nagboxes

[deathboy]

seen this box too often?



here's how to stop it nagging.

Two ways to stop it are illustrated, one that's good for the current session, one that controls how the box appears for ev0r. Obviously, if you work on a shared computer with n00bs who need the nagging, maybe you should just change the frequency.

Comments

[smogo.livejournal.com]

Ooh nice one, thanks.

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

A curious observation about this. I've never, ever seen that dialog box. Granted, this is in part because I do not now nor have I ever owned andy Microsoft software (Mac OS X's "restart now?" dialog happily sits in the background and doesn't even bounce annoyingly in the dock, as its "install updates now" dialgo does, until you're ready to deal with it, and NetBSD doesn't so much need a reboot unless you're doing it on purpose), but I do use an internally-maintained build of this at a Very Large Bank for work. They seem to have enabled the "quit nagging" universally for most updates. This is a place with lots of users who may or may not even know why it'd be important to reboot. Then there are the security updates, which give a 30 second countdown in HUGE FONT, that you can pause, but cannot make go away. Someone in Desktop Software decides how important the updates are, which need to go into practice right the hell now, and which can go in whenever. I rather like this approach.