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Based on the lack of response, I'm guessing you agree with my assessment that the early editions are much worse than current, and harder to read. Looking at the second edition, yuck! I'm so glad I stuck with it to get to the bottom of the astronomy. But from that crappy read there is enough there to shout that the Samson story was based on astronomy.
No rush - I just felt the need for some humor. 
Hope you are having a great New Year!
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Recent funeral.
Yeah, the first edition is less organized. It's a harder read, I admit.
David O'Neil wrote: Looking at the second edition, yuck!
Does this mean you don't have a copy of your first edition? I feel like you should have a copy.
You made me go look at it, I remember sitting a drink on it the other night. Looks fine, except for the torn out copyright page. I won't do it again.
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I haven't found a first edition in my stuff, but I do have copies of every edition past that. Based on the second edition, the graphics in the first edition were real crappy wherever greyscale was involved. Lulu/Amazon said their process would take care of dithering, but they must of had a complete crap process.
I got a couple 7th edition copies in yesterday, and the graphics are good but not perfect. It looks like the distance between the printhead and the paper isn't being controlled correctly. But the graphics are FAR better than the second edition graphics.
Sorry for your loss. Hope you are doing well.
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PS - if you want to swap that first edition for a signed 7th edition, we can work something out when you email me. You should still be able to get your money back on that 6th edition as the website was advertising it as a 7th edition.
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Well,
Too much work, you can you just give me a mental diff.
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That's fine. It's up to you.
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For me this update took 3 hours. Goodluck to you ! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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The longest part for me was the download (we've got some internet issues in the area). As soon as the installation kicked off, it was about 10 minutes.
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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Just to pour oil on the fire 
I have several PCs that had to be reversed out of 22H2 as they then failed to talk to older machines on the network that couldn't be updated to a similar level
Fortunately the reversal is much quicker than the installation
In particular client software wouldn't connect to sql server running on an older machine (windows 2003 so very old machine) came up with an ssl error. Reversing the update fixed it
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Old bugs out, new bugs in. 
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 lost faith in applying logic to MS's update methodology with the Windows OS years ago. I'm still trying to figure out why random functions in Windows 10 break while a new update is only downloaded and staged (supposedly). I've had updates here in my office take over 12 hours to complete. I've had all sorts of functions break until the staged update is applied. It is insane since I directly oversee around 200 computers, laptops, and tablets. I'm delaying my jump to Windows 11 for the same reason that I delay all updates of MS software - to allow their public debugging process to get farther on down the road. Good luck.
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I've noticed the same thing. Here's my suspicion, with zero actual knowledge.
While Windows Modules Installer Worker is running and killing the disk early, it's downloading huge files to install.
When it gets to the point you're talking about, it's moving those files to the windows directory from the downloads area. Then, updating registry if necessary. Maybe backing stuff up first just in case, too.
I suspect the "100%" is indicating all the moving of files has been accomplished, and registry updating is happening. Again, no inside knowledge, just a pure guess.
It is frustrating to see the indicator at 100%. If you're 100% done, why am I not using my computer?
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It's giving you time to contemplate freeing yourself from Microsoft's grasp.
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Pro Tip... don't use modern Window OS on old hardware.
Its slow, it uses legacy driver emulation & it doesn't make your life better.
Align the hardware age in your computer with the Window OS lifespans. Match those two & it will be smooth as butter.
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Umm, not to be argumentative, but your statement contradicts reality. This occurred on a less than 1 year old AMD Ryzen 7 based laptop, 64GB ram, RTX3080, gigabit ethernet, and a Samsung NVMe SSD.
No, Microsoft's bugs and design decisions are legendary. I noted how I fixed it above, but I think the update process has a race condition in it where the "let's go do the update" code misses the completion of the download. Conjecture on my part, but another post above explained how the process worked.
I can understand not having drivers with older hardware - but the update process should detect a mismatch and give a meaningful error. Unfortunately MS simply does not give a crap.
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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Apologies if this has already been brought up but I haven’t received a newsletter since Monday. Is anyone receiving the newsletter? It’s part of my morning routine.
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The newsletter elves are busy with giftwrapping duties. 
Edit: Your OP belongs in site bugs and suggestions. It may have already been noted (I haven't looked) 
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Thanks. I just took a quick look in the Site Bugs forum and didn’t see any other messages about it so I just posted a message there.
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There's a newsletter ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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The name of it is “Daily News” and it contains links to news articles (typically with a snarky comment about the article) and it’s normally delivered every weekday morning.
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I tried sending you an email confirmation request to see if that helps. Please let me know if you receive it OK.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Sean,
I received it and confirmed my email. I’ll let you know when I receive the newsletter.
Thanks!
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Just had a chance to check my spam folder and it looks like everything that I’m subscribed to from CodeProject was going there. Don’t know why Gmail decided to do that all of a sudden. Weird.
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I've been receiving mine each morning.
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Yes ... I had it each day this week, no problems at all ...
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