Rebooting without Consent

huitz Jun 11, 2009 10 Comments

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Umm, yeah…

Windows Vista decided to reboot my system without my consent mid-game (Yes I’m a late night gamer geek).  So let’s look at this for a second.  What if I were running a 2 hour crunching program, or working on an important spreadsheet?  No terrible offense, MS, but your promises are half-assed.

BTW, do you have those TPS reports done?

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huitz

about 16 years ago 

I forgot to mention...

If you're left-brained you'll think it was a virus, worm, etc.  If you're right-brained, you'll immediately get the rape by Microsoft tone (boot, consent, game, crunch, spread and sheet, half-ass, etc.).

I hope this post is still PG.

I really like the countdown sequence when it happened :P

Tim K

about 16 years ago 

I believe Microsoft refers to the sudden re-boot phenomena as an "undocumented feature."

udarnik

about 16 years ago 

I object to your use of the word "rape" in this context, huitz.

huitz

about 16 years ago 

It was an update (service pack, who knows?) without asking me, udarnik.  I call that "rape of the natural world" (I think that's a quote from Jurassic Park, but not entirely certain).

To be honest, I was paranoid enough to pull the plug after the fact.  Then, I put it back in, because, heck, if someone wants to crack this system, I really don't give one iota.

There's probably an option to change this automatic update, but to bother with window system/control panel/adminstrative tools somehow has become more time wasting than using unices.

The word "rape" seems very much appropriate here.

To self: settle down now, huitzilopochtli archetype.

Josh A

about 16 years ago 

Umm, it is a well known feature - you can turn it off...

jenny

about 16 years ago 

Yep, me too - MS released a record-sized update Tuesday, and my system was set to automatically install updates at 3 AM. I was talking on Skype and shalaam, all of a sudden my system rebooted.

Yes, of course there is a feature to not allow this, but I don't seem to have looked in that area since the last time I installed, either!

huitz

about 16 years ago 

Josh said: "Umm, it is a well known feature - you can turn it off..."

Umm, isn't that something I should turn on?  Really (don't get me started with the sexual references again).  I can talk about user interface practices all day, but I'll leave this one alone for now.

In any case, the reboot thing cracks me up because it doesn't even ask me if it's okay to do so.

Tim K

about 16 years ago 

The term "undocumented feature" is hacker slang for terribly flawed code.

lojasmo

about 16 years ago 

Never happened with any of my macintosh computers.  My son's PC has all sorts of "extra features" though.

huitz

about 16 years ago 

OK.  Nobody will read this, most likely, but since this is in the "bitching" section, I don't feel that bad about beating this dead horse.

The UI that MS uses is antiquated at best, and my original post exemplifies a simple example.

Several years ago, "Visual Basic"?  You have to be kidding me.  "ODBC", hah! Now they're doing the silver-sort-of-sled-kind-of-fancy-named-adoption of python and ruby with their own libraries.  It doesn't take a genius to see that coming from a mile away.

Case in point... So, let's use a flat file database (the registry) to store important information.  It defies everything we know about normalization.  I hope you Best Buy guys/gals out there know what you're getting yourself into (insert cheesy smiley face here).

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but if you seriously think MS has decent future tools, then I say we need some restructuring of the cortex.

This posted from an MS system (insert another cheesy smiley face).

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