CaptainRAVE Posted October 26, 2001 Share Posted October 26, 2001 Microsoft's new operating system Windows XP has only been available to the public for one day, but already 20 MB of updates are available for download. Many of these downloads offer security patches or fixes for various bugs. A few are entirely new features. Although frequent updates may be a good way for people with quick internet connections to keep XP current, users with dial-up modem lines may struggle with long download times. Also, the auto-update feature could quickly become annoying. I have one word for this.......typical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KordKelly Posted October 26, 2001 Share Posted October 26, 2001 There is a 1.9MB Critical Update...That's rhe important one... All the other is just stuff like USP error fixes...Windows Movie Maker, and MSN Messenger updates... stuff you don't really need... (BTW-There is a WPM Driver D'load for Sound Blaster Live cards, if you have one...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 Are any of us really surprised? One thing is for sure...even if I had to upgrade to Win XP in the future...I'm not going to do it until most of the bugs have been ironed out by the biggest beta-testing machine out there...the end consumer. Shame on you Microsoft, for releasing yet another bug-ridden piece of bloatware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millions o' Monkeys Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 lol my brothers started using xp and he reckons its realy cool and all that but i personally believe its a loud of crap Windows XP xtreme pretiness [ October 27, 2001: Message edited by: Millions o' Monkeys ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cossack1812 Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 Windows XP Xtremely Pov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KordKelly Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 Have any of you even run XP??? I've had it running for 40 days/nights, with multiple processes running, and have had not one glitch, hiccup, or crash... XP is a gamers dream...I've found many games that work on XP, many more that work well on XP, and only a few older DOS games that wouldn't run at all... I suggest you all try it before you bash it...It's the best OS Bill and Co. have come out with yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted October 27, 2001 Author Share Posted October 27, 2001 We mean in general, most people have found its very buggy. Even though i dont know any of my friends that have had problems with it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardz Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 How can you have run it for 40days, I thought it had only just come out? Or is that only in the UK/ wardz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KordKelly Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 Originally posted by wardz: <STRONG>How can you have run it for 40days, I thought it had only just come out? Or is that only in the UK/ wardz</STRONG> Beta-Tester... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardz Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 Stupid Me.... BTW This is my 600th post on this forum, one of the first lot to manage this incredible feat! Hopefully there will be countless more people to follow! Heres to the next 600... :0) wardz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 Congrats wardz! <small>now where the hell did i find that midi</small> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted October 27, 2001 Author Share Posted October 27, 2001 While on the subject of posts, has anyone seen pretzel around here. He spammed to make himself a Jedi Kngiht and then stopped postsing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardz Posted October 27, 2001 Share Posted October 27, 2001 I was thinking about him the other day actually, from what I remember Gonk said what everyone else wanted to say to him and we never really saw him again. Probably for the best. hehe wardz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted October 27, 2001 Author Share Posted October 27, 2001 Yea. He was starting too drive us all mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acdcfanbill Posted October 28, 2001 Share Posted October 28, 2001 poor prez... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted October 28, 2001 Share Posted October 28, 2001 He posted the other day? I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluRR1587246507 Posted October 28, 2001 Share Posted October 28, 2001 Why do all of you guys bash MS? What did they ever do to you? Pretty much all of their products that I've used have been satisfactory at the least... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acdcfanbill Posted October 28, 2001 Share Posted October 28, 2001 the sheer size of an OS makes it impossible to catch all the bugs in an acceptable output time... i like to look at it like, MS is really on top of things getting out patches for the bugs that fell through the cracks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KordKelly Posted October 28, 2001 Share Posted October 28, 2001 Originally posted by BluRR: <STRONG>Why do all of you guys bash MS? What did they ever do to you? Pretty much all of their products that I've used have been satisfactory at the least...</STRONG> They do it because it's the "in" thing to do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed_silvergun Posted October 29, 2001 Share Posted October 29, 2001 Look, say there's a million lines of code in an operating system (in fact, there's quite a lot more). Say that the programming is 99% accurate, ie. there's only 1% of the lines of code which have errors in them. That's still 10,000 bugs. That puts in perpective for you how difficult it is to create a bug-free operating system, before you all rush to criticise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted October 29, 2001 Share Posted October 29, 2001 hmmm... Open Source? If people look at the code, they catch bugs quicker, usually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRAVE Posted October 29, 2001 Author Share Posted October 29, 2001 Win XP Cracked Hours After Release......A lot of the advertising campaign and the controversy, real or manufactured, over Windows XP focused on the OS's anti-theft features. It has become painfully obvious however, that illegal installation files that bypass registration for WinXP were available within hours of it being for sale. While everyone assumed that some method would be devised in order to avoid the registration process, no one could have imagined the speed with which these "bypass" files found their way onto the internet, through Far Eastern sites at first, and then on to Warez sites. Yesterday Malaysian Street Markets offered the latest Windows OS for a mere 1.3 USD. An interesting photograph that proves the speed of the black market in the Far East can be seen in the TaiPei Times. (You can find the link in the download section). Another interesting feature of the activation files is that they were compiled using publicly available monitoring tools. The simplicity and basic nature of the files, strongly suggest that someone in Redmond greatly underestimated the intelligence of the Cracker community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Krayt Tion Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 Well, from the look of things, XP will be my next main Gaming OS... eventually. SP1 is fast approaching, but it won't be till at least after they release SP2 for XP that I will attempt to seriously use the OS. I won't be one of the paying Beta Testers dank ya. If I have the money (ha) I might pick up XP Pro and give it a partition, but only to mess with it. I can tell you right now I won't be using XP to play JO. My computer isn't top of the line any more and it doesn't make sense drain more resources and bring in more bloat. There are undeniable advantages of using XP when compared to 98SE, but I will only need fast framerates and stable performance right now- which a well-maintained 98SE does good enough. I'm looking forward to tweaking the hell outta XP and gaming on it with new hardware but that won't be for some time still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
access_flux Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 i heard that this OS is the Best out of all the Windows lot, so i am gonna have a look into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
access_flux Posted October 30, 2001 Share Posted October 30, 2001 Originally posted by BluRR: Why do all of you guys bash MS? What did they ever do to you? Pretty much all of their products that I've used have been satisfactory at the least... why do we bash it? becasue its ****! it sucks. they are always crashing. my kernel decides to go on holiday when ever it wants. microsoft sucks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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