{"id":4537,"date":"2010-02-11T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/11\/why-i-hate-windows-update-alep\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:54:05","slug":"why-i-hate-windows-update-alep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/11\/why-i-hate-windows-update-alep\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Hate Windows Update, Aleph-nought in a Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/the_computer_industry_is_makin.php\">yesterday&#8217;s discussion<\/a>, I let Windows install its critical updates on my work computer last night. So far this morning, I have: 1) Spent five minutes looking at the blue Vista start-up screen, as the computer was hung up&#8211; not a screen with a &#8220;Configuring updates&#8221; message, mind&#8211; an otherwise blank blue screen with &#8220;Windows Vista&#8221; at the bottom, 2) Had Word inform me that it is unable to find the file I double-clicked to open Word, 3) Opened Word, opened the file from within Word, closed the file, tried to quit Word, and was told that I can&#8217;t quit Word because it&#8217;s in use by another user. On my single-user office computer.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, this is doing wonders for my productivity. Now I get to spend half a day uninstalling those updates, to see if that un-fucks my computer to a point where I can use it to do my job.<\/p>\n<p>Linux looks better and better every time Windows updates itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant to yesterday&#8217;s discussion, I let Windows install its critical updates on my work computer last night. So far this morning, I have: 1) Spent five minutes looking at the blue Vista start-up screen, as the computer was hung up&#8211; not a screen with a &#8220;Configuring updates&#8221; message, mind&#8211; an otherwise blank blue screen with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/11\/why-i-hate-windows-update-alep\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I Hate Windows Update, Aleph-nought in a Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}