W7 updates

You install updates on the day they're released?

Some lessons are harder than others I guess.

I guess that guys like us need guys like him to act as the canary in the coalmine.

Veritas, we thank you for your service.

"Your computer will restart in 12:57 ... 12:56."

*Restart Later*

I've been doing that for hours. 

That's why I'm still using Win2k and IE6.

Actually I'm running WinXP & FF3.6 on my personal computer.  My work laptop is the Win2k/IE6 machine due to a couple factors.  To say my employer is risk adverse is an understatement, they buy 3 year warranties on all hardware and budgets are extremely tight right now.  The only way I get a replacement laptop is if this one fails, and alas, I take good care of my laptop.

Um... More like:

Seabird?
Yeah, boss?
Did you load this new patch on my machine?
Yes, boss.
When did it come out?
Yesterday.
Did you bother to test it or research any possible issues related the patch first?
No, boss. I thought the risk of getting hacked was greater.
Now my Task Bar is blank, and I can't seem to break past the firewall to the Internet cloud.
*me typing*
Sorry boss, looks like others are reporting that too.
Go home, Seabird.

Veritas - I challenge you to find me a single professional enterprise that loads brand new patches and hotfixes into its production environment the day they are released by MS. I'm sure they're out there, but it's not a very good support model.

People still program stuff for the 64, you should see some of their forums.

I still have some C64 hardware, but I threw out 2 64' consoles since they no longer worked. I still have a monitor, 2 disk drives, bunch of games, power supplies etc.

It's easier to just download the bittorrent with the 10,000 games.

Heh, I never had a C64, my first computer was a TRS-80 (Trash-80) Model I Level I with a blazing 4k of screaming RAM and tape cassette drive.  Then I moved on to an Apple IIe from there.  The former was about $500 (in 1980 dollars) and the Apple was a solid $3000 that I spent entire teenage summers paying off.  But hey, it had a 300 baud modem!!!!11!1!

As to your second point, I recently downloaded DosBox and replayed all the old TSR D&D games from back in the day.  Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness.  Mostly because of a forum where they were being discussed and everyone talking about how unbelievably difficult they were to beat compared to modern games.  Good times.

As for the actual topic, my new machine has just warned me that it'll be downloading the patches at 3am tonight.  Sigh.

Gotta say though, I'm really surprised by how much I like Win 7.  I absolutely refused to migrate from XP for quite a while there, but the recent changeover has been largely positive.  Microsoft has actually redeemed themselves somewhat in my eyes.

Qwinn

Last edited by Qwinn (2010-02-25 17:55:58)

Not really a Macintologist, but I thought that Bootcamp would only work with XP. At least that's what my limited research made me believe when I set it up for my wife on her Macbook.