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

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From: Donald McDaniel (orthocrossNOSPAMPLEASE_at_cablespeed.com)
Date: 06/24/04 

Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 12:23:46 -0700

"gls858" <gls858@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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

I never read any of E. E. Cummings' poetry. I can make no judgment about
his use of the English language.

However, from what I've heard of E.E. Cummings, this guy is no E. E.
Cummings. 

-- 
Donald L McDaniel
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