Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:52:02 +0100
From   : mike@... (Mike Tomlinson)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

In article <4C4E5461.2040809@...>, Rick Murray <rick@...>
writes

>WinXP is okay, IE6 is the problem. XP SP2 means you're effectively 
>dropping out of the update cycle. Are you on always-on broadband?

If he is, his box is 0wned.  No question.  Bob, putting an unpatched Win
box on the internet (even behind a NAT router) these days isn't just
asking for trouble, it's guaranteed.

>Uhhhh... Show of hands for who likes it?

Vi$ta was terrible, but I could be persuaded to go to 7.  Gave the betas
a whirl and it isn't too bad.  Still a terrible cpu and memory hog
though, and I kinda resent that.

Thing is, you can't upgrade from XP, you have to do a fresh install and
I have everything just how I like it on XP.  The cost also puts me off;
if I got 7, I'd want the Pro version which isn't available on the
student discount scheme.

This box I'm typing on now has been upgraded from DOS6.22/Win3.1 thru
95, 98, (skipped Me and NT4) 2000, and now XP.  I only recently blew
away the c:\dos directory :-)

>[note: "it is better than Vista" does not count as a reason for liking 
>it; a French magazine summed it up nicely with "now that the awful Vista 
>is behind us, Windows7 more or less brings us back to what XP is capable 
>of, think of it like XP with a service pack four..."]

Nicely put.

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