Comments for blog.limedaley.com/post/debian-updates-vs.-windows-updates

Comment #2149

2008-07-14T01:25:44Z

Which apps are you talking about?

Comment #2148

2008-07-13T14:31:15Z

hi there guys!

well i totally agree with you guys and it`s weird cause as it turns out everybody has something to say about whether or not to stick to this buggy windows.

unluckily though i must point out that i kinda have to, cause otherwise i have to figure out a way to get those Adobe design apps running on Debian.

if somebody happens to have something about that please let me know.

Comment #2147

2007-10-03T23:26:28Z

And you would be wrong :-P

Comment #2146

2007-10-03T14:18:54Z

Well, if we were comparing telnet and IE, I would have picked IE, that is correct.

Comment #2145

2007-10-01T00:42:09Z

Well, that was compared to Netscape...

telnet is better than I.E.

Comment #2144

2007-09-30T23:36:19Z

Well, that was compared to Netscape...

Since 1998, I have been pretty happy with Linux. I hadn't really given it a fair chance prior to that, since I had only used really old hardware, so of course it was slower and not as good as my faster Windows machine.

I have always said that Windows XP SP2 was a good release, and better than anything that had been released since Windows 95. But, it seems that even XP has started to decline <insert conspiracy theory about Microsoft purposely slowing down XP to get people to switch to Vista, since the sales aren't so good -- Microsoft has pushed back the deadline for when they are forcing some of their OEM vendors to upgrade to June 2008, which was nice for my company, since we really didn't want to upgrade>

Comment #2143

2007-09-30T23:02:34Z

I remember when you used to like I.E.

Shame on you.

Comment #2142

2007-09-03T15:34:11Z

Turning off updates is mildly annoying, since then a popup comes up every time I turn on the computer telling me that updates are turned off.

So, I turned them back on to "notify me but not download", since presumably that shouldn't take very much memory. Wrong. It still takes 100MB of RAM (plus the 50 megs of swap). There was an update to media player and daylight savings time (? I thought that was updated a long time ago). I let it download and install them. The process went up to 200MB of RAM (I didn't check the swap) and 100% CPU. Crazy.

Comment #2141

2007-08-24T11:49:05Z

Hrm. And five more Windows Updates this morning. And again, everything got really slow for a while before it told me what it was doing. I have changed the updates to not download them, but just notify me. I'll see if that makes it any better.

If that doesn't work, I'll have to turn them off completely, and just do it manually.

Update #1: On non-English versions of Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, some text in the print dialog box unexpectedly appears in English after you install the .NET Framework 3.0

Update #2: Windows CardSpace hotfix rollup package

Update #3: FIX: Subscription services cannot extract metering data when the services try to synchronize metering data on a client computer that is running the Windows Media Format 11 SDK

Update #4: Vulnerabilities in Windows Media Player Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Update #5: Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Gotta love those "remote code execution" bugs that come out every week. Note that these are fixes are due to bugs in the bug fixes I downloaded yesterday. You'd think they could combine them, so they wouldn't have made my computer vulnerable to remote code execution since yesterday. At least one of these updates was released in February. Why don't they remove the vulnerable code so no one else downloads it?

Comment #2140

2007-08-23T12:13:48Z

I'll say. Rebooting is my standard remedy for whatever ails my machine and much of the time it works.

I do wonder why that Genuine Advantage tool needs to be installed so often. Can't they remember that I paid for my copy of Windows?

Comment #2139

2007-08-23T11:33:09Z

Ah, finally finished. Except of course, it has to reboot. I guess Windows users just get used to rebooting their machines all the time. I'll bet I could count the number of times my Linux machines have been rebooted on one hand, and three of those reboots are due to moving the server to different locations.