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Damn Frickin' Computers

Dan in Napa CA

Dan in Napa CA

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I got a laptop, set up a 2nd HD so I can run DICE to work on Volvo XC90. Sweet, right?

Sure, riiiight. So I go to swap in the regular HD, figure to haul it around for a few days. Best to get it charged, and UPDATED, since I'm heading to dial-up territory and it's been a few months.

31 Frickin' Windows Updates, Adobe, Java, Anti-virus. It's been 2 hours and not finished. I don't know what else needs to be done. 3 Bourbon & Cokes, still not cutting through the exceedingly high stress levels, and DAMN IT, another update is ready to install. Click here for details. Sure, right, I'll get right to it. Still on 12 of 31 friggin security update of r Microsoft net framework 4, which is WHAT?? I don't even know wtf NET framework is, let alone why I need to update it. Christ on a stick, this is driving me freakin' nuts. Adobe wants me to click on install, there's another yellow shield with an exclamation point saying updates are ready, this is complete BS. I want an OS that doesn't NEED updates. Just let it run in the background, give me a web browser and email client, with maybe word processing and photoshop, and call it good IT'S A LAPTOP, NOT A NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL BOX, fer Chrissake.

Oooh, now we're on update 13 of 31. Shoot me.

I need more ice. And Beam. And Coke. Beam and Diet Coke, yes.

Beam, Diet Coke, Ice, and thank Ghod the new Shotgun News showed up today to give me something to do while waiting for another 3 hours of updating a friggin laptop on broadband, so I can avoid trying it on dial-up.

DiNCA
 
I feel your pain. Last week I reinstalled Vista on my backup computer and had to go through 113 updates. That took a loooong time. Good thing it was a backup.
 
Linux works. You won't need all the updates but software like your Volvo stuff and others will not work on there. Plus Linux has it's own learning curve. Apple would have less of a learning curve but again, I doubt it runs the Volvo software. I've used them all. None are perfect. We pick our own poison; but to often our options are very limited.
 
Update: Got it all finished finally, I lasted another couple of hours and then went to sleep or something. When I came to, it was all finished. Went up the hill, pushed around a bunch of snow getting the road cleared. Never even turned the damn computer on.

Victory on multiple levels, I say.

DiNCA
 
Dan in Napa said:
Update: Got it all finished finally, I lasted another couple of hours and then went to sleep or something. When I came to, it was all finished. Went up the hill, pushed around a bunch of snow getting the road cleared. Never even turned the damn computer on.

Victory on multiple levels, I say.

DiNCA
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Congratulations. Computers frustrate me these days.
 
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