Windows2000 Service Pack 2

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• change where your temp directory is. right click my computer / properties. Advanced, environment variabl... : Polish Sausage
• if you have the original full CD, you don't need to backup your old system stuff. You can just reinstal... : the archvile

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• Oops, wrong thread. I R smurt : avixe
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  how exactly is George W. Bush responsible for the current gas prices? : theQ
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    Yea, I would like to know exactly how GWB is responsible for the gas prices also. That was left from th... : stack
    • Well, it is clearly known that their is no shortage of gas in the United States, the companies have stat... : eXcess

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  did you have ata/100? : carnivore
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    No, just old ATA/33. Seems like the memory managment is better or the handling of virtual memory. A lo... : SlimJim
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      heh, this would be good news for me; I have 384 megs of RAM, and I rarely pead above 200. Well, once,... : the archvile
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        Uhm.. thats INSANE!! : {Venger}
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          what, the memory usage or the 7 windows of Q3? : the archvile
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            The seven windows :) : {Venger}
            • yeah. I tried having them run games, but it got REALLY slow, so I made a cinematic loop instead. : the archvile
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        I don't think my system has paged to disk since I set it up... but then again, I have 512MB of PC2100 : timmie
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          #146, RAMdisk? NT Pages no matter what your memory, unless you tweaked it... : indeego
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            can you set up a RAMdisk in win2k? There should be some way but I have no idea how. I'd love to be abl... : DinK
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              #149, Yeah there are third party static drives you can buy, expensive as shit, and I'm sure you can do it... : indeego
              • By third party drives, you mean hardware right? I know solid-state storage is pretty expensive. Hope... : DinK
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            ok, then I just haven't noticed it yet... Damn silent hard drive, I can never tell when it's accessing! : timmie
            • I'm running 512MB PC-133 on my personal box at home. If it's paging to disk, I haven't noticed it yet. :... : Quagmire
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        #105, I like the little piece of Mac in there... nice touch... : indeego
        • that's the pic of the "G4 Cube tissue dispenser" from HardOCP. : the archvile
• it's the work of the devil i tell ya. : dodob
• My timedemo went up .2 frames from 91.3 to 91.5... but that's not too shabby for a 16mb TNT2 model 64 ;)... : xt-malevolence
• Yeah I saw a slight increase. Q3 demo127 went from 67 to 69 on my (rather low end) celeron 550 and GeFo... : DinK

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  yeah cross your fingers and hope your name doesn't appear in the MS black list. : dodob
  • hehe, my copy of win2k is legit. :) : Quagmire
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  Timedemo Quake3 first. Then again after you install it. : SlimJim
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    According to some people I know sp2 adds some new OpenGL libraries. Maybe this is why you saw a perform... : Greased Monkey
    • 178 - OpenGL32.dll just got replaced on my system during upgrading. Don't think I have any benchmarks ar... : Carnivac

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• Not that I've seen. Been running it on 2 computers for an hour or so now. Two more still to patch up. : Quagmire
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  Expect some XbOX integration in all MS OS's. : xbox
  • That will be ok. Then I can download buy Halo for the XBox and play it on my PC. Sounds good too me. : SlimJim
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  It says on the MS website somewhere that it's just bugfixes because customers asked for service packs to... : nudel
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    I'm fine with that policy; that kind of "bundle all the crap we can" attitude is what led to the spyware... : the archvile
    • heh, I'm certainly in favour of them fixing the broken stuff before adding more crap like Media Bloater ... : nudel

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  "Is this because I have Partition Magic 6 installed or something?" Yes. More then likely. : SlimJim
  • I'd stay away from Partition Magic unless you're doing something hardcore, like dual booting Win2K and L... : the archvile

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• You just can't trust anyone these days. : acheron
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  "I've had numerous hacks attempted on my server recently," It was those red Chinese! : SlimJim
  • Bastards!! >:( heh. : Quagmire
  • a test server here at work that a guy put together the other day already got hacked by the chinese. He l... : Polish Sausage

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• thanks, 700k/sec and rising. ;) : andromeda
• Good lord man... I just VNC'd to home (@home cable modem, bay area, CA) and downloaded SP2 from the s : Polish Sausage

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• udf : dodob

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• I used XP Beta 1 and I thought it booted up a whole lot quicker then Win2k. Also the CDRW drive is trea : SlimJim
• Pluses: Less time loading service packs and fixes. But you know that will be mute a year after release. : indeego

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  yeah im getting about the same.. 30-35kBps : OverBurN
  • getting 100k/sec .. my DSL's max : bad karma

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• nope. im alive and so is my compter... : mohmar

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  go into System preferences, Advanced, Startup And Recovery, and take off Automatic Reboot. I got piss... : StimpyBoy-KNoB-
  • Uh, then I get random BSODS, that's hardly an improvement :) Oh, and 4 times out of 5 the machine wou... : Toraz Chryx
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  Looky here, no more reboots. http://freepages.ugo.com/q3a/files/reboot.gif : SlimJim
  • now dat's what I'm talking about. Heh, ever see a joystick driver crash your system? I have :( : StimpyBoy-KNoB-

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• only on the shack, tho, heh : carnivore

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• i don't think it does... ms (wisely) does only fixes in this : carnivore

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  hey i'm running this on a gx110 too! :) win2k is smooooth though, even with only 128megs of ram. pro... : dodob
  • Nice, only an P!!! 866Mhz here, but games run crappy on the i810e chipset....ah the joys of being a Syst... : galvatron

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  the (tech)demo for the game is horrible dont bother, get the full version of NOLF or forget it : ease_one
  • what's wrong with it? It looked okay (except for the sticking control keys, which were fixed with SP1. : the archvile
  • there is a NOLF 'sampler' demo they released after the tech demo. it was on their site & i found it on a... : A-54

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• "Now if I could only take my boss into using FreeBSD as our main OS..." You may have a hard time ge... : mp7rox
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  sounds good. I'll leave the machine on while I sleep and pray it all downloads. : mofo
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    I remember those long ass nights where you'ld start a download only to get booted in the middle of it. g... : *metal*
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      it took my friend 8 hours to download Q3DEMOTEST on a 56k; at one point, he was down to 2400 baud. : the archvile
      • Either a win modem, noisy phone line, crappy ISP, or the server was bogged. Or several of those. : SlimJim

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  I love this question: Does Windows 2000 SP2 work on Windows NT operating systems? : LightningBoy
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    there are still obstinate NT4 users that think Microsoft is still actively supporting it. : the archvile
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      so I assume this is the last Win2k SP we'll see now that WinXP is coming out? : LightningBoy
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        nah, WinXP is too bloated for me, and I think that many admins will think likewise. : the archvile
        • but what about all the pretty buttons you'll be missing out on?? : LightningBoy
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        I saw a reference in an MS security bulleting about SP3, so probably not the last one : rickmus
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          NT 4 hit like Sp6 : j3uk.
          • 6a in fact; they screwed up a bunch of things in SP6. : the archvile
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      NT4 works better and is faster than W2K (unless you ask MS) : kjeldsen
      • lighter, yes. Better, no. : the archvile

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• Elmo's Reading Preschool & Kindergarten is finally supported! Schweet! : Dread Pirate Roberts
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  read the date, that compat up is from march : hawkeye
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    I wonder why it just showed up for me when I had all the updates previously? : SlimJim
    • The March update reappeared a few days ago for me too. Just like that, I didn't install SP2 or anything. : Ender

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• yeah, probably : hawkeye
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  everything except Datacenter Server. : the archvile
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    Must .. find .. DataCenter ISO Heh, riight : avixe
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      you really don't want it. stick with adv server. : inferno73
      • yeah, Datacenter is for huge servers with up to 32 processors. : the archvile
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        I'd just like to play with it, is all. : avixe
        • Worst..... ISO.... EVER! : *metal*
        • don't do it; instead, find a server running it. : the archvile

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  that would be a good investment; of course, you could shell out the $40 per month for a cablemodem. : the archvile
  • i would venture a guess cable or dsl is not in his area : ease_one
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    not in my area. And DSL is just too much initially (installation, modem, and all these other charges). I : mofo
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      install the dsl yourself fool lots of times modems come free. around here.. : ease_one
      • yup and on win2k its damn easy : |mali|
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        they usually charge you for installation/etc even if you do it yourself. They used to call it a "setu... : batkiwi
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          well around here in seattle we can either pay for someone to install it or install it ourself and save a... : ease_one
          • ahh, suplising! I swear, everyone wonders why all the dsl companies other than the bells are going ou... : batkiwi
• Just a thought, but why not have a friend burn it for you? : severe

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• BAHAHAHAHAHAHA! : timmie

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  ata/100 support finally added... i think this is indeed the patch ;-) now, if only i had ata/100 : carnivore
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    I can't believe it wasn't supported before. That's just poor. I guess this means my hard drive will... : avixe
    • sweet! /starts downloading... : timmie

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• yeah .. it looked like it is pretty much just the bundle of fixes ... Has anyone that regularly updat... : Dread Pirate Roberts

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  It is. Microsoft owns Conxion. : SlimJim
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    Uhhh...since when? Conxion lists microshaft as one of it's customers. http://www.conxion.com/customers... : Djinn
    • Oh, I thought they bought them last year. Guess not. : SlimJim
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  of course not; would Microsoft want service pack downloads bogging down its network? msvaus.www.conxion... : the archvile
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    I'm guessing this server is in Virginia somewhere considering I have a <10ms ping to it : LightningBoy
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      msvaus = Microsoft, Virginia, United States : the archvile
      • yeah, that would make sense. : LightningBoy
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  what i ment was its not publicly announced, is it leaked or something : |mali|
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    nah, maybe someone guessed the path to where SP2 would be (pretty obvious), and then scored a hit. It... : the archvile
    • yea it looks ligit .. no cirts tho.. i dont think sp1 had a cert by i cant remember : |mali|

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  The pack hasn't been officially "launched" yet. Somehow word of the binaries got out. : Djinn
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    Sounds strange to me .. think I'll wait :/ : Dread Pirate Roberts
    • I guess it's like what happened with the IE6 preview... : FlyingButtPliers
• MS is busy compiling the list of bugs it fixes... ha ha : carnivore