9 Dec
2007
9 Dec
'07
2:34 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
It seems that Apple is getting closer to MICROS~1 every day. I
powered up my old G3 with Panther installed the other day and learned
that there was something like 59MB in security updates waiting for me
to install. I can't imagine how a user with slow modem access deals
with this kind of thing. And the US is full of people with modem as
their only available internet access--and not at anywhere near 56K.
To be fair, I don't think this is limited to Apple or Microsoft; I
booted an Ubuntu Linux box of mine a few weeks ago and had about 75mb of
updates that it wanted me to install. Programmers make mistakes,
unfortunately, and I don't think that's a trend that's going to change
anytime soon. At least they're fixing the problems, though I agree that
it's painful to get the fixes over a modem (haven't had to do that in
years, thankfully.)
Josh