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Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use?
First time accepted submitter wallydallas writes "I'm close to a solution, but I wonder how other people block their many devices and operating systems from updating in working hours. For example: I'm the IT guy who blocks iPads from updating when school is in session because we are in a rural location. 3mbps is the best WAN we can buy. Devices can update after hours just fine. We do this with our router (DDWRT) by blocking MESU.APPLE.COM. Many guests bring in Windows 7 laptops, and I want to welcome them, but not their updates. How can I block updates on Android Phones and Linux Laptops? I have a 4G device at home, and I'd like to apply the same tricks 24 hours a day so that I don't use up the bandwith from my vendor. And my many home visitors should have their updates blocked."
Wall Street loves to forgo $10 tomorrow to make $1 today. We see companies trashed constantly by short sighted profit gains. HP went from a blue chip tech stock standard to a common stock overnight when Carly took over and reigned in all their long-term profit goals in favor of short term gains at a fraction of the profit. (I was inside watching this one happen. It made me ragequit, eventually.)
I quit unpacking updates to prevent aneurism by rage when I started seeing this. "Hmm.. 128Mb patch, lots of useless crap attached, duplication of DLL's with the same size/signature.. about 600k of new data. Now I want to break something."