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Usually I move on to greener pastures when I have managers like that  .
They tend to break more than they fix.
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V. wrote: Usually I move on to greener pastures when I have managers like that
The fact that I work 3000 miles away, remotely, helps to mitigate the issues. If I worked there, my greener pasture would probably be a cell, either padded, or barred, or both!
Marc
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Can I come to visit for some relaxation? 
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 happens if the power goes out? Does it brick W8/10?
Marc
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There's always hope.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Your UPS kicks in and saves the day ... doesn't it?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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That's actually an interesting point.
I have a UPS at home (not that I'm ever there), but, considering that you might never need them (their usefulness relies on the power failing when you've spent a lot of time doing stuff without saving), they're quite expensive (Very expensive, compared to hitting Ctrl+S, which doesn't cost too many pennies).
How many other members are so paranoid as this sucker here?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have a (very very) simple UPS that's just for my 2 NAS boxes.
Hard drives tend to not like it when the power just cuts out.
The UPS last about half an hour to an hour, so plenty of time to do a proper shutdown, I'v had need for it twice I think in the 7 years I have it.
Other than that if my pc hard drive breaks I'll just replace it, there is never (ever) anything on my pc I can't lose.
Everything that I want to save goes straight to one of the NAS boxes.
Mark_Wallace wrote: How many other members are so paranoid as this sucker here?
It's not paranoia if they are really out to get you ... 
Tom
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9082365 wrote: Your UPS kicks in and saves the day ... doesn't it?
My UPS is the laptop battery, but a lot of the customers we work with can have flaky power and either don't have UPS's, or they haven't been tested and don't work. But you can be damn sure that there are working UPS's on their slot machines.
Marc
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Go to Control Panel Administrative tools and set the Windows Update Service to disabled.
That should stop the madness.
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Ron Anders wrote: Go to Control Panel Administrative tools and set the Windows Update Service to disabled.
First thing I do when I install Windows. This was on a client's machine, that got me wondering.
Marc
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It did my early win 10 Preview build. Now No key. not test system.
It may depend on what it was updating at the time too.
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The only time it happened to me the (Windows 10) update just picked up where it left off when the power was restored.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: The only time it happened to me the (Windows 10) update just picked up where it left off when the power was restored.
Ah! Good to know -- I was wondering if someone actually experienced that.
Marc
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... And that pops up every four frugging minutes!
Technical details:
- OS: winio version PoC (there is no other version) 64bit
- Hardware: Octacore tablet; the specs don't matter, but it's got tons of everything
Error details:
- A fruggin' cryptic message every four minutes, which wakes the machine up, so that the insane battery-hog that is winio can kill the battery even after I've put it to sleep, and which causes me to input key-presses into places where I don't want to input key-presses (thereby losing them from where I wanted to input them)!
Error symptoms:
- Hey, did you even read the bit about the ridiculous messages?
Activities on error:
- Click the frugging cryptic message, and it opens the "MANAGE OPTIONAL FEATURES" (yes, it shouts) window, which displays a list of languages installed on the machine -- all of which are from MS. Does this tell me anything? Does it ****!
Dear people who were and/or are (incredibly) inferior to Mr. Gates: Please tell me how to turn this frugging annoying "feature" off!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm not sure if you're just ranting or seriously wanting help with this, bit if it were the latter, a screenshot might help.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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One does not ask for help in computer matters in the CP Lounge, Dear Boy.
Those who do get the piss taken out of them by...
Well, by ratbags like me, actually.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: One does not ask for help in computer matters in the CP Lounge, Dear Boy.
Boy? OK, I'm not entirely sure that fits unless you're a shaky old fart.
Funny thing is that there are some ratbags who make fun of and insult people querying in Q/A and other programming help forums as well.
Sure, a number of people querying don't know all "how to's" of posting a question, but I'm seeing more insulting replies than actual answers to questions like that. Sometimes I wonder if these people offer any real help at all.
So, the line gets blurred and I'm often not sure as to what the hell is going on in here these days. It used to be better than this though. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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CP keeps complete records of who posts what, which you can view.
Bored with this, now.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sorry, I wasn't coming at you.
I just stated what I've been observing and contrary to your claims you haven't been so much of a ratbag (not at least in the Q/A forums).
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Samsung just announced a 4TB SSD for $1500 USD. Now I have to replace all the drives in my 16TB array (Don't I wish I had $6000 sitting around doing nothing)
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How do you spell "want"? My brain's stopped focussing on such thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow...
SSDs are definitely coming of age! 
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Sounds expensive. Or maybe that's the list price?
/ravi
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They'll come down in price: in two years or so they should be affordable!
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