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On Friday 23 January 2009 08:31, Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > I thought you'd find this proof of bloatware amusing. > > Last night I was updating one of my clients sites (Windows Updates on > Vista). I'd put in an IPCop box running Update Accelerator to try and > ease the bandwidth use (they have a 1MBit ADSL connection). Now Update > Accelerator downloads the updates, caches them and passes them along to > Windows. It seemed to be taking ages though and I checked the log to > find that one update was about 800MB. I checked the web and found that > this update was to add a couple of words to the English & German spell > checker. God knows how many words they were adding but at 800MB > (compressed!) I'm starting to see why Vista takes around 15GB. That was > a Vista update too, I hadn't started on the Office 2007 updates by then. Thats strange - to add a couple of words to a linux file would normally be the size of the words etc + the diff record. That might not be possible as you may have added words to that dictionary so the next sensible thing would be to have a small dictionary API so the the update can go -'add word/description etc' and that again would be of the order of size of the changes involved. Oh Hang on that would of course rely on the people who know about computing 101 and as its a Windows update that is of course not possible. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html