windows causes heart failure

[odin]

Or you could use a Windows install medium which already contains the updates. When it comes to XP it's even more fun when it doesn't have the service packs on disc already. Question is why you wouldn't be using a newer install disc...and don't have the specific drivers needed available...

It really isn't any different from using a x year old Ubuntu install disc and then waiting ages for it to update during and after install and finding out your specific hardware is obscure and/or plain driverless (I'm looking at you crappy HP Mini netbook >:|. )

[odin]

HP is evil...at work we are 'blessed' with 5 HP multifunctional printers. The embedded software, management software and driver software all suck so hard...and we're supposed to administer the damn things. There's a bug in the firmware for which their support guys have visited us 2 times already and the call's been open for what, 3 months? It's a joke...

Then again all printers suck, though these HPs suck that one bit harder.