In your system prefs, bring up Software Update and unclick the Check Daily, Weekly or Monthly.

I dislike annoying bots getting all up in my face too.

No, I like having Software Update pop up the day there is an update. That's good behaviour.

I strongly dislike being hassled by the same freakin' update entry time and again. I unchecked the damn install box. I told it to quit. I should not see an update window until another, different update comes along. And even then, the box should remain unchecked.

My Mac quickly pissed me off again: after the update it had to reboot. Fucking Apple always has to shaft you with the Quicktime update. Gotta integrate the gd thing into the OS, just like Microsoft and its damn browser. Gotta reboot.

Naturally, I walk away and do something useful for five minutes while it reboots. Macs boot soooo slowly.

When I get back it is, of course, telling me that my wife's account is also active, and wants my admin authorisation to log her out. Of course.

Five minutes later (apparently it took a while to log her out), I come back. It's still booting. Sloooow effing boot process. And then wants my name and password to log in. And then needs to start my default apps all over again. Which takes another eternity or two.

Which is, of course, why I didn't want that goddamn Quicktime update in the first place.

I may have to write Steve Jobs a hate letter.

Well, of course, none of that shit happens with Windows, does it?

Some things that folks in this thread seem not to know:

a) You can tell it to 'ignore' an update. Select the update you'd like to ignore and hit backspace/delete. Presto.

b) Macs boot slow - when they're updating. When restart is required, it's because your Mac will actually install the update at the time of the reboot. That takes time.

c) You shouldn't ignore updates. Just install them. Bugs you noticed ages ago and learned to live with will suddenly disappear. Things get better.

Or the updater comes along and, say, breaks your perfectly cromulent version of iTunes and removes functionality like that whole thing with the remote playback and local filesharing exploit people liked so much.

Having no interest in the iTunes store, I ignored that update for, I dunno, a year? Two years?

What loq said. I'm sticking with iTunes 6.0.1 until they get rid of the DRM crapfest they stuck later versions with. But thanks, ikkyu2, for the way to get rid of it from the updater list once and for all.

I've only had my Mac for a couple of months. When I saw "My Mac finally pisses me off" in Bloglines I was immediately interested. Then I read FFF's post and I felt the urge to defend the Mac. Not that what FFF described doesn't sound broken and wrong. Not that I have an easy workaround. On some level I just didn't like to see the innocent little Mac get attacked like that.

"Slow to boot" it says. "YEAH WELL YO MAMA IS SLOW TO BOOT TOO!", I felt like screaming at the screen. "Integrates Quicktime into Windows just like Windows". Like Windows??? You gotta be kidding me! My Mac is nothing like Windows!

I used to be a Linux user but I was never compelled to argue like this before. What is it with the Macintosh that makes you love them like that and feel the need to defend them like some pimply 14-year-old nerd living in his mom's basement? HELP ME I'M TURNING INTO AN APPLE FANBOY!!!!

There, there, keep clicking the pretty icons and your doubt will go away!

Ahhh... Pretty Icons...

If it's the update with the SuperDrive firmware update, you'll actually have to restart twice.
Grrrr.

'm sticking with iTunes 6.0.1 until they get rid of the DRM crapfest they stuck later versions with.

You mean the same DRM crapfest they stuck iTunes 6.0.1 with?

You can tell it to 'ignore' an update. Select the update you'd like to ignore and hit backspace/delete.

Well, damn. Once again, I learn that when I seem to be doing things the hard way, I'm not trusting the system to do things the sensible and easy way.

Of course there's no checkbox. 'cause then tons of idiots would choose to ignore the real updates. So it's designed to be at least a little bit of a hassle.

I'm still pissed they forced a QT update at me. If they're gonna do that, they should let me authorise TextMate, Adium, and suchlike to also send updates automagically. (That would really rock, actually.)