Weblog entry #7 for mcortese
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A big company is distributing this bulletin to all its employees equipped with Windows PCs:
- In order to maintain the reliability and ensure optimum performance of your PC, we will begin reminding you of the importance of "rebooting" your PC.
- Rebooting your PC ensures critical security patches, virus protection updates and application upgrades are installed on your PC.
- You will be reminded to reboot your PC with pop-up message notifications, to ensure that the latest upgrades are installed on your PC.
- The pop-up message notifications will begin in mid-July, 2008 for PCs that have not been rebooted within seven days.
Nothing really new: we already knew that for Windows folks rebooting is the cure to all evils...
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What is so sad that the "reboot=fix" mentality is so ingrained that when people upgrade to Linux they bring it with them... On my Red Hat training course the mantra of the instructor was "Rebooting is a sign of weakness", they required you to fix problems without rebooting, production systems don't go down..
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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam
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Is this just some rumor? Qualify your source, please.
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The sad part, is that I've seen this sort of restart policy being extended to Linux servers... It seems that the win-crap layer is so tick, people are forgetting about trusted computing and reliability matters, even when it is available, at the cost of a good employee of course.
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Windows installing updates while shutting itself done is an amazingly stupid thing. When I shut down my computer, I expect it to shut down, and not start a 15 minute adventure of installing security updates. Can't figure out this "feature."
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