Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
During the past few years as computers have gotten more and more powerful, software has tended to get larger and larger. This happens because of so called “Feature Creep” and is the reason it now takes a 30 megabyte file with a 27 megabyte update to read a 20 kilobyte pdf file. Tonight I installed Adobe Reader on my laptop because I am getting it ready to loan to a friend. Normally I use Foxit Reader which is only a five megabyte download.
On my day job, I am responsible for configuring, installing and maintaining hundreds of PCs. Updating all the Adobe products gets tiresome, especially when the updates are as large as the original program was at the time of its initial installation!
Thankfully, when my friend is finished with my laptop, I only need to re-image it so it will be back to its lean and mean configuration.
The SixShooter
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