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[WWGD]

I guess you can avoid them, but then they will get on your nerves with permanent reminders, and if you don't pay attention during shutdowns, installation starts. With W10 even the small rest of transparency has gone. In W7 I could still decide what to update and what not. E.g. I don't need their Java version (forgot how they name their nonsense, something with framework IIRC.) Now it's only update now or postpone it. And postponing it forever sucks. If my early Linux experiences hadn't been so troublesome I would certainly use Linux. But I only know the early versions where you had to be a Linux expert before using it. I always only used it from time to time, so I never get used to it completely. And I fear that I will end up with a Windows emulation in order to get all my old programs running. So I keep watching how W10 trashes my HD with big installations and braking the performance. I see the day coming I reinstall my W7 copy.

Careful if you use your Win7 for VMWare. I used a VM because I had Python 2 and 3 in the same machine and requests to the server end of either created conflict since it was not clear who was going to serve it.

 

[Borg]

Just had a W10 update. 30 min. restart and 20 min. waiting until the background programs gave back enough CPU and memory to work with ...

Looks like I got hit by the same update yesterday. This morning when I tried to turn it on, it just sat there. I thought that maybe it turned itself back on after I left the room causing the battery to die. I guess when I get back home, I'll have to plug it in and let it think about restarting for an hour.

 

[WWGD]

Looks like I got hit by the same update yesterday. This morning when I tried to turn it on, it just sat there. I thought that maybe it turned itself back on after I left the room causing the battery to die. I guess when I get back home, I'll have to plug it in and let it think about restarting for an hour.

I don't know if my issue with win7 was caused by it being in the VM. Still, I doubt security patches are needed at this point since it is not likely it is still used by many. I respect MS updating it, just don't see a good reason to do so.

 

[Borg]

I was referring to a Windows 10 update. Unfortunately, security patches are a necessary evil.

 

[WWGD]

I was referring to a Windows 10 update. Unfortunately, security patches are a necessary evil.

I understand, but I am surprised people are still trying to hack into older versions of Windows?

 

[Borg]

Why? Those are the easiest ones to hack.

 

[fresh_42]

Why? Those are the easiest ones to hack.

... and W7 was the last one you had a chance for a convenient customization. I still think that 2003 Server ed. was the best OS MS ever produced.

 

[WWGD]

Why? Those are the easiest ones to hack.

But less often used, i would think. I guess hackers would aim both ease and "market size".

 

[nuuskur]

I turned off all the automatic updates on my Win10 machine. Much better that way

 

[Borg]

Looks like I got hit by the same update yesterday. This morning when I tried to turn it on, it just sat there. I thought that maybe it turned itself back on after I left the room causing the battery to die. I guess when I get back home, I'll have to plug it in and let it think about restarting for an hour.

My wife started the computer and left it run for 3 hours and it never started. Looks like I'll have to perform a Safe Mode debug fest. yippee...

 

[WWGD]

My wife started the computer and left it run for 3 hours and it never started. Looks like I'll have to perform a Safe Mode debug fest. yippee...

I just cold restarted my win7 VM and it worked without needing safe mode. But maybe I was just lucky.

 

[fresh_42]

My wife started the computer and left it run for 3 hours and it never started. Looks like I'll have to perform a Safe Mode debug fest. yippee...

I had a black screen, too, for several minutes. It said it recovered the personal settings. So maybe a reboot will do.

 

[Borg]

It was well beyond needing a reboot yesterday. No matter how many times I restarted it, I would get the same starting screen with some spinning circles that would never end.

I spoke with both Dell and Microsoft customer service which didn't get me anywhere. After more than 4 hours of digging around in the F2 and F12 menus, I discovered that a switch to turn OS Recovery Mode on had somehow gotten turned off even though I had that screen up previously. By the time I had gotten back into that menu, I was resigned to having to re-install my OS in order to undo the 'patch'. Fortunately, I decided to dig around the many options and finally found (hidden several levels deep) an option to start the computer in Safe Mode. That was an old favorite of mine on previous versions so I definitely wanted to try it. I set it to restart in Safe Mode and when it did, I got a message that something went wrong with an update and it was un-installing it! A few minutes later, I had my login screen back without having to re-install my OS (and spend weeks re-installing programs). It *only* took 5 hours to recover my computer...

 

[Bystander]

It *only* took 5 hours to recover my computer...

Ain't technology "wunnerful."

 

[Ibix]

Ain't technology "wunnerful."

So I've been told...

 

[WWGD]

Wonder if there is any protocol for repeatedly seeing, coinciding/with, a person you don't know: " You look like some I've never met?

 

[skyshrimp]

 

[WWGD]

Wow, VMWare is running chkdsk, a check on a ...virtual disk. Can a virtual disk in a VM be damaged?

 

[fresh_42]

Wow, VMWare is running chkdsk, a check on a ...virtual disk. Can a virtual disk in a VM be damaged?

Yes, afterwards.

 

[WWGD]

Yes, afterwards.

After what? Damaged what, the source mimicking the disk?

 

[fresh_42]

The disc after running chkdsk.

 

[WWGD]

I was absent -minded in my suggestion to reboot when the keyboard wasnt working. But to make it worse, she left before i could suggest she use the OSK.

 

[WWGD]

Just submitted my paper, hope it will be accepted. "Cloud Storage: Why would anyone want to store a @$%! cloud?".

 

[fresh_42]

I hope you listed all positive answers! I can imagine a few dozens of applications in meteorology, aerodynamics, etc. And not to forget the thousands of cloud chambers we already have! How would you equip them? By a just-in-time production of clouds? Not every company can afford its own cloud production machinery.

 

[BillTre]

Free the clouds!
Enhance global albedo!
Fight global warming!

 

[fresh_42]

Free the clouds!
Enhance global albedo!
Fight global warming!

Reminds me of what I demanded when at school:

Free Greenland!
Away with the pack ice!

However, I didn't really think I would be successful one day. What once was a joke ...

 

[Ibix]

"Cloud Storage: Why would anyone want to store a @$%! cloud?".

For a rainy day, of course.

 

[WWGD]

For a rainy day, of course.

So not likely needed in the UK, I hear.

 

[Ibix]

So not likely needed in the UK, I hear.

It depends whether I mean storing it so that I can have a rainy day, or for use on a rainy day.

 

[fresh_42]

For a rainy day, of course.

Which one is your favorite one according to Rob McKenna's numbering system? I prefer the long lasting ones which we call "land rain" here. IIRC it is number 51.

And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.