Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bhhc"  What is
appalling is how we as consumers have become so complacent about being
screwed.

It's not like we have any alternatives.   Powerful tools like
Photoshop and Adobe illustrator run on Macs and PC's.   I run Suse
Linux at home but I have no illusions that GIMP is in the same class
as Photoshop - I would say it's in the same class as Elements or PSP.

You're right that XP is junky (I don't know anything about the Mac
OSes, so I can't comment)  but, professionally, I'm a software
engineer who writes C++ for win32, so I'm very familiar with the
innards of XP.  And they have a lot of problems, especially WRT
security, and SP2 fixes a lot of those problems.

I DISagree with people here who say SP2 will fix your spam problems. 
    Spam has nothing to do with the OS.  I don't have any spam
problems because I go through an email proxy and automatically change
my public email addresses (i.e., email addresses visible from places
like this).  
But SP2 WILL fix lots of security vulnerabilities involving the IP
stack and open ports and buffer overruns, and access to the registry,
and other stuff that really does matter.