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So, du to my elephanting network, I have to restart the computer every Monday morning to get it to work after a long and hard weekend. I need the network, because my company has the weekly planning meeting via Teams on Monday mornings.
But Microsoft seems to insist on releasing Win 10 updates so that they HAVE to be installed monday morning if you restart your computer. And that of course takes a long time and you never actually know WHEN your computer will be ready.
So it's really a choice of pest or cholera for me.
Do I restart the computer and install the elephanting updates and risk not having the computer ready for the most inmportant meeting of the week?
Or do I refrain from restarting it and not being able to join the meeting anyway because my network is not working?
This morning when I opened my start menu to restart my computer, I noticed to my great joy that I had TWO menu items where I normally only have one. Namely "Update and restart" and merely "Restart".
In my naivety, I thought that Microsoft had FINALLY allowed me to just restart the computer and let me install the update at my OWN convenience, so naturally, I clicked the "Restart" only option.
And what happened: It restarted AND began the update all the same! And it took the better part of an hour! Sigh!
Rant over! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
modified 9-Mar-20 5:21am.
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Mine is rebooted every day - it goes off at night - and it rarely updates when I turn it on. Maybe once a month (maybe less) it want's an "Update and Reboot" or "Update and Shutdown", but not more often than that.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Updates usually arrives on wednesdays (Tuesdays on the other side of the pond).
So if you restart your computer when you leave for home on Friday, you should be safe on monday.
Personally I shut down the computer everyday, and bring it home with me.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Personally I shut down the computer everyday, and bring it home with me.
+1 for long, long time
Although in the last time I am just taking it with me only on fridays (or if I feel like I might not come the next day)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Personally I shut down the computer everyday, and bring it home with me.
This. I always used a laptop so that I could work wherever, and it doubled as my personal computer. Working for an outfit that didn't allow this would be a non-starter unless they paid a ridiculous amount to compensate for the inconveniences.
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Greg Utas wrote: Working for an outfit that didn't allow this
You mean that you would actually ask them for permission??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Yes, because they'd have to provide a laptop and let me install my own software on it and take it off the premises. Or have me provide my own laptop, which would then have proprietary files on it. Not asking permission for this could get one into legal trouble.
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I can relate. This morning, during boot up, it said something like "please wait". Then all my desktop and task manager icons were gone and my openvpn program whined that it couldn't find stuff. I have read about this condition and will have to pursue the fix. In the meantime, to get stuff done I reverted to a restore point. Now it can try again. Maybe it will see what I did and cripple restore points so as to make me recover. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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William Shakespeare has duck roadsign (9)
It goes without saying
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BILLBOARD?
William Shakespeare BILL
has duck BOARD(?) - No idea why
roadsign
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William BILL
Shakespeare B ARD
has Duck O
It goes without saying
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Now I'm even more confused - why is "O" == "DUCK"?
It's possible my brain has failed completely here, so be gentle...
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Ah! Kricket! 0 == "out for a duck". Gotcha.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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This 17-second anime capture the essence of junior programmers in a nutshell.
junior programmers in a nutshell - YouTube
Reminds me of a senior coworker who complained about a mysterious computer virus that wiped out his C:\ drive. After the IT support reinstalled his OS a few times, it finally dawned on him that it was his recursive folder/file deletion routine that deleted his entire OS drive.
modified 9-Mar-20 3:25am.
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I wrote my first own (machine code) program) on the back seat of dad's Pontiac during a longer trip. Back home, it took me an hour to enter it with the hex keyboard and then the space invaders ran down vertically, out of the video buffer and into the program code. It does not get any more junior than that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Did you call it Memory Space Invaders?
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No. They never got a namr. The experience made me take a step back, unlock the secrets of some mysterious things (like drawing sprites) and build a little library of routines. My next tries a about a year later worked better. I'm still looking for some of them to recover from the old tapes and also found some which never were finished or which I had completely forgotten. One of the better ones even comes along with the Elf emulator. You can download and run it, if you want to.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It might have been a Core Wars winner!
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I remember this happening the first time I used a double pointer in C, sometime in 1996. That was on Windows 95.
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Windows 95 are not a true 32-bit OS, its kernel space and userspace are not isolated well.
When I was trying my hands on CUDA programming, rogue pointer access crashed my graphics driver but Windows 7 recovered very fast, without rebooting.
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... As long as it's a one-way street[^].
I hope their outsourcing project has the same outcome as I've seen most outsourcing attempts achieve.
[Edit: For some reason, I typed "none-way street" Perhaps it was Freudian, playing out in my subconscious as the way it deserves to be, rather than the way it is.]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 8-Mar-20 4:03am.
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Brace Q&A for the impact 
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"Lean and Mean" is probably their new slogan 
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Either that or "We don't have a clue what we're doing, so why should anyone else?"
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