Windows update: infinite restart

Maybe starting as far as Windows 95, once a while it nags and nags for updates. Yes even you Mac users out there get almost daily nags too.

Ok, go ahead, clicked on the reboot button and let it do its things. The next morning the computer is off. Ok, turn it back on it says "Restoring to previous version of Windows" and bleep a DOS box comes briefly and went away and again it is restarting and tell me the same message over and over.

I heard people have this problem and now seeing this myself. Windows restarts itself indefinitely during installing an update! http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/infinite-reboot-loop-after-w10-anniversary-update/7df8ca18-ce03-4643-aa73-5a517eef067a. Actually it isn't installing update but failed install and trying to revert and got into infinite boot loop.

Now I *deserve* a reason why the update failed and *deserve* to have computer back in order. Even if this fail, just why is it infinitely restarting? And... HOW do you go to safe boot now? F8? Nope didn't work. Banged banged banged on it.

Now I got an HP. And that has a F11 System Recovery mode. Need to bang bang bang on it too during the reboot loop. How are you supposed to know? (glad I can google in my phone). Then there is a couple options to recover.. Hit on it. Boom went right back to infinite start loop.

After the 2nd time my computer is back to order with original Windows 10. (Whew! It worked)

The next day.. waita minute the login page is a bit different. And then it says... you are upgraded.

Why do users need to endure this? Why did it not successful in the first place? Too many things in life that you will never get answer.

BTW, I am STILL not getting a Mac even if I cannot get the machine to work again.

Now I do not have Windows CD with shiny stickers... am I supposed to make bootable USB sticks nowadays?

Election Map 2016

This election map from New York Times offer excellent details from the election: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president.

If you look at votes by county... There are a LOT of red counties even Hillary still won the popular votes.

What I don't understand is: why isn't the electoral vote bar either red or blue? What is this gray section? They are not still counting votes I hope?

So it is the "majority" of American throughout the land wanted Republicans... felt neglected by 8 years of Obama that are putting Trump as president. Wait a minute, how come those who voted for Obama didn't come out to vote Hillary? Why is the turnout so low? See http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/11/politics/popular-vote-turnout-2016/. This is the election that everyone should go vote down Trump but they shrugged.

It is going to be a dramatic chapter of US History. I only hope we are not going into World War III.

Most unbelievable election

The result are in. Trump Wins. 279 to 228 Electoral Votes. (as of this post)

Wait! Hillary has more popular votes! 59,729,015 is more than 59,509,990. (Hillary didn't win by much) Nope, only electoral counts.

There were only FOUR other candidates who had the same fate: See http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/presidents-winning-without-popular-vote/.

Now Trump will FOREVER remain in US History. There were polls right before election that Hillary has a few points lead. And many articles about Trump needed to win a lot of swing states to win... and he did. Much better candidates like McCain and Romney didn't win as many swing states. How does he do that?!

Not get along with your own political party and still win? Talk about grabbing women by p____y and still win. Have a fraud university and still win. Make all sorts of outrageous comments and still win. Skip paying tax and show tax return and still win. Sexually assaulted dozens of women and still win. What is going on here.

This isn't a close one like Bush vs Gore in 2000. It was a big win.

That private email server bothers Americans that much? or simply voters have no clue.

Boom stock tumbles (but came back up, why?), world in fear. And you give the guy access to all the nuclear weapons. If we have them why don't we use them.

Yes, this is a dark day for America. I'm like yeah-right you are moving to Canada? People talk about but rarely ever actually do anything dramatic.

Now, now... is the plan elect him first then impeach later to get rid of him for good?

Congrats to the Cubs

The Cubs did it! They won the World Series! http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-cubs-win-world-series-sullivan-spt-1103-20161102-story.html

After 100+ years of drought they did it! (after a rain delay that is).

Excellent come back... after a 3-1 deficit, even without the home-court-advantage. I watched only a few minutes on a couple games... lots of waiting. Mostly 0 to 0 inning after inning. And in one game, boom there was a home-run with 4 points! Baseball can be full of surprises but you gotta wait (and see them spit).

Now I have seen victory for just about every Chicago sports team: Bears, Bulls, Sox, Blackhawk, now the Cubs. Waita minute... it is ... the World Series? Did any other country participate? No. When the Bulls win, they call themselves World Champions too. Is it really true that nobody else in the world beat American teams?

Congrats Cubs. You have made a lot of Chicago people happy.

I may even buy Cubs shirts to celebrate this once in a century event.

Wifi password difficult math

Oh this little news caught my eyes. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2016/10/28/Restaurant-trolls-customers-with-complex-WiFi-password-equation/7471477682949/

Do I know the answer? NO. Cause I don't know what it is asking for.

But this is no math question here... It (merely) says the probability of getting m >= n/2 is.. the sum of the individual trials at 0.25 success rate... so? what are we trying to solve for to get the Wifi?

Take a look at another riddle like this, in words "The probability of getting more than or equal to 3 in a dice roll is the probability of getting a 3, or a 4 or a 5, or a 6". Just what's the password then? You don't need to get wifi in this place. Go to another place.