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Holy ****!!! Did Microsoft get religion?
In article , David Taylor
wrote: So I tried to do the Adobe updates last night - I just clicked "update all", and went to bed. At the same time, MS decided to install the latest and greatest update to Win 10. I woke up this morning, and my PC was completely munged. Simply unusable. I determined that it was not an Adobe issue, so I called MS, and... wait for it... they actually got it fixed! None of this reinstall Windows crap, or any other all-day headaches. They remoted in, and just fixed it in minutes. And I could even understand the tech! It's a miracle. Good news. So what was the problem, and what was the fix? likely because windows update rebooted in the middle of adobe's update, usually at 3.30a. |
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In article , Mayayana
wrote: | So what was the problem The fact that the entire Windows 10 retail market is an unpaid beta testing group for corporate business customers, who get patches 4 months later, after the wrinkles have been ironed out. nonsense. corporate users are never on the cutting edge of anything, no matter what it is. |
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Holy ****!!! Did Microsoft get religion?
On 9/27/2016 11:53 AM, Tony Cooper wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 08:28:31 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-09-27 13:45:56 +0000, Tony Cooper said: On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:37:47 -0700, Savageduck wrote: Okay, that one went over my head. On top of that, now I see that Helsinki and Stockholm are used interchangeably. I'm floundering. In what World are Helsinki and Stockholm used interchangeably? That is like saying Washington and Paris are used interchangeably. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, and Helsinki is the capital of Finland. When one talks of hostages empathizing with their kidnapers it is the "Stockholm Syndrome". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome There is no "Helsinki Syndrome" It's a fairly well-known meme to use "Helsinki Syndrome" as a deliberate error in place of "Stockholm Syndrome" because it has been used so many times as inadvertent error. It was used in one of the "Die Hard" movies. I must have missed that particular movie, but it remains an error, inadvertent or otherwise. Unless it was a scripted gag in the movie. The two cities are certainly not "interchangeable" in my world. Part of the joke is that it plays on the stereotype of Americans as ignorant of world geography. That seems appropriate, though it can be said the stereotype goes beyond ignorance of world geography. "Helsinki Syndrome" gets almost as many Google hits as "Stockholm Syndrome" because of both the deliberate joking use and the inadvertent mistaken use. Oh well. My brother moved to Denmark "temporarily" in 1969. He's been a resident of Denmark ever since. On one of his visits here, we were in a conversation with doctor friend of ours and my brother mentioned he lives in Denmark. The doctor then asked if he liked living in Sweden. He was under the impression that "Denmark" is a city in Sweden. Many Americans are woefully ignorant of world geography, but there are many Europeans who are equally ignorant of US geography. Just recently a person I know who lives in Oxford UK wrote me to say he'd be in Key West FL in December and wanted to know if we could meet for lunch. When I informed him that it's a 6.5 hour drive between Orlando and Key West, he was amazed. "But they're both in Florida!" he said. When my father's brother visited for the first time from Greece, he wanted to know if my father could take him to California for the weekend. That's a long drive from New York. My uncle is a brilliant man but he didn't know US geography very well. His daughter is married to a man names Kostas who does know it very well. About twenty years ago we were talking about some authors and Mark Twain was mentioned. Kostas spoke up and mentioned the connection to the Mississippi River and then listed off all the sates the river runs through. He had never been to the USA. I can't do that. |
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Holy ****!!! Did Microsoft get religion?
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:17:42 -0400, nospam
wrote: In article , David Taylor wrote: So I tried to do the Adobe updates last night - I just clicked "update all", and went to bed. At the same time, MS decided to install the latest and greatest update to Win 10. I woke up this morning, and my PC was completely munged. Simply unusable. I determined that it was not an Adobe issue, so I called MS, and... wait for it... they actually got it fixed! None of this reinstall Windows crap, or any other all-day headaches. They remoted in, and just fixed it in minutes. And I could even understand the tech! It's a miracle. Good news. So what was the problem, and what was the fix? likely because windows update rebooted in the middle of adobe's update, usually at 3.30a. It's very possible, because I don't think there was any problem with Windows itself. To answer David's question at the same time, the first clue was when I opened LR after both updates. When I tried to scroll through the collections on the left side of the window, it took forever. Then I saw that the menus would not open, and right clicking did not work on anything. When other windows opened, only the outline and title bar would appear. And everything that did work worked very slowly. What impressed me is that the MS tech was very good, and got to the source very quickly. He told me that he ended all 3d party processes, and the PC came back to life immediately. He then used Malwarebytes to scan for any issues, but found nothing with that. I am so used to hearing that the only fix is a clean install of Windows that it was just a relief to stumble across someone who took the time to look for the actual problem, instead of using the usual shotgun overkill approach. |
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Holy ****!!! Did Microsoft get religion?
Tony Cooper wrote:
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 08:28:31 -0700, Savageduck wrote: On 2016-09-27 13:45:56 +0000, Tony Cooper said: On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:37:47 -0700, Savageduck wrote: Okay, that one went over my head. On top of that, now I see that Helsinki and Stockholm are used interchangeably. I'm floundering. In what World are Helsinki and Stockholm used interchangeably? That is like saying Washington and Paris are used interchangeably. Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, and Helsinki is the capital of Finland. When one talks of hostages empathizing with their kidnapers it is the "Stockholm Syndrome". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome There is no "Helsinki Syndrome" It's a fairly well-known meme to use "Helsinki Syndrome" as a deliberate error in place of "Stockholm Syndrome" because it has been used so many times as inadvertent error. It was used in one of the "Die Hard" movies. I must have missed that particular movie, but it remains an error, inadvertent or otherwise. Unless it was a scripted gag in the movie. The two cities are certainly not "interchangeable" in my world. Part of the joke is that it plays on the stereotype of Americans as ignorant of world geography. That seems appropriate, though it can be said the stereotype goes beyond ignorance of world geography. "Helsinki Syndrome" gets almost as many Google hits as "Stockholm Syndrome" because of both the deliberate joking use and the inadvertent mistaken use. Oh well. My brother moved to Denmark "temporarily" in 1969. He's been a resident of Denmark ever since. On one of his visits here, we were in a conversation with doctor friend of ours and my brother mentioned he lives in Denmark. The doctor then asked if he liked living in Sweden. He was under the impression that "Denmark" is a city in Sweden. Many Americans are woefully ignorant of world geography, but there are many Europeans who are equally ignorant of US geography. Just recently a person I know who lives in Oxford UK wrote me to say he'd be in Key West FL in December and wanted to know if we could meet for lunch. When I informed him that it's a 6.5 hour drive between Orlando and Key West, he was amazed. "But they're both in Florida!" he said. Hi, I had a friend in Holland who thought that while visiting in N.Y.C., he could drive round trip to Los Angeles and back for the weekend. He had no clue that the trip is 3,000 miles = 5,400 kilometers. Mort Linder |
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Holy ****!!! Did Microsoft get religion?
Savageduck wrote:
Then in December through mid-January I will be taking another trip to South Africa, via Amsterdam. -- While in Amsterdam, try to go to a good Indonesian restaurant for a genuine rijsttafel. It is an Indonesian/Dutch banquet made up of many small plates of wonderful food. Also, keep away from Zeedijk, the bad girl district. Have a nice trip, Mort Linder |
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On 2016-09-27 22:05:06 +0000, Mort said:
Savageduck wrote: Then in December through mid-January I will be taking another trip to South Africa, via Amsterdam. -- While in Amsterdam, try to go to a good Indonesian restaurant for a genuine rijsttafel. It is an Indonesian/Dutch banquet made up of many small plates of wonderful food. My wife and I enjoyed such a rijsttafel in Amsterdam on a European trip in 1982. My wife insisted on that as she had spent her early childhood in Singapore, and was yearning for the nostalgia of that experience. That trip also included a train ride up the Rhine to Zurich and then to Lucerne. I really liked Lucerne. In those days I was still working for Schering-Plough and part of the costs were borne by them. Also, keep away from Zeedijk, the bad girl district. I understand they honor all major credit cards. ;-) Have a nice trip, Thanks, that will be in mid-December. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Savageduck wrote:
Also, keep away from Zeedijk, the bad girl district. I understand they honor all major credit cards. ;-) Their old joke is: It's a business doing pleasure with you. In the 1950s I lived in Amsterdam for a few months, and then in Utrecht for almost 5 years. Amsterdam was much nicer, but Utrecht was a great place to study. The Dutch people were absolutely wonderful. Have a nice trip. Bring electrical adaptor plugs, and make sure that your gadgets can run on 220 volts A.C. 50 cycle current. Bring a photocopy of the first 2 pages of your passports, in a different pocket,in case the originals are lost or stolen. Mort Linder |
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Holy ****!!! Did Microsoft get religion?
On 2016-09-28 01:46:45 +0000, Mort said:
Savageduck wrote: Also, keep away from Zeedijk, the bad girl district. I understand they honor all major credit cards. ;-) Their old joke is: It's a business doing pleasure with you. In the 1950s I lived in Amsterdam for a few months, and then in Utrecht for almost 5 years. Amsterdam was much nicer, but Utrecht was a great place to study. The Dutch people were absolutely wonderful. Have a nice trip. Bring electrical adaptor plugs, and make sure that your gadgets can run on 220 volts A.C. 50 cycle current. Bring a photocopy of the first 2 pages of your passports, in a different pocket,in case the originals are lost or stolen. Mort Linder The passport thing I have handled with Mobile Passport, and I have copies of those two pages in a protected Dropbox folder. Mobile Passport is great, as in quite a few US Port of Entry airports you can by-pass the normal ICE check line with a smartphone CBP receipt and a barcode. Fortunately SFO is one of those airports. http://mobilepassport.us -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Holy ****!!! Did Microsoft get religion?
In article , Mort wrote:
Have a nice trip. Bring electrical adaptor plugs, and make sure that your gadgets can run on 220 volts A.C. 50 cycle current. most stuff these days is universal, so all that matters is a physical adapter, and even that is't always needed because there are universal sockets, some of which provide usb power (although using that is a security risk). Bring a photocopy of the first 2 pages of your passports, in a different pocket,in case the originals are lost or stolen. take pics with a smartphone. |
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