Comments on: Microsoft Botches Deployment of XP SP2

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:48:47 +0000

It's 3:45 CST USA right now. SP2 is 'currently not available' through automatic updates due to the 'high level of demand'. The full package for IT has disconnected from their server 10 times in the past few minutes and is downloading at 36 kb/sec – far below our capabilities.
How about a BitTorrent NOW!!!

By: thepaul

thepaul — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 05:08:09 +0000

Oh yeah I can see the white paper on this one: “How to download SP 2 via Bit Torrent”. Most people can't handle patching via automatic windows update, much less a torrent.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 03:42:12 +0000

To suggest bitTorrent is ridiculous. It's deployed only on a small percentage of computers and is generally laughed at by any professional network admins. Randy http://www.kbcafe.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:59:13 +0000

cry baby bitch boy. Make you own OS and quit crying

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:59:55 +0000

eekkk!! why is the text at the top SO FREAKIN BIG and when i size it down everything else is teeny-tiny and unreadable ?????!!!!
oh, wait on, if i just shuffle over here and open *gag* IE *retch* … ahh. that's better.
this looks bloody awful in mozilla, mate :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:16:25 +0000

Because Microsoft does not own BitTorrent…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:38:37 +0000

Is there any way to prevent hacking with bittorrent? How do you know you're getting the real deal and not some H4X0R bits?

By: technostan

technostan — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:29:43 +0000

bittorrent would have been nice (as an alternative) but right now, i'm dl'ing it at 250+KB/s off their servers..so no complaints yet..=p

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:57:11 +0000

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/08/09/2011209.shtml?tid=95&tid=190&tid=17

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 03:36:30 +0000

Gee, maybe because Bittorrent doesnt work well thru firewalls, the bandwidth costs to Microsoft are negligible compared to the $50 billion in cash they can barely figure out how to send, and the support issues with setting it up and explaining bittorrent to everyone would dwarf any potential bandwith cost savings?
The download location posted first was ment for network deployment – presumeably for networks already behind firewalls. A bittorrent system might be great for something like WindowsUpdate in the general case, but for this specific instance, its not worth the hassle.
Bittorrent's great and all, and I use it, but its clearly not ready for prime time.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 01:37:23 +0000

Here's a good site for the XP SP2 torrent: http://sp2torrent.com They're trying to show the potential of this technology, which I think is pretty cool. Sarah sarahintampa

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:37:38 +0000

I downloaded the SP twice to test speeds:
260 KB/s via the microsoft link, between 600kb/s and 1.2 mb/s via bittorrent (using Shareaza).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:55:55 +0000

BitTorrent has a long way to go before it's appropriate for anything beyond sh*ts and giggles.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:51:18 +0000

Most corporate firewalls wont' allow traffic over the required BitTorrent ports. Besides BitTorrent is slow.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:43:49 +0000

Let me suggest two reason; microsoft.com is more reliable than the bitTorrent network and as much as geeks won't admit it, the distribution of bitTorrent is quite low.