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As you may have read in my rant, the latest Windows update screwed up my computer. What I want to know is... Do you update as soon as they come in, or not.
SunnyHeadcase
09-22-02, 06:37PM
Yep, I'm a Mac user. Not only that but I run some pretty serous audio editing/recording programs on it and make decent cash by doing so. I've never had a problem with my G4 or my G3 iMac (which is used for stuff like posting in obscure but essential web sites.)
"Join me...come to the darkside." - Star Wars
"Welcome to the 21st century." - Bruce (The Man) Campbell, Army of Darkness
I am a mixed Linux/Windows' user. Until recently I upgraded my W2K regularly but since M$ changed its policies I stopped installing stuff. In the end *I* want to decide whether to install a patch or not, not Bill Gates.
Sterling
09-23-02, 10:42AM
I have all the updates. Especially security fixes (the corporate network typically won't let me log on unless I have them). To be honest, I've never really had a problem with them.
I don't know if I'm lazy or cautious, but I tend to wait a bit. Let's say cautious, shall we? :)
You got to wonder what makes someone so passionate about an operating system. I don't have any problems with Microsoft really. I do think that it's silly to have so many updates, fixes, etc... on a product after you've released it. Security fixes are one thing... But to have so many bugs on something that isn't Beta gets annoying.
Originally posted by Sterling
I have all the updates. Especially security fixes (the corporate network typically won't let me log on unless I have them). To be honest, I've never really had a problem with them.
They will come, especially when vendors start using the Fritz chips and Palladium technology.
Originally posted by SysLord
They will come, especially when vendors start using the Fritz chips and Palladium technology.
Care to explain that one? anyone?
Et voila:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
*Clicks on link, see's a big ole page of words, clicks it off.* Care to summerize, big guy? The Readers Digest version...
Okay, for all you non-computer literated eggheads: Fritz - hardware - and Palladium - software - allow vendors (ie MS) to control what you can and cannot run on your PC. From the good side you can argue for the case of no more pirated softwares but from the bad side it also means that vendors will make users life miserable migrating to other competing products. It's similar to making people using the same bank, same garage, same lawyer etc.
So after the Soviet Union's attempts to register and control all typewriters and fax machines, TCPA attempts to register and control all computers. The implications for liberty, democracy and justice are worrying.
Seriously people, if you care about fundamental rights of freedom and democracy, then read the article. Yes it is long but this is bloody well important.
Do you know all get how important LINUX is?
Man, that is just scary. While I can understand them trying to block their own software from being pirated, I see no logical reason for them to take legal matters in their own hands when it comes to other software.
Of course I meant:
Do you all now know how important LINUX is?
whitecrow
11-16-03, 03:39PM
Eh, this is a work puta - it updates itself.
I don't update at all. I know I should, but downloading stuff on sial-up takes too damned long and I don't have the patience for it.
whitecrow
11-17-03, 03:23PM
Just do what I used to do on Dial-Up, set it up d/ling before you go to bed and wake up to an updated PC...
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