Patch

In this lesson we are taking our script further by adding details about IP configuration and last installed hotfixes. But it turns out, the networking information is not that shallow as it seems at the first glance – thus I’ll show you how to retrieve the information from the configuration. We will also look on how to reuse our already created object so that we don’t need to duplicate code....

Because software was working without the need of downloading tons of patches. Why do we actually need to update software in the first place? In the past, the only way to obtain a software was by delivering the physical media to the recipient. There was a cost of media itself and shipment (and probably much more of which I’m not aware of), it couldn’t be cheap. While comparing to the current times, it is just a matter of uploading an update to the server and push to users....