But srsly, you're sitting there, writing stuff, and suddenly... THIS FUCKING WINDOW RANDOMLY POPS UP SAYING YOU'VE GOT 15MIN
Don't they have principles of some sort in compsci and robotics where the user must retain rights to override the machine at any time, ever? Isn't it a bit of an ethical (not to mention, PRACTICAL) violation to deprive an intelligent user of a dumb fucking machine the right to control when and if it does things? I mean, seriously, this is like IN YOUR FACE rude -- for no necessary reason, it randomly tells me, without any warning, that the computer is going to shut off. No, not because of a software glitch, or some safety concerns, no. It's just randomly going to restard. To install a fucking update. And you have no choice. Ever.
And I just lost like 20 tabs of papers I took all this time to find... fuck you, whatever idiot decided this automatic restart without override thing was a good idea. IT'S NOT.
GRRRRRRR!!!
I've deactivated that shit on my own computer, but lack privileges/desire to fiddle with the innards of the one in the lab. Perhaps that's a mistake. Sigh.
Not evil. Just stupid.
ReplyDeleteYou just need to switch it from automatic to "check with me 1st"
WinXP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306525
Vista
http://www.lhup.edu/cca/windows-automatic-updates/vista/ConfigureAutomaticUpdatesVista.htm
Asimov's 2nd law, I believe?
ReplyDeleteFirefox's Session Restore feature = autosaved tabs. (IMO, any computer without an internet browser other than IE is an affront to computing.)
Thanks guys! Deactivated it. Hopefully no one else in the lab should mind or notice... >_>
ReplyDeleteAnd we do have FF. Just the old version which doesn't ask you whether you'd like to save your session upon quitting (which is what I expected). Should've just let it die with the autoupdate and used Restore...
Ivy, you know how some library computers around here have ancient IE that DOESN'T RECOGNISE CONTROL CLICK?
I've lost major EMAILS that way. You ctrl-click on something and lose everything you carefully typed. Also, the deactivated tab key on seemingly ALL of them is fucking annoying as you end up with your password saved along with the username before you realise what's going on... grrrr!
We have a printer in the lab a bit like that. It's one of those superintellegent ones that keeps tabs on all it's levels of stuff and it *refuses* to print without the colour cartridge.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter if you're printing greyscale. Or if your printing something that needs to be done in the next five minutes really quickly. There is no way to tell it to just give you the damn paper in whatever ink it has left.