Craving updates

[yesthattom]

I have a policy that I don’t do OS updates while traveling. It’s just too tempting to install a patch or system fix and suddenly my laptop is broken for the remaining trip. In fact, I don’t do such updates even a few days before a trip. Once I did that and my whole laptop had to be reloaded (Mac OS X).

So here I am on a 8-day trip and every day the apple bouncy thing haunts me... tempting me... begging to be updated.

three... more... days... must... resist... the... boucy.... must... resist....

Comments

[sachmet.livejournal.com]

You could always ignore the update, then use "Reset Ignored Updates" when you get home. Then at least it wouldn't be mocking you directly :-)

[airshipjones.livejournal.com]

What, it won't tell you what the updates are *before* you install them? Is that some kind of ambush update thing? Sheesh... And I thought MS was bad.... :)

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

They have full descriptions. They tempt me with their juicy descriptions of new features, bug fixes and security patches. They taunt me with promises of crunchy Apple goodness.

must... resist...

[n5red.livejournal.com]

Go ahead, you know you want it.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a Fry's Electronics near you.

I'm sure you need an external portable hard drive of sufficient size to backup your current laptop setup onto. (CarbonCopyCloner or SuperDuper, pick your poison.)

And then you could do the update.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I have backups at home, and on the corporate network, and a helpdesk that will do the reload for me. I just don't want to be in that situation where I need the service.

resist

[chrisla.livejournal.com]

I updated to 10.4.9 and for the first time ever about the top quarter of my screen was doing "floofy things" when I just opened the lid. It was sort of like the video card driver was screwing up, and it was displaying a mosaic of what should have been there... I can't say the two are related, but this the first problem _ever_ I have had w/ my MBPro. A reboot cleared it up.

[kimuchi.livejournal.com]

I would say "I installed that update on both my PPC laptop at home and my Intel laptop at work without problems" to allay your concerns, but I've noticed with Macs in particular one (or 3) successful updates on other people's machines does not guarantee that that one last friend's machine will be OK with it, too.

[catness.livejournal.com]

!!!

You don't carry a bootable spare copy of your laptop with you when you travel??

!!!!!

*mutters to herself and makes another backup*

[awfief.livejournal.com]

why not just install the updates, but don't reboot?

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Technically, one shouldn't run a machine with new binaries too long.

But the real reason is that on a Mac you'd then see the "Reboot? Shutdown?" dialog box on the screen forever. Then I'd have *that* tempting me to clicky-click-click.