Re: Windows chokes on latest Microsoft patch

From: Imhotep (Imhotep_at_nospam.net)
Date: 10/28/05

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    klfeck wrote:

    > I can honestly say that I have been patching 300 plus Windows servers
    > monthly for the past two years. I have yet to have a patch cause a problem
    > with a production server. M$ has done an excellent job in the time that I
    > have been patching servers. I may yet have a problem with MS05-051 but
    > even if I do one problem in two years is alot better than anyone would
    > expect. Maybe they should produce software that doesn't need patched so
    > often but their patches have indeed been good as of recent.
    >
    > "Imhotep" wrote:
    >
    >> S. Pidgorny wrote:
    >>
    >> > "Imhotep" <Imhotep@nospam.net> wrote in message
    >> > news:19qdndH3y75HWsvenZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@adelphia.com...
    >> >
    >> >> > Such is the nature of software updates.
    >> >
    >> >> Correction: Such is the nature of sh*tty software updates...
    >> >
    >> > Incorrect. If you cannot test all the configurations out there and you
    >> > have install base of more than a million users, there will be problems
    >> > for some - and in case of the new patch, the impacted user base isn't
    >> > that big, and Microsoft is doing what's necessary to support them.
    >>
    >> What the hell are you smoking? MS dropped the ball, yet again. Even
    >> though they charge top dollar, give sh*tty tech support, insist on being
    >> inoperable with other OSes, are a virus magnet (but you *will* be able to
    >> buy their anti-virus soon) and are a spyware magnet (oh, yea, of an extra
    >> fee, they will fix that problem too)
    >>
    >> > You might
    >> > not know it, but support for MS security updates is _free_,
    >>
    >> ....and you honestly think they *should* charge you for fixing *their*
    >> problems...oh my God you a fool.
    >>
    >> > and MS already
    >> > identified the common cause of grief in the latest case. Compared to my
    >> > experience updating some of Linux systems, it is quite good.
    >>
    >> Bullcrap. You are talking out of your *** again. I have been updating
    >> linux/Unix systems for 10 years and have only had 1 problem. Can you say
    >> the same? Thought not.
    >>
    >> Imhotep
    >> Imhotep
    >>
    >>

    Luck can only take you so far...

    Imhotep

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