[Leica] Automatic updates

[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