Comments on: Did everyone at PCWorld take their stupid pills today?

By: Grover

Grover — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:42:47 +0000

Oh wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve laughed as hard as I did over the Mrs. Macalope’s ignoring the dock. Whooo boy, that’s good stuff…

By: » give us this day our daily kool-aid i drank the kool-aid: clutching my dixie cup of apple goodness

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:33:24 +0000

[...] Did everyone at PCWorld take their stupid pills today? [...]

By: BradI

BradI — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:54:35 +0000

Sir Macalope: everyone missed the point entirely – I however understood! My Mrs. also manages to ignore the bouncing software update icon. I’ve never seen Weeds though. (I laughed hysterically reading the Mrs. Macalope bit.)

I just have to click that darn thing or I’ll go insane (not that I have to run it of course); my ocd requires that I notice icons that are hopping up and down. It’s like they’re holding their little hands up; but clicking “not now” still satisfies the need to impose “order”… ; – )

By: The Church of Apple

The Church of Apple — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:36:35 +0000

“Now compare all this to the millions of unknowing Windoze users who got stuck with IE7 automatically a couple of years ago and now are getting stuck with IE8 with no warning at all …”

Sadly, they’re probably doing everyone a favor. If you’ve ever had to design a website, you’d understand.

I don’t know about all this auto-update baloney. I’ve had to go to Apple’s website EVERY time to download it. Except ONCE when I was using the beta.

0_o

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:07:08 +0000

Apparently the number is big enough to attract attention.

By: The Macalope

The Macalope — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:39:09 +0000

Spelling fixed. Thanks.

By: Macalope on PCWorld’s “Safari numbers are hype” article « Day and Age

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:33:23 +0000

[...] The Macalope picks apart PCWorld’s Robert Strohmeyer and his article claiming the afore linked Safari download numbers are “pure hype”. [...]

By: DDA

DDA — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:37:52 +0000

First off, I assume the Macalope meant, “That’s *an* interesting theory…”

IE (at least as far as Windows XP) is in integral part of the OS and so updates are delivered as part of the normal Tuesday (in the US) Microsoft patch update; the default is to download and install updates but I’ve turned that off on my work machine. IE8 *is* currently being pushed by Microsoft but I don’t know if they’ve announced “download” numbers.

Safari 4.0 is only being offered by one of my three Macs and yes, it is flagged as needing a reboot.

By: The Macalope

The Macalope — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:11:03 +0000

Ah, that clears up some confusion the Macalope had. He knew that some updates weren’t auto-downloading but didn’t make the distinction.

Here’s something else he doesn’t get about Strohmeyer’s anecdotes: who downloads an update that forces a reboot when they don’t use the software? Safari 4.0 did force a reboot, didn’t it?

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:29:54 +0000

As stated above the default setting is “Download IMPORTANT updates automatically”. I have the default checked checked but never has there been a download without me OKing it, Safari 4 wasn’t auto for sure. I wonder what an “important update” is?