Well Done
That's an impressive number of [ easily confused ] number-labels and associated links.
Patch Tuesday used to be Microsoft's day to release patches. Now Adobe, Intel, and SAP are routinely joining the fun – with special guest star Red Hat this month. Redmond on pace for record patch volumes If you've felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of security patches Microsoft has emitted this year, you are not alone. Patch …
Is to use Evince instead. If all you want from Reader is to be able to read PDF files then Evince will do the job nicely. (Unfortunately Evince is not suitable for interactive PDF documents.) I have both on my system and Adobe Reader is only used 2 or 3 times a year to handle interactive PDF files.
If Adobe Reader is not run then the bugs in it are far less important.
As any ful know:
People think you're daft building a castle on quicksand, so you build it anyway just to show 'em.
It sinks into the quicksand.
So you build another one.
That one burns down, falls over then sinks into the quicksand.
The third one stays up.
PDF-XChange Viewer, anyone? Adobe Reader is just so unnecessarily huge, and runs annoying background services too. It bugs me when websites still say something like "You'll need Adobe Reader to open PDF files". Even Firefox does it for you these days.
I've been getting lots of bios/formware updates and driver updates for computers, TV, and router the last two weeks. Just to keep things interesting, AMD, or more likely ASUS, has totally screwed up their BIOS listing to the point that I'm not sure if I have the current BIOS for my motherboard or not. I have version 2602, which is no longer on their website. Is there an explanation for this? Silly question.