OS Scratch Load Times
Blog My S6510 XP Pro recovery DVD is XP SP2, so it only needs to pick up SP3 and a few miscellaneous patches; but the S2110 recovery is SP1, and it is a long, painful process to get it through SP2, then SP3.
[November 20, 2008, 7:59]
Ya Need XP Service Pack 3? Yeah Buddy. I Got Ya Servicepack3 Right Here!
Blog Comment To use "Micro-Speak", the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for XP just went up for everybody that has been applying ISOs or approved and managed patches to SP2 prior to SP3. The "virgin" install I'm talking about, a SP1 with SP2 slip-stream, didn't...
[June 18, 2008, 9:25]
XP SP3 Is Sick Puppy 3, Stupid Patchwork 3, Stupendous Pain-in-the-A__ 3
Blog To build the image we will deploy into the rental fleet, we'll take our XP SP1 volume license image with the slip-streamed SP2 files on it and update that with the required 99+ "security patches". Installing a Service Pack was a safe and tested way...
[June 21, 2008, 13:54]
Spoke Too Soon About XP SP3?
Blog Comment After applying the registry patch, Windows Update offered me 90 patches but this was when I noticed Internet Explorer 6, so before proceeding I installed Internet Explorer 7. Following this, Windows Update still offered me 66 patches so I went...
[February 21, 2008, 23:52]
