Reply to: Take Note - Patch all your Windows PC's

[TheMonkey]

Excellent! Now, will you be dual-booting it run Windows by any chance..?

Err yeah - only when I have to.

I do a lot of PHP / MySQL stuff privately so that's all running on the MacOS side of things. I do contract .Net stuff because it pays reasonably so I'm covered both ways now with the sanity and cash parameters.

[mcquiggd]

Excellent! Now, will you be dual-booting it run Windows by any chance..?

[TheMonkey]

Problem completely solved.

I just bought a Mac!

[threaded]

M$ latest on Thursday night cost just one of my clients 5 man days on Friday due to extra and rework, that was just one client and observing the people around me.

They're in today, Saturday, to make up. But seeing as many in that dept. were due to fly home to England this weekend and didn't fancy it at the moment it's not such a great loss.

[thunderlizard]

My PC is having dificulty coping with the strain. It's 5 years old. About 80% of its time is spent waiting for Norton antivirus, Windows Update and Microsoft AntiSpyware to finish scanning each other whenever I click on anything and much of the disk is full of stuff Windows has downloaded . It takes 40 minutes to do anything at all and I'm starting to think I might be better off with some viruses after all.

[darmstadt]

My fecking SBS 2003 box rebooted itself religiously at 12:00 today to apply this update. WHY the hell did they schedule it to reboot then by default!!!

This is why Windows boxes get infected, because they're connected to the outside world.

[TheMonkey]

I was bloody working!!! Server goes POP!

Where the **** has exchange gone - argh!

[DimPrawn]

Well that's lunchtime. It was doing the work whilst you enjoyed a pint down the boozer.

[TheMonkey]

My fecking SBS 2003 box rebooted itself religiously at 12:00 today to apply this update. WHY the hell did they schedule it to reboot then by default!!!

Arseholes!

[Cowboy Bob]

[AtW]

Or do that rather quaint IT practice called "testing"?

When I asked one client about automated testing I had a few strange looks as if I was some kind of weirdo

[DimPrawn]

Wouldn't you notice after the 1st one went wrong?

Or do that rather quaint IT practice called "testing"?

[Mordac]

PS Maybe I'm lucky but i've never had a patch or service pack go bad on me.

I have - the infamous NT4 SP6 which f**ked 20 servers, and my contract extension.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Sounds like everyone in our IT department

Excellent Old Bean !!!!

[Paddy]

Mine was updated last night, the updates knocked out the Linksys card settings, reset the firewall and IE has now working very slow. I wasted an hour and a half getting the settings right again. Microsoft, craapp products but creating work in the IT sector.