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I am Wez Furlong, Director of Engineering at Message Systems. My team is responsible for the fastest MTA on Earth.

I'm also a PHP Core developer and OpenSource contributor, residing in Maryland with Juliette, Xander and Lily. (read more)

YME: mandatory upgrade!?
16th June 2006 @ 20:48 EDT

I was treated to this, ridiculously wide, "dialog" just now:

mandatoryupgrade.png

again, no option to cancel, and no brains to realize that I don't have the required privileges, and no option to avoid the 8MB download that won't buy me anything.

I'm just glad that I don't have to quit everything just because some app decides that I have to. On the flip side, it interrupted my listening pleasure, so I'm tetchy.

Maybe this update has fixes for these things... but I'll apply that "mandatory" upgrade when I want to do it.

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25th June 2006 @ 00:22 EDT

Sorry, this was a security fix to one of the 3rd party components we use -- we don't take required updates lightly.

I'll look into what's up with improving this auto-update service...

ian

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