Why most run Microsoft, not RedHat

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 19 12:25:33 UTC 2007


On Thursday 19 April 2007, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 19/04/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Dotan, my laptop dual-boots with XP.  I have that set up to notify me of
> > updates, but not install.  I do recall seeing, however, that you can
> > elect to download updates automatically and install later, though I've
> > never tried that, since I like to read the description of the updates
> > before letting them loose :-)
> >
> > Anne
>
> That is almost impossible in Israel. Software pirates are rampage
> here, such that WGA assumes everything is pirate. I do believe that
> it's area-specific, and with just reason. In any case, on my current
> Dell I run a cracked XP in a VMWare VM because my legal XP disk won't
> validate and the cracked one works fine! I've overcome the moral
> reasons as I HAVE a legal licence.
>
> Automatic updates are the only way to update a cracked XP. As for my
> (past) professor, I will suggest to him non-automatic updates.
>
The 'download now, install later' is part of the automatic updates.  I'm sure 
it would solve the problem for him.

Anne




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