We have a new euphemism for 'patch'
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"Security Rollup Package". Love it! Microsoft have released a new patch - er, update, er, service pack, no, I mean security rollup package for W2K that covers all known security issues since SP2. Get it while it's hot. I assume the usual suspects will point and laugh if this is already common knowledge. cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: covers all known security issues since SP2. Get it while it's hot. It's so hot that yesterday night I spend about 3 hours recovering from problems which occured after I started the installation of the patch and then I shut down the machine a little bit prematurely (but it was a "normal" shutdown, no power-off thing). After that all I was getting was exception right after startup in the lsass.exe and it was shutting down my PC after one minute. After a lot of struggle I managed to login as administrator and re-apply the patch, seems to be working now... So, get it while it's hot, but keep your eyes open and be ready for surprises ;)
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Chris Maunder wrote: covers all known security issues since SP2. Get it while it's hot. It's so hot that yesterday night I spend about 3 hours recovering from problems which occured after I started the installation of the patch and then I shut down the machine a little bit prematurely (but it was a "normal" shutdown, no power-off thing). After that all I was getting was exception right after startup in the lsass.exe and it was shutting down my PC after one minute. After a lot of struggle I managed to login as administrator and re-apply the patch, seems to be working now... So, get it while it's hot, but keep your eyes open and be ready for surprises ;)
You know what George? I wish you'd posted this an hour or so ago :( Just installed the patch on one of the servers and after everything was done (and after waiting a few minutes) did a restart. The machine died and it'll be a few hours before someone can come in and fix things up on that server. :mad: cheers, Chris Maunder
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You know what George? I wish you'd posted this an hour or so ago :( Just installed the patch on one of the servers and after everything was done (and after waiting a few minutes) did a restart. The machine died and it'll be a few hours before someone can come in and fix things up on that server. :mad: cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: You know what George? I wish you'd posted this an hour or so ago This is where I am safe. It will take me so long to download it that by the time I download it I'll have gotten feedback on the patch :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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Chris Maunder wrote: covers all known security issues since SP2. Get it while it's hot. It's so hot that yesterday night I spend about 3 hours recovering from problems which occured after I started the installation of the patch and then I shut down the machine a little bit prematurely (but it was a "normal" shutdown, no power-off thing). After that all I was getting was exception right after startup in the lsass.exe and it was shutting down my PC after one minute. After a lot of struggle I managed to login as administrator and re-apply the patch, seems to be working now... So, get it while it's hot, but keep your eyes open and be ready for surprises ;)
Yes, it did take an abnormally long time for the patch to apply itself on my machines with ATAPI drives, but it was relatively painless with the SCSI machines. Jon Sagara What about :bob:?
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You know what George? I wish you'd posted this an hour or so ago :( Just installed the patch on one of the servers and after everything was done (and after waiting a few minutes) did a restart. The machine died and it'll be a few hours before someone can come in and fix things up on that server. :mad: cheers, Chris Maunder
:( Guess I know what I'm look at this morning. David http://www.dundas.com
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You know what George? I wish you'd posted this an hour or so ago :( Just installed the patch on one of the servers and after everything was done (and after waiting a few minutes) did a restart. The machine died and it'll be a few hours before someone can come in and fix things up on that server. :mad: cheers, Chris Maunder
Odd, I installed it, and have not experienced any problems. Yet... :-D
Bruce Duncan | The Digital Delirium | Sonork ID 100.10030 Aythos
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You know what George? I wish you'd posted this an hour or so ago :( Just installed the patch on one of the servers and after everything was done (and after waiting a few minutes) did a restart. The machine died and it'll be a few hours before someone can come in and fix things up on that server. :mad: cheers, Chris Maunder
I installed the patch and i didnt have any problems :-) :) Cheers Kannan
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:( Guess I know what I'm look at this morning. David http://www.dundas.com
I like to leave you surprises :D cheers, Chris Maunder
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Odd, I installed it, and have not experienced any problems. Yet... :-D
Bruce Duncan | The Digital Delirium | Sonork ID 100.10030 Aythos
I was giving Nick Hodapp (MS VC++ PM) a hard time the other day and he threatened to insert
#ifdef CHRIS_MAUNDER
random_crash(SEVERITY_TERMINAL);
#endifito their code. And I thought he was joking :rolleyes: cheers, Chris Maunder
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You know what George? I wish you'd posted this an hour or so ago :( Just installed the patch on one of the servers and after everything was done (and after waiting a few minutes) did a restart. The machine died and it'll be a few hours before someone can come in and fix things up on that server. :mad: cheers, Chris Maunder
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Was it? Last two days have not been chking CP out too often :-( Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Last two days have not been checking CP out too often * Noooooooooo! Come back to us, we need you to post at least once/minute as normal :-D Where would CP be without you Nish? (This sounds like a dangerous question) *Notice, I am so kind, I even corrected spelling mistakes. Feel free to correct all mine. Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I'm not breathing, I'm either dead or holding my breath. A fool jabbers, while a wise man listens. But is he so wise to listen to the fool?
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Why dont they just call it UBF [Universal Bug Fix]? Isn't that what the patches or SPs are! Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Why dont they just call it UBF [Universal Bug Fix]? Isn't that what the patches or SPs are! We all know that, Microsoft knows that we know it, BUT Microsoft have always maintained that non of their products have ever had a bug in them. Problems are always "issues", "next version feature", "design decisions" or "user faults" :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge Martin Marvinski wrote: Unfortunatly Deep Throat isn't my cup of tea Do you Sonork? I do! 100.9903 Stormfront
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Why dont they just call it UBF [Universal Bug Fix]? Isn't that what the patches or SPs are! Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Why dont they just call it UBF [Universal Bug Fix]? Because it isn't true... It should be MBF [Massive Bug Fix] Universal would mean all bugs solved. Crivo Automated Credit Assessment
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Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: Why dont they just call it UBF [Universal Bug Fix]? Because it isn't true... It should be MBF [Massive Bug Fix] Universal would mean all bugs solved. Crivo Automated Credit Assessment
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D A good joke is worth a thousand bytes. Well done Daniel. You've just earned yourself 1000 bytes [24 short of a KB] Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
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"Security Rollup Package". Love it! Microsoft have released a new patch - er, update, er, service pack, no, I mean security rollup package for W2K that covers all known security issues since SP2. Get it while it's hot. I assume the usual suspects will point and laugh if this is already common knowledge. cheers, Chris Maunder
Everyone has figured out what 'service pack' really means, so they had to go and change the language. Perhaps this is what Bill was talking about in the 'security is top priority' letter. "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." - Omar Bradley
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Chris Maunder wrote: You know what George? I wish you'd posted this an hour or so ago This is where I am safe. It will take me so long to download it that by the time I download it I'll have gotten feedback on the patch :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut
By the time you finish downloading Win2K will have joined DOS in the bit-bucket Fixing Microsoft bugs must be a lot like herding cats...
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I was giving Nick Hodapp (MS VC++ PM) a hard time the other day and he threatened to insert
#ifdef CHRIS_MAUNDER
random_crash(SEVERITY_TERMINAL);
#endifito their code. And I thought he was joking :rolleyes: cheers, Chris Maunder
I've known about the random_crash() function, having found it in use in many products, especially popular GUI OSs. Thanks for sharing the correct syntax, Chris:-D I've found a reliable way to prevent all user-induced errors! It executes from the Run= key in the Registry, and immediately restarts the PC!