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- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -11/+213On ANY computer with ANY OS rule #1 is save early and save often. If the work is important, act like it.
- tsunamisteve, on 10/12/2007, -19/+197He clearly says that he had all the auto restarts turned off. Read the article.
- stryker2you, on 10/12/2007, -10/+122I was supporting him up until he started complaining about other things not related to windows updates. Microsoft is not responsible for his stupid mistakes or him downloading and installing spy ware (if he did) or him not knowing how to save his work.
If you get a "one time remote login" its only common sense to save your work as much as possible because anything can happen...power outage, network drops etc... - aaryn, on 10/12/2007, -12/+121"Tip for you people: You're not articulate, or do you permeate any sort of intelligence by short-forming a rather small sentence."
Ok, but you still really should read the article before commenting.... - Wildcat, on 10/12/2007, -16/+95According to the article, he had set the updates not to install & they did it anyway then restarted. Kind of like the dam firewall you have to disable 5 or 6 times before it stays off
- hababanero, on 10/12/2007, -6/+57I agree, but auto-restarting his computer when he turned off the feature is unwarrented.
- Anpheus, on 10/12/2007, -25/+72I turned it off once--
It's still off. - spiralspirit, on 10/12/2007, -12/+59Dear Customer,
We are truly sorry that you are too stupid to save your work before leaving the computer. Enclosed is a $5000 invoice, for having Bill Gates take 30 seconds of his time to read your whiny pointless letter.
Thank you and have a nice day.
-Microsoft - CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48"On ANY computer with ANY OS rule #1 is save early and save often. If the work is important, act like it."
So true. Power outages anyone? - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+50"On ANY computer with ANY OS rule #1 is save early and save often. If the work is important, act like it."
Amen. Had there been a blackout, would he have billed the power company?
Actually, there are cases in which you *could* do that...
Also, the bit about "lost URLs" is a bit of a crock... Hey buddy, ever heard of the History button? - Canthros, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45His job probably makes it a necessity. Criminy's sake, people. Don't be ***** just for the sake of being *****.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Considering one of his clients made him use certain software, I'm guessing they specified Windows.
- whatthehell, on 10/12/2007, -19/+57"Tip for you people: You're not articulate, or do you permeate any sort of intelligence by short-forming a rather small sentence."
If you're going to insult someone, why use a sentence like that? What the hell is that? Permeate? Or?
??? - opnickc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+44"MS should not have restarted his computer, if they actually did."
Oh, they did. I had a similar thing happen to me. I was up late at night, desperately writing a paper due the next day. Suddenly, the computer shuts down. I didn't turn it off, I didn't close, I didn't even save, it was just gone!
It then started back up and windows told me it had sucessfully updated my computer. Thanks, jerks. I had it set to NOT update automatically for a reason. - WorldBuilder, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42"Turning off" the feature doesn't really do it. Some updates will still override it, as you can see from the article.
However, I have to admit that any savvy user should simply DISABLE the Background Intelligent Transfer Service and Automatic Update service. Doing that is failsafe, to the best of my knowledge. If work is critical, and you are on Windows, this should be done. Sure, you have to turn them back on when you want to update, but that's one of the PITA's of Windows.
Nevertheless, it doesn't make it OK for MS to do this. If a user opts to control their own updating via the GUI then it should work, by God.
So the guy should have been even MORE cautious than he already was. He would have been ok had he just disabled those services entirely. The fault is 10% his. But 90% of the blame still lands on Billy and his crew of miscreants in Redmond. - westwind429, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39In the "real world" -- you know, that place with the Daystar, outside your parents' basement? -- sometimes people need to use Windows in order to use the software their employer or client has chosen.
- bennyboy371, on 10/12/2007, -3/+341) You're an *****.
2) You're right.
Seriously, the linux community is filled with people who think they're better than everyone else. Yes, I know, thats starting to change, but many have delusions of grandeur because they use linux and others use windows. Hell, I've seen people complain that Ubuntu is dumbed down linux for regular people. Isn't that good? Seriously, stop with the "linux is better" people. There are plenty of reasons people use windows, none of which is because we think it works particularly well. - myheaditches, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Considering the article says that windows told him it automatically restarted, I think windows automatically restarted.
- gothsquirrel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Yeah he did seem to go a little overboard but there should be a simple setting for advanced users to make windows does what you say and not what it thinks is best. Most users need windows to do things like restarting automatically after updating in the night, especially in larger companies. But me at home, i personally don't care if it wants to restart after updating, I'll restart when i feel i need to, why do you ask me every 5 minutes?
- Akadjjoel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+34Looks like his optical mouse is on the fritz
- gcauthon, on 10/12/2007, -11/+39@cliffzdude
So can I just wipe out your hard drive and defend myself by saying, "oh well, you should have made backups if you cared about that data". Even under the oldest versions of Solaris that I can recall, if you left VI open then the system would save your opened files and send you an email on how to open them up again after a system reboot. A modern OS like Windows can't handle this even though an ancient OS like Solaris 2.4 could? - digitaldivider, on 10/12/2007, -12/+39have to agree here.. RTFA because it pays to do so. In any case I enjoyed the satire because it's true. windows just decides to ignore you time and time again for any and every reason it can find.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -27/+53i would get a mac, but i actually want to get some work done.
- CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24The lead-in sounds like an Onion article.
Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft would just process the rebates for unused OEM Windows? - f00xx0riz3r, on 10/12/2007, -9/+33Yeah, he seems kinda clueless..
- shadgenki, on 10/12/2007, -9/+32This guy sounds like a total asshat. Halfway through the article he complains about how long it takes his mouse cursor to get to one part of the screen, after clearly stating that he logs in remotely to get to his client's data. Any competent person knows that you always save what you're working on, even bookmarks and text documents, especially if you're logged in remotely to another machine. If some kid tripped over the power cord, would he be invoicing the kid's parents? Sounds like user error to me.
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23wow, RTFA, it says he requires to use certain software, that software is only usable on windows
- Julikaefer, on 10/12/2007, -27/+50If he dislikes Windows so much, why does he use it?
- AdverseE, on 10/12/2007, -7/+30"Tip for you people: You're not articulate, or do you permeate any sort of intelligence by short-forming a rather small sentence"
The grammatically correct sentence should have been: 'Tip for you people: You're NEITHER articulate NOR do you permeate any sort of intelligence by short-forming a rather small sentence.
Check yourself before you grammatically wreck yourself. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28From my personal experience it seems that a few of the critical security updates have overridden my preferences. Having 2 software firewalls prompt me when something shady happens is usually a dead give-away that I need to go and reset my preferences.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+39He should have used Opera. Or Firefox w/ Browser session history extensions.
And SAVED HIS FRIGGIN' WORK!!!! It's not Gate's fault he's a glittering gem of collosal stupidity now is it? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Only 5000$ for 30 seconds of Bill Gates time? That's only 166 dollars per second.
He makes twice that.
Must have gotten a discount. - roadkillcafe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21FYI, you can kill the Auto Restart in the Registry.
[but what average Joe is going to know how to do that?]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=555444
What's really funny, is how big the disclaimer is at the bottom of the page. - jpbro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Press the Windows key + R ( or Start button > Run...), then type “net stop wuauserv” (without the quotes) in the Open textbox and press the Enter key (or click the OK button). No more bitchin' till next startup.
- piznut, on 10/12/2007, -14/+32This guy is a jackass. He screwed up by not saving his REMOTE work before he went afk and now wants to blame someone else.
Dont get me wrong, windows has a lot of stupid little annoyances..but forgetting to save your work?...get real. There aren't many more noobish mistakes that you can make. I suppose he'd send a bill to the phone company if a spike caused him to lose his connection? - Cytranic, on 10/12/2007, -17/+35This guy needs some cheese with his whine.
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -9/+25yeah, but why the hell is he forced to restart, anyways, he set up his automatic updates so that it doesnt restart unless he wanted it to, but it happened anyways.
and oh yeah, RTFA - pickypg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19He clearly doesn't know what he is talking about simply based on how he refers to the mouse being handled.
If the research was so important than he should have saved it. What if a power failure occured? Would Microsoft be blamed for not saving the work for him? - EngelDesTodes, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18Bottom line... It's his fault for not saving his work... If it was that important to him, he should have saved periodically while he was compiling. As far as recovering the URL's, Could he not just look in the history? (Or is this disabled with the one time login? I'm not familiar with the one time log-in) Where does he come up with this $1,200 figure though? Is that supposed to be compensation for his own mistake? I do see the frustration in losing hours of work though.
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15actually no, microsoft office is able to save a backup of an unsaved file in case of an occurence of a power failure, but when it comes to "willingly" turning off a computer, thats a different case. i know he doesnt mention the specific word processing program he uses, but im pretty sure its MS Office.
- jawbreaker4fs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17"The work was a set of notes being made in a text editor which I am required to use by one of my clients." Sounds like he has to use Windows for his job. Most people do.. I know I'd rather run Linux at the office, but it's just not an option for me.
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13The Windows updater constantly requesting to restart the computer is one of my pet peeves. I sympathize with the author there. I've returned to my computer after lunch many times to find that it finally had a chance to restart itself while I was away and unable to tell it not to. I don't know who decided to add a timer to that function rather than just take me seriously when I say I will restart later. I own the computer. I call the shots.
Fortunately, Adobe InDesign preserves your unsaved documents and opens them back up when you restart it. - rotten777, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18no he's probably spiking 100% processor usage caused by I/O. it happens with usb mice.
- xaryss, on 10/12/2007, -5/+18I agree, it's that guys own fault. He should've saved his work and when he started going off on the rest of his issue...big deal! We all have them. Oh and the mention of his internet browser pages open..umm, it's called history. Look them back up, unless you removed that as well then you deserve it.
- sibhod, on 10/12/2007, -21/+33"You just have to know how to do it properly"
Clicking "off" on the firewall option isn't properly? Don't try to justify muddled UI just because you know how to do something right. XP is a trainwreck and I am dreading Vista. Not because I would get anywhere near using it, but because when I try to help friends with computer problems I have to wade through it.
Thank goodness for the iMac and MacBook line, because the average user is slowly turning away from Windows.
And I'm no apple follower, I just appreciate how much easier OSX is for the average joe to fix their own problems. If OSX gets as bad as OSX I will pray for an alternative. - shadgenki, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21Every time there's an anti-Windows article on digg, people always quote the easiest response: "Get a Mac", or "Get Linux". It's so easy to blurt out a nonsensical response without understanding why someone would need to use Windows in a work environment. Has it ever occurred to you elitist morons that the majority of the world uses Windows computers, and thus the easiest compatibility with remotely connecting and repairing those systems would also be Windows? So no, that's not really an option now is it.
- lozaning, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14so not only are you spewing random fan boy advice, but you are very unobservant. 2 people have said the same thing before
- jpbro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I should add that I accept no responsibility should you get "0wnd" during the period before you finally restart ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -29/+39What a *****. I hope Bill wipes his ass with it. "Hi, I promise I really do have windows updates set not to reboot, yet your tomfoolery bypassed it. YARRG!"
I have the same options and dont reboot. Maybe a co-worker did it? Besides, save your work. Retard. - Malshew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Mouse Lag while using remote desktop is no big surprise. It depends on your connection more than the processor.
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