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| About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them! |
I tend to be fairly conservative with software upgrades. I prefer something that works and doesn't change too much. Here are details two upgrades I did yesterday, both with quite different outcomes:
- I was having problems with a watchdog timeout on an ethernet card when a FreeBSD server was under heavy disk load, so I upgraded from 6.2 to 6.4 in the hope that the driver, or whatever was causing the problem, was also fixed. I felt comfortable doing this since it was a reasonably small incremental upgrade. In this case, the upgrade fixed the problem, so I'm happy.
- I was offered an update to Seamonkey 2.2 (a browser, similar to Firefox) so I decided to do it. Hmmm. First, this new version swapped the position of the "Open link in new window" and "Open link in new tab" right click options, so I keep opening things in a new tab when I actually want them in a new window. Which genius decides to swap the positions of UI elements that have been this way for years? Secondly, it proclaimed a few minutes later that the flash plugin had crashed, which never happened with the earlier version. A bad omen or simply coincidence? Not so happy with this upgrade.
Do you blindly update to the latest and greatest, or sit back and wait for others to figure out any problems?
It's 2011 and I'm still running XP SP3... :)
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