Stuff about links and more links

From: Russ (Russ.Cooper_at_RC.ON.CA)
Date: 08/11/04

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    Firstly, I had many people contact me about the URL I provided to the
    main XP SP2 home page. They said the link wouldn't work. So you
    understand, almost all messages that are sent to NTBugtraq have their
    line lengths hard clipped by the list software at 72 characters. That
    means a long URL is going to get broken into two or more distinct lines.

    Now unfortunately, most email software is just too stupid to understand
    this, or maybe more accurately, most email software is too stupid to
    recognize that a plain text email shouldn't interpret anything as being
    "HTML" (IOWs, there shouldn't be any clickable links in such a message.)
    The result is that you get an email which shows a clickable URL, but in
    fact the URL is incomplete.

    For Outlook users, all you have to do is click "Edit", then "Edit
    Message", and use delete to put the full URL back together. Poof, the
    complete workable URL.

    Meanwhile, I put that URL into TinyURL, as well as a couple of others
    people suggested you could use to get XP SP2.

    Secondly, while a few people indicated they had problems getting a
    completed download, most seemed to have no problems. Download times, the
    time they attempted the download, and the networks they were on
    obviously varied, so your mileage may vary (YMMV).

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/winxpsp2.
    mspx
    http://tinyurl.com/26uwc

    Jim Kerr provided the link directly to the download page;
    English: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Network Installation Package for IT
    Professionals and Developers
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4
    f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&DisplayLang=en
    http://tinyurl.com/5bobl
    German: Windows XP Service Pack 2-Netzwerkinstallationspaket fur
    IT-Spezialisten und Entwickler
    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=de&FamilyID=
    049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a
    http://tinyurl.com/6loh4

    Ghassan provided the link directly to the download file itself;
    English:
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/6/5/165b076b-aaa9-443d-84f0-73c
    f11fdcdf8/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe
    http://tinyurl.com/6j4xb
    German:
    http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/6/4/96442257-721a-4cd5-9006-10a
    40cbb45cb/WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-DEU.exe
    http://tinyurl.com/66sze

    Louis Solomon suggested you might want to use a download manager such as
    GetRight from www.getright.com

    Cheers,
    Russ - NTBugtraq Editor

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