One of the posters further down mentions file locks, which account for a good portion of the reboot requests. When installing drivers, the API call that's generally used (UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices) has a flag as part of the function that indicates whether or not the operating system thinks the system requires a reboot or not. Driver installer authors, such as myself, are supposed to pay attention to that flag and not reboot if the OS says not to. As someone further up in the discussion mention, this has been there since Windows 2000; its just seldom that the OS decides not to reboot.
roadaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
BEDEVERE: Oooohoohohooo!
LAUNCELOT: No, no, aauuuuugh, at the back of the throat.
Aauuugh.
BEDEVERE: No, no, no, oooooooh, in surprise and alarm.
LAUNCELOT: Oh, you mean sort of a aaaagh!
BEDEVERE: Yes, but I-- Aaaaagh!
???: Oooh!
???: Oh, no!
[roar]
MAYNARD: It's the legendary Black Beast of aaauuugh!
ARTHUR: Run away!
ALL: Run away! Run away!
Is there a reason you didn't recommend the OSMP project that you have linked in both your sig and user information? OSMP (from what I've read) seems to fit the poster's criteria a little better, at least from the standpoint that its open source.
1. Smugness, release 2.0
Oh, please. Smugness 2.0 was out ages ago. Followed by Smugness X, Smugness '04, and more recently Smugness HD. You really should try to keep up.
Don't you mean iSmugness '05?
Word. If I had mod points I'd mod this up.
How many Navy Crosses did Dan Daly have? Was that five? No, it wasn't, because Chesty Puller is the only person to win five Navy Crosses.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Navy Cross, its the second-highest award for valor available to members of the Navy or Marines. Only the Medal of Honor is higher.
Or you could boot Knoppix, download SP2 or any necessary security updates to the local partition, unplug the network cable, reboot, install the service pack or update, plug the network cable back in, and be done.
Linux saving Windows once again!
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One of the posters further down mentions file locks, which account for a good portion of the reboot requests. When installing drivers, the API call that's generally used (UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices) has a flag as part of the function that indicates whether or not the operating system thinks the system requires a reboot or not. Driver installer authors, such as myself, are supposed to pay attention to that flag and not reboot if the OS says not to. As someone further up in the discussion mention, this has been there since Windows 2000; its just seldom that the OS decides not to reboot.
roadaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh
BEDEVERE: Oooohoohohooo!
LAUNCELOT: No, no, aauuuuugh, at the back of the throat.
Aauuugh.
BEDEVERE: No, no, no, oooooooh, in surprise and alarm.
LAUNCELOT: Oh, you mean sort of a aaaagh!
BEDEVERE: Yes, but I-- Aaaaagh!
???: Oooh!
???: Oh, no!
[roar]
MAYNARD: It's the legendary Black Beast of aaauuugh!
ARTHUR: Run away!
ALL: Run away! Run away!
Is there a reason you didn't recommend the OSMP project that you have linked in both your sig and user information? OSMP (from what I've read) seems to fit the poster's criteria a little better, at least from the standpoint that its open source.
Imagine you can select characters like Brad Pit or Tom Cruse for the game
Or CowboyNeal...
1. Smugness, release 2.0
Oh, please. Smugness 2.0 was out ages ago. Followed by Smugness X, Smugness '04, and more recently Smugness HD. You really should try to keep up.
Don't you mean iSmugness '05?
or to a greater extent the latter days of SpaceLab
I'm assuming that you meant "Skylab". "Spacelab" is carried in the payload bay of a Space Shuttle.
On the same topic, geology is another area heavily dependent on computing. GIS is a huge industry these days.
Evel Knievel sues Slashdot user for using "knieving" when he meant "conniving".
I don't remember writing or collaborating on a book recently...
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...since I'd have to eternally deal with my ex-wife.
Word. If I had mod points I'd mod this up. How many Navy Crosses did Dan Daly have? Was that five? No, it wasn't, because Chesty Puller is the only person to win five Navy Crosses. For those of you unfamiliar with the Navy Cross, its the second-highest award for valor available to members of the Navy or Marines. Only the Medal of Honor is higher.
Or you could boot Knoppix, download SP2 or any necessary security updates to the local partition, unplug the network cable, reboot, install the service pack or update, plug the network cable back in, and be done. Linux saving Windows once again!
Ghost did *not* come from Norton originally. It came from a company called Ghost Software, which was purchased by Norton/Symantec.
So was I the only one who read "Stage 1/2" as "Stage one-half"? I immediately thought "Geez, there's something slower than a Stage 1?".
...a Beowulf cluster of these!
The company was Chromatic Research. I don't remember the name of the chip itself.
It was the NVIDIA NV1 chip, also known as the Diamond Edge 3D.