Off topic, Windows Vista failure
Roedy Green
has taken two days to recover. Now it is about to install the new
update again, which may blow me out the water again. Is anyone else
seeing this?
Surely MS should let you download a DVD with all the accumulated
updates on it. It takes hours and hours to download all the patches
to the original DVD.
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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When your language is nowhere near Turing-complete, syntactic sugar can be your friend.
~ Eric S. Raymond (born: 1957-12-04 age: 51) The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Lew
> Windows Vista update went off the rails, rebooting over and over. It
> has taken two days to recover. Now it is about to install the new
> update again, which may blow me out the water again. Is anyone else
> seeing this?
>
> Surely MS should let you download a DVD with all the accumulated
> updates on it. It takes hours and hours to download all the patches
> to the original DVD.
>
I bought a car two years ago that has a sunroof. It turned out that
the sunroof was leaking when it rained, causing water to short the
door-jamb sensor and setting off the car alarm. This seemed to happen
only in the dead of night, and since we park on the street in front of
a neighbor's house this was not great for neighborly relations.
We took that car in for warranty service, but the first two times they
failed to identify the root cause and the problem recurred. Just the
other day I brought it in for a third visit on the same problem and
made a point of correlating the behavior to the rainy weather. This
time they found the leak and sealed it, so with luck the problem will
have gone away for good. I'm just glad this car is still under
warranty. It is a little disappointing that the mechanics couldn't
spot the real cause earlier, but I feel somewhat confident that they
got it right this time.
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Lew
Roedy Green
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>I bought a car two years ago that has a sunroof.
Shouting fire is always off topic. It if turned out others were seeing
this two I could save this community days of grief. You I presume
would keep quiet, if you were in my shoes. So fuck you.
Lew
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:14:22 -0700 (PDT), Lew <l...@lewscanon.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> I bought a car two years ago that has a sunroof.
>
> Shouting fire is always off topic. It if turned out others were seeing
> this two I could save this community days of grief. You I presume
> would keep quiet, if you were in my shoes. So fuck you.
Dude, you have no sense of humor. Chill out.
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Lew
Sabine Dinis Blochberger
> Windows Vista update went off the rails, rebooting over and over. It
> has taken two days to recover. Now it is about to install the new
> update again, which may blow me out the water again. Is anyone else
> seeing this?
>
I never went beyond XP.
> Surely MS should let you download a DVD with all the accumulated
> updates on it. It takes hours and hours to download all the patches
> to the original DVD.
>
Yes, but when did Microsoft make anything easy for their customers?
Actually, maybe there's a magazine with the service packs on the cover
cd?
Anecdote:
Last year, I was just reading a webpage with a lot of text, doing
nothing else other then occasional scrolling. Opera 9.x on Windows XP
Professional. As I was reading a paragraph, I suddenly was staring at a
blue screen. That was when I got Ubuntu. I keep Windows at home only for
gaming. It still misbehaves occasionally.
Then there's this rumor that whenever a new Windows comes out, the
previous ones go bonkers.
John B. Matthews
Roedy Green <see_w...@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
> Windows Vista update went off the rails, rebooting over and over. It
> has taken two days to recover. Now it is about to install the new
> update again, which may blow me out the water again. Is anyone else
> seeing this?
Sometimes seen with Vista -> Windows 7 upgrade:
<http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/30/2148214/
Wait-For-Windows-7-SP1-Support-Firm-Warns-Users>
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John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>