[Leica] Automatic updates

[red735i at verizon.net (Frank Filippone)]

Unless you have some hardware that is not compatible with the updates... 
like my ATI / AMD Video board.  In which case fixing the now created problem 
has taken me several hours, and I am no where....  Card was OEM supplied, 
and is the old generation of cards before AMD bought ATI.  Worked fine on 
Win7 and before..... 

The Windows 10 ( and WIN 8) Driver is not compatible with the OS, and has 
not been for a while.  AMD's response has been... here is a beta that should 
work.  ( It doesn't).  There will be no more updates to the driver.  You are 
on your own.....

Do not allow auto updates..... you are playing Russian Roulette..... 

BTW, my soon to be applied "fix" is to purchase a new video card that is new 
enough to be supported.... and works with WIN 10.

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net


-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On 
Behalf Of FRANK DERNIE
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 9:23 AM
To: lrzeitlin at aol.com; Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Automatic updates

You can disable automatic updates on a Mac, I agree that no update should be 
the default but nowadays most users are computer illiterate and the makers 
probably actually do know better than them what they want...It is still 
irritating to have to disable automatic updates though.
Frank D 

    On Saturday, 13 February 2016, 15:35, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:
 

 One of the supposed features of many new pieces of software and computer 
operating systems is automatic updates. This was never the case when 
software came on optical discs. I recently had a collection of photos 
trashed when my Mac Air told me that there was an updated OS for my computer 
and automatically loaded El Capitan. Basically the problem with much of the 
new software is that it removes control from the user. The assumption is 
that the software knows your desires and needs better than you do. It 
reminds me of the transition from an old film Leica to a modern digital 
camera. The obvious solution is to use two computers, one unconnected to the 
internet and loaded with your pictures and the software you actually use, 
the other connected to the internet for all the new software and operating 
systems. Or a single computer with a BIG partitioned disc. Or full backups 
of everything on free standing digital disc drives. But be careful. I use 
all of these and once in a while something gets inadvertently  changed.
Larry Z