Microsoft up to it's old update antics again...
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Idiots, they are simply idiots. So, on my new Windows 11 Pro laptop, I was notified that hey, it's time for an update. We estimate 3 minutes apply and reboot. Thinking I might as well get it over with, I say "Rodger dodger." It's been going now for 45 minutes, has rebooted 3 times, and I'm going to bed. I guess this is what happens when your OS is a tightly tangled bowl of spaghetti.
Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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Idiots, they are simply idiots. So, on my new Windows 11 Pro laptop, I was notified that hey, it's time for an update. We estimate 3 minutes apply and reboot. Thinking I might as well get it over with, I say "Rodger dodger." It's been going now for 45 minutes, has rebooted 3 times, and I'm going to bed. I guess this is what happens when your OS is a tightly tangled bowl of spaghetti.
Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
I have to count myself lucky. I've never had an update problem, although a couple of MS updates seemed to mess up my VPN but also seemed to be fixed in short order. And even luckier considering how often Dell wants to update its BIOS. I'd have thought a BIOS would be left alone for longer.
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I have to count myself lucky. I've never had an update problem, although a couple of MS updates seemed to mess up my VPN but also seemed to be fixed in short order. And even luckier considering how often Dell wants to update its BIOS. I'd have thought a BIOS would be left alone for longer.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Greg Utas wrote:
Dell
Enough said. Their prebuilts are a miracle of engineering, not for the quality of engineering but because it's a miracle they even work.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Idiots, they are simply idiots. So, on my new Windows 11 Pro laptop, I was notified that hey, it's time for an update. We estimate 3 minutes apply and reboot. Thinking I might as well get it over with, I say "Rodger dodger." It's been going now for 45 minutes, has rebooted 3 times, and I'm going to bed. I guess this is what happens when your OS is a tightly tangled bowl of spaghetti.
Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
I think I see a black cloud over your head.... Joe who? gotta be pretty old to know who that was... :)
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Idiots, they are simply idiots. So, on my new Windows 11 Pro laptop, I was notified that hey, it's time for an update. We estimate 3 minutes apply and reboot. Thinking I might as well get it over with, I say "Rodger dodger." It's been going now for 45 minutes, has rebooted 3 times, and I'm going to bed. I guess this is what happens when your OS is a tightly tangled bowl of spaghetti.
Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
For me, every estimate is for 3 minutes. Average is probably actually 20-30 mins.
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I have to count myself lucky. I've never had an update problem, although a couple of MS updates seemed to mess up my VPN but also seemed to be fixed in short order. And even luckier considering how often Dell wants to update its BIOS. I'd have thought a BIOS would be left alone for longer.
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.Greg Utas wrote:
how often Dell wants to update its BIOS. I'd have thought a BIOS would be left alone for longer.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If they never release BIOS updates, it feels like the system's turned into abandonware on the day you purchased it. If they release them too frequently, you start wondering what they're doing over there, constantly finding BIOS bugs serious enough they need patching. I almost bricked an expensive printer years ago because of a botched BIOS update. Fortunately there was a rollback procedure - which wasn't easy to follow, but I did manage to revive it on my own. So I always get a little nervous, watching a BIOS upgrade progress bar getting stuck somewhere for a few minutes at a time...
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For me, every estimate is for 3 minutes. Average is probably actually 20-30 mins.
The guy behind the time estimation [just gave up](https://xkcd.com/612/). [Edit] If that guy ever gets cancer and asks how long he has left... (that took a dark turn)
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Greg Utas wrote:
Dell
Enough said. Their prebuilts are a miracle of engineering, not for the quality of engineering but because it's a miracle they even work.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
boy, that's the truth. I live in the embedded world, and when you say things like "we need to update the bootloader" swords come out. The bootloader is the bios for us. I think I have updated one BIOS in my lifetime, and I know, if I elephant it up or the update does, I've bricked my system.
Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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I think I see a black cloud over your head.... Joe who? gotta be pretty old to know who that was... :)
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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that would be Joe Black, right?
Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
seems to me they spelled it Joe pfffffffft (Lil Abner?) :)
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
