How do you feel about single-use plastics? OK, interesting. Now tell us your views on surprise Windows updates
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Today's bork comes from a reader in New Zealand named Rob who spotted Windows in need of a jolly good updating as he strolled through the galleries of the country's Te Papa museum.
Windows wants to install a feature update. "How do you feel about this idea?"
Excited? Hopeful? Worried? Angry? Don't care? As nauseous as a teenager discovering kebabs and Special Brew for the first time? All six?
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The giant screen is at once a stern finger-wagger regarding single-use plastics as well as a reminder of what can happen if one fails to manage one's Windows policies correctly. Be warned, the dialog cautions, this update could take a while. How much plastic might be generated while the cogs are turning?
The sight of borkage on display is reassuring evidence that, despite appearing to be able to manage the pandemic better than others, the Kiwis remain fallible. A shame, because Te Papa Tongarewa (Māori for "container of treasures") is a fascinating place to visit. The current museum was opened in 1998 in Wellington, and by 2015 had welcomed 25 million visitors through its doors – as well as a shonkily managed version of Windows 10.
Should one ever be allowed to darken its shores again, New Zealand has much to offer from impressive scenery to its own rocket launchpads in Mahia.
It will also, judging by what is lurking in its museum, serve up a slice of finest bork. Hopefully with mint sauce. ®
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visit to outpatients was late
Got in to room, IT problems, MS on blue message on screen.
Just what you need.
This update could take a while
Having carelessly let my laptop battery go flat, on supplying it with power it rebooted into an elderly Windows 10 on a small chunk of eMMC before I could stop it (laziness on my part as I also need to move the boot partition) and it was desperate to update. I thought I'd just let it get on with it - how long could it possibly take? Seems like that's a question to which I'll never know the answer because after 10 minutes and a total progress of 0% I gave up and caught the boot menu in time to return to the relative sanity of Linux.
However, I suppose it's finally the excuse I need to move that boot partition and wipe the eMMC so it can more usefully be employed.
I'd hung onto Windows 10 "just in case", but the case seems to be diminishing - it gets considerably less use from me than Windows 7 - and casual daily IT is now all Linux and Android. Why anyone would use it for an information display is completely beyond me.
Re: This update could take a while
Well, my normal reason for things like this using Windows is that products like System Center make it relatively easy to manage a fleet of machines, whether that fleet is a few hundred or a few million.
That's not to say that given a similar management system, that I don't think it would be more logical to stick a SBC (be it a PI, Jetson or whatever) in the back of a large screen and deploy that. In fact, I believe NEC do a nice looking range of screens that you can plug a PI Zero into.
That said, the fact they clearly haven't attempted to control Windows Updates makes me wonder if they haven't just bunged a spare machjine in there that isn't being managed.
Re: This update could take a while
eMMC, yeah it'll take forever.
Windows 10 is far to bloated for low end machines and eMMC just doesn't help
Out o' curiosity ...
... how much single-use plastic did it take to ask that question?
The sight of borkage on display is reassuring evidence that, despite appearing to be able to manage the pandemic better than others, the Kiwis remain fallible.
Sadly being a tiny distant island doesn't help with software updates. They don't arrive by boat!
Tiny?
New Zealand is two big islands and lots of little ones with a total area of 268,021 km². England+Scotland+Wales+Northern Ireland+nearby small islands is 242,495 km².
(The UK and the US must be about the same size as they both cover a double page in my atlas :-)
Re: Tiny?
Which system would that be, Mr Grey Beard sir?
I tried Google earth, maps, apple maps, street view and I just couldn't reproduce your test incident.
Container of treasures
Can't be a Windows box then, that'd be a container of something else.