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Re: [PLUG] Microsoftian Encephalitis & failure to WindowsUpdate
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> Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 22:21:56 -0400
> From: jeff <jeffv@op.net>
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> Windows has behaved decently for me lately but only the VM. On Friday
> my Windows monitoring box developed a form of illness I refer to as
> Microsoftian Encephalitis.
Yup, AKA Windows bitrot or cruft (Hummm, Microcruft Windows?). Some
people proactively re-install the entire OS from scratch every 6-12
months to prevent that. Mind boggling, since that's the better part of
a day or two to get the OS, the patches, the apps, the patches, the
configs, and the data all back in place. Whereas with Debian/Ubuntu you
only ever install once, even for major upgrades... But you already know
that. :-)
> To add insult to injury, I had to find a fix because Win Updates
> completely, persistently and repeatedly failed to function. Fortunately
> a teammate put together a bat file to fix this as the others had
> experienced it too.
I've had that problem. Can you share the batch file/fix?
Later,
JP
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"Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on
software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and
implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law.
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