On Thursday 19 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 19/04/07, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly: > > > 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'. > > > > I've never seen Windows do that. What I have seen it do is say "Windows > > will be restarted in 4 minutes [cancel]" > > > > Cancelling lets you do it later. Being smug about linux lets you earn > > lower marks ;) > > No cancel button. I even have a screenshot of it doing that to _me_ > once: about a week before I moved over to Linux for good. I'll gladly > send you the screenshot. It's in Hebrew, but you can clearly see there > is no Cancel button. And I find it hard to believe that Windows in > English has a cancel button when Hebrew does not. > Dotan, my laptop dual-boots with XP. I have that set up to notify me of updates, but not install. I do recall seeing, however, that you can elect to download updates automatically and install later, though I've never tried that, since I like to read the description of the updates before letting them loose :-) Anne
