I just don't get it. The main purpose for the updates is in my limited
understanding to provide automated way of receiving patches to the OS,
especially when security vulnerabilities are discovered. This is good for
you because it plugs security holes that could be exploited by bad guys
coming into your PC in and destroying stuff.
Last night my PC was running the final steps of a 48+ hrs unattended
experimental process only to run into this wonderful Windows Update that
decided to reboot the computer and trash all this work "for my protection"
(against someone coming in and destroying my work?)
One of the first and most important things you learn about computers is not
to turn them off when they are in the middle of something because of
potential data loss. Yet the intellectuals behind Windows Update decide to
just do precisely that, without providing a warning that requires user
confirmation or checking if the PC processor is idle.
It reminds me of those bad action movies where the hero rushes to save an
inocent victim but not without killing hundreds of bystanders in the process.
ac.-
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