inceptu ideas - Comments

OriginalJennifer: Update Junkie

nospam@example.com (OriginalJennifer) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:38:58 +0900

Please be advised that there are no more girlfriend updates and that you have reached your quota.

Please contact the system administrator if you have any issues.

(The guarantee is also null and void as she is perfectly functional and functionally perfect.)

No need for reboot (but she'd like a new pair of shoes).

End of message.

OJ xo

OriginalJennifer: Feeling Blue Today?

nospam@example.com (OriginalJennifer) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:31:08 +0900

I sense a gleeful middle finger gesture from Apple afficionados.

Don't blame 'em either!

OJ xo

Robert: Update Junkie

nospam@example.com (Robert) — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:16:06 +0900

I just saw the following tip from Daniel Turini on CodeProject:

I found this after a lot of Googling, so I'd like to share the solution. Yep, this may not be new or even advanced but it surely helped me...

Anyone who is running Windows XP SP2 know what I'm talking about. That stupid, annoying, most ill-designed dialog box ever invented in the history of the computer science that asks "Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now?"
And there are only two options: Restart Now/Restart Later. "Restart Later" means that this stupid thing will ask you again in 10 minutes. Yes, if you're willing to work for the next 4 hours until lunch before rebooting, this means you'll need to answer this question 24 times. Did I mention that the dialog steals the focus?

Now, to get rid of it:
Start / Run / gpedit.msc / Local Computer Policy / Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates / Windows Components / Windows Update / Re-prompt for restart with scheduled installations

You can configure how often it will nag you (I re-configured it for 720 minutes, which means I'll be asked twice on a work day), or completely disable it.

Oh, I almost forgot: this setting is only loaded when Windows starts, so a reboot is needed. If that stupid dialog is on your screen now, just stop the "Automatic Updates" service (but keep it as Automatic, so it gets reloaded on the next start) and you won't see it again.

Wayne: Update Junkie

nospam@example.com (Wayne) — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:32:10 +0900

Ah, the good old Windows Update. It's interesting that you acknowledge the effects of the updates but say that your experience of Windows never changed. I suppose that must be Microsoft's worst-case goal. If they can't improve your perception of your experience with Windows, at least they can aim to avoid your perceived experience from being tarnished (by crashes, viruses, functional flaws...) - and avoid some of the bad-mouthing of Windows that inevitably follows.

Of course, the whole situation of needing to be caught up in the software/firmware upgrade cycle in the first place just reeks from the the poor quality of code that is being endlessly churned out (although not by TDA-Tech I'm sure! ) It always makes me shudder when I hear someone comment on how easy it is get code cut, particularly when it's to do with electronic communications. People seem to expect to be able to pick up a C programmer (as it's inevitably C) on practically any street corner. /me sighs Long live FORTH!

OriginalJennifer: Somebody Else's Problem

nospam@example.com (OriginalJennifer) — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:06:07 +0900

Douglas Adams had it all sussed.

He also wrote:

"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place."

He probably would have liked your idea of chaoentropy.

Pity he ain't around to read your blog.

Happy creating a functional, self organising and regenerative environment.

It sounds like an office space that will evolve, find a mate, get married and have baby offices.