On Sunday 10 October 2004 11:55 am, Tim Green wrote:.
The half life of a virgin Windows PC on the Internet is under 30 minutes now. Your ADSL modem does have a built-in NAT firewall to at least protect you from port scanning, doesn't it?
Sadly so true, we performed some tests to this extent a few months ago
(Bearing in mind that I have no intention of *EVER* loading XP),
Shame - with SP2 it's not too bad now. You can turn the theme back to that classic Win2000 style too if the primary colours hurt your eyes.
Ahh but XP on a 450Mhz machine is only barely useable. If you max out the RAM and turn off all the effects you may just be able to live with it but it's still not very pleasant. My girlfriend has a small Sharp TFT/PC combined thing downstars that only has a 600Mhz Celeron, that also only runs 2000 well and even then only when I upgraded the ram to 256.