Beta Two Technical Refresh

The patches are 500 MB in size. That's the largest of any file I've downloaded. Ever:

I began the installation at 7:50 PM 9/14/2006, and watched the drive light remain lit for an awfully long time.

The run completed at 8:05 PM 9/14/2006, just 15 minutes. It was painless, compared to the good old days of shoveling floppy disks into the maw of the machine, one after the other.

Now to see how well it performs.