-colons to separate clauses?
> Have you never heard of the convention of using two spaces to separate
> sentences?
> Didn't you know that the first word in a sentence is always capitalized?
> The personal pronoun, "I", should always be capitalized.
> Use a semi-colon (";") instead of an ellipsis ("...") to separate complex
> sentences.
> Use "an" before words which begin with a vowel.
> "Pluck" is a verb meaning "pull" or "pick up", not "put"
> "Disable proxy" at the beginning of a sentence implies the presence of a
> second person to whom you are speaking a command. The proper clause should
> be "Disabling the proxy...") Notice the correct use of an ellipsis: to show
> that more text follows, but is not quoted.
>
> By the way, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Release Candidate 2 works perfectly
> well on my system, and probably on the systems of a hundred thousand other
> persons.
>
> The web page which contains links to download XP SP2, RC2 contains
> instructions which state that the Release Candidate is beta software, and
> should not be installed on your working system.
>
Hey, maybe the guy is e.e.cummings :-)

gls858