Comment Lowly Tech-Rep's perspective on XP SP2 (Score 1) 471
I work for a major web-hosting company. I have been seeing several cases a day with the following two main problems:
1 - Mercantec PGP issues where SP2 changes the placement of quotes, changing strings for example:
"c:\blah\blah\foo.exe" "%1" becomes:
"c:\blah\blah\foo.exe "%1""
2 - Blocked ports.
Try walking a non-tech through changing a file-type association like that, or explaining that the reason they are receiving an error that states that their 'mail server is down or unavailable' is actually because an automatic update has suddenly changed some settings that they know nothing about.
The hardest thing is that the port-blocking seems to be random. I have not seen a pattern.
The file-association problem seems consistent.
I'm fairly indifferent. I have Debian, OpenBSD,and FreeBSD boxes for 'working' and utilities (music, general surfing, web-design), and an XP box for gaming, although I find myself console gaming more often.
1 - Mercantec PGP issues where SP2 changes the placement of quotes, changing strings for example:
"c:\blah\blah\foo.exe" "%1" becomes:
"c:\blah\blah\foo.exe "%1""
2 - Blocked ports.
Try walking a non-tech through changing a file-type association like that, or explaining that the reason they are receiving an error that states that their 'mail server is down or unavailable' is actually because an automatic update has suddenly changed some settings that they know nothing about.
The hardest thing is that the port-blocking seems to be random. I have not seen a pattern.
The file-association problem seems consistent.
I'm fairly indifferent. I have Debian, OpenBSD,and FreeBSD boxes for 'working' and utilities (music, general surfing, web-design), and an XP box for gaming, although I find myself console gaming more often.
