Comment I'm not surprised... (Score 1) 287
...I've met people from Meaford.
Scientists Surprised to Find Earth's Biosphere Booming 692
radioweather writes "An article from the Financial Post
says that recent studies of
biosphere imaging from the NASA SEAWIFS satellite indicate that the
Earth's
biomass is booming: 'The results surprised Steven Running of the University of Montana and
Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA, scientists involved in analyzing the NASA satellite
data. They found that over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole
became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%. About 25% of the Earth's vegetated
landmass — almost 110 million square kilometers — enjoyed significant
increases and only 7% showed significant declines. When the satellite data zooms
in, it finds that each square meter of land, on average, now produces almost 500
grams of greenery per year.' Their 2004 study, and other more recent ones, point to the warming of the
planet and the presence of CO2, fertilizing the biota and resulting in the
increased green side effect."
Comment Re:Article Incorrect (Score 3, Interesting) 579
Seems as though there is some varying behavior with this update - perhaps related to the time the WSUS servers synced with MS?
Our WSUS server (version 2.0, version 3 upgrade planned for Q1-2008) has Automatic detection only turned on for critical and security updates. All other auto approval options including revisions to updates have been turned off since early 2006. All 2.6.x versions of desktop search were declined when they were released in April 2006 and January 2007 since we do not want this software for various performance, privacy and security reasons. (our systems hold public and private records) We only approve updates on the second Friday of each month, so they can be deployed over the weekend and we catch patch Tuesday.
Yet despite these precautions, "Windows Desktop Search 3.0.1 for Windows XP (KB917013)" was downloaded with approval set to Install for all computers after the synchronization on 10/23/2007 at 3:03am. When I logged into my computer in the morning, I got the "Updates are ready..." message and thought "that's kinda weird....." then I drank some coffee and said "oh crap."
We are not the only ones seeing this behavior. Check the newsgroup microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services . No mention has been made on the MS WSUS team blog yet.
MS really shouldn't be using the auto-install trump card on an add-on like this. They should really be saving it for an update that prevents the spread of an exploit, worm, or virus that is quickly spreading. Anyone else remember Melissa?
To MS - dealing with this unwanted installation is costing us time and money - this tends to piss off the Finance guys who will then cut our budgets as being wasteful and then we'll have less to spend on the software you've locked our organization into...guess where that will go...
Allan W.
Our WSUS server (version 2.0, version 3 upgrade planned for Q1-2008) has Automatic detection only turned on for critical and security updates. All other auto approval options including revisions to updates have been turned off since early 2006. All 2.6.x versions of desktop search were declined when they were released in April 2006 and January 2007 since we do not want this software for various performance, privacy and security reasons. (our systems hold public and private records) We only approve updates on the second Friday of each month, so they can be deployed over the weekend and we catch patch Tuesday.
Yet despite these precautions, "Windows Desktop Search 3.0.1 for Windows XP (KB917013)" was downloaded with approval set to Install for all computers after the synchronization on 10/23/2007 at 3:03am. When I logged into my computer in the morning, I got the "Updates are ready..." message and thought "that's kinda weird....." then I drank some coffee and said "oh crap."
We are not the only ones seeing this behavior. Check the newsgroup microsoft.public.windows.server.update_services . No mention has been made on the MS WSUS team blog yet.
MS really shouldn't be using the auto-install trump card on an add-on like this. They should really be saving it for an update that prevents the spread of an exploit, worm, or virus that is quickly spreading. Anyone else remember Melissa?
To MS - dealing with this unwanted installation is costing us time and money - this tends to piss off the Finance guys who will then cut our budgets as being wasteful and then we'll have less to spend on the software you've locked our organization into...guess where that will go...
Allan W.
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