Windows XP Service Pack 3

Netizen · Tue 25 Dec, 2007 01.21

Nick Harvey wrote:Is there any particualr point in installing SP3 before it comes out in one of the regular Wednesday/Thursday downloads?

It enables you to post screenshots of higher version numbers than everyone else, thus increasing the size of one's e-penis.

Jamez · Tue 25 Dec, 2007 12.39

Amazingly I haven't received any spam today.

Hopefully our spamming friends in Indonesia and the Philippines have taken the day off. They'll be back to spamming the world tomorrow, though,

all new Phil · Tue 25 Dec, 2007 22.31

How come I never get any spam? Do they somehow know that you're hung like a miniature donkey, Jamez?

Jamez · Tue 25 Dec, 2007 23.21

Most of the spam I get is pretending to be big high street companies such as Tesco and Boots offering me fake gift vouchers.

Pete · Wed 26 Dec, 2007 09.07

I must congratulate gmail on the fact that since 2004 I've only ever recieved about 10 items of spam into my inbox with it sorting the other 50000 into the spam folder

Stuart* · Wed 02 Jan, 2008 19.22

Godfather wrote:I'm currently running Windows XP SP3

I installed XP SP3 after reading this thread, and my computer died later on that day! I'm not sure whether the two incidents are related, but needless to say I was not a happy bunny.

My PC was a (barely 2 years old) Packard Bell and I had already replaced the Power Unit which ceased to function just before last Christmas. I decided to give up with it and buy a new computer, although that means I'm now on the notoriously flawed MS Vista.

So far it has managed to find the right drivers for most of my peripherals. However, I can't get it to work my TV Capture software properly. I will keep trying. I also have AOL trying to download v9.1 which fails everytime.

Slagathor. · Wed 02 Jan, 2008 19.29

I love how Mac fans say that "the only thing that changed in Vista was the look," when they're plonking down a lot of cash every year for what is essentially a service pack where the look is one of the few minor tweaks made.

Sput · Wed 02 Jan, 2008 19.43

All you're proving there is that there are idiot mac fans as well as idiot PC fans like yourself. You've shown the same staggering ignorance in your post there.

Slagathor. · Wed 02 Jan, 2008 20.07

I haven't met a Mac fan who hasn't been all atwitter over the latest version. By your logic, that would mean that all Mac fans are idiots.

Until Steve Jobs gives up the ghost, rolls up his sleeves, and gets to work on Mac OS 11 or XI or whatever the hell they want to call it, I will remain staunchly anti-Mac. I don't like scams.

Sput · Wed 02 Jan, 2008 20.18

Slagathor. wrote:I haven't met a Mac fan who hasn't been all atwitter over the latest version. By your logic, that would mean that all Mac fans are idiots.

Until Steve Jobs gives up the ghost, rolls up his sleeves, and gets to work on Mac OS 11 or XI or whatever the hell they want to call it, I will remain staunchly anti-Mac. I don't like scams.

Have you even used a mac? It's not stupid to be happy with a new release if it's got good stuff in it. It's stupid to be totally ignorant about "the other side" but to criticise them nonetheless. It's YOUR logic that's flawed.

Jovis · Wed 02 Jan, 2008 20.20

This moaning about Apple seems to be clutching at straws somewhat.