Oh, sorry that I used that word, since it upset you. I didnâ(TM)t mean the hardware was bricked. But for me, a computerâ(TM)s hardware is worth around 6-8 hours work time. And completely reinstalling the computer, installing all programs, finding their licenses, setting everything up, tweaking, logging in to all relevant services, etc. Well, yeah, no thank you. It takes me around 2-3 days before Iâ(TM)m up and running again. 3 of the computers belonged to my sons, and they didnâ(TM)t even have backups made. Hardware, of course not bricked - which I thought everyone understood. Software, hence âoemy systemâ, very much so.
Yes, but a clean install takes time. You accumulate programs and their settings during a couple of years, and files thatâ(TM)s you perhaps havenâ(TM)t backed up.
One time I actually managed to repair with the repair utility, and one time it actually booted by itself and repaired. But the others, not so lucky... Iâ(TM)ll reinstall.
Just to clarify. Most of the issue seems to be with the partition being in GPT, and with a special "size" of the rescue- vs. os-partition.
I'm a programmer myself. And if my shitty install couldn't handle a special situtation I would probably try and identify it BEFORE doing the installation. I guess I will never work at Microsoft.
No, no dual-boot. Most computers were upgraded from Windows 7 at some point though.
When I've been googling the errors, if I remember correctly it's around 2-3 different 0xCODEs you get, I've stumbled upon forum-posts upon forum-posts discussing this. I'm not alone. I guess there's more than 1 million people affected, probably, world wide. They all seem to eventuelly give up at some point, and format the harddrive and just install from scratch - which I've done one of my sons the computers, and the shit update bricked it again, 2 times! Never again. Most people in the forums have given up and actually BOUGHT new computers instead. Horrible.
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has so far managed to completely brick (no kidding!) 6 of my 9 computers (with genuine windows). Only 3 of them has not received the unfixable* blue-screen-of-death when installing the Fall Creators Update. (*Yes, unfixable, the update destroys the partition, and there's no way to get it back, you can fake-create it back, but the update then destroys is again, and again.)
I've had to roll back 3 of them to Windows 7, and 3 of them is still broken, since I haven't had the time yet to complete reinstall everything on them. I'm thinking "Linux", and throwing away my Windows licenses.
So... Now you're giving me "Spring Creators" you say? Lovely.
I thought the flu season only happened once per year.
I wrote my own scripting language in Oracle PL/SQL (!) a couple of years back, and since then I write as much client-code I can in my own language. Why? Because I can.
Sure, there's the odd project here and there where my clients, or the other "developers" they've hired, tries to force me to use some hocus-pocus-library - in Java/Python/PHP/Perl/you-name-it, which the project "absolute requires", but no one really understand why, or can tell me what it actually does. Essentially everything they try to force-feed me is a wrapper for some normal https-communication with XML/JSON parsing, or some fundamental economical/statistical calculation, but in 100 MB compiled code... I normally just rewrite the stuff I need in my own language, or in Oracle PL/SQL... I understand why I shouldn't "reinvent the wheel again", but I'm old-school, and my wheels turn faster than your wheels, and uses less memory, and has no known security holes, and are not dependent on yada-yada-yada, and... you get the idea.
I have seen so many "job openings" for people who knows about "programming language X" or "programming language Y" etc etc, and I fail to understand why the language-decision are being made by the guys hiring. Wouldn't it be better to let the actual developers choose? Hire problem-solvers, not syntax-gurus.
Spot on.
I hate all the new frameworks/languages/techniques bubbling up each week that everyone immediately just HAVE TO start implementing, right away, and then everything gets bloated, stops working, has bugs, etc, and eventually the framework gets deprecated, and they start all over again, with the next "best thing" that bubbles up.
In the meantime, I'm the "boring" guy in the corner, writing and maintaining the stuff that actually works, and that actually brings in the money to the company.
I'm in Sweden, and here the framework/technique/language is far more important when starting a new project then what the project is actually supposed to accomplish. Weird. "Multiuser" (=2 people) "systems" that could easily be accomplished with a fairly advanced Excel-file instead gets a 250.000 USD budget, 2 project managers, 1 resource allocator, 2 programmers, Java/C#, Webservices/XML-RPC, MS SQL/Oracle, 1 DB-server, 1 Application server, 1 Staging area, 1 Development machine etc. etc. When I ask everyone why we can't just do what the 2 people want in an Excel-file everyone looks at me like I'm lying... I've been in this field since 1999, so I understand the need for everyone to "keep up appearances" (salaries), but I would've thought we learned from the last IT-crash.
Sorry, English is not my native language (Oracle PL/SQL is).
I live in Sweden, where Spotify rule.
I, my family, all my relatives and all my friends have not bought a CD or an iTunes/whatever song for...sheaa..I don't really remember when I saw one of those... Maybe 2-3 years ago? Either way, the streaming music has already replaced the old way of doing things. It's just the music-industry trying hard to not make it look that way, since they make so much more money the old way.
If my grandmother would actually buy me a CD, I would ask for the receipt. (She wouldn't though, since she knows I have Spotify).
Kind of sad that a new currency - whose main idea was that it should be easy for private people to transfer money over the internet, free of charge - actually need these big "exchange-places" who not only takes out a charge (=makes money on your transaction) but actually becomes more and more as a regular bank. What's the point then?
If the current usage continues we will have big online bitcoin-banks, who then will employ traders and whatnot, and start speculating on/with the currency, and, yes, we'll be in the same place we are now. Call it USD or BTC, same thing.
It would be nice if the currency actually was so easy to use, and understand, so that people would feel comfortable to actually run the necessary software themselves, and take own - private - responsible for their.. yes.. wallets.
I never liked the guy, just saying, and he has probably done something bad with the women accusing him, but the whole thing is quite spectacular. Had it been someone else, the swedish prosecutor would gladly allow him to be questioned in the UK, and then - perhaps - called for an extradiction if something comes up that warrants that, after the interog.
There's something fishy about the whole thing: the case, the women, the prosecutor, the "escape", etc.. mmm... I know that I think...
Wanna hear? Ok.. here it goes:
1. Guy has megalomania.
2. Get's women drunk, tries to sleep with them, and does.
3. Women regret the thing, or tried to say no to him (see point 1).
4. Women contacts police.
5. "Shiaaat, I'm Julian Ass.. The U.S of A will hunt me down for this..."
6. The U.S. of A hunts him down.
These cases, "the-woman-say-no-in-somewhat-of-a-drunk-state-and-the-guy-has-megalomani-and-the-whole-thing-gets-complicated", we have them all the time nowadays. Said thing. A no is a no, no mather how drunk you are.
Disclaimer; I'm swedish.
PS. By the way, I'm on Mac OS X, what happened to my CR/LF?
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Also on the Xiaomi A1 (bought from Aliexpress for USD 200), and also on the Apple Developer Program, just sayinâ(TM)....
Oh, sorry that I used that word, since it upset you. I didnâ(TM)t mean the hardware was bricked. But for me, a computerâ(TM)s hardware is worth around 6-8 hours work time. And completely reinstalling the computer, installing all programs, finding their licenses, setting everything up, tweaking, logging in to all relevant services, etc. Well, yeah, no thank you. It takes me around 2-3 days before Iâ(TM)m up and running again. 3 of the computers belonged to my sons, and they didnâ(TM)t even have backups made.
Hardware, of course not bricked - which I thought everyone understood.
Software, hence âoemy systemâ, very much so.
Yes, but a clean install takes time. You accumulate programs and their settings during a couple of years, and files thatâ(TM)s you perhaps havenâ(TM)t backed up.
One time I actually managed to repair with the repair utility, and one time it actually booted by itself and repaired. But the others, not so lucky... Iâ(TM)ll reinstall.
Just to clarify. Most of the issue seems to be with the partition being in GPT, and with a special "size" of the rescue- vs. os-partition.
I'm a programmer myself. And if my shitty install couldn't handle a special situtation I would probably try and identify it BEFORE doing the installation. I guess I will never work at Microsoft.
I wish I've also owned that same horseshoe factory. Didn't know that was a requirement though.
No, no dual-boot. Most computers were upgraded from Windows 7 at some point though.
When I've been googling the errors, if I remember correctly it's around 2-3 different 0xCODEs you get, I've stumbled upon forum-posts upon forum-posts discussing this. I'm not alone. I guess there's more than 1 million people affected, probably, world wide. They all seem to eventuelly give up at some point, and format the harddrive and just install from scratch - which I've done one of my sons the computers, and the shit update bricked it again, 2 times! Never again. Most people in the forums have given up and actually BOUGHT new computers instead. Horrible.
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update has so far managed to completely brick (no kidding!) 6 of my 9 computers (with genuine windows).
Only 3 of them has not received the unfixable* blue-screen-of-death when installing the Fall Creators Update.
(*Yes, unfixable, the update destroys the partition, and there's no way to get it back, you can fake-create it back, but the update then destroys is again, and again.)
I've had to roll back 3 of them to Windows 7, and 3 of them is still broken, since I haven't had the time yet to complete reinstall everything on them. I'm thinking "Linux", and throwing away my Windows licenses.
So... Now you're giving me "Spring Creators" you say?
Lovely.
I thought the flu season only happened once per year.
I wrote my own scripting language in Oracle PL/SQL (!) a couple of years back, and since then I write as much client-code I can in my own language.
Why? Because I can.
Sure, there's the odd project here and there where my clients, or the other "developers" they've hired, tries to force me to use some hocus-pocus-library - in Java/Python/PHP/Perl/you-name-it, which the project "absolute requires", but no one really understand why, or can tell me what it actually does. Essentially everything they try to force-feed me is a wrapper for some normal https-communication with XML/JSON parsing, or some fundamental economical/statistical calculation, but in 100 MB compiled code... I normally just rewrite the stuff I need in my own language, or in Oracle PL/SQL... I understand why I shouldn't "reinvent the wheel again", but I'm old-school, and my wheels turn faster than your wheels, and uses less memory, and has no known security holes, and are not dependent on yada-yada-yada, and... you get the idea.
I have seen so many "job openings" for people who knows about "programming language X" or "programming language Y" etc etc, and I fail to understand why the language-decision are being made by the guys hiring. Wouldn't it be better to let the actual developers choose? Hire problem-solvers, not syntax-gurus.
", as requested by the Chinese government." --- There, I fixed it for you, since you accidentally stopped your last sentence too soon.
Please explain.
Spot on. I hate all the new frameworks/languages/techniques bubbling up each week that everyone immediately just HAVE TO start implementing, right away, and then everything gets bloated, stops working, has bugs, etc, and eventually the framework gets deprecated, and they start all over again, with the next "best thing" that bubbles up. In the meantime, I'm the "boring" guy in the corner, writing and maintaining the stuff that actually works, and that actually brings in the money to the company. I'm in Sweden, and here the framework/technique/language is far more important when starting a new project then what the project is actually supposed to accomplish. Weird. "Multiuser" (=2 people) "systems" that could easily be accomplished with a fairly advanced Excel-file instead gets a 250.000 USD budget, 2 project managers, 1 resource allocator, 2 programmers, Java/C#, Webservices/XML-RPC, MS SQL/Oracle, 1 DB-server, 1 Application server, 1 Staging area, 1 Development machine etc. etc. When I ask everyone why we can't just do what the 2 people want in an Excel-file everyone looks at me like I'm lying... I've been in this field since 1999, so I understand the need for everyone to "keep up appearances" (salaries), but I would've thought we learned from the last IT-crash. Sorry, English is not my native language (Oracle PL/SQL is).
True.
I live in Sweden, where Spotify rule. I, my family, all my relatives and all my friends have not bought a CD or an iTunes/whatever song for...sheaa..I don't really remember when I saw one of those... Maybe 2-3 years ago? Either way, the streaming music has already replaced the old way of doing things. It's just the music-industry trying hard to not make it look that way, since they make so much more money the old way. If my grandmother would actually buy me a CD, I would ask for the receipt. (She wouldn't though, since she knows I have Spotify).
Kind of sad that a new currency - whose main idea was that it should be easy for private people to transfer money over the internet, free of charge - actually need these big "exchange-places" who not only takes out a charge (=makes money on your transaction) but actually becomes more and more as a regular bank. What's the point then? If the current usage continues we will have big online bitcoin-banks, who then will employ traders and whatnot, and start speculating on/with the currency, and, yes, we'll be in the same place we are now. Call it USD or BTC, same thing. It would be nice if the currency actually was so easy to use, and understand, so that people would feel comfortable to actually run the necessary software themselves, and take own - private - responsible for their.. yes.. wallets.
I never liked the guy, just saying, and he has probably done something bad with the women accusing him, but the whole thing is quite spectacular. Had it been someone else, the swedish prosecutor would gladly allow him to be questioned in the UK, and then - perhaps - called for an extradiction if something comes up that warrants that, after the interog. There's something fishy about the whole thing: the case, the women, the prosecutor, the "escape", etc.. mmm... I know that I think... Wanna hear? Ok.. here it goes: 1. Guy has megalomania. 2. Get's women drunk, tries to sleep with them, and does. 3. Women regret the thing, or tried to say no to him (see point 1). 4. Women contacts police. 5. "Shiaaat, I'm Julian Ass.. The U.S of A will hunt me down for this..." 6. The U.S. of A hunts him down. These cases, "the-woman-say-no-in-somewhat-of-a-drunk-state-and-the-guy-has-megalomani-and-the-whole-thing-gets-complicated", we have them all the time nowadays. Said thing. A no is a no, no mather how drunk you are. Disclaimer; I'm swedish. PS. By the way, I'm on Mac OS X, what happened to my CR/LF?
People.