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Can you reboot your machine after updating?
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Alicina Goodbody
Posique Corp
#1 - 2014-07-24 03:56:33 UTC
History repeats itself all the time. Has anyone rebooted their machine after the update?
Belt Scout
Thread Lockaholics Anonymous
#2 - 2014-07-24 04:02:04 UTC
Im not allowed to shut off my computer.

.

They say most of your brain shuts down on the EvE forums. All but the impatient side, and the sarcastic side. No wonder I'm still awake.

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DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#3 - 2014-07-24 04:02:47 UTC
lol yes you can.

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Alicina Goodbody
Posique Corp
#4 - 2014-07-24 04:05:30 UTC
DaReaper wrote:
lol yes you can.



Thanks, just making sure....
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#5 - 2014-07-24 04:12:01 UTC
The funniest thing about that, i made my own pc so when the boot.ini file got deleted my pc did not care. i have like 3 friends cal me freaking out and i was like 'what the hell are you talking about? i rebooted like 5 times today... lol

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Alicina Goodbody
Posique Corp
#6 - 2014-07-24 04:13:14 UTC
DaReaper wrote:
The funniest thing about that, i made my own pc so when the boot.ini file got deleted my pc did not care. i have like 3 friends cal me freaking out and i was like 'what the hell are you talking about? i rebooted like 5 times today... lol


Yea, HOW?
DaReaper
Net 7
Cannon.Fodder
#7 - 2014-07-24 05:11:38 UTC
Alicina Goodbody wrote:
DaReaper wrote:
The funniest thing about that, i made my own pc so when the boot.ini file got deleted my pc did not care. i have like 3 friends cal me freaking out and i was like 'what the hell are you talking about? i rebooted like 5 times today... lol


Yea, HOW?



i don;t need to tel the pc which partisan to boot to, which is the function of boot.ini. if you have more then one partisan your pc gets confused as to which is the boot drive. Thus you get an error.

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James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2014-07-24 06:10:02 UTC
My PC is bipartisan.

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Xercodo
Cruor Angelicus
#9 - 2014-07-24 06:49:58 UTC
DaReaper wrote:
Alicina Goodbody wrote:
DaReaper wrote:
The funniest thing about that, i made my own pc so when the boot.ini file got deleted my pc did not care. i have like 3 friends cal me freaking out and i was like 'what the hell are you talking about? i rebooted like 5 times today... lol


Yea, HOW?



i don;t need to tel the pc which partisan to boot to, which is the function of boot.ini. if you have more then one partisan your pc gets confused as to which is the boot drive. Thus you get an error.


Partition.

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Chribba
Otherworld Enterprises
Otherworld Empire
#10 - 2014-07-24 09:05:04 UTC
Always make sure you have a few extra boot.ini, they're on the market.

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Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#11 - 2014-07-24 09:15:04 UTC
DaReaper wrote:
Alicina Goodbody wrote:
DaReaper wrote:
The funniest thing about that, i made my own pc so when the boot.ini file got deleted my pc did not care. i have like 3 friends cal me freaking out and i was like 'what the hell are you talking about? i rebooted like 5 times today... lol
Yea, HOW?
i don;t need to tel the pc which partisan to boot to, which is the function of boot.ini. if you have more then one partisan your pc gets confused as to which is the boot drive. Thus you get an error.
That's not the only thing it does, it also tells the PC where on the drive the windows folder is. If your boot.ini is missing, it will look at \Windows on the first partition of the first drive, regardless of how many partitions you have. If that's where your OS is located it will boot, if not, it won't. It's not some mystical setup.

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#12 - 2014-07-24 09:32:51 UTC
Maybe it's time you upgraded to an actual OS rather than a Fisher-Price™ toy…
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#13 - 2014-07-24 09:40:26 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Maybe it's time you upgraded to an actual OS rather than a Fisher-Price™ toy…
What would you consider to be an actual OS?

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Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#14 - 2014-07-24 09:42:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Lucas Kell wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Maybe it's time you upgraded to an actual OS rather than a Fisher-Price™ toy…
What would you consider to be an actual OS?

Anything that doesn't include a world-writable boot.ini, obviously. Blink


On a more general scale, anything that stores or permits anything in the root directory. One of the really fun things you could do back in the NT4.x/NT5.x days was to simply write-protect sensible locations such as c:\ or the “All users” folders (and the HKLM\…\Run* and HKCU\…\Run* registries) and see which programs choked to death for not being allowed to defecate freely all over your install.
Lucas Kell
Solitude Trading
S.N.O.T.
#15 - 2014-07-24 09:47:40 UTC
Tippia wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Maybe it's time you upgraded to an actual OS rather than a Fisher-Price™ toy…
What would you consider to be an actual OS?

Anything that doesn't include a world-writable boot.ini, obviously. Blink
:D
I don't think it's world writable, just everyone's an admin, which is worse.
If I had to choose between an OS with everything readily available which can be easily broken, and an OS with nothing available that is stable as hell though, I'd go easily breakable every time.

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Arec Bardwin
#16 - 2014-07-24 10:22:19 UTC
Alicina Goodbody wrote:
History repeats itself all the time. Has anyone rebooted their machine after the update?

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Galia Goodbody
Posique Corp
#17 - 2014-07-24 13:17:41 UTC
Lucas Kell wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Lucas Kell wrote:
Tippia wrote:
Maybe it's time you upgraded to an actual OS rather than a Fisher-Price™ toy…
What would you consider to be an actual OS?

Anything that doesn't include a world-writable boot.ini, obviously. Blink
:D
I don't think it's world writable, just everyone's an admin, which is worse.
If I had to choose between an OS with everything readily available which can be easily broken, and an OS with nothing available that is stable as hell though, I'd go easily breakable every time.



I certainly miss the three tier OS's, root, supervisor and user.
De'Veldrin
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2014-07-24 13:22:32 UTC
Am I one of the only people playing this game who uses a bog standard single partition harddrive and only has one OS on their single drive out of the box and plug it in PC?

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GreenSeed
#19 - 2014-07-24 13:48:26 UTC
reboot? whats that?

do people still turn their PCs off? i think mine has a few months of uptime. last downtime was a power outage.
Serene Repose
#20 - 2014-07-24 16:10:49 UTC
Have they been putting something in the water again?

We must accommodate the idiocracy.
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