On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 08:01:11PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "H. S. Teoh" <hst...@quickfur.ath.cx> wrote in message > news:mailman.446.1331424217.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 05:16:15PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> Which reminds me, I still need to figure out what domain it > >> contacts to check whether or not to incessently nag me about > >> *cough* "upgrading" *cough*, so I can ban the damn thing via my > >> hosts file. > > > > Umm... you *could* just point Opera at opera:config, then search for > > "Disable Opera Package AutoUpdate", y'know... > > > > Ugh. If the authors of a GUI program can't be bothered to put an > option in their own options menus, then that option may as well not > exist. Why can't they learn that? I searched every inch of Opera's > options screens and never found *any* mention or reference to any > "Disable AutoUpdate" or "opera:config". What the fuck did they expect? > Clairvoyance? Omniscience?
Yay! I'm clairvoyant! :-P Seriously though, I suspect the reason for opera:config is to hide "dangerous" options for the "end users", but keep it available to geeks like you & me who like to tweak stuff most people don't even know exists. I can just imagine somebody filing an Opera bug that auto update stopped working, when they were the ones who turned it off themselves. Can't say I agree with this approach, but that's the way things are, sad to say. [...] > Heh :) I really do see modern Google as "the new microsoft" though, > but just with less respect for personal privacy. (Heck, aren't half > their employees former MS employees anyway?) I don't care how much > they chant "Don't be evil", it's actions that count, not mantras. > > Hell, that's what happened to MS and Apple, too. *They* used to be the > "Google" to IBM's "evil", and then they themselves became the new > IBMs. That famous Apple II commercial is so depressingly ironic these > days. Success changes corporations. [...] Here's a quote for you: "Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would behave very differently from those who now hold it---when, in truth, in order to get power we would have to become very much like them." -- Unknown T -- Recently, our IT department hired a bug-fix engineer. He used to work for Volkswagen.