On 19/04/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:07 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote: > For other issues: > > 1) reboot Rarely needed on Linux, even for major configuration changes. Needed all the time with Windows, repeatedly, and a major waste of time. A few seconds of reconfiguring something on Linux becomes minutes on Windows.
Last semester in my physics course, right in the middle of a lecture, the professor's computer informed us that we had 4 minutes until reboot, due to updates that had automatically been downloaded and installed. He had to stop the lecture, reboot, and then find his place. During this time I took the opportunity to mention how rediculous that is, without mentioning that I don't use windows, and I was told that I'm stupid for not updating my own computer regularly. Apparently, reboots in the middle of work are common parts of the windows workflow. Worse, people accept that because it's the only way to be 'safe'. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_is_a_firewall.html http://what-is-what.com/what_is/copyleft.html
