XP Service Pack 2

[ShadowSA]

Hi all

Anybody installed XP service pack 2? I see they've updated a lot of the security settings and by default the firewall is turned on and all ports are closed.

I just want to know if anybody installed it and if it worked ok running a proxy? If not what where and how did you open up the security settings?

Thanks[]

P.S. I'm getting a lot of unavailable websites lately, even local ones. It's not that the speed is slow, but the pages are unavialable the first few times I click on them. Wazzup with that? A setting on my side?

Enjoy the weekend![8D]

 

[gripen]

Im running XP SP2 RC1 in conjunction with my firewall/proxy. I turned off their firewall although it does look a helluva lot better than the first attempt. Its still not ideal and I wouldnt trust it but for your average user it is a decent firewall. I havent picked up one bug yet from using the RC1 SP for all those cranky whiney people who are extrememly afraid of betas (sorry but they really get up my nose)

I would recommend using SP2 since it will make your PC more secure and includes a bunch of noticeable security fixes. The IE popup blocker is also pretty useful. In fact I cant live without it anymore

 

[BTTB]

I have been using Sp2 since Xmas last year. One or two bugs but generally an improvement over Sp1.

<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">

 

[dbnnet]

As for those unavailable websites... I am experiencing exactly the same.
Been like this for a few days already.

 

[Luke7777]

Same here. Even this forum. every now and then, "Cannot find server", refresh and there it is. win 98se, not XP

 

[Claymore]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by dbnnet</i>
<br />As for those unavailable websites... I am experiencing exactly the same.
Been like this for a few days already.

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Ditto...very annoying.

 

[BTTB]

This must be the "best effort" service that Telkom must be talking about.

This is the path forward with Telkom.
<b>"Telkom know, that the chances of competition coming into the country is very slim so they can do what they want. The day that they do have competition will be the day that they claim to have found new technology that will enable them to reduce costs of a call by plenty."</b>

<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">

 

[dbnnet]

I wonder if we used Sentech/Infosat's Proxy server as a default setting,
this "unavailable" issue would go away?

 

[Zefrem23]

They have a proxy server??!!?! What's the address/port?

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for those of you who like this type of thing, this is the type of thing you will like

 

[Donovan]

Okay, where are ya'll getting SP2? It's not on the Windows Update site?

[:I]

 

[dbnnet]

proxy2s.infosat.co.za 168.210.90.130

 

[gripen]

SP2 can be obtained at www.suprnova.org using bittorrent (latest build) or at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx
direct link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/a/f/5aff45ae-ef27-4821-b666-d2b6530cbe4f/xpsp2.exe

It is still in RC1 phase so not a final release. Thats why its not in windows update. And dont worry, RC1 doesnt mean BETA. It works 100% fine for me

 

[Donovan]

Thank you

 

[Ditch]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by greedyflyza</i>
<br />... is still in RC1 phase so not a final release. Thats why its not in windows update. And dont worry, RC1 doesnt mean BETA. It works 100% fine for me
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It's definitely beta, and "RC1" definitely means beta. Being stable for you doesn't mean it's not beta, if it wasn't beta it would be called the official release!

 

[gripen]

no.. its ALPHA-&gt;BETA-&gt;RC1-&gt;RC2-&gt;(RC3)-&gt;RTM

so its passed the BETA stage. Its now what you can call in a "preview" stage.

Let me guess, you one of those ppl that whine about BETAs?

The implication was that if it works 100% for me if should work pretty well for any other similar users. Not 100% of everyone. Chill.

To be fair, I havent used or tested the new firewall personally (for more than a few pages etc) but everything else works well.

 

[Ditch]

Call it what you like. But "RC1" is just a nice marketing euphemism so that people don't think of it as "beta", because "beta" sounds like something that is unstable, while "release candidate" sounds like something that is "so good we might even release it" (sure!). But it's just a nice name for "beta". Software is either ready for official release, or it's not. Essentially by *definition*, it's beta until the "official release". Very roughly speaking, "beta" usually implies some sort of 'feature freeze' and when stabilizing development starts, while "alpha" generally means destabilizing development is done (i.e. adding new features). However, Microsoft continues to add features continuing right through all betas and RCs, and never at any point does the number of bugs stop anyway (just because it doesn't crash with you doesn't mean it doesn't crash), it just usually approaches zero, and software is always released long before all known issues are resolved, so effectively there are NO solid, measurable criteria that make one piece of software a this or a that - it's more subjective than that. But feel free to check the definition at dictionary.com (actually the jargon files definition) - all the RCs fit the definition of beta.