not in all areas
they are not at any of the retail stores here.
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 18:58, Jim Popovitch wrote:
Fwiw, XP SP2 CDs are available at some PC retail outlets. I picked one
up from Best Buy late last week, and saw them again at a CompUSA over
the weekend. As with the download,
FWIW, SP2 rendered my Sony Vaio PCG-SR17 completely useless. From what
I can tell, it replaced the PCMCIA bridge driver (pcmcia.sys) with one
that does not work, and there is no way to roll back the driver to
the pre-XP2 one without rolling back the entire OS.
I am in an ongoing dialog with MS
ranting lunatic
SP2 will take a long time to even out the quirks from Windows users. We've
burned the image on to a CD for about 2000+ users and have copied the file
on to users' desktops so they can double click on it for the install. For
the most part, students complained about having to wait
Nanog folk,
Last week, I downloaded XP2 SP2 on one the major P2P networks (eDonkey).
Preliminary/FYI:
None of the large organizations I am involved with has deployed SP2 on a
large scale yet. Users that request it will likely get it (from a share
on a corporate server that is); some
Fwiw, XP SP2 CDs are available at some PC retail outlets. I picked one
up from Best Buy late last week, and saw them again at a CompUSA over
the weekend. As with the download, ymmv.
-Jim P.
On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 21:32, Michel Py wrote:
Nanog folk,
Last week, I downloaded XP2 SP2 on one the
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I hadn't heard they were keeping it off akamai.
Me neither. Although I had it for a while I downloaded it from the
Microsoft web site again twice today (did not bother to look where it
resolved), from home and office, and it
The CD's are supposed to hit Comp USA and Best BUy within the next month
or two for SP2.
The download link in this email should work fine for you even though it
is the large network install if you really need it and have broadband go
for it.
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:59, Sean Donelan wrote:
On
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You can order a Free CD on the Microsoft web site. Although it says 4-6
weeks, people report they are getting a CD in the mail in about a week.
Is distribution from all their worldwide offices, or will users outside
the USA
They will have to wait for international delivery.
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 04:18, Roland Perry wrote:
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Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
You can order a Free CD on the Microsoft web site. Although it says 4-6
weeks, people report they are getting a CD in the
Roland Perry wrote:
I'm an IT professional, but only one of my PCs is running XP.
And it's a full-price retail copy, not a bundled-OEM or upgrade.
Hence me feeling left out when I'm told that IT professionals
have already been allowed their Windows-update.
Every IT professional I know has
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Every IT professional I know has had SP2 available three different ways
for two weeks:
1) Somewhere on a server for support staff to begin to experiment with
and for a small set of guinea pig users to install.
2) On a CD
Already got mine and it went nice and smooth as far as I can tell.
Kudos to MS.
Has anyone noticed a real impact on the internet, traffic wise, related
to XP2? I'd suspect that some of the tier1's may see the traffic? Maybe
not?
-M
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I would be surprised if it wasn't on akamai, which would cut down on
much of the external traffic.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 12:01:24 -0400 , Hannigan, Martin
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Already got mine and it went nice and smooth as far as I can tell.
Kudos to MS.
Has anyone noticed a real
That URL does resolve to Akamai, but I had heard a rumor
they weren't going that route.
-M
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Subject: Re: XP SP2 other
I hadn't heard they were keeping it off akamai. I have heard they're
asking ISP's not to mirror it (and any other mirrors), and have shut
down bittorrent downloads. That's understandable as they would be
blamed if someone downloaded a compromised version (strange how they
didn't mind Sp1
Title: Re: XP SP2 other than windows update
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I hadn't heard they were keeping it off akamai. I have heard
they'reasking ISP's not to mirror
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steven Susbauer
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That's understandable as they would be blamed if someone downloaded a
compromised version (strange how they didn't mind Sp1 mirroring...).
I would have thought that they would have checksummed the file to a
known value, so
Steven Susbauer wrote:
I hadn't heard they were keeping it off akamai.
Me neither. Although I had it for a while I downloaded it from the
Microsoft web site again twice today (did not bother to look where it
resolved), from home and office, and it came each time in less than 15
minutes for the
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