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February 01, 2005
Laziness
Have become very lazy about software upgrades lately.
Matt, my brother, is eventually going to move this domain somewhere. I'm too lazy even to have untarred the new version of MovableType I downloaded last month. Need to have a look.
I'd also been too lazy to upgrade to Thunderbird 1.0 and Firefox 1.0. That's like watching commercials because you're too lazy to push the button on the remote. Finally got around to that.
Ludo reminded us to upgrade to Solaris 10, which he observes runs faster on his workstation than the previous version he had. I've only installed Solaris 10 on an old PC I rarely use, and even then it was mainly out of laziness: easier to install the machine fresh than to patch it before installing some software I needed to test.
On a laptop I use, I've been running a beta version of our iWork Java Desktop System ever since the beta eval started.
On this system at home, I'm still running Red Hat 9 with a 2.4.21 kernel.
I have an old Vaio laptop still running Windows 98 (for device support to transfer files from a Sony memory stick that I couldn't easily get working with Gentoo last time I tried).
I've even been running Directory Server 5.2 patch 2 for months and months on my old workstation that's now in the lab, yet I doc the new versions for that.
Maybe it's not pure laziness. Part of the problem is that the existing stuff actually works pretty well.
Posted by Mark at February 1, 2005 10:07 PM