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2004/8/9 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:32783 Activity:high
8/9     Funny.  XP SP2 doesn't allow me to download the MS update ActiveX
        control.
        \_ I'd wait a week before installing SP2.  Let someone else find all
           the problems.
           \_ Oh, I'm planning to wait 2 weeks before anything serious.  This
              was a test on a vmware machine.
              \_ Good plan.  Except if you don't install right away, that
                 delays when I can install it.  :-)
              \_ What's the point? They are not gonna change the sp2 binary.
                 \_ Unless they release sp2a.  And I'm happy to let others
                    figure out the workarounds for MS stupidity rather than
                    tear my own hair out.
                 \_ The point, dear lad, is that if it turns out to be very
                    fucked like many MS patches in the not so distant past
                    then they *will* change the binary and the smart people
                    will download XP SP2-a while you're in tears wondering
                    how you'll get your system back from what XP SP2 did to it.
        \_ The MIS dept at my work is warning people not to install it until
           they've tested it against our environment.
           \_ Mine has done the same. I wonder if we work for the same co. ;)
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