Patch Tuesday was yesterday.

Dell has their own instructions on making a bootable usb for bios updates:

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000145519/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-using-dell-diagnostic-deployment-package-dddp

The LED lighting transition

I think it’s part of the windows sdk but yeah it’s free.

Just use a win pe boot environment.

Your experience is not typical.

Windows only updates once a month. Rarely there is an out of band patch.

Updating after install is long, but it is optional, and it only happens the one time you install. If you’re reinstalling often then you’re doing it wrong.

I haven’t seen multiple restarts in many years.

You can always roll back an update if something goes wrong

.net updates are the worst. They appear to compile on each machine but it usually happens as a background task after restarting a restart.

But other updates are fine if you haven’t missed the previous month. They install in the background with lower priority. They download from other devices on your network, or from other devices closer to you than Microsoft’s cdn to reduce internet transit.

If you miss a month it will need to download the entire update, usually 1gb in size. Otherwise they only download a minimal amount of files.

Hotpatching is probably coming to everyone as they made it free for most business use. Updating Windows then wont require a restart except for 1-2x per year.

No they aren’t.

Feature updates take the same amount of time as monthly updates. It’s been like this for years.

I have a lot of win32 to deal with so not exactly ARM friendly but with recent hardware cost increases I’m aiming to support ARM by end of year and begin a real transition next year unless intel can pull a rabbit out of the x86 hat again. Panther lake has me cautiously optimistic.

Surprising good for small companies that don’t want to deal with hardware maintenance but are already in the m365 ecosystem.

Updates for drivers, firmware, etc comes right from windows update and not from a 3rd party app like dell/hp/lenovo business-oriented devices do.

Your basically setting up and email server with a gateway service for inbound and outbound mail delivery.

This is typically called a secure email gateway. I’m not sure if there are any designed for personal use.

Just get a portable 2nd monitor.

Is GLPI + OCS Inventory still around?

After a week the “German” food was repetitive. The “non-local” food was pretty unique as it was still tempered to German tastes and available food stock.

I definitely was looking for menus that had German items that were new to me but it wasn’t that easy by the end of the 2nd week.

The German food in the US doesn’t get close to the German restaurant experience though. The old buildings, the efficiency in getting you in, the abrupt “time to leave” even if you’re not done. Buying a keg of beer for the table.

No. Most restaurants have a selection of flavors. Germany was sausages on kraut, in water, or pounded out chicken/pork.

I went to Germany not long ago and was surprised by how every restaurant had the same exact menu. Had to find the foreign restaurants to get other flavors.

I got this because it’s almost fully enclosed. Most of the noise comes from an open rear door which this doesn’t have, and an open front door which this sort of has. It’s not very loud when the hvac is set to a reasonable level, even though it’s pulling air through 4 fans on the top.

I have additional sound deadening material if I need to apply it but I’m not there yet.

I’m eyeing 3-5 more 1U servers though so maybe I’ll need to do it.

Business in front…

Unpowered free 48 port switches are cheaper than block off plates.

Can’t hear either over my tinnitus