my first official anti-ms vent

[Josh Coffman]

--- Kevin Brown <kevin_brown at qwest.net> wrote:

> > I had one of those days at work yesterday. In
> fact,
> > it's been about a week of those kind of days with
> an
> > approaching launch date for my current project.
> > 
> > Something happened to the integration server, so
> the
> > web-app was not working. After staying late the
> last
> > few days, I still hadn't resolved everything
> yesterday
> > evening when, a windows message popped up telling
> me
> > my system had been updated and needed to restart.
> > 
> > WTF!!!! I never told it run windows update! I was
> able
> > to press a button telling it to restart later. I
> had
> > to wait. I was in the middle of a bunch of stuff
> and
> > couldn't break right then. Well a few minutes
> later it
> > came back. then again....... so you get the
> picture.
> > F'N Microshaft forced an update on my machine and
> now
> > I had to reboot! 
> > 
> > I was so ready to go home to my Fedora box. With a
> > couple free minutes I had, I thought I get the
> > external monitor (its a laptop) setup. But I
> messed
> > something up and rebooted into windows to google
> my
> > problem. As I was reading, what do you think
> popped
> > up? "Your system has been updated...." GRRRR! 
> > 
> > So fine, I rebooted to CLI. cleaned up some space
> and
> > started kde just fine. thank you very much.
> 
> This was one of microsoft's measures to reduce the
> number of unpatched 
> systems.  By default it will download and install
> new patches and then 
> pester the user every 10 or 15 minutes to reboot the
> system.

perhaps I should have also mentioned that I
explicitedly set windows update to 'download and
notify' so it would not install updates without me
examining them first. ..to avoid this sort of thing or
worse: system crash.

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