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gonickl

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:39 AM

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Phil Factor

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 1:56 AM

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Curiously, this very thing happened to me just after Larry drew this comic strip. I'd been editing an existing script in SSMS and went off to watch a DVD. When I got back to work, Vista had decided to upgrade itself. SSMS didn't keep a backup of my edits and destroyed three to four hours work. I know that I should have saved my work but it never occurred to me that SSMS was so stupid as to ditch all pending work when asked to shut down by the operating system. Some IDE! My other IDEs never lose anything.

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Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:42 AM

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As the Cowardly Lion says, "Ain't it the truth? Ain't it the truth?"

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gary.rumble

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:38 AM

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Somewhere near the top of my list when I set up a new system is to set windows update to download the files and notify me, but don't install.

Experience is a hard teacher. Been there, done that.

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gonickl

Posted Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:47 PM

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I hope you read that comment, Phil F! (The comment about setting up W****s so it doesn't auto-update without permission.)

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Posted Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:27 AM

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Funny..... Smile

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Posted Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:19 AM

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Truth be told it seems like that is what MS automatic updates does to us

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