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I thought Windows updates were bad until I got a MacBook Pro last year to toy with.
I hardly ever use it, but every time I turn it on, there's always a few hundred megabytes worth of updates waiting to be downloaded and installed. Last time (this past weekend) was a 655MB download, and burned up a solid half hour after the reboot (before getting back to the login screen, so the machine remained unusable during that time). Yosemite had already been installed a few months prior to that (a lovely 6+ GB update, if I recall correctly), and a number of updates since had also been installed, so it's not like I had 4 months worth of updates queued up.
From my experience, on the Windows side, unless it's a full-blown service pack, a large set of updates may take 15-20 minutes to install, but at least that's taking place in the background and the machine remains usable.
And yes, this is a clean machine with hardly any third-party software as I use it so little there's still nothing on it that didn't come with the OS.
Don't get me started with the set of Linux VMs I also have...
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The day in October of 1926 that Harry Houdini died at age 52.
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The average age a developer loses his virginity.
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Oh, that's just mean!
Or median. I always get those two mixed up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm surprised of the standard deviation of your posts...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Well, if you're going to be a deviant, you have to at least be consistent.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When we reach Level 42, let me go!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Being 4 * 7:
0-7 : Physical body
8-14 - Etheric Body
15-21 - Astral body
22-28 - Ego body
Bonus for who can name the spiritual philosophy that describes these 4 bodies. You may have to go back 100 years or so.
Marc
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Anthroposophy
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Anthroposophy
Ah, very good! Theosophy would also have been acceptable.
Marc
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You know, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison etc.
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“Then there’s Konstantinopolitanischerdudelsackpfeifergesellschaft,” Tom Halsted noted, “a German word which my mother swore she came across in the 1920s. She died in 2006 at age 99, so I can’t verify the source of this delightful, almost certainly made-up word, but I like to think there once was a bagpipe manufacturer in Constantinople, perhaps managed by a German company. Even if there wasn’t, I like the name Dudelsack!” But a Dudelsackpfeifer is a bagpiper, so the mythical firm presumably trained musicians rather than made instruments."
from Michael Quinion's excellent (free) e-mail newsletter "World Wide Words," Feb. 14, 2015: [^].
I have direct knowledge through channels I can't reveal that the Illuminati of Agile are preparing for the coming of AntiSpec, the bottoms'-up nemesis of rooting for PooperPig's top-down.
Re-programming programmers' minds through sprints and Turkish dervish music played on Scottish instruments connected to hubble-bubble's is only part of their fiendish master-plan.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Keith Barrow wrote: gesinnung You probably mean "Gesang" (vocals)? Gesinnung means attitude/disposition.
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"Attitude" - it might not even translate properly as it isn't proper English.
As in yoghurt is milk with attitude.
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Keith Barrow wrote: yoghurt is milk with attitude bacteria sh1t. Some facts just jump out and hit you in the face.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have you ever considered a job in marketing?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I'll post a letter to the Milk Marketing Board forthwith!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BillWoodruff wrote: the bottoms'-up nemesis of rooting for PooperPig's top-down.
Fortunately PooperPig is a side-scroller, thus thwarting the IofA before the AntiSpec reaches V1.0
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Hi All,
I Posted yesterday about a Max232 I was fighting with, it suddenly burst into life and work ed. Just moved things so they don't fall off the desk and boom we are back to not working? Also it appears that First Great Western have had their Wifi hacked logged on this am, found my home page had been redirected to a p0rn site, look any who use a laptop for presentation s check your home page!
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glennPattonCONTRACTING wrote: and boom we are back to not working?
Are "you" back to not working? Please clarify, because I thought you just got this job.
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