WTF, I'm setting up a new virtual machine on my Mac so I can test my web site designs against IE 6. It's taken me nearly 3 hours already to get XP installed and update to SP2 from CD. Now I'm at the Windows Update site and it's looking for updates. And the thing has been going for well over 3 minutes now. I have just one question: why?
How hard can it be to check for updates? It's not like the hardware and software configuration of my computer is changing that often. It would seem pretty easy to have a background task that looks for changes and adds them to some sort of config file that will be uploaded to the server when I connect. Then the server can compare all the entries in my config file against the latest updates on the server manifest. I don't see why this would take so long to do.
Oh, wait. There's your problem. Buggy code.
How hard can it be to check for updates? It's not like the hardware and software configuration of my computer is changing that often. It would seem pretty easy to have a background task that looks for changes and adds them to some sort of config file that will be uploaded to the server when I connect. Then the server can compare all the entries in my config file against the latest updates on the server manifest. I don't see why this would take so long to do.
Oh, wait. There's your problem. Buggy code.
The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view.I ended up having to download Service Pack 3 from a 3rd party site and install it manually before Windows Update would work for me. And after SP3 was installed on my main PC at home, it would no longer boot; I had to back it out. I really wonder how people without the knowledge I have deal with thos sort of crap.
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