recording interrupted ...
Apr. 15th, 2010 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inanedirkMedia Center was recording some TV show just now.
Unfortunately I'd decided to check whether my apps were up to date. Adobe Reader wasn't, and as we all know Reader is such an important system component that updating it means rebooting the PC, and therefore I'm now missing a few minutes of that TV show.
Seriously, I get why some Windows Updates require a reboot, same goes for AV software and scandisk. But a f***ing PDF reader?! I'm pretty sure quicktime and java want a reboot too actually.
And what for? Just to get their entry active in msconfig → Startup. Guess what, I don't want quickgooglejavacyberlinkadobe running in the background! I keep disabling those startup entries after each update.
I don't even have the openoffice quickstarter running, you know why? I have a friggin' fast SSD, I don't need some wannabe TSR to hog RAM and CPU cycles just to load a wee bit faster in case I want to edit a spreadsheet. Or watch a quicktime video.
Shesh, if Porcupine Tree had released the DVD preview trailer in a proper format I wouldn't even have quicktime installed on the computer.
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Grmml.
Unfortunately I'd decided to check whether my apps were up to date. Adobe Reader wasn't, and as we all know Reader is such an important system component that updating it means rebooting the PC, and therefore I'm now missing a few minutes of that TV show.
Seriously, I get why some Windows Updates require a reboot, same goes for AV software and scandisk. But a f***ing PDF reader?! I'm pretty sure quicktime and java want a reboot too actually.
And what for? Just to get their entry active in msconfig → Startup. Guess what, I don't want quickgooglejavacyberlinkadobe running in the background! I keep disabling those startup entries after each update.
I don't even have the openoffice quickstarter running, you know why? I have a friggin' fast SSD, I don't need some wannabe TSR to hog RAM and CPU cycles just to load a wee bit faster in case I want to edit a spreadsheet. Or watch a quicktime video.
Shesh, if Porcupine Tree had released the DVD preview trailer in a proper format I wouldn't even have quicktime installed on the computer.
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Grmml.
