I haven't run a virtual PC in a few years, but here's what I remember.
When I installed, I guess it was XP, the first thing I did was to go and ask for all the updates. There were like 23 of them, and some could only be installed by themselves, and others could only be installed in certain combinations of this-or-that-but-not-both. So it took me a few rounds to install stuff, and as I installed stuff, more updates appeared. (I am told this is much better these days.)
I forget how many times I went around on this. Like, most of an afternoon. Rebooted what seemed like 100 times. But with a virtual PC, you can just save off your entire machine as a backup, in case something explodes, so why not?
I told my pals who use Windows, and they were aghast. Eventually I figured out that they would not install any updates unless they felt they had to, because every update had a large chance that something would break. I guess that makes a certain kind of sense.
Then I thought about the Mac attitude, which is, always install updates because they might fix something.
Somehow, this doesn't seem all that much better...
(Well, maybe that's not 100% true. Sometimes updates speed things up, or add whizzy new doo-dads -- not so much, now that Sarbanes-Oxley has set in, but still.)
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on 2008-05-09 07:48 am (UTC)When I installed, I guess it was XP, the first thing I did was to go and ask for all the updates. There were like 23 of them, and some could only be installed by themselves, and others could only be installed in certain combinations of this-or-that-but-not-both. So it took me a few rounds to install stuff, and as I installed stuff, more updates appeared. (I am told this is much better these days.)
I forget how many times I went around on this. Like, most of an afternoon. Rebooted what seemed like 100 times. But with a virtual PC, you can just save off your entire machine as a backup, in case something explodes, so why not?
I told my pals who use Windows, and they were aghast. Eventually I figured out that they would not install any updates unless they felt they had to, because every update had a large chance that something would break. I guess that makes a certain kind of sense.
Then I thought about the Mac attitude, which is, always install updates because they might fix something.
Somehow, this doesn't seem all that much better...
(Well, maybe that's not 100% true. Sometimes updates speed things up, or add whizzy new doo-dads -- not so much, now that Sarbanes-Oxley has set in, but still.)