XP SP2

[reiverix]

Good luck on SP2. It's a monster of an install, almost like reinstalling the whole operating system.

I've had my share of hackers unfortunately. Well this wasn't exactly someone hacking into my system. About a year ago one of my servers got blasted with a dos attack for two days running. Damn that hurt.

[Flemin]

yeah there is alot of risk the only real way to be safe was to back every thing up on a JAZZ disk (like floppy's but able to hold like a gig of data and alot stronger) but I'm not sure if you can get em for PC and they're kinda like 4/5 yrs outta date but they were good while they lasted

[reiverix]

I remember those jazz drives. Never did have one but I did own a zip drive. It took the 100mb disks. That thing was a lifesaver back in the 'old' days.

Nowadays I just backup onto CDs. My PC is only used for programming (and surfing) so I only need to store the data. Actually, I have very little software on my computer which is fine by me.

[DevineHerring]

any one who is still using an MS OS by choice is in a sad sad state. IMHO the only reasons to runan MS "OS" :

1) Your job requires it.
I have this problem, as we support Windows as wll as *nix.
2) You are running an app that has no viable OSS alternitive.
I will admit this to be a valid case... as I run a dual boot XP system for the same reason but I use MS products only if there is no alternative because OSS video editing just isn't brain dead enough for my wife as of yet and I cant afford the *NIX commercial products.

3) You're simple minded git..

[reiverix]

1. Yes. Requires Unix and XP.

2. Yep. But Unix is hardly for the average home user. But then again neither is XP Pro. Most people will have no clue what IIS is.

3. I've noticed in my long career that unix users like nothing better than to make out it is something way more complex than it actually is. It's just an OS and nothing more and I've seen my share of it screwing up big time. I've aso seen XP screw up. That's the way it is.

Most people on this forum probably use XP and I don't think they are simple minded either.

[justin1987]

i dunno much about xp, except that it doesnt support most of the games!