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fuck's sake
i was supposed to be working on windows today, then xp sp3 decided to install itself. surely every xp machine is sp3 now?

chug chug chug chug chug

*dosses around on internet*

Ha! DOSses.

Hello everyone.
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:10, archived)
I'm still running SP2 I think
Edit: Yep just checked, SP2.
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:14, archived)
zonealarm just asked me for money
so it looks like i'm going to need the version with the working firewall anyway

it's been stuck on the first step for a right old eternity now. bah
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:17, archived)
Grrr! I hate slow installs.
I have a slightly less than legal copy of XP on my machine so I just turned off all the updates!
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:18, archived)
creating file sp3.cab
wow
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:23, archived)
Good times!

(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:25, archived)
Can you install sp3 without having sp1 or 2?
/thicko
(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:15, archived)
from microsoft.com
Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP; Windows XP Home Edition ; Windows XP Home Edition N; Windows XP Media Center Edition; Windows XP Professional Edition ; Windows XP Professional N; Windows XP Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Starter Edition; Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

so that looks like a yes. probably
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:22, archived)
Groovy, thanks.

(I helped save b3ta! BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:26, archived)
i'm still on 2000 at work...

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:16, archived)
My office still runs 2000.
Then again the computers we have probably aren't up to running xp!
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:17, archived)
My department is the least important when it comes to this sort of thing it seems.
Everyone else has got Vista.
(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:18, archived)
You aren't missing out
It's rubbish for business use
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:19, archived)
Maybe they do love me

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:23, archived)
you have to roll a 6 to get past 2000

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:17, archived)
I still have to maintain some 95 boxes
They have TURBO buttons and everything
(I helped save b3ta! Gooch Is neither here nor there, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:18, archived)
Amazing are the RM networks ones?
My school had half a dozen RM networks win95 pcs with turbo buttons. My 486 did too!
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:20, archived)
pfft haha my old 486 had a turbo button :)

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:20, archived)
Yep, mine did too.
I had a 486 with win 3.11 for workgroups and a quad speed cd rom drive.

Good times
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:22, archived)
It amuses me that you can now get about four CD ROM drives
for the price of a CD.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:22, archived)
That quad speed was an upgrade too!
Bought so I could play Doom!
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:23, archived)
Haha
I miss the old turbo buttons
(I helped save b3ta! Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:20, archived)
haha turbo button,
computers with a button on the only purpose of which is to make them go SLOWER so you can run old DOS programs that do timing by delay loops. Of course the marketing department won't stand for that sort of thing, they'll have us believe it actually makes the computer go faster.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:21, archived)
It is like my keyboard having the SysRq button on it.
Totally redundant these days!
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:24, archived)
remap it to "bacon"

(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:26, archived)
But then I need to install the bacon dispensing drivers.

(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:27, archived)
Scroll Lock

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:27, archived)
What did the SysRq button do?

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Tue 26 May 2009, 12:27, archived)
this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_request
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:29, archived)
Thank you.

(I helped save b3ta! Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Tue 26 May 2009, 12:36, archived)
it could have
been worse

i don't believe lisp programmers would know user-friendliness if it cons'd them on the head
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:41, archived)
I quite like the idea of having a 'Hyper' button!
That layout is awful though!
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:43, archived)
2000 is excellent
it's a perfect little chunk of "it just works." shame it's not supported very well these days
(I helped save b3ta! spacefish bong!, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:18, archived)
It is a good os for what we use it for.
But the work pcs are sooooo sloooow!
(I helped save b3ta! Anthropos Was making beer on, Tue 26 May 2009, 12:20, archived)