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## rainy weekends

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### rainy weekends

by nadir » Wed May 15, 2013 2:00 am

It is raining all day, your wife is on holiday and all your friends are busy?
Never fear, there is a solution: Run a Windows update.
Watch it fail to download the updates.
Shut the PC down, and wait 20 minutes until it shuts down (telling you it configures the updates it couldn't download).
Restart it, and wait 20 minutes for it to configure the updates once again.
Who-ha, it finished. It now has to restart (because it only configured the updates twice yet).
Log in the desktop, check updates, and figure out they have not been installed.
Suddenly it works. The update is not an update, but the installation of a new program (blah-bing-desktop).
And so forth ...
Best OS evah. So comfortable. So easy. It just works.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: rainy weekends

by meandean » Wed May 15, 2013 11:38 am

your wife? when did you get one of those?

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### Re: rainy weekends

by nadir » Wed May 15, 2013 8:13 pm

> meandean wrote:your wife? when did you get one of those?

Ah, no. No woman here.
But then: no cry neither.
Yesterday it made me really angry (Windows, not the lack of a woman).
I thought: let's quickly copy a couple of music files from the stick to the laptop of another person. That took 4 hours, and the upgrade still isn't done.
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all good for you?
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: rainy weekends

by meandean » Wed May 15, 2013 9:48 pm

whew...was worried about you
thought she might look something like
Yea usually when I try to do something in windows that I think should be simple and easy I end up finally half-*** getting it done hours later. Needless to say I dont mess with windows if I can help it at all.
All good here! Not messing with computers much...yard work, house work, planting, and got a dozen chickens that I need to build a coop and fenced area for. Good times, really enjoying things...

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### Re: rainy weekends

by nadir » Wed May 15, 2013 10:20 pm

Well: i am expert. To me that looks like a mail sheep (perhaps even male).
I will take it anyway, deliver asap.
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Yes, planting and such, chicken host and all. That sounds good.
I planted a wee bit in front of the house too (public area). 2m * 1m, but better than nothing
(ah, USA folks. Ok. 1m is 100 cm. My dong is 34 cm. Now you got the idea)
oh, my.
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: rainy weekends

by nadir » Wed May 15, 2013 10:20 pm

whew, i just checked. All good: nonsense area...
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: rainy weekends

by dln » Sun May 19, 2013 11:21 am

Just spent an ENTIRE (rainy) weekend updating a vista laptop from pre-sp1...
The hateful thing is still going!
I got it set up on a desk between me and the bog, so every time I go for a **** (which turns out to be quite frequently on rainy days), I click either "check for updates", "install available updates" or "reboot to install updates" on the way past.
Once that completes, I have been requested to install the Nortons full suite, which has already been bought and paid for ...
I feel dirty and needed to share ...

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### Re: rainy weekends

by fsmithred » Sun May 19, 2013 1:20 pm

Do yourself a favor and make a clonezilla backup (or two) of the windows installation. Maybe do before and after norton. I had a similar experience - winXP pre-sp1 to sp3 on dsl took eight hours. Restoring the backup took 20 minutes.

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### Re: rainy weekends

by dln » Sun May 19, 2013 1:24 pm

It's not mine!
I'm just doing what he is paying me to do and handing it back.

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### Re: rainy weekends

by nadir » Sun May 19, 2013 7:19 pm

Okay, next story:
neighbor arrived in a big "the worl d is falling apart"
I say: The laptop is broken.
He say: Can you install anitivirus and windows-media-play
I say: For what purpose, if it doesn't boot at all
He says: But sometimes it does.
I say: That is of no use.
He say: Please do ... and so on.
After 20 boots it still didn't boot, and we gave up.
Back to the destkop:
No way to figure out what driver the soundcard is using or what soundcard it is.
I boot a LInux and search for a driver: NIx.
Reboot in Windows and install spyware scan-for-drivers.
2 hours later the sound-driver is installed (+ 3 other drivers + 3 programs i didn't ask for + a link to amazon on the desktop).
Me says: ok, let's reboot.
Black screen of death.
I am so done with Windows. At the point where i will tell people: Sorry, but that is really your problem. If that is the OS you want to use, then get your head into it yourself. Then tell me again it is comfortable.
The problem is not that such things happen. The problem is that it happens each time i run into Windows (for this reason or another).
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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