On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I'm excluding the pain of Windows reinstall, as it took 14
hours of sitting there blankly "checking for updates". I wonder
what it was possibly doing that took 14 hours (the disk was
fresh, there was nothing to transmit to the NSA).
If you're talking about Windows 7, speculation is that MS is
doing that on purpose: they don't package a Service Pack 2
because they want to make it painful for you, so painful that you
install or upgrade to Windows 10 instead, the latter still free
for the next two weeks. They did produce something like a Win7
SP2, but you have to manually download it, Windows Update won't
just go get it:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/windows-7-now-has-a-service-pack-2-but-dont-call-it-that/
As for printing, you're still printing? I think I've printed
maybe three or four times in the last decade, but then I almost
never read anything on paper during that time either.
