Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Two short topics

Topic 1
Have a look at this new browser. Still not sure whether I should call this innovation or blasphemy. Perhaps it'll be good for web site developers running Windows. One thing is for sure: More browser engines, more vulnerabilities.

Topic 2
Remember me getting pissed off at Windows automatic update mechanism? Well, it gets worse. Did you know it might auto-reboot the PC? Even if the PC did something important at that time. After the successful reboot, Windows pops-up a balloon saying the patches were successfully installed and the machine was rebooted. Gee, thanks.

3 comments:

  1. אני לא מבין למה אתה לא מגדיר שהוא רק יוריד אוטומטית, ולא יתקין אוטומטית?

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  2. Windows auto-update only reboots the system when there are no users connected, presumably under the assumption that anything important would be done under a user account.

    Actually, I wish there was a way to tell aptitude to do the same (reboot after updating the kernel, if no users are connected, and it was invoked with -y). The fact that it doesn't means you can't just leave a Debian system to chug along and update itself, you must go holding its hand every once in a while.

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  3. I must admit this Lunascape stuff sounds exciting, many times I start switching browsers to find the one that works...

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