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I assume IT figures the gap between pushing the patches (generally Wednesday morning) and the scheduled install (Friday 9pm EST) is plenty of time. And since I added a Friday afternoon reminder I generally don't have a problem. OTOH the 1 hour drop dead timer is an improvement from the situation years ago. When I first started here it was only, IIRC 15 or 30 minutes, which was great for blindsiding you with forced closes and lost work if you didn't notice it when it first appeared. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I know you have already rebooted but...
Assuming you are admin on the box, you can stop the Windows Update service and then the countdown goes away. You have to be careful though, as Microsoft sometimes restarts the service on it's own. There is a way to keep that from happening though.
My windows update service is always off, I turn it on and update then reboot then turn it off again. I have full control over the updates, at least as far as I can. 
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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They push the updates through an MS product called Software Center (they also push application installs through it) not Windows Update; and various attempts I've made in the past to subvert it (and all of the predecessors they used beforehand) through my local admin have all failed.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I thought Windows updates were bad until I got a MacBook Pro last year to toy with.
I hardly ever use it, but every time I turn it on, there's always a few hundred megabytes worth of updates waiting to be downloaded and installed. Last time (this past weekend) was a 655MB download, and burned up a solid half hour after the reboot (before getting back to the login screen, so the machine remained unusable during that time). Yosemite had already been installed a few months prior to that (a lovely 6+ GB update, if I recall correctly), and a number of updates since had also been installed, so it's not like I had 4 months worth of updates queued up.
From my experience, on the Windows side, unless it's a full-blown service pack, a large set of updates may take 15-20 minutes to install, but at least that's taking place in the background and the machine remains usable.
And yes, this is a clean machine with hardly any third-party software as I use it so little there's still nothing on it that didn't come with the OS.
Don't get me started with the set of Linux VMs I also have...
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The day in October of 1926 that Harry Houdini died at age 52.
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The average age a developer loses his virginity.
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Oh, that's just mean!
Or median. I always get those two mixed up.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm surprised of the standard deviation of your posts...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Well, if you're going to be a deviant, you have to at least be consistent.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When we reach Level 42, let me go!
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Being 4 * 7:
0-7 : Physical body
8-14 - Etheric Body
15-21 - Astral body
22-28 - Ego body
Bonus for who can name the spiritual philosophy that describes these 4 bodies. You may have to go back 100 years or so.
Marc
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Anthroposophy
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Anthroposophy
Ah, very good! Theosophy would also have been acceptable. 
Marc
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You know, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison etc.
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“Then there’s Konstantinopolitanischerdudelsackpfeifergesellschaft,” Tom Halsted noted, “a German word which my mother swore she came across in the 1920s. She died in 2006 at age 99, so I can’t verify the source of this delightful, almost certainly made-up word, but I like to think there once was a bagpipe manufacturer in Constantinople, perhaps managed by a German company. Even if there wasn’t, I like the name Dudelsack!” But a Dudelsackpfeifer is a bagpiper, so the mythical firm presumably trained musicians rather than made instruments."
from Michael Quinion's excellent (free) e-mail newsletter "World Wide Words," Feb. 14, 2015: [^].
I have direct knowledge through channels I can't reveal that the Illuminati of Agile are preparing for the coming of AntiSpec, the bottoms'-up nemesis of rooting for PooperPig's top-down.
Re-programming programmers' minds through sprints and Turkish dervish music played on Scottish instruments connected to hubble-bubble's is only part of their fiendish master-plan.
«I'm asked why doesn't C# implement feature X all the time. The answer's always the same: because no one ever designed, specified, implemented, tested, documented, shipped that feature. All six of those things are necessary to make a feature happen. They all cost huge amounts of time, effort and money.» Eric Lippert, Microsoft, 2009
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Keith Barrow wrote: gesinnung
You probably mean "Gesang" (vocals)? Gesinnung means attitude/disposition.
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"Attitude" - it might not even translate properly as it isn't proper English.
As in yoghurt is milk with attitude.
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Keith Barrow wrote: yoghurt is milk with attitude bacteria sh1t.
Some facts just jump out and hit you in the face.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have you ever considered a job in marketing? 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I'll post a letter to the Milk Marketing Board forthwith!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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