Re: United to flight attendants: Put away your phone or you are fired
Alan <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Feb 2024 09:18:24 -0800
| Newsgroups | alt.airline.united,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.guns |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2024-02-11 05:45, Governor Swill wrote: > On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 20:31:00 -0500, micky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 10 Feb 2024 09:26:05 -0500, Alan Browne >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 2024-02-09 19:02, Governor Swill wrote: >>>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 11:26:42 -0800, Alan <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> By all means... ...educate me: >>>>> >>>>> How does your computer run updates to Windows... >>>>> >>>>> ...while it is shutdown? >>>> >>>> It downloads and prepares updates at any time it is running. Most updates require a >>>> shutdown or restart. If you don't shutdown or restart, Windows won't update. >>> >>> I've never seen it happen, but I recall people complaining that just as >>> they've setup their presentation, and people wander into the room just >>> on time for the 10:00, greet people, a few remarks, and then turn down >>> the lights a notch, ... >>> >>> ... everyone gets to see the Windows machine go into a reset/re-start OS >>> update that can't be stopped. >>> >>> Is that still an issue? >> >> last I heard the status is this: MS let you chooose a 12-hour period >> each day when there won't be any updates. >> >> that doesn't work well for me because I sleep and work odd hours. >> >> But another guy wrote a short program t hat constantly changes the 12 >> hour period so I am always in the 3rd hour of it, with 9 hours to go. So >> now it never restarts except when I let it. >> >> Sometimes the computer slows down and I need to restart it. Usually I >> check for windows updates before I do. I download them and let them >> update during restart if that is what they need. >> >> I go about a week between restarts, but I'm willing to go much longer >> when it doesn't give me trouble, like slowness. (The other day, for the >> first time ever, alt-tab didn't work! Restarting fixed that.) > > When Windows tells me an update is ready and needs a restart. I drop what I'm doing and > let it update immediately. Five minute coffee break and I don't have to worry about > security patches being up to date. That will work great in the middle of a Teams meeting...