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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by eightysixfour on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:25AM (#20440550)
The heater required an active internet connection and available bandwidth?
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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by Fordec on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:25AM (#20441099)
It was actually just a gaming PC with a Nvidia GTX480 belonging to a scientist perpetually left turned on
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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by pizzapill on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:27AM (#20441126)
Those NVIDIA fanboys. I have a AMD RX 480 which heats my room just as good.
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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by privong on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:31AM (#20440603)
> The heater required an active internet connection and available bandwidth?

My guess is that the heater was being run by the machine that required the update and the update download process meant the machine was not available for usual operation. But I don't really know.

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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by eightysixfour on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:34AM (#20440631)
Windows downloads the updates separately from installing them. Good guess though.
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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by huhtenberg on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:37AM (#20440660)
... unless it needs to do a quick follow-up update after applying one of the pre-downloaded ones. And then not three reboots later you get your machine back.
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Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste... by martin_a on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:56AM (#20440840)
Sounds like a pretty normal device to me in the times of IoT...
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