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*blog... kind of... *rss « How to render the illu... Designing websites eff... » Windows XP Updates... annoying 20.02.2007 7 comments Is it just me or these days Microsoft are "sending" a lot of updates and which forces you to restart the system almost everyday? I'm tired of moving the window of 'Restart now' to outside the screen so it stops asking me for it :( I'm gonna be a mac fan here... I don't remember the last time I had to restart MacOS. posted by ricardo cabello at 20:30 7 comments written so far On MacOSX: Preferences Pane -> Software Updates -> Search now. Oh jesus, one update that requires restart!! (something related with WLAN) macosx, windows, linux (apt-get upgrade = your linux stop working for 2 hours),... , all of them are the same shit! good bless amigaOS! posted by xphere 20.02.2007 , 22:42 Corrections: WLAN -> WWAN good bless -> god bless :P posted by xphere 20.02.2007 , 22:43 which machine do you use for running linux? one 486 connected with a 56k modem? :P posted by sole 20.02.2007 , 23:12 even when a package manager is working, there's no reason for a linux box to stop working. you can always throttle down the process. two words: nice and htop. anyway, about the particular annoyance of the please-restart-because-yo ur-mortal-soul-is-in-dang er: just get a window hide-minimizer tool, such as 4t tray minimizer, and you will restar your computer at your will, not at microsoft's. or select when do you want to install the updates. microsoft's update release cycle is usually quite regular: every second tuesday of the month, unless there are no updates. posted by spite 20.02.2007 , 23:55 acabaré volviendo al amiga... pero al 500! posted by humphr3y 21.02.2007 , 09:22 no me refiero al tiempo de download. Me refiero al tiempo que se pierde en cosas como... reinstalar los drivers de la targeta gráfica, que si ahora han petado las fonts de las X, que ahora vamos a buscar un howto para recuperar el sistema, que si voy a recompilar el kernel... buah.... posted by xphere 21.02.2007 , 12:02 xphere you are a moron. I can use my Ubuntu install during any update, even on a vmplayer virtual machine. posted by yer mom 27.02.2007 , 11:41 SORRY! Is not that I don't care about what you have to say, of course I do, but they are speaking louder and I lost my patience :(

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