Sorry I disappeared, guys. Work called and wouldn't shut it. I hope everyone who wanted one got the program to work.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Deena - Nov 24, 2009 11:15:09 pm PST #11817 of 25501
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Typo Boy - Nov 25, 2009 9:21:54 am PST #11818 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Minor windows annoyance. Automatic update still downloads but always makes me install manually. I have clicked the "set a time" to install in explorer, but it still fails to install when I leave the machine on overnight. My OS is XP home, patched through latest update.
tommyrot - Nov 25, 2009 9:51:55 am PST #11819 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Does your machine sleep overnight? I think it needs to be awake for the update to work....
Typo Boy - Nov 25, 2009 10:01:26 am PST #11820 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The screen goes off, but I note that other processes (like virus scans work.) OK the hard disk all sleeps. Maybe that is the problem. I've now set my hard disk to never sleep when plugged into power. I'll see if that solves it.
tommyrot - Nov 25, 2009 10:06:26 am PST #11821 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If it's just the hard disk that sleeps, I don't think that should prevent the update from happening. But maybe it's worth a shot.
You might try looking at the Event Viewer to see if anything happened (or if there were any errors) at the time the update was supposed to happen....
Typo Boy - Nov 25, 2009 10:25:38 am PST #11822 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm just seeing downloads, but not even attempts at updating.
Tom Scola - Nov 26, 2009 9:43:30 am PST #11823 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Mininova just got purged.
§ ita § - Nov 26, 2009 9:51:49 am PST #11824 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeowch. That was pretty much the go-to free site, wasn't it?
le nubian - Nov 26, 2009 9:56:06 am PST #11825 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Thanks for the info Tom. I can adjust my RSS readers accordingly.
Strix - Nov 26, 2009 12:25:18 pm PST #11826 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Ooh, that's gonna hurt one of my girlfriends.