Mood:
spaceyNow Playing: 'When all the Spinning Stops' Carousel owner trades plasticine horses for fiberglas yacht. (Adventure/Mystery)
Topic: VCSY
Lots of conflicting signals. Lots of various elevations. Looks like somebody got religion and it's taking a while for them to clear out their liquor closet... didn't know it was a walk-in.
If all the hoorah and bubbly crap in Mister Softee's intestines is not for "technical" reasons and is for "technology" reasons, we can assume everything Mister Softee has been complaining about with the twisted bowels will be skraightened out ... just like it did with Apple. Just like it did with Yahoo... Maybe they all ate out of the same beefaroni bowl.
BAG!!
Bwup... ugh ugh... kack. Thanks. I feel much better now.
Perhaps the VCSY bus is rolling up in to the Happy Home for Convalescent Wayward Yoots. The kids will be happy.
May 23rd, 2007
Might XP SP3 ship in 2007, after all?
Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 9:03 amMicrosoft’s party line for the past few months has been that it wasn’t going to get Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 out the door until some time in the first half of 2008.
But this week, Microsoft hinted that XP SP3 might actually ship this year.
It could be a simple typo in a press release. But then, again, maybe it’s not and it’s part of the Windows client team’s mission to under-promise and over-deliver. While the element of surprise is nice, corporate customers tell me having a real timetable for planning purposes would be much nicer.
The folks over at the Microsoft Forum Software Network (MSFN.org) site were the ones with the eagle eyes. They caught the XP SP3 reference in a Microsoft Interop press release from May 21. Here’s the mention:
“The Juniper Networks Infranet Controller, the policy management server at the heart of the Juniper UAC solution, will be able to leverage the built-in security assessment capabilities and the SOH protocol provided by the NAP agent built into the Windows Vista® and Microsoft Windows XP operating systems. Microsoft Network Policy Server (NPS) brings a rich ecosystem of NAP health agents and will be able to interoperate with the Juniper Networks UAC solution in heterogeneous network environments. Microsoft NPS can either act as a policy server or be leveraged by the Juniper Infranet Controller for rich endpoint information. Microsoft is announcing that Windows Vista supports this protocol today and Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) will support it as well later this year. The Juniper Networks UAC solution is expected to support the new TNC standard in the first half of 2008.”
Windows Vista SP 1, a build of which was spotted in the wild at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) last week, also is expected later this year, around the same time that Windows Server 2008 is released to manufacturing.
If XP SP3 does, indeed, ship by the end of 2007, there will be a lot of pleasantly surprised XP users out there. And Microsoft would disprove the rampant theory that the company is intentionally holding back XP SP3 to try to get more customers to upgrade to Windows Vista. Microsoft released XP SP2 three years ago, in 2004.
I’ve asked Microsoft if they’ve updated their XP SP3 timetable. I’ll include the official response once I get it.
I'm gonna go get... uhhhh... cleaned up a bit and I'll meet all you little sweeties out on the patio.
How 'bout I leave the radidio on for y'all?
Unfaithful servant, I hear you leavin' soon in the mornin'.
What did you do to the lady, that she's gonna have to send you away?
Unfaithful servant, you don't have to say you're sorry,
if you done it just for the spite, or did ya do it just for the glory?
Like a stranger you turned your back,
left your keys and gone to pack.
Bear in mind who's to blame, and all the shame;
she really cared, the time she spared and the home you shared.
Unfaithful servant, I can hear the whistle blowin',
yes, that train is a-comin' and soon you'll be a-goin'.
Let us not bow our heads for we won't be complainin';
Life has been good to us all
even when that sky is rainin'.
To take it like a grain of salt
is all I can do. Its no one's fault,
Makes no diff'rence if we fade away.
It's just as it was, it's much to cold for me to stay.
Goodbye to that country home,
so long to a lady I have known,
Farewell to my other side,
I'd best just take it in stride.
Unfaithful servant, you'll learn to find your place;
I can see it in your smile,
and, yes, I can see it in your face.
The mem'ries will linger on,
the good old days, they're all gone,
Oh! lonesome servant, can't you see,
that were still one and the same, just you and me.
Unfaithful Servant
The Band/Robbie Robertson
