Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by ksk on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:31PM (#16259517)

I was responding to your own comment

>In a case where one could get some sort of inconsistency because of different library versions, you restart the applications.

I am envisioning the same scenario you replied to!

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by code_duck on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:19PM (#16260319)

Yes, but for some reason you want a GUI alert to tell you important things, which is a foreign concept to me. What I envision is knowing what is running on your server and updating programs purposefully, with knowledge of how they interact and what problems version inconsistency could cause.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by ksk on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:17PM (#16261479)

You're the one proposing the enumeration of affected programs and services and restarting them as a solution!! How is using a GUI a foreign concept? Are you debating the merits of a GUI in 2018?

In any case, my assumption here is we're trying to help the user and give them an easy way to know what to do, instead of leaving their software in an undefined state.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by code_duck on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:41PM (#16268818)

Great. For one, I was initially confused because I thought you were the author of the post I replied to you. Next, yes. I think we should do that.

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