Today Arthur Pemberton did spake thusly:
On 4/19/07, Scott van Looy <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today Dotan Cohen did spake thusly:
> 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'.
I've never seen Windows do that. What I have seen it do is say "Windows
will be restarted in 4 minutes [cancel]"
On more than one occasion, I have hit Cancel, only to have Windows
restart - luckily, I don't trust it with much of my data anyways.
You hit cancel, it goes away. It comes back again if you've not restarted,
over and over until you do. It's to stop people with no clue having
compromised computers online. And the registry hack is to enable people
WITH a clue to disable it. Simple?
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