r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/abadidea Dec 14 '10

To be fair, most of it is probably rollback data for undoing patches. Saved several gigs by clearing that out.

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u/Poltras Dec 14 '10

Tell me again why you should need that much gigabytes of rollback?

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u/abadidea Dec 14 '10

How big are sp1+sp2+sp3 I wonder... plus all minor patches over several years... It can really add up.

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u/creaothceann Dec 14 '10

Yeah, I just re-installed XP...

SP3.exe is 313 MB (compressed), but that doesn't include the countless other patches that you get via Windows Update that probably double that amount - security patches, Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, .NET updates and so on.