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This is a rant, so you don't have to read further if you're not interested.
I am sick and tired of constant software updates! Firefox's monthly updates, Adobe Acrobat, Java, and, of course, Windows and Linux OS updates and the myriad of other software that nags me every few minutes about "security" updates and program fixes.
This is taking up to two hours a day to maintain a limited computing environment! So, I can't even begin to imagine the hell that IT managers in big corporations might be going through!
But, the worst part is when they slide "opt out" selections, like Java updates sliding in MacAfee security in their updates. Miss the opt out and you're dinked!
Or, they slide promotional software nags, like the Windows 10 upgrade nag into "security" fixes for Windows 7 and Firefox's "make Yahoo my default toilet paper".
If their software is that bad that there are that many bugs and security breaches, maybe, just maybe, they had better get their a$$es in gear and figure out a better way!
And there is a better way! I just don't have time to develop it because I'm too busy installing updates!
Rant over! We now resume regularly scheduled programming.
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Quote: two hours a day
Hyperbole is allowed in a rant. We all understand that. But ... 
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There's a way to avoid all these updates. It's simple and easy: Unplug your WIFI cable. If you ain't got one you can get one on eBay or amazon or send me your money and see what you get.
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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Yeah, for the reasons cited by the OP I gleefully call them Automatic Corruptdates. If they don't screw up the moment, start-up, shut-down or anything in between, if all is not right with the corrupdate or your system or the spirit world's assessment of you at that moment, things could be as bad as a black screen and perpetual blinking cursor.
That said, botched update application accounts for about 20% of revenue for my Mom n' Pop PC shop.
Security Update my a$$ Microchump. What did you put on my PC there?
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Yes it's pretty annoying. I tend to keep my work PC hibernated as I usually have a load of "stuff" open, and I keep my home laptop hibernated because it takes an hour to start up. Having to reboot to install constant updates is annoying. When you shut your laptop down and it pops up "Installing update 1 of 23...." 
Java trying to get you to install things is well annoying, but not as annoying as that time it updated java and Solr stopped working as the new version was not compatible. Picture a Microsoft dev trying to work out how to get a specific version of java and configure Solr to use it....yeah, not fun.
It's also a new attack vector as you get those rogue sites that look identical to the Adobe or java "update to the latest version" screens. It won't fool me (the porn site that spawned it uses html5 to play vids, not Flash), but I bet it fools many others.
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rjmoses wrote: If their software is that bad that there are that many bugs and security breaches, maybe, just maybe, they had better get their a$$es in gear and figure out a better way! And there is a better way! I just don't have time to develop it because I'm too busy installing updates!
Proving software is bug free is equivalent to solving the halting problem. Let me know if you make any progress on that after you stop patching your box, I won't be holding my breath. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My android has been nagging me for a long time now to do a system update and sure there may be some important security fixes but most likely it will just F*up my layout and settings.
Java and Adobe is the worst I think.
I tend to ignore updates until I absolutely must. The last time I updated a non security update on windows 7 I got a buttload of networking issues at my home computer.
I think software that often pushes updates messages should be labeled gloatware.
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rjmoses wrote: This is taking up to two hours a day
Time to change that 56k modem for something better...
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Yeah, right! Windows 10 "update" on test system == 450+MB. Failed twice! Bull feathers!
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rjmoses wrote: Firefox's monthly updates
If only. They update it a lot more often than that.
rjmoses wrote: Adobe Acrobat, Java
Haven't had either installed on any of my machines in at least a decade.
rjmoses wrote: This is taking up to two hours a day to maintain a limited computing environment! So, I can't even begin to imagine the hell that IT managers in big corporations might be going through!
They let the machines update themselves. If you're actively "taking two hours a day" dealing with updates, you're doing something very, very wrong.
I can't speak for third-parties, but if you want to get at least the Windows updates out of the way, but you still want to selectively control which updates get deployed or not, have a look at WSUS. For my own home LAN (8 physical PCs or so, plus many times that many virtual machines), it saves me a lot of bandwidth, and I only have to click Approve or Decline once on Patch Tuesday, or whenever there's an out-of-band update. I can live with that.
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Geez. If you're going to all that effort to tell a really hoary old joke, at least get it right!
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Strong anti-gull sentiment has intensified over summer
These gulls coming here and taking our chips!
*shakes Daily Mail at gulls*
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When you pick your nose, which option is the least disgusting to the opposite sex?
1. Flick it away
2. Stick it on something
3. Eat it
4. Roll it up and drop it (clandestinely, if possible)
5. Other
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Guerrilla Coder wrote: 5. Other
show it to the other person and ask "does this look normal to you?"
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Guerrilla Coder wrote: least disgusting to the opposite sex
Shouldn't this qualify it as a poll for ladies then...? 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Unless Guerrilla Coder is female?
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But men can see their actual reaction
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Yes, but it's common knowledge that nothing a woman does is understandable by a man... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I pick my nose with an excuse that I was smelling my fingers.
And then we cannot stop laughing looking at each other. So, the poll isn't applicable to me or my girl!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Are you suggesting that lady persons don't pick their noses. Wrong, s-o-o-o-o wrong!
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Guerrilla Coder wrote: When you pick your nosesh your pants (literally), which option is the least disgusting to the opposite sex?
- Flick it away
- Stick it on something
- Eat it <- Yeah eat IT!
- Roll it up and drop it (clandestinely, if possible)
- Other
That's a better poll 
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