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I'm currently running nothing but Opera, and haven't run Google Earth for weeks, but my firewall has suddenly chimed up that a "google earth bundle" is trying to execute google earth (which I have told to not auto-update). I'm tempted to take the f***in' thing out and shoot it myself! Few things piss me off more than developers who think they know what I want better than I do, disregard my decisions/preferences, and add "helper" programs that run without my telling them to. Google is becoming more like adobe every day. Now I have to hack my own machines, to make the "helper" stop "helping" me (the same as you have to with acrobat).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm currently running nothing but Opera, and haven't run Google Earth for weeks, but my firewall has suddenly chimed up that a "google earth bundle" is trying to execute google earth (which I have told to not auto-update). I'm tempted to take the f***in' thing out and shoot it myself! Few things piss me off more than developers who think they know what I want better than I do, disregard my decisions/preferences, and add "helper" programs that run without my telling them to. Google is becoming more like adobe every day. Now I have to hack my own machines, to make the "helper" stop "helping" me (the same as you have to with acrobat).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I've noticed that google will sometimes install a scheduled task to execute the google updater. Look for that task in the scheduler list and kill it.
Best wishes, Hans
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I've noticed that google will sometimes install a scheduled task to execute the google updater. Look for that task in the scheduler list and kill it.
Best wishes, Hans
Nothing there, but the google update service has somehow been set to "Automatic", so I've renamed the file, and replaced it with an empty file with no write permissions.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm currently running nothing but Opera, and haven't run Google Earth for weeks, but my firewall has suddenly chimed up that a "google earth bundle" is trying to execute google earth (which I have told to not auto-update). I'm tempted to take the f***in' thing out and shoot it myself! Few things piss me off more than developers who think they know what I want better than I do, disregard my decisions/preferences, and add "helper" programs that run without my telling them to. Google is becoming more like adobe every day. Now I have to hack my own machines, to make the "helper" stop "helping" me (the same as you have to with acrobat).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Google has recently added google earth as a view selection on google maps. Maybe something related to this?
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Nothing there, but the google update service has somehow been set to "Automatic", so I've renamed the file, and replaced it with an empty file with no write permissions.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Google has recently added google earth as a view selection on google maps. Maybe something related to this?
Robert Surtees wrote:
Google has recently added google earth as a view selection on google maps. Maybe something related to this?
I didn't have time to dig too deep, last night, but that sounds like it might be a good starting place.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark Wallace wrote:
google update service
..and how did that get onto your machine?
My signature "sucks" today
I don't mind them copying such files onto my machine as part of an install, but if I tell them not to activate update services, I expect them to honour that demand.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!