Re: Witango-Talk: MS Critical Updates and WiTango stability

[Web Dude]

I had an update from MS that destroyed my named pipes. Spent three 
days trying to fix it. Then gave up and went with TCP/IP.

Several days later, I checked for updates and it said the machine 
needed the same update again. I actually tried calling MS to see what 
gives. Of course, I can only spend up to several hours on the phone. 
I dug deeper into the MS site pit of h-e double hockey sticks, and 
low and behold. The update, it seems, had been modified to fix the 
named pipe issue. Others must have had the same problem.

What I find  wierd is that the update (labeled critical) was named 
exactly the same as the old update. Same ID - same everything. The 
only difference was the file size. They had a workaround, but after 
reading several pages of hops and jumps I would have to go through, I 
just reinstalled the newest...

Go Figure

There was a discussion about this a couple weeks back on the R:Base list.

It seems that most peoples' experience has been similar to Iccarus.  Fly too
high (updating too soon or too often) will make your wings melt and you'll
fall into the sea (bleeding edge updates make bad things happen)....fly to
low (dont update enough) and the waves will carry you down to the briney
deep (waves=hackers and viruses but same phenomena).
sure sucks dont it?

this is what ive seen atleast, im sure other people have had different
experiences :P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: Witango-Talk: MS Critical Updates and WiTango stability

 Many months ago we were pretty religious about installing MS critical
updates on our W2K SP3 server, but one day it bit us in the butt and one of
the updates caused WiTango to lock up every ten days or so.  Removing the
update fixed it.  Since then I've been kind of gun-shy about installing
these patches, and we haven't been experiencing any issues, so I figure if
it ain't broke don't fix it.  Anyway, has any one experienced WiTango
stability problems over the long term with any of the more recent MS
updates?
 Dave Machin

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