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With a reverse flush? 
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 sounds like a bug. I mean, a bog.
/ravi
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That's a load of crap, John. Everyone knows the upgrade takes days.
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Don't forget the download time.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I find the 'apple' apps tend to be quite intensive on the processor.
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Coincidentally, the other week, an attempt was made to "upgrade" my laptop to a cr@p OS.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Two nights ago my spare Win7 laptop was on while I was working with the primary laptop. I look up and it has started the Win10 upgrade by itself. Bah, Humbug. Let it finish (as there's no cancel button.)
Tried to get some old programs running -- a couple of hours later said to myself, why should I fight to get old reliable programs running? So started the "return to Win7 OS". After it was back to Win7, I installed the "GWX Control Panel." Kind of like using a plunger on the toilet to push out a blockage and throwing in some "Lime Away."
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Downloaded.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I think you may need to attend this summit.[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Summit? Barely a mound top, by the look of it.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Notice how they didn't show picture of the audience.
Instagram[^]
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Partial text of a recent question:
Quote: I just concluded my Qbasic programming and next semester we are going into Java.
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I saw a question about QBasic a few weeks and I was curious to see how QBasic works for me...and realized that I can't even install it...it was part of Windows in Me last time...So where they still use it as a learning tool?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Everywhere Win10 won't install itself... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That is...nowhere? This morning even my sink asked for OS upgrade (and I though it runs on Linux)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Nah...sinks are TAP devices[^] so they run on Android.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That explains why after the upgrade it leaks...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So what else is new?
My problem with this bugware is a totally different one: I don't want it and I don't want Windows Update to use up a month's bandwith to download it, just in case I change my mind or forget to insist on not wanting it.
Slowly I'm getting really tired of them and if they are 'successful', then I will get rid of their bugware altogether and have some fun with Linux.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: fun with Linux
Two words that don't belong in the same sentence, right there!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Fun, as many things, is relative. 10 years ago I probably would have sounded like you, but after diverse little incidents, like Vista or Weight, my patience is growing thin. PCs are not telephones, Mickeysoft is not Apple, professional users are not consumers and life is too short to wait for them to get the proper perspective again.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Please don't repost a message if it doesn't appear immediately - it was detected as "possible spam" by the automatic system and sent to a queue which requires human intervention. Then I had to let it through, and follow up to deleted it afterwards to prevent you getting kicked as a spammer...
Have a little patience, please! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As reported on Insider News too, Microsoft released a 'Security' update for IE 11, that can lead you easily to upgrade to W10...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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There must have been a different update that did this because I have automatic updates turned off on my machine and actively refused the update referenced in the Insider.
After the reboot, I had the little Win10 icon back. 
So I broke down and installed the tool that nukes all that Win 10 upgrade stuff and won't worry about it again.
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