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The good news is that microsoft has reached agreement with the Aos Sí to extend the liminal time, to allow people who have not been infected by the "Trick or Treat" windows 10 disease to catch up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I was unconvinced until the part where you mentioned Pamela Anderson delivering vegan food to someone (rightly or wrongly) in desparate straits. That really is evil. 
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Maybe it's just me, but this just pisses me off - this is the myClass.h file:
class myClass
{
public:
myClass();
virtual ~myClass();
void this();
void that();
}
extern myClass* gp_myClass;
Anyone else see a forehead slapping moment? Hell, it compiles and links  I suppose this goes over to coding horrors.
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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You should put this in the "Weird and Wonderful" section. The Lounge isn't really for programming matters.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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agreed
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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this() ?!  who write that code?!
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the class def is just pig latin++ what boggled my mind was the extern declaration in the header file. I'm surrounded by C programmers with C++ compilers. Make up your damn mind as to what language you want to use.
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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charlieg wrote: Make up your damn mind
I think a damned mind looks best naked.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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OK, extra backup done, I'll let it do it now, so it doesn't waste hours tomorrow morning.
"Update and restart"
By heck, that was quick!
Oh. It didn't do the update, that's still there.
Go again. Updating 36%...57%...86%...91%... restarting.
"Configuring update, 9%, this may take some time... Do not turn off your computer."
FLASH! BANG!
Power goes out ... as a storm hits.
UPS on its way back to Amazon
Is this an omen of what to expect from Anniversary Edition I ask myself?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Even Microsoft won't know. 
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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Oh f**k
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Ummm, what's AE?
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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charlieg wrote: AE
Windows 10 Anniversary Edition
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Even Mother (nature) does not like Windows 10 or the sheep have been talking to her!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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OriginalGriff wrote: Is this an omen of what to expect from Anniversary Edition I ask myself?
They should have called it Adversary Edition. From what I've seen, it's done nothing but rain down pain and suffering on computer owners.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I crawled back into 8.1 to lick my wounds from the debacle with the demonically infested Win 10 updates, to replenish my fortitude, and recharge my supernatural-fighting chakras; fortunately, had a boot drive with 8.1 on it in another computer I wasn't using to fall back on.
On tomorrow's little shop-of-horror's menu: see if I can run Atmel Backer-Upper from the 8.1 Drive to restore the Win 10 drive from ... I have both a disc image back-up, and a disk back-up.
Oh yes, I was remiss in not burning a CD/DVD Win 10 start drive ... I thought I had the bases covered when I made a bootable Win 10 USB drive ... said USB drive unbootable.
Several hours eaten alive by this process ... which I am sure most of you know very well is tedious. I'm still looking hard on the web for some article on how to kill downloaded-and-pending win updates on the Win 10 drive when it is not the active drive ... will pursue that further tomorrow. None of the kill-updates techniques for Win 10 I've found are effective; they all require you to be able to boot. The Bios option that suggests it will enable taking control of the start-up process: well, sorry, it never makes it to wherever it is supposed to let you change start-up settings, etc.
And, now (8.1) I'm on update 108 of 125, after which I suspect there will be further updates and reboots. With each reboot I've got to hold F12 down to make sure I can get to the Bios (Gigabyte motherboard) boot-drive selector and choose the 8.1 drive ... that selector which refuses, so far, to let me move the 8.1 drive to the top, so its selection will be automatic (I suspect this is something I can fix in the main BIOS config facility).
Drivers installed for the newer beasts video card, mouse, headphones-cum-mic
Got VS 2015 installed and re-howdy-do'd with MS, updated Chrome, UltraEdit, Start 8, VS2013, un-installed VS2012, and various other fossil apps.
May you not be undergoing these vexations ...
from Tralfamadore, Billy Pilgrim
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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You may be living in the Slaughterhouse, my friend, but a non-bootable bootable USB is a PITA wherever you live.
I'd be tempted to say "ch*ck it in the f*ckit b*cket" and do a clean install of the latest Win10 ISO, which should include the updates that are giving you hassle. Then backup, reinstall all the apps, backup again, and then restore your data from your existing image before doing another backup1. 'Tis a long and tedious process however.
1: I like backups.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: reinstall all the apps
Hi Griff, that is the very stinky most flavor of death-by-a-thousand-cuts I am trying to break-dance my way around. That Win 10 install gone-south has a whole lotta apps installed. configured, etc.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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If it's any consolation, I'm just doing a "spare" backup of my C drive, as I went to shut down and it wants to update me. A quick check, and yes - it's 1607 (the Anniversary Edition) it wants to infect me with install.
Hence the spare backup and possible dead computer tomorrow ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If it helps at all: On herself's machine the anniversary edition of 10 caused serious freezes. I had to go back to an image taken just before the anniversary ed. However, when 1607 came out, it worked beautifully on her machine. No freezes. I believe MS fixed the issue with freezes that plagued the initial anniversary edition.
Her machine is working so well now, she growls if I come anywhere near it. It took some persuasion for her to let me take an image of an obviously faultless setup. 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Thanks, Cornelis, before the current Satanic assault I was being abused by version 1607, but it was only using rubber-hoses, so you couldn't see bruises.
cheers, Bill
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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wimp 
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Well, yes: it could have been a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle that Satan rode into Win 10 on, but I think it more likely that a cosmic-ray was used for matters of fuel efficiency, given the almost infinite amount of energy required to keep Hell going.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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BillWoodruff wrote: I'm still looking hard on the web for some article on how to kill downloaded-and-pending win updates on the Win 10 drive when it is not the active drive
Move everything out of [drive]:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
BillWoodruff wrote: I suspect this is something I can fix in the main BIOS config facility
Yup, but I wouldn't bother, if you can stop the annoying update. But don't forget to disconnect the wi-fi router, etc, before rebooting into winio.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm here to commiserate and to share my tale of woe. It started 2 days ago when I let windows update perform some black magic on IE11. It caused IE to respond much more slowly and disabled the Google toolbar. I found the update in the the WU history, uninstalled it, restarted the computer, listened to it 'cough and wheeze' a few times before it informed me that it could not start windows. To keep this short, the update did not create a 'restore point so this option was out. My windows recovery disk was ineffective so this option too was out. My Acronis recovery disk complained that every one of my image backups was corrupted so this option was out (i.e. my fault as the recovery disk was created using an earlier version of Acronis and I only now realized I had forgotten to create a new one). Anyways, the past two days have been rather 'leisurely' as I ran one setup program after another. I'm back up and running as of a few hours ago. WU is again telling me it has a critical IE update that I must install...
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