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My Linux wallpaper and style have stayed the same for a while now, but here is a new Windows wallpaper. Maybe I will customize the look too, but not now. I’m not a fan of black in the least (maybe the background could be blue?), but I did choose a black background and do about once every time a tornado has torn my house down (never). First page of results on google for “Half-Life 2 Wallpaper.” Click to enlarge:

Just some random facts:

I use Cosmos.exe to launch WoW, updating it to the latest alpha version on each load.
New Text Document (*).txt’s are my homework that I haven’t yet printed out.
Laptop Linux contains very old files from one of my first websites, scriptingresource.com or clete.d2g.com, including CBook, my first guestbook, which, surprisingly, still has some links to from some web pages.

Happy President’s Day here in the USA.

The intent of this alert is to provide you with a reminder about the upcoming deadline around the date on which Automatic Updates (AU) and Windows Update (WU) will deliver Windows XP SP2 regardless of the presence of the blocking mechanism. This dateline is quickly approaching.

Based on customer feedback, Microsoft provided the ability to temporarily block the delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) via Automatic Update (AU) and Windows Update (WU) in August 2004, so that our customers can complete their testing and implementation of their deployment mechanism for SP2.

Beginning 12 April 2005 this temporarily blocking mechanism will expire and systems with Automatic Update enabled or interactively download SP2 via Windows Update will begin receiving SP2. Note that this is also the scheduled day for the monthly cumulative release of security updates.

Microsoft strongly encourage customers to take the appropriate steps to implement SP2 deployment decisions by that time. More information and guidance about this temporary blocking mechanism at source.

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Time to turn off automatic updates, as Windows XP Service Pack 2 will be forced. What I mean by forced is not what it sounds, but you cannot “ignore” it as before, where you could uncheck it and tell it not to remind you of updates again. I would have to recommend turning automatic updates off by April 12th.