Update Manager in 9.04

[NoOp]

On 04/28/2009 02:56 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Damien Hull <dhull at digital-overload.net> wrote:
>> The update manager just pops up instead of the old notification. Is anyone else seeing this? I don't like this at all...
> 
> My new hated ubuntu bug
> 
> Fix it with this ->
> gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
> 
> Then get a load of this discussion (bring a lunch, but don't eat much
> 'cause it ain't appetizing)
> http://tinyurl.com/csy6hr
> 
> Brian
> 

+1 (of thousands?)

Not only does the thing just pop up whenever it damn well pleases, but
it doesn't actually even include the most recent security updates. Today
on two systems I had to manually click the 'Check' button in order to
see the apport security update options that I had already seen in Hardy.
Not to mention that the thing pops up like a bad spamvert on top of
already running windows. I thought that I'd left 'helpers' like this
behind long ago when I abandoned windwows (MS Office 'Clippy' & pop up
spam advertisements on customers infected systems).

The intention may have been well meant, but the end result is *very*
irritating. I'm off to http://preview.tinyurl.com/dmmq62 to apply the
bandaid... :-0