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Another wordle spin-off for those that like movies...
Cine2Nerdle
Just a heads up, you have a limited number of swaps you can do. Caught me out on the first day of playing.
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Some of you may know the gory details of how Windows goes about doing it's update thing. My new laptop has decided it wants 22H2. So, I'm working on the older laptop, and I told it to go ahead. 30 minutes later, it's been downloaded, but it's been sitting at 100% for the past 20 minutes. No CPU or network processing is going on.
So, is it doing some sort of integrity check? Just curious.
Charlie Gilley
“Life is short, and it's uncertain." --Brian Schull, Sled driver
modified 8-Dec-22 7:35am.
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Microsoft seems to like to stick their progress bars at 99% or 100% for forever and a day, in my experience. It's probably summoning demons.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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<rant>
Considering Microsoft's rigorous quality assurance, I am certain that their code causes nasal demons to appear even on ordinary computers, to say nothing of the DeathStation 9000.
</rant>
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm pretty sure that the DS9K is just a normal PC running Linux. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not a rant: I suggest YAAR.
Yet another almost rant.
Anyhow, this is superstition terrain, anyhow testing your stability and rationality to the utmost.
First advice: Don't keep looking at it, go do something else. I usually find that I have a chore left or need coffee.
Did it finish yet? Did you shake it a bit, stroke it with the mouse? Hit the control key a few times?
I generally take updates up front, which gives me a weird sense of control.
With the obvious weekly backup I feel like when I stow a small umbrella going when it's not even raining.
Will surely prevent rain from happening to me! (Does most of the time, too)
Cheers,
Jan
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Interesting... so it just looks like the update gets confused or whatever. Most of the support comments were absolutely useless. However, if your update stalls, fire up services.msc and restart Windows Update. Seems to unplug the blockage.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: what the heck is it doing?
Are you sure you wanna know ?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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charlieg wrote: Some of you may know the gory details of how Windows goes about doing it's update thing
I'm fairly certain at this point nobody even at Microsoft understands the process from start to finish.
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Takes a long time to replace all the icons.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Thank you for the warning ... as I have exactly the same message in my HP laptop tray reminding me about Windows 11 22H2 installation. No way that I will do that without preparation ...  .
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My personal suspicion is that they are spinning up a VM running a private copy of Minecraft, loaded with an 8-bit processor emulation that in turn is running a port of DOOM. An AI plays DOOM until defeated or the game ends. At that point, the update is completed.
Of course, this is considered a charming Easter egg.
Software Zen: delete this;
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as easy as computers make complicated things look easy, many things are still dumb hard, and when works on 99% for 200 million computers, that 1% is 2 million computers.
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I personally wrote some/parts of the Windows Update Agent API but it was a while back. The "Update Orchestrater" manages it.
"Windows Update" isn't a single service, "BITS" or "Delivery Optimization" do the download and "Update Orchestrater" (UsoSVC) does the management. I was on a team of two software engineers that wrote "Delivery Optimization" system service (DOSvc) and integrated it into Windows. I've actually spent most of my time on the WU/WSUS team.
Update Orchestrater is probably waiting. I'm no longer involved, but if I remember correctly it uses the Task Scheduling system to begin.
Update Orchestrater is to blame, ask them.
modified 9-Dec-22 6:01am.
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Anyway - thanks for the description. It looks like some nugget of code missed the "go" signal after the download. Some people have waited 18 hours.
Quote: Hi Pulkit,
I'm Paul and I'm here to help you with your concern.
There must be something preventing the update to be finished.
Please try the following.
1. Run Troubleshooter
Open Settings => System => Troubleshoot => Other troubleshooters => Windows Update => Run.
2. Use Command Prompt commands.
=> Open Command prompt as Administrator.
=> Type/copy the commands below , enter 1 by 1.
net stop wuauserv
net stop cryptSvc
net stop bits
net stop msiserver
ren C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution SoftwareDistribution.old
ren C:\Windows\System32\catroot2 catroot2.old
net start wuauserv
net start cryptSvc
net start bits
net start msiserver
3. Use System File Checker to check and fix corrupted system files which may be the cause of the issue. Please refer to the link.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/402652...
4. Uninstall any 3rd-party Antivirus.
5. Update all device drivers and BIOS.
6. Disconnect the USB devices except for the mouse and keyboard.
7. Perform Clean Boot. Refer to this link.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135...
After doing the things listed above, try to reinstall the update.
I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and keep me posted.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Be careful about running some of those "Privacy" or "Disable Telemetry" powershell scripts/programs. They can break Windows Update and impact other parts of the operating system.
Glad to hear it worked out for you.
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As an FYI unrelated to this thread, my hopefully last video on our ancient astronomy is complete. Our Forgotten History illuminates some of the probable creation steps of the Bible, based on Samson's celestial backbone.
The newest book version also opens up what the 'three paths' of the Babylonians were, which also opens up what Nibiru was.
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I just watched half of your video, but I need to run into town here in a few minutes. I will watch it again this evening when I get home and give you some feedback.
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Ok,
After watching I think you should expand on your conclusion about Jupiter (צדק), I am not convinced a Phoenician god was the origin of the Hebrew god. It's both the shortest segment of your video and perhaps most controversial conclusion. I want to know more. This subject might not be Lounge material. Your call.
I have an issue with the terminology you are using. Phrases like "The bible" for example. Which bible? Do you mean the Tanakh? Your time frame only fits those texts.
Your 12th segment, I've seen some similarities between the Akhenaten story and Moses, might be worth investigation.
I like watching your material but I feel you are holding back. There's hours of video content that could be made for each talking point.
Edit:
First half I really like and the Samson story matches your observations. No comments.
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Randor wrote: After watching I think you should expand on your conclusion about Jupiter
The video is meant to be an overview. The Jupiter material is touched upon in a couple places, like chapter 9, of my book. I don't go into detail, because I don't have a mind like yours that can suck up info and approach it from a thousand different ways. I'm not trying to say that it came from a Phoenician god. Instead, the commonality of almost all the cultures back then is that the people were awed by Jupiter's brilliance, and ability to travel the entire sky, so that is the basis of many religions of those times. Logically, Baal and Anat, Yahweh and Asherah, and similar constructs, refer to Jupiter and Venus in their root form, and this comes from each culture semi-independently. I will let others who can hold infinite knowledge in their minds work out the finer details, and where I'm wrong and right. It was hell getting the Samson stuff figured out, and the bigger picture in place, because I've been lied to my entire life.
Randor wrote: I have an issue with the terminology you are using. Phrases like "The bible" for example. Which bible? Do you mean the Tanakh? Your time frame only fits those texts.
This is another area I'm not an expert on. What I thought I was saying is that the core of what is now the Old Testament formed after the Babylonian Exile, rather than 1300 BC and earlier. That doesn't mean that core doesn't contain much older material. I believe Job contains some of the oldest material, from a scholastic perspective. But I think it became incorporated into what is now the Old Testament in about 500-300 BC?
Randor wrote: Your 12th segment, I've seen some similarities between the Akhenaten story and Moses, might be worth investigation.
Chapter 15 is a summary of Moses information, overviewing 7 myths with a similar 'put into the waters at birth' scenario, and the 5 different versions of the Moses story that are documented. (Of course the 5th is the biblical version.)
My contact info is at Contact - RandomMonkeyWorks, if you wish to chat more.
Best wishes,
David
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PS - the book contains references supporting my Jupiter conclusions.
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Yes, Tanakh would have been a better term to use.
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Randor wrote: How many people are named David O'Neil and do you all write books?
You got me!  If you know any religious scholars who are open to such a debate, and can hook me up, I'd love to give it a try! I look forward to your thoughts when you've read it.
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