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The OS Armageddon Is Coming Issues with Microsoft's Windows 10 April 2018 Update are a warning of what's to come. Opinion piece from PC Magazine. https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/361...ddon-is-coming I agree. -- Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. (Anonymous) |
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On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:04:11 +0100, slate_leeper wrote:
/ The OS Armageddon Is Coming Issues with Microsoft's Windows 10 April 2018 Update are a warning of what's to come. Opinion piece from PC Magazine. https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/361...ddon-is-coming I agree. The article is a pile of inaccurate bull****. Firstly, I've never had a problem with any update once it's installed. I only have a problem with it rebooting without my permission, the computer could have been in the middle of something. Secondly (and for the reason above), I simply turn off the Windows Update service. I switch it on once a month (or 3 months on less important computers), and tell it to update. Then it's switched back off again. M$ have never forced us to update, and there's no reason to think they would. -- The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered. |
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Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:04:11 +0100, slate_leeper wrote: / The OS Armageddon Is Coming Issues with Microsoft's Windows 10 April 2018 Update are a warning of what's to come. Opinion piece from PC Magazine. https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/361...ddon-is-coming I agree. The article is a pile of inaccurate bull****. No, it's written by Dvorak and it's click-bate. It would be pretty difficult to brick all the Win10 machines at the same absolute point in time. There would be some sort of limit as to how many users could connect to the Microsoft CDN at the same time. It would take a black-hat exploit to do that, rather than a white-hat "oopsie". Paul |
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On 06/01/2018 05:30 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:04:11 +0100, slate_leeper wrote: Â*Â*Â* / The OS Armageddon Is Coming Issues with Microsoft's Windows 10 April 2018 Update are a warning of what's to come. Opinion piece from PC Magazine. https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/361...ddon-is-coming I agree. The article is a pile of inaccurate bull****. Firstly, I've never had a problem with any update once it's installed. I only have a problem with it rebooting without my permission, the computer could have been in the middle of something. Secondly (and for the reason above), I simply turn off the Windows Update service.Â* I switch it on once a month (or 3 months on less important computers), and tell it to update.Â* Then it's switched back off again.Â* M$ have never forced us to update, and there's no reason to think they would. And one other error is they say it would be nice if there was an free update DVD available. Well there is. MS allows you to use their media creation tool. |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 01:52:53 +0100, Big Al wrote:
On 06/01/2018 05:30 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 22:04:11 +0100, slate_leeper wrote: / The OS Armageddon Is Coming Issues with Microsoft's Windows 10 April 2018 Update are a warning of what's to come. Opinion piece from PC Magazine. https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/361...ddon-is-coming I agree. The article is a pile of inaccurate bull****. Firstly, I've never had a problem with any update once it's installed. I only have a problem with it rebooting without my permission, the computer could have been in the middle of something. Secondly (and for the reason above), I simply turn off the Windows Update service. I switch it on once a month (or 3 months on less important computers), and tell it to update. Then it's switched back off again. M$ have never forced us to update, and there's no reason to think they would. And one other error is they say it would be nice if there was an free update DVD available. Well there is. MS allows you to use their media creation tool. Does anyone still have narrowband internet? Why would we need a DVD? I can download 3GB (the whole of Windows) in 7.5 minutes. It would take a day or three to receive the DVD by post. That's 384 times slower. -- The 2 most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. |
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On 2018-06-02, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
Does anyone still have narrowband internet? Why would we need a DVD? I can download 3GB (the whole of Windows) in 7.5 minutes. It would take a day or three to receive the DVD by post. That's 384 times slower. There are plenty or rural places in the US where the only choices for internet access are dialup or satellite. I only went to broadband a few years ago myself. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Posts from Google Groups killfiled due to excess spam.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com Don't talk to cops! -- http://www.DontTalkToCops.com Badges don't grant extra rights -- http://www.CopBlock.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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slate_leeper wrote:
https://www.pcmag.com/commentary/361...ddon-is-coming From the article: Unless you literally turn off your machine after every session, you will be trapped by some overnight query you cannot stop. The message telling you that your PC needs to upgrade waits for a response that you are not able to give because it's 3 a.m. So it does the load and boot while you're sleep. Disabling the "Background Intelligent Transfer Service" (BITS) service and the "Windows Update" service (wuauserv) no longer work to completely disable downloading (and possibly installing) any update? For Windows 10, there was another service (forget its name) that I would also include in a batch file to disable those services (after performing an update) and also in a batch file to enable those services (just before querying and allowing any updates). Although disabling wuauserv should be sufficient to disable automatic updating, Microsoft has been caught more than once using BITS to download an update in the background which is only noticed by the user when the shutdown Windows or start Windows when a dialog appears saying "applying updates". That's why I also disable the BITS service. That will affect any program using BITS to perform low-priority throttled background downloads, like MS Defender although any program is allowed to use BITS. Other than Defender, I've not run into another programs that uses BITS. While possible an update could re-enable these services (once such an update was allowed for download and install), I've yet to see Microsoft reset these services to Automatic. I could add a .reg file in the Startup folder to re-disable these services but I suspect that Windows would run the services before it runs my .reg or .bat files in my Startup folder, as a Run registry entry, a Windows account startup script, or even as a WinLogon event. They'd get there before me. It's doable but I haven't see it happen yet. |
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Roger Blake wrote:
On 2018-06-02, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Does anyone still have narrowband internet? Why would we need a DVD? I can download 3GB (the whole of Windows) in 7.5 minutes. It would take a day or three to receive the DVD by post. That's 384 times slower. There are plenty or rural places in the US where the only choices for internet access are dialup or satellite. I only went to broadband a few years ago myself. Or they can't go fast due to crappy copper DSL and no fiber. -- Quote of the Week: "Really. And do these lions eat ants?" --John Cleese in Monty Python's Flying Circus Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 02:20:23 +0100, Roger Blake wrote:
On 2018-06-02, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Does anyone still have narrowband internet? Why would we need a DVD? I can download 3GB (the whole of Windows) in 7.5 minutes. It would take a day or three to receive the DVD by post. That's 384 times slower. There are plenty or rural places in the US where the only choices for internet access are dialup or satellite. I only went to broadband a few years ago myself. I remember in the 90s when the US was way ahead of the UK in internet speed, looks like we're beating you now :-) Anyway, there's a setting for "paid internet" somewhere in Windows so it will only download important stuff. Even if you do need the 3GB download, it'll just get it bit by bit when you happen to be online, and I think it sets itself as low priority so won't slow down what you're doing yourself on the internet (or it should). I'm in no hurry to get updates, they come when they come. I've turned off the windows update service so it never reboots without my permission. I get them once a month. -- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 03:56:04 +0100, Ant wrote:
Roger Blake wrote: On 2018-06-02, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote: Does anyone still have narrowband internet? Why would we need a DVD? I can download 3GB (the whole of Windows) in 7.5 minutes. It would take a day or three to receive the DVD by post. That's 384 times slower. There are plenty or rural places in the US where the only choices for internet access are dialup or satellite. I only went to broadband a few years ago myself. Or they can't go fast due to crappy copper DSL and no fiber. Isn't satellite pretty fast? I got satellite in the UK for a few years when I couldn't get DSL. At that time it was as good as DSL. And what do you mean crappy DSL? DSL is fast enough for updates, just a bit slow for Piratebay :-) -- Why does a one-story brothel make more money than a two-story brothel? Because there's no ****ing overhead. |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 12:45:44 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife"
wrote: Isn't satellite pretty fast? I got satellite in the UK for a few years when I couldn't get DSL. At that time it was as good as DSL. Up until a little over a year ago, I had Wildblue satellite. MAXIMUM download speed, 57KB/s. Often slower than a 9200 baud dial up modem. Max allowed download amount, 7 gigabytes per MONTH, effectively 5.5 gig because they count all the network handshaking. Downloading anything large was nearly impossible because of the frequent loss of signal. And yes, they advertise it as "equivalent to DSL." -dan z- -- Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. (Anonymous) |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 13:29:16 +0100, slate_leeper wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 12:45:44 +0100, "Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote: Isn't satellite pretty fast? I got satellite in the UK for a few years when I couldn't get DSL. At that time it was as good as DSL. Up until a little over a year ago, I had Wildblue satellite. MAXIMUM download speed, 57KB/s. Often slower than a 9200 baud dial up modem. Max allowed download amount, 7 gigabytes per MONTH, effectively 5.5 gig because they count all the network handshaking. Downloading anything large was nearly impossible because of the frequent loss of signal. And yes, they advertise it as "equivalent to DSL." How odd, in about 2003 I had BT Openworld satellite. 256kB/s (or was it 512?) download. Back 15 years ago. And no monthly limit. The only thing it sucked at was ping time, so no online gaming possible (about 250ms instead of 30ms). Try shooting someone in a game with a quarter second lag. ****ing expensive though, it cost me a grand to buy the HUGE 1 metre (might have even been 1.5 metre) dish, although they put it on the wall and set it up for me. I can't remember what the monthly fee was but it was a hell of a lot more than DSL. I used it for 2 years then was able to get DSL, so I sold the dish on Ebay to a guy going to Africa to set up remote internet. He had this crazy idea of reprogramming it.... -- Impeccable, adjective: something which cannot be destroyed by the beak of a parrot. Scientists have yet to discover such a substance. |
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote
| Does anyone still have narrowband internet? Why would we need a DVD? Last I saw, about 70% of the US had highspeed. It's probably different in the UK and Europe because 1) the gov't is more farsighted, not leaving infrastructure planning to be accomplished through corporate greed, and 2) the land mass is far more condensed. (No one has to fund running wires over vast areas with 2 people per sq. mi.) The other 30% in the US are 10% who can't afford or don't want Internet, and 20% who are happy with dialup or don't have a choice. My brother in NH could only get satellite until recently. It often failed on cloudy days. He still can't use his cellphone at home. There are a lot of places in the US with little or no cellphone service. I think there's a big gap between rural and urban. And if you've never left UK/Europe you probably have no concept of just how much wide open land still exists in the US. Tech people, especially, tend to live in a bubble of tech. Many urban people assume everyone is always wired, and that everyone has and uses a cellphone. It's a bit of a "Let them eat cake" scenario: No broadband at home? Then why don't you just walk down to the corner Starbucks?" Those are the people who will run into the street screaming next time there's a blackout, while their rural counterparts just fire up the generator. It's increasingly two different worlds. Apropos of that, there was a very sad story some years ago. A young techie at CNet went on vacation with his wife and 2-3 kids. He was in his 20s. They drove up something like a logging road in California to camp and got stuck on a snowy/icy patch. He couldn't get the car out. There was no traffic expected. They could have walked out of there in 1 day, but instead they stayed put. At some point he burned the car tires for heat. Then he wandered off into the woods to look for help. I think that was on the 3rd day. The wife and kids were eventually saved. He died in the woods, of exhaustion. I'm guessing he never considered that he would actually be truly isolated when they went camping, and his grasp of basic physicality was apparently on the level of an 8-year-old. He lived in a world of urban tech. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd expected to be able to order a pizza delivery from his tent. |
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On Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:10:14 +0100, Mayayana wrote:
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote | Does anyone still have narrowband internet? Why would we need a DVD? Last I saw, about 70% of the US had highspeed. It's probably different in the UK and Europe because 1) the gov't is more farsighted, not leaving infrastructure planning to be accomplished through corporate greed, and 2) the land mass is far more condensed. (No one has to fund running wires over vast areas with 2 people per sq. mi.) Our government does supply broadband (somehow) to the likes of Orkney and Shetland (remote Scottish islands). The other 30% in the US are 10% who can't afford or don't want Internet, and 20% who are happy with dialup or don't have a choice. My brother in NH could only get satellite until recently. It often failed on cloudy days. He still can't use his cellphone at home. There are a lot of places in the US with little or no cellphone service. Cellphone in the UK is just as bad, and it shouldn't be as we don't have huge distances to cover like you. Same idea I guess, it's all private. I think there's a big gap between rural and urban. And if you've never left UK/Europe you probably have no concept of just how much wide open land still exists in the US. Tech people, especially, tend to live in a bubble of tech. Many urban people assume everyone is always wired, and that everyone has and uses a cellphone. It's a bit of a "Let them eat cake" scenario: No broadband at home? Then why don't you just walk down to the corner Starbucks?" Those are the people who will run into the street screaming next time there's a blackout, while their rural counterparts just fire up the generator. It's increasingly two different worlds. Apropos of that, there was a very sad story some years ago. A young techie at CNet went on vacation with his wife and 2-3 kids. He was in his 20s. They drove up something like a logging road in California to camp and got stuck on a snowy/icy patch. He couldn't get the car out. There was no traffic expected. They could have walked out of there in 1 day, but instead they stayed put. At some point he burned the car tires for heat. Then he wandered off into the woods to look for help. I think that was on the 3rd day. The wife and kids were eventually saved. He died in the woods, of exhaustion. I'm guessing he never considered that he would actually be truly isolated when they went camping, and his grasp of basic physicality was apparently on the level of an 8-year-old. He lived in a world of urban tech. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd expected to be able to order a pizza delivery from his tent. How much brain do you need to simply walk along the road? If you're in the middle of nowhere and want help, you don't go further into the middle of nowhere. Darwin award :-) And if he was that techie, where was his satellite phone? His call to a breakdown truck service? -- Seen in a health food sto Shoplifters will be beaten over the head with an organic carrot. |
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In article , Mayayana
wrote: Apropos of that, there was a very sad story some years ago. A young techie at CNet went on vacation with his wife and 2-3 kids. He was in his 20s. They drove up something like a logging road in California to camp and got stuck on a snowy/icy patch. He couldn't get the car out. There was no traffic expected. They could have walked out of there in 1 day, but instead they stayed put. At some point he burned the car tires for heat. Then he wandered off into the woods to look for help. I think that was on the 3rd day. The wife and kids were eventually saved. He died in the woods, of exhaustion. I'm guessing he never considered that he would actually be truly isolated when they went camping, and his grasp of basic physicality was apparently on the level of an 8-year-old. He lived in a world of urban tech. I wouldn't be surprised if he'd expected to be able to order a pizza delivery from his tent. as usual, you have numerous details wrong. it happened in oregon, not california, it was a snowy night, they were using paper maps (not a gps), and they got lost after making some wrong turns onto roads that were closed for the winter and apparently not blocked. https://abcnews.go.com/2020/kati-kim...-story-family- ended/story?id=12884927 Facing a five-hour drive to Gold Beach, 140 miles away on the Oregon coast, the Kims stopped at a Dennys in Roseburg, Ore. .... After dinner was behind them, the Kims got back on the road, with James Kim behind the wheel and Kati Kim playing the role of navigator. Driving into the night, the Kims made the first of several fateful errors. To get to Gold Beach, they needed to take Route 42 via exit 119. They missed it. One mistake turned into two: Instead of turning around, the couple decides to take another road that Kati Kim spotted on a map. "We felt like we had gone too far past our turn to turn around," she said. "According to the map, there was a very clear-cut route to the coast." Unbeknownst to the Kims, they had chosen a remote and notorious cross-country path called Bear Camp Road. At its highest, the road's elevation is between 4,000 and 4,500 feet. It is not maintained and it doesn't get plowed, according to Sarah Rubrecht, a search-and-rescue coordinator. .... However, amid the snow, James Kim had missed a turn: At a fork in the road, he failed to see a sign for Gold Beach and chose to head right. He chose wrong. Believing he was on the road to the coast, he had, in fact, turned on to a logging track. And for reasons that may remain forever unknown, a steel gate that should have been locked, blocking this path, was left open. Utterly lost, the Kims tried using their cell phones to call for help, but they found they had no service. James Kim decided to put the car in reverse easing his way to a lower elevation where there might be more of a signal. .... With their gas gauge and the snow falling, the Kims decide the safest thing to do was wait for daylight. They survived the bitter night by idling their engine to keep warm. The next day, they ate food that they had brought with them, as they studied their maps and waited for help. |
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