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Dr Unne
03-10-2004, 11:59 PM
When's the last time you patched your OS?
Kirobaito
03-11-2004, 12:05 AM
Windows hasn't asked me to in a few days. Surprising.
Citizen Bleys
03-11-2004, 12:07 AM
Today, but I only had to because I installed new hardware and the drivers shipped with it were painfully out of date.
(and on a related note, I now have zero free PCI slots. No more upgrades for me :()
Yamaneko
03-11-2004, 12:07 AM
The last critical update was weeks ago, so then.
Leeza
03-11-2004, 12:26 AM
A couple of weeks ago, for no particular reason other than that I haven't done it for a long, long time before that.
CloudDragon
03-11-2004, 12:28 AM
Weeks, I often go to the windows update site myself instead of the regular sort of sheduled update by windows.
crono_logical
03-11-2004, 12:36 AM
<s>Never. I use linux. :D</s> Or so I wish, but even linux gets patches anyway, so yeah :p
I guess weeks ago whenever that ASM.1 bug patch thingy for XP came out - I don't bother get every last patch that comes out, only ones I think are important to me. (Although, I think the RPC one isn't important to me since I have a firewall running at all times, but I got that patch anyway). I think Windows Update for automatic updates is evil, and I disable it on all my machines :p
Peegee
03-11-2004, 01:13 AM
Windows update doesn't list any critical packages. They haven't for months now. Is this a good sign? Where else am I supposed to find 'must have' patches?
Shoeberto
03-11-2004, 01:16 AM
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They list them. They just only release patches on a monthly basis rather than as soon as they're ready. Which is stupid.
I haven't patched Windows in a while. I should, but y'know.
escobert
03-11-2004, 01:22 AM
Well right now I'm on my Imac since my dell like blew up and wont work so I have never patched this thing. I almost want this computer to die.
Citizen Bleys
03-11-2004, 01:32 AM
Originally posted by Guu
<s>Never. I use linux. :D</s> Or so I wish, but even linux gets patches anyway, so yeah :p
Um, Linux gets patched more than Windows. The patch number of the kernel can change daily.
And that's just the kernel.
Dr Unne
03-11-2004, 01:33 AM
Vast majority of those aren't critical patches though. Patches are how the kernel is written to begin with. Compare kernel patches to internel MS development processes.
Citizen Bleys
03-11-2004, 01:36 AM
*tempted to paste the entire text of the Cathedral and the Bazaar*
And I think you're understating that, Unne. You could still run a 2.2 kernel if you really wanted to. But of course, you wouldn't want to.
Logan
03-11-2004, 01:51 AM
Weeks and weeks ago.
Del Murder
03-11-2004, 01:56 AM
If it ain't broke don't fix it. And if it is broke, buy a new computer.
Calliope
03-11-2004, 05:51 AM
*votes confusedly*
eestlinc
03-11-2004, 05:54 AM
my computer gets those neat professoriffic demin patches
Red Wizard
03-11-2004, 05:04 PM
I haven't patched DOS in years. ;)
Flying Mullet
03-11-2004, 05:08 PM
Why would I patch my OS? It thinks for itself now as it does all this stuff that I don't tell it too. So it has my best interests at heart, right?
Whenever Windows asks me to. Or the day after if I don't feel like rebooting.
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