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Nothinman said:
Unless it's an SSD...

And SP1 failed to install on the VM after that little experiment so I don't know if it did more permanent damage that just isn't immediately obvious...
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Well I definitely wouldn't trust it after that anyway.
 
Markbnj said:
Well I definitely wouldn't trust it after that anyway.
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I'm doing a WU on it to see if that succeeds since it's possible that I'm just missing some random update that SP1 requires but won't tell me about directly since MS can't figure out basic package management...
 
KIAman said:
What OS are you doing this on, Nothinman?
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Win7 trial. And it looks like the SP install failure was just the normal circle jerk that is updating Windows. After installing a dozen or so patches via WU then rebooting once or twice it installed fine and allowed me to install another dozen or so patches in chunks of 3-4 with reboots in between...
 
Evadman said:
That has to be the best commit in history.
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Well, maybe third, after the metric-to-english conversion error that sent Mars Lander into the planet's surface at orbital velocities, and the missing semi-colon that brought down AT&T's whole network back in the 80's.
 
Markbnj said:
Well, maybe third, after the metric-to-english conversion error that sent Mars Lander into the planet's surface at orbital velocities, and the missing semi-colon that brought down AT&T's whole network back in the 80's.
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I'd put the race condition that caused the 2003 Northeast blackout that affected > 50M people ahead too.
 
Markbnj said:
Well, maybe third, after the metric-to-english conversion error that sent Mars Lander into the planet's surface at orbital velocities, and the missing semi-colon that brought down AT&T's whole network back in the 80's.
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I've always suspected the metric-to-Imperial bug was just smoke covering up some even-more-embarrassing SNAFU on NASA's part. No evidence to offer, but it seems like the kind of thing that would be caught pretty damn early.
 
degibson said:
I've always suspected the metric-to-Imperial bug was just smoke covering up some even-more-embarrassing SNAFU on NASA's part. No evidence to offer, but it seems like the kind of thing that would be caught pretty damn early.
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Shhh! It makes way too great of a story for all the unit conversion crap they make you do in freshmen intro engineering classes: "You need this so you don't cause another Mars Lander incident..."
 
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