Just in case you haven’t done so if you print from a windows PC via USB. you need to either turn off windows update from automatically installing updates to prevent auto reboot, or disable auto reboot in your registry or policy editor. just had one 5 minutes from the end of a 2 hour print… thank you Microsoft fro believing that I’m to stupid to hit reboot every couple of days.
Under windows 8 pro
open gpedit.msc
Go to : Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update
then enable “no auto restart with logged on users…”
Reboot Computer
Under windows 7
Click Start -> Run
Enter “gpedit.msc”
Go to : Local Computer Policy \ Computer Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Update
Double-click on “No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Update installation”
Enable it!
Reboot the computer
That is why no one uses MS for ‘mission critical’ applications …
I have my one printer printing from SD but the other one keeps getting SD init errors so I just haven’t bothered. I’m running 16 hour prints atm and would have have a meltdown if it had happened 15 hours into one for those.
That’s not true. Lots of business do. The reboots can be caused by many things, not just updates. I recently had 2 reboots caused by repetier. I now use Octopi print server.
My point is just that the reboot due to updates are stupid. they used to tell you to reboot and you could postpone it. windows8 just tells you its going to reboot and if you don’t see it tuff your work wont be saved and if like some of us you’re printing while it goes you’re stuffed.
Actually there is a setting for that. It will let you post pone for a day or two before forcing the reboot.
Contrast that with Linux where updates requiring a reboot are few and far between. I done the update cycle on Win 7 and earlier where you had to reboot 3 or more times to get all the ‘updates’ installed.
That’s a fact. If it works for you. I went to Octoprint for the additional features.
@Keith_Applegarth still they force a reboot and you dont always see its happening till you see the printhead stuck to the print or worse standing still and heater left on while your computer proudly tells you it rebooted. It kinda ties in with the discussion about not leaving a printer unattended. Truth is a 16 hour print has to run unattended for a significant amount of time so your setup needs as few failure points as possible. @Mark_Rehorst agreed my other machine that runs off SD, what a pleasure.
@Branden_Coates you missed the point. A marginal OS hacked together by a wide variety of people and organizations has a much better update system than one developed by a company with near limitless resources. They’ve had 20 years and an insane amount of man-hours and money and Windows’ update management still sucks. I’m not only saying this because I use Linux at home, I use Windows at work and the loss of productivity caused by updates (you login in the morning and you get that infamous “please wait while Windows completes the installation of updates” and then you have to wait instead of getting to work) is not only a disgrace, it should be the matter of a class action lawsuit. But Windows users and IT people don’t know better so “they are happy”.
I have used all types over there years. And in my humble opinion, no one is better than another. It comes down to what you need it to do and how well it does it. Every OS presents it’s own set of issues and challenges. My Octoprint server lost its comm ports last night. I know enough that it will be easier to re-image the SD card then try and track it down and fix it…at least for me.
Look, is it so hard to admit that Windows update management is mediocre and should be better? Do you really deem acceptable that when you expect to use your computer, you can’t because it’s “completing” updates? Are you saying that it’s what you need your computer to do? Are you that defensive about your OS? I have no problem listing the deficiencies of Linux other than it would take me a lot more time to do so that I’m willing to dedicate.
I wasn’t being defensive either way. I really don’t care what OS I use, as long as it meets my needs… does windows have issues? Certainly! But so does every other OS out there. It isn’t my desire or want to convert anyone… I personally don’t understand the fan boys who try to do that. That’s why I have an Android phone, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, Picaxe processors. Each has a place. I even have a laptop running Ubuntu. So, I am pretty agnostic. I HAVE to support windows… wife and kid run it on their stuff. I also have to support it at work don’t get to decide what to buy there either.
I won’t buy Apple products, if I can help it… So, if I am a bit predujiced, it is against Apple.