my first official anti-ms vent

[Josh Coffman]

--- Josh Coffman <josh_coffman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- 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.
> 

looks like I'm not the only one:
http://www.emailbattles.com/archive/battles/vuln_aacfhddccc_de/




Shin zen ni rei
-j
Registered Linux user number 403109
  http://counter.li.org/
  


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