Today Anne Wilson did spake thusly:
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 :-)
Aye. Equally, by default, automatic updates are set to happen at 3am, and
if you've not saved your work before going to bed then you're a bit silly
;)
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