On Nov 13, 2010, at 5:48 PM, WahooCharley wrote: > >> That particular precaution may or may not meet your needs; >> but as a practical matter, very few people really _need_ to grab >> an OS update within a few hours or even a few weeks of when it >> comes out, unless it has a fix or feature they really need, in >> which case, they need to decide what they're willing to risk >> breaking for the sake of installing the OS update early. > > In my case, installing an OS update is paramount in my business so > that I can stay one step ahead of my clients who who have done this on > their own. Those clients are using platform-centric custom databases > that I have written for them. If they have problems resulting from an > OS update they would expect me to have some answers - answers I could > not begin to give them if I hadn't already installed the OS update, > too. While this is a lot less critical in the case of 10.6.4 to > 10.6.5, it still applies just as it would updating from Leopard to > Snow Leopard. > > As for reliance on Growl Mail, I receive no less than 200 emails > throughout the day, about half of which need to be filtered by me for > content as they come in, simply to make sure that they don't require > me to respond at that point in time - thus interrupting programming in > which I might be embroiled. So even a day of having to switch over to > mail to check what's come in every 10-15 minutes is, well, a PITA. > > Hope this helps to explain my needs. > > Bart
Sure - I've updated my own desktop early myself (at work) to use it for both regular desktop use and application testing. Sometimes that's the best answer - keeps everything right at one's fingertips, where it gets a workout, avoids the need for a dedicated test system (or an additional one), etc. And yet...production and test have different goals. If Apple wasn't so restrictive on the virtualization they allowed (OSX Server only under OSX Server on Apple hardware, with paid licenses for every copy running) that might be an answer, given a beefy enough desktop to handle it. But with their restrictions, that's about as pricey as picking up a used Mini as a 2nd system. No good answers maybe... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
