Re: restart

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From: Luke Kanies
Subject: Re: restart
Date: 15:26 on 10 Sep 2005
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Juerd wrote:

> iTunes wanted me to reboot my Mac mini after upgrading.
>
> Reboots on security upgrades are bad, the reboot dialog that doesn't go
> away after upgrading is bad (though it can be killed), that there is
> always at least one application that doesn't respond and needs to be
> force quitted (You know, "kill" works much better as a verb) is bad.
>
> But rebooting to upgrade my music player. COME ON.

There exists a downloaded but uninstalled iTunes upgrade on my computer
for this exact reason.  What is it, 1995 again?  "You've moved your
mouse, please wait for Windows to restart."

> And they exchanged the Brushed Metal look for a new Cheap Silver Plastic
> interface. The how manyth different graphic design is this?

They realized that a twitch of consistency had shown up somewhere, so
they had to change everything again.

-- 
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
--Friedrich Engels
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