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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Tom Shelton   
   Re: Two Hours for SP1?   
   24 Feb 11 20:11:01   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand   
      
   In message , Tom Shelton wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :   
   >   
   >> In message ,   
   >> Justin wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Two god damn hours to install SP1?  Good God, Microsoft is honestly   
   >>> trying to piss off their customers.   
   >>   
   >> And you can’t even continue doing work while the update is installing.   
   >> Unlike Unix/Linux systems, Windows won’t let you replace files that are   
   >> curently in use by a running process. So you have to stop everything   
   >> until the update is done.   
   >>   
   >> Even Linux updates that require a reboot only need downtime for the   
   >> actual reboot, not for the installation of the update.   
   >   
   > LOL...  Wrong.   
      
   Have you understood the point yet? Hopefully you’ll get it when or before   
   Ezekiel does.   
      
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