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That's not usual when an installer needs to reboot in the middle of things. That's why I only delete "older" files (looking at both modified and create dates)
edit: fuck :disco::horse: Nested quotes used to work...
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FTFW
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zS29HOwsh6M/SetW0nL0C0I/AAAAAAAABAY/ehyC1-QJvwA/s400/your-mouse-has-moved.png
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Play Age Of Mythology on recommended settings :<!---->) unlike my old family computer which had 32megs and occasionally lagged when playing the game. (And AoE3 was unplayable - I played it anyway ofc)
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Now, if M$ did not had the 49 days bug fixed in later version of Windows, that wouldn't have been a problem.
Fix a bug, get new bugs.
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FTFY
For example, the system of 2016-02-01's TDWTF entry.
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Because Windows has advanced a good way. It no longer crashes
ifwhen something goes fatally wrong but tries to recover as best as possible.Admin
+1, I was actually playing and recording a game when my display driver crashed... Windows informed me that it crashed and it had automatically restarted it. The game kept running fine and the recording was okay. Cool stuff.
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The display driver watchdog has been around for quite a while, I think... I remember having to increase the time limit some years back when I was grinding my GPU down with CUDA coding.
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If you thought that was bad, I know of a production server whose DEFAULT hive is 1,199,046,656 bytes. Fortunately the Samsung printer driver which caused the problem bloated NTUSER.DAT first, so I started getting messages about being unable to load the administrator's profile before messages about being unable to start up, and the errant software has now been excised from the system. (I wish I knew how to remotely shrink the DEFAULT hive of a server; dealing with the NTUSER.DAT problem remotely was bad enough.)
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You Windows folks are bragging stability when you can go a month without rebooting.
Us Linux users find it unstable when we need to reboot more than once every other year :stuck_out_tongue:
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Well of course, that's about as fast as the Linux ecosystem evolves :trolleybus:
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Since Windows 10 just came out, and Ubuntu is already at 15.10, it's hard to agree with you :trollface:
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Well I'm on Windows 98, so you can stick that 15 up yours :tram:
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unless i very much misremember didn't the ubuntu versions start out as short hand for 20xx (that is 15.04 was the April, 2015 release, 14.10 was the October 2014 release, etc) ?
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...yes?
Now provide a snappy comeback.
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so your 98 stands for 1998, where ubuntu's 15 stands for 2015.
check and mate.
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At least Windows won't have to halt development once the alphabet runs out!
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So Linux folks are mostly correct?
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they already solved that one, they restart at A and don't repeat a name (pick a different adjective/animal pair)
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So you're saying we're heading for a Y3K?
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Because nothing important changed anyway?
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Since it's Windows X, they have only Y and Z left :wink:
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Vista. It's one of the improvements they had to make compatibility-killing changes to the driver ABI for.
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It's called a "joke". Keep at it. You might start recognizing more of these "jokes" around here!
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I'll remember that for when people actually start making jokes, instead of complaining about things they're not willing to put any effort into changing
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better than redmond winding the clock all the way back to 7 from 98.
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It was so awesome it overflowed their version counter.
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their version counter only went up to 100? i don't call that any sort of proper version counter.
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You know, following your own logic, Windows 7 was released two years late (2009) while Windows 10 was delayed by five.
"Vista" seemed to exist in an alternate timeline where numbers do not exist, so we can just forget it ever existed.
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What? No, it was an int. How else do you explain Windows 2000?
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Why do you keep asking me for my help and advice accalia, then refusing to take it! OMG! So annoying! You're just BEGGING me for help ALL THE TIME.
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Satanic sabatage
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i'm sorry, was that a question or a statement? because your words and your punctuation don't add up.
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Mmmm... neat on dickwedeery, but a little too cliched <!--inb4 "e acute you idiot"-->on pedantry. 7/10, keep it up and you may get a badge someday.
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Badges?
BADGES?!
[image]@ACCALIA DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!
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Got a Windows 10 laptop and a Windows 8.1 media center PC. Can't remember the last time I rebooted either.
On my work PC, I had made a change to the registry that prevented it from auto-rebooting after getting updates, and I would "delay" the reboot for weeks or longer. Finally, the admins across the street caught on and changed GP so that I am no longer allowed to modify the registry on my machine.
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Like the uptime timer in your Windows 98 ?
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Fixed that for ya.
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That's the first sign of Alzheimer :wink:
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What do you get when you cross the day of the Lord with sabotage?
:rimshot:Admin
Actually I'm looking forward to the emoji releases.
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Even :man_in_business_suit_levitating:?
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I can't see how that's sillier than Xenial Xerus.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54
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Did you ever identify what processes/services might have been causing this?
I had a Packard Bell in 1994, 8MB RAM, 420MB HDD, Pentium 60 (the toaster oven model with the floating point problem, yes). Playing Star Control 3 would stress it after about 20 minutes. Upgraded RAM to 24MB - no more problems. Also, booting to the pre-installed Win 3.11 OS: 15 seconds. "Upgraded" later to Windows 95 - would take over 5 minutes, and that on an OS-only install.
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Should totally go out and try loading Windows 10 to downgrade it back to a more reasonable level... :trolleybus:
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:rofl:
On a different note, this reminds me of my old Netware 4.11 server with "Days Up: 1018" (yes, nearly 3 years) which we had to kill because a power down was required to upgrade the NIC from 10Mbps to 100Mbps. This was 1997.
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Here's a :wtf: for you all:
Read in a classified ad in that year: "Network Administrator wanted...requirements: minimum 5 years experience in Windows 95..."
Even my then-fiancee was laughing at that one!