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Riveting...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That's a tad polemic - you must have known it would spawn some terrible puns - wart were you thinking of?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hold still, Griff. We're going to have to hurt you now.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Frog-get about it. Legs just move on...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Now this is my kind of humor. 
/ravi
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I frogive you, do you think I amphibian?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Leave it to the Lounge for inKermittent humor.
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Or Notepad++.
I wrote a simple shell script to open notepad++ from a Msys2 MinTTY console window with paths converted to their Windows forms. For some reason, having double quotes around the paths caused Notepad++ to try and open EVERYTHING on the drive the file specified was on (e.g. if the file was on the C: drive, EVERYTHING on C: would be opened with a warning). Removing the quotes fixed it.
Not sure if that is a Windows issue or a Notepad++ bug.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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its the first I heard of "Msys2 MinTTY".
It could be something to do with how that program handles the quotes.
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Could be. MinTTY is a bit strange sometimes. There is a bug where clicking in the console window itself will select a random range and copy it. Fun when you copied something from somewhere else to paste into the window as part of a command (such as git clone)
I got it working, so I am fine with it.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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So, there was this raging discussion of would you upgrade to Windows 10, yes, no (mainly forced updates), etc.
Nevertheless, I have this spare drive sitting here, haven't used it since 11/14, so thought I'd run Windows Update on it... bring it up to date, and use it as my Windows 10 Professional test SSD. After running downloads for 45 minutes I get:
"Some updates were not installed.
Failed: 61 updates
Error(s) founf:
Code 80243004 Windows Update encountered an unknown error."
And Microsoft wants to go to a mandatory push model? 
Not on my main development drive you aren't.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Now this is priceless. My SSD is a clean Windows 7 install... I use it for staging. Windows Update failed to install said updates, because the default setting for the Windows Updates are Ready for Installation little icon in the bottom right of your screen was not enabled.
Double
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I had similar issues (tried several times uselessly), then I've followed a good suggestion of a CP user: reinstall the newer Win 10 image (iso) as a clean installation. I installed it on a VmWare VM.
That went (99%) fine, although even the latest 10168 release seems very unstable.
Briefly, here's what I found:
* the VM closed unexpectedly simply leaving it in background (I was browsing Internet on the host machine).
* the Edge browser closed unexpectedly on navigating to http://www.html5test.com
* once I closed (suspended) the VM, the host machine entered in a quasi-stuck state: everything seemed frozen (nor the power-off button was working). That took several minutes, then the PC gone fine again.
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Actually the thing is that after recent strategies of Microsoft, such as these updates of Windows, a lot of major bugs in their frameworks and too much stupid behavior including that closing of Windows Phone department, leaving 7800 employees in agony. I think I am loosing hope in Microsoft, and not only me but many others would be finding their way off to other frameworks.
I was a fan of .NET framework, and now that .NET framework is available on Linux also, I won't hesitate a shift. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I thought the mandatory update was only for Windows 10 Home edition.
Anyway, I just got that error a few days ago on a Windows 7 system I had not had powered on for over a year (there were 137 updates). I looked up the error (pretty simple as there was a link to look it up).
You just have to configure the notification area for Windows Update to "Show icon and notifications" - at least that fixed it on my system.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/windows-update-error-0x80243004[^]
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Yup, easy fix, just too funny.
Mandatory updates - from what I've read, I concur with your assessment of mandatory updates. Professional level and above work the same as they do now.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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W10 Pro only gets a 4(?) month grace period on updates. If you want to be able to refuse updates for years, you need a copy of W10 enterprise. Unless you're able/willing to abuse an MSDN license; you can't get one of those without an SA agreement.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This doesn't bother me too much. What bothers me is if MS borks an update and renders my machine unusable, I have no recourse (other than going to the dark side). I wonder what else is in the new license agreement....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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That's a WTF bug if I ever saw one. Especially since many people have probably intentionally turned down its visibility to avoid the nags until they're ready to reboot.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've almost never had a painfree experience trying to install more than a year's worth of updates to Windows in a single go.
My (unproven) theory, from manually batching the installs 20 or so at a time, is that just as it shows the list of available updates with the newest ones at top it tries to install them that way; and then horks all over itself with dependency hell. Installing from the bottom of the list (oldest first) has always ended up working less painfully.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Excellent point.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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