Windows XP Update Library On a CD 166
KrispyKofta sends us to APC Magazine for a writeup on Project Dakota, a one-man effort to provide all Windows XP SP2 updates on one downloadable CD. It's poor man's XP SP3, but even when SP3 is out, the project will continue to offer a CD that will install all patches offline. "When was the last time you installed a fresh copy of Windows XP SP2? The process is still straightforward and relatively quick... but then you think 'I'll just make sure the patches are up to date,' and proceed to stare in horror at the 100+ security updates and critical fixes that Windows Update or WSUS demands you install. And it takes forever. A better option which we've just discovered is the innovative work of Alek Patsouris... it's a self-contained boot CD which contains all the necessary updates to automatically patch a Windows XP SP2 system with all the patches available at the CD's build time."
I can't be the only one that thinks this (Score:1, Insightful)
sounds like a copyright violation (Score:5, Insightful)
Innovative? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Pirates are pirates...... (Score:5, Insightful)
1. In any reasonable well designed system wouldn't the patches be, ya know, signed?
2. Any third party software that you run could tamper with your system. Kinda sounds like a flimsy excuse used by someone who doesn't want to state their real reasons.
MS are morons.... (Score:3, Insightful)
If I was bill gates, I would walk right into the OS group and say, "listen MOFO loosers, make a single one time update for all fucking patches under 100meg, no online wizards"
I think Bill Gee has a personal IT ass-sistant keeping his top of the line laptop always ready & working. If only Billy knew how shit his OS was. This goes to a few linux distros too,
stop this madness 5.1 6.1 7.0 8.1 every 6 month, just update a
Frigging bloody BA Managers. Clueless about IT.
It is all about reputation (Score:1, Insightful)
Install cycle (Score:2, Insightful)
F12 - PXE boot
"ubuntu-710-server"
enter hostname
*wait 20-40 minutes depending on time of day and bandwidth*
Fully uptodate, patched installation, ready to go, with essential utils installed like sshd, snmp, npt, etc.
If building a generic box, run "setup.sh", select role, and go. Depending on role thigns like apache are installed. Everyone's happy.
Nagios checked every 6 hours for critical security patches are flags them up, test and dev systems get them installed automatically, live systems get the OK (a manual apt-get upgrade) depending on severity of exploits
What's a CD?
Re:Criminal OS Maintenance Time Wasters (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:It is all about control (Score:1, Insightful)
If autopatcher breaks things then likely Microsoft will have to clean up the mess. (Remember they broke compatibility between CIFS and CIFS2 because of a bug in Samba because they knew they'd get blamed when the new OS couldn't talk to the old NAS.) They want to know that when things go wrong it's their fault.
Re:Pirates are pirates...... (Score:5, Insightful)