Bazza Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 I can't watch TV without looking up every vaguely-familiar looking actor we come across to see what we saw them in before (or in some cases who they remind us of). Me too. I wonder if IMDB has a support group for us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 Lawnmower Boy and Rails 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 So, going on 4 months since I updated to 10. So far, so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted February 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 the new AMD processors are for presale, my new pc is coming online this year. Will be going for a from scratch Windows 10 install on an SSD and I'm practically salivating over this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 You mean the Ryzen? Finally matched Intel on single-thread benchmarks? That's pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 6, 2017 Report Share Posted April 6, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 7, 2017 Report Share Posted April 7, 2017 About twenty years old, my guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted April 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2017 You mean the Ryzen? Finally matched Intel on single-thread benchmarks? That's pretty cool. Yeah I got an 8 core processor for $350. And if I can ever get my cooling fan part to come in I'll build it and be impressed. Or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 27, 2017 Report Share Posted July 27, 2017 tkdguy, Lawnmower Boy and Rails 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted December 23, 2017 Report Share Posted December 23, 2017 [Note: Skip down to the link for actual information if not interested in my rant.] Soooo . . . things have been going relatively smoothly with Windows 10. And then came along Features Update 1703! First, I tried to ignore it. I had my deferred setting all set so that I wouldn't get earlier, buggier versions. Then when the update finally hit, I clicked on "remind me later." After a while, those reminders became more and more frequent, regardless of what I was doing at the time (full screen games, watching videos, whatever). Then the little bastards started popping up at five minute intervals, turning on my restart scheduler and setting it to an hour out. So, I finally caved in and decided to go without actually using my computer to do shit I want to do with shit I installed on it myself, so that I could let Microsoft put on some great new features that I'd never use. Updater runs for a good while. Then it prepares for a good while. Then it spends some more time just to piss me off. Then it dies. Then it takes another good chunk of time to restore my previous version . . . Well, there went half a day. I'll say one thing: So far, 10 has done a good job of recovering from failed updates. (1607, which I'm currently on, was a bit of a PITA too). So, I do some Googling, and try some things. There went the rest of the day. But then it didn't bother me for updates for a while. Until this week. Tonight it hit the every five minute mark again, so I gave it another shot. I turned off all the things, in case the new features were jealous of any of the old features, I tried the actual MS instructions (didn't work: you can't even access the update control panel in safe mode), I tried winging it. . . I then unplugged it and let it recover. But this time I remembered to note the specific number of the update, and googled how to block THAT specifically. Turns out whatever I did this time around was the correct combination of keywords, because it led me to this article: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3053701/microsoft-windows/block-windows-10-forced-updates-without-breaking-your-machine-part-2.html Short version of the article: There's a tool from Microsoft that will let you selectively make individual updates invisible to Windows. There are a couple of steps involved, but it's pretty simple. Posting it up here in case anyone else finds it useful. I'm hoping this does the trick. I'm seriously going to start testing all of my Windows software in Wine and trying to figure out why my bluray player won't work in Ubuntu. Once I know my stuff works and my drive works (it's supposed to, just doesn't for w/e reason), I may just ditch Windows. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ternaugh Posted January 9, 2018 Report Share Posted January 9, 2018 "This refrigerator has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 9, 2018 Report Share Posted January 9, 2018 Fridge...BSOD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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