XP SP2

This is funny. ZDNet reports that Microsoft has published a knowledge base report on potential issues users could face on installing SP2 for XP -- applications could be impacted, including some of Microsoft's own applications. So what's the big deal? The firewall. Apparently, following good security measures for a change, Microsoft has turned on the firewall by default, resulting in a number of applications that require specific port access to work, to cease working. I'm not sure if all these issues are entirely bad things -- although Microsoft could have warned people before changing their world on them.