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When Is A Good Time To Upgrade?

Posted by timothy on from the why-it's-nice-of-you-to-ask dept.

Andru Edwards writes "In an article which looks at the techie's mindset as it pertains to upgrading, Hector Martinez takes a deeper look at what makes us want to buy the latest gadgets. What are your options, and when should you actually just keep what you already have?"

3 of 490 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Always by bri_n33 · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    So that's how you got first post...

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  2. Duh, How about every several days? by AnalogDog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well for those of us that are trying to break MS down, and have Billy G beg for money on the streets, we usually upgrade anywhere from daily to when a new Distro is released from our favorite Linux Company. But for me, I usually run urpmi.update -a; urpmi --auto-select every Friday evening.

  3. Re:Don't. by Cryptnotic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do() || do_not(); // try();

    This looks like C, but it totally doesn't work. "do" is a reserved word used to initiate a do-while loop and cannot be used for a function name. "try" is reserved as well, though it is only used in systems that handle exceptions (e.g., C++, Java, etc).

    Yes, I get the Star Wars reference, but your code is incredibly lame. What kind of coder would name a function "do_not"? The kind I'd like to kill if I had to maintain his code, that's the kind.

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