I have failed as an IT Professional
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Why not just do that in the SP1 installer?
I suspect that it will turn out to be because the SP1 installer, as part of the ridiculously over-engineered yet strangely under-capable Windows Update, relies on a bunch of insanely complicated underlying mechanisms that keep some of those files in use, thereby rendering them non-updateable until the next boot.
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I suspect that it will turn out to be because the SP1 installer, as part of the ridiculously over-engineered yet strangely under-capable Windows Update, relies on a bunch of insanely complicated underlying mechanisms that keep some of those files in use, thereby rendering them non-updateable until the next boot.
I've got a feeling it involves Common Information Model queries. Dear god, I wish I knew nothing about that…
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That particular information model should certainly not be common.
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I have ranted about that tool here twice already. It tends to fail for no reason in particular, and it's just generally awful. I can't believe Microsoft is still today focusing on optical media installs.
They can definitely make good software sometimes, yet in some aspects they seem like genuine idiots.
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I can't believe Microsoft is still today focusing on optical media installs.
I thought they focused on OEM pre-installs…
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OTOH, those pens/markers to write in DVD's are expensive shit.
Wat. Sharpies aren't that expensive.
Do they still make LightScribe media?
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OTOH, those pens/markers to write in DVD's are expensive shit.
... Sharpies? They're like $2.50 for a box of 5.
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In my experience, the major cost factor with Sharpies is not the initial purchase price: it's the time wasted in tracking one down when you need it because of the ten you left in your desk drawer before lunch, nine have now completely disappeared and the remaining one appears to have been used by a three-year-old to scribble on coarse sandpaper until the tip has been reduced to a ruined, fuzzy, dried out mess. And the cap is missing.
Purchasing them in huge lots just makes them disappear in huge lots.
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Jesus Christ, man, get some control over your life.
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Jesus Christ, man, get some control over your life.
Spoken like a person without children.
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Jesus Christ, man, get some control over your sperm.
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I have excellent control over my sperm. Hence the children.
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My sperm were all nicely penned up behind little titanium clips before any of them could complete their missions, yet that seems to have had no effect at all on the covert Sharpie dispersal and destruction powers wielded by foster children and coworkers.
So far, no similar powers have been brought to bear on my ODD-emulating backup drive enclosure. That's enough control for me.
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Whenever I use this USB to install Win7, it will fail because it tries to make the System Partition on the USB Drive, and I can't persuade it otherwise.
So, Windows Setup still does that thing where it messes up the drive order midway through installation? I had the exact same thing with a stupid built-in memory card reader that somehow got swapped with the hard drive the moment its driver was loaded up. Ended up doing a partial install onto C:/ before setup was aborted because "drive is missing".
Had plenty a WTF at that until I realize what was going on, asked permission to open up the machine (it wasn't mine) and yoink the cable to that infernal thing. Bonus points: guy I was installing the machine for told me he never, ever used that card reader anyway, since it had a tendency to corrupt writes. (Long live cheap no-brand hardware, right?)
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Wat. Sharpies aren't that expensive.
Many regular markers (and sharpies) keep their ink liquid with aggressive solvent compounds. Such compounds end up eating through the disk's protective layers. After a few years of letting the solvent do its work, you end up exposing the reflective layer to corrosion or the solvent just eats into it outright.
Always use a marker explicitly created for writing on a disk surface, because those should not be manufactured with solvents known to react to the various disk coatings that are used by disk manufacturers.
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- Travel and event booking (every few weeks)
Yeah, it's a bad idea to patch a box where you do that.
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After a few years of letting the solvent do its work, you end up exposing the reflective layer to corrosion or the solvent just eats into it outright.
I have never burned a DVD that i expected to last for more than a few days at most.
if i needed longer term storage i either reach for more apropraite long term storage, such as magnetic tape, or a specially designed backup solution.
as a matter of fact i've only ever burned CDs and DVDs either for install media that needed to last a couple of hours or for a video that had to be usable for a three day event (for an autolooping display piece at a robotics event where the venue would not let us hook up a computer to the video player)
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I have never burned a DVD that i expected to last for more than a few days at most.
Yep. Yet there are also plenty of people that burn a lifetime worth of photos onto CD or DVD, label them with cheap markers and then end up in tears when 3 years later their discs (doubling as their masters, ofcourse) have been ruined.
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Yet there are also plenty of people that burn a lifetime worth of photos onto CD or DVD,
there are also people who put a lifetimes worth of photos, including the negatives, in a shoebox under their bed or in the basement and then end up in tears when they have a house fire or a flood and their only copies of those photos are destroyed.
That's what safe deposit boxes are for (also that's why backup solutions should always include offsite storage of at least one set of duplicates, with that offsite being at minimum in a separate physical building (rather than a storage closet down the hallway(i think i can nest my parentheticals deeper here (yes we need to go (deeper)))))
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We need to go
Deeper
(admit it, you expected a picture of Dicaprio)
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PDA thread is
that way
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this [anal sphincter]:
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i think i can nest my parentheticals deeper here
The LISP thread is this way: <a href=http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/scholrleas-fetish-for-licensing-and-lisp-thread/3032?u=aliceif>
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Oh that cunt
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yes. i possibly speeeled his name wong. it's a ting i do.
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why does it not surprise me that we have a lisp thread?
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yes. i possibly speeeled his name wong. it's a ting i do.
I don't mind. My spelling is terrible without effort.
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Funny enough, it was made by the same person who started the CLI thread and the Snoopy thread ...
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Funny enough, it was made by the same person who started the CLI thread and the Snoopy thread ...
this also did not surprise me.
but now that i think of it i havent seen @ScholRLEA around recently...
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I don't mind. My spelling is terrible without effort.
likewise, but i put special effort in for that last reply.
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He quit because he couldn't handle @blakeyrat's way of communicating.
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lways use a marker explicitly created for writing on a disk surfac
Or do what I (generally) do which is not expect burned discs to be permanent, heh.
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He quit because he couldn't handle @blakeyrat's way of communicating.
Which in that case was extremely mild. I thought it was funny that he thought his walls of text were something that would put any but the most rabid Lisp partisan to sleep. I'm sure 99% of the people reading that thread did exactly what blakey said.
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He quit because he couldn't handle @blakeyrat's way of communicating.
of course...
@blakeyrat is why we can't have nice things.
well him and our insatiable desire to poke buttons.
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He quit because he couldn't handle @blakeyrat's way of communicating.
I'm sure it didn't help that I told him he was wasting his time making yet another Lisp dialect that no one will use.
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Oh THAT guy.
I was just surprised at how old he was. Usually those "LISP #1 awesome super best ever!!!" guys are like fresh out of college, or even still in college. I thought it was just a stage people went though. Now maybe I'm thinking it's a brain virus that gets in there and just won't die.
Anyway I'm sorry he stopped posting here.
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Oh THAT guy.
I was just surprised at how old he was. Usually those "LISP #1 awesome super best ever!!!" guys are like fresh out of college, or even still in college. I thought it was just a stage people went though. Now maybe I'm thinking it's a brain virus that gets in there and just won't die.
Anyway I'm sorry he stopped posting here.
Some people are exposed to Lisp later in life, which may make the brain virus worse, especially if the only languages they knew up to that point were mainstream. It's nothing a heavy dose of Haskell won't fix (add Factor for extreme cases).
Possibly relevant links:
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Some people are exposed to Lisp later in life, which may make the brain virus worse, especially if the only languages they knew up to that point were mainstream. It's nothing a heavy dose of Haskell won't fix (add Factor for extreme cases).
Clojure is a sure-fire cure for it, because it's what they've wanted, just already usable.
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Doesn't work because this sandisk presents as fixed storage
Works as intended, which is TRWTF. That's not actually a flash drive, it's a USB "SCSI controller", with "a DVD-ROM drive" (with the "U3 PortableApps Launchpad System Software and other valuable Value Added Software" disc loaded and autoplaying) and "a HDD" hanging off of it.
Filed under: siiiiiiiiigh, we need a new tag cloud to attack
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Works as intended, which is TRWTF. That's not actually a flash drive, it's a USB "SCSI controller", with "a DVD-ROM drive" (with the "U3 PortableApps Launchpad System Software and other valuable Value Added Software" disc loaded and autoplaying) and "a HDD" hanging off of it.
and this is why i refuse to use sandick products.
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Many regular markers (and sharpies) keep their ink liquid with aggressive solvent compounds. Such compounds end up eating through the disk's protective layers.
Didn't know. I just didn't know.
Filed under: Another danged thing to worry about.
OTH - automagically reduces the amount of cruft to actually go through file by file.
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blakeyrat said:
Join us. JOIN USSSS.Filed under: I know what my dreams will be about tonight
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Filed under: I know what my dreams will be about tonight
What, you dream about blakeyrat too? :O
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This one didn't have the u3 cruft. For five bucks and 32gb, value add is too expensive
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and this is why i refuse to use sandick products.
I read that as "sandkick" and burned too many brain cycles trying to derive that. Then I blinked and re-read it properly.
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Many regular markers (and sharpies) keep their ink liquid with aggressive solvent compounds. Such compounds end up eating through the disk's protective layers. After a few years of letting the solvent do its work, you end up exposing the reflective layer to corrosion or the solvent just eats into it outright.
That's what the Special Disc Marker Pen folks tell you, at any rate. I have never actually seen an old disc with evidence of damage from marker writing - which, given the fairly extreme volatility of all those "aggressive" solvents, I find completely unsurprising.
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Many regular markers (and sharpies) keep their ink liquid with aggressive solvent compounds. Such compounds end up eating through the disk's protective layers. After a few years of letting the solvent do its work, you end up exposing the reflective layer to corrosion or the solvent just eats into it outright.
Just pulled up an archive DVD, created May 6, 2004 per the Sharpie-ink on the surface. Read data from it just fine.
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That's what the Special Disc Marker Pen folks tell you, at any rate. I have never actually seen an old disc with evidence of damage from marker writing - which, given the fairly extreme volatility of all those "aggressive" solvents, I find completely unsurprising.
I've seen a fair few exhibiting flaking of the top layers where permanent marker ink was used.
Just pulled up an archive DVD, created May 6, 2004 per the Sharpie-ink on the surface. Read data from it just fine.
Not all permanent markers are bad. Those that use isopropyl alcohol as a solvent have a negligible reaction with the disc's polycarbonate and its various protective coatings. (I think original Sharpie markers use this, which would explain why your archive DVD is still good.) However there are also plenty of markers based on strong organic solvents like acetone or benzone. Those are the ones you need to avoid. They will react with the disc over time.
So, before you use a marker not explicitly meant for use on disc media, investigate the label and see if you can find the type of solvent used. If it's isopropyl alcohol, you should be fine. If you find heavier stuff like acetone; best not to use it. If you don't find anything, it depends on how disposable your data is, I guess?
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