Update connector hanging at 66%?

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CoolRunnings · #1 Post by **CoolRunnings** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:06 pm

I've been trying to get the update connector working for the last few days off and on and it keeps hanging at 66% and going no further... This is a clean installation and it has done this from day one. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it but to no avail. Any suggestions?

Sasha · #2 Post by **Sasha** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:22 pm

..I thought that it was hanging up too.....but if I kept it open, it completed the update process in a couple of minutes....this is when it checks for the updates......

And when it has to download, the same thing happens...looks like it has hung up at 66%, 75% and 93%...but give it time and it completes the process....

I have a clean install on my machine too....

HTH

Sasha

#3 Post by **K. Eng** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:27 pm

I would avoid the update connector. When I bought my ThinkPad it was slow and unreliable, and things haven't changed much in the past two years.

I would use the driver matrix:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... PAD-MATRIX

Download the packages you want, extract them, and then use the ThinkPad Software Installer to install them. This has worked well for me and is far less aggrevating than watching the update connector stall at 66% for the nth time.

CoolRunnings · #4 Post by **CoolRunnings** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:41 pm

Yeah, over 20 minutes at 66% shouldn't be normal... Java - compile once, crash everywhere.

#5 Post by **K. Eng** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:14 pm

ROFL

It's been 5 years since I've written anything in Java (the last program I wrote in Java was some software that was supposed to find the optimal path between nodes on a geometric plane - airport routing type problem).

My biggest complaint was "compile once, run slow everywhere." The penalty for the virtual machine is much less today, but on UltraSparc II/Solaris and Pentium III/Windows NT4 platforms performance was abysmal.

CoolRunnings wrote: Java - compile once, crash everywhere.

CoolRunnings · #6 Post by **CoolRunnings** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:21 pm

Ha ha! Performance may be better but it's STILL sad... I used to use this program called "Arachnophilia" as my main text editor for websites. Then the author went nuts and put the whole thing in Java. I refuse to use it anymore because of that. It's slow and cludgy now.

selvan777 · #7 Post by **selvan777** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:20 pm

Even though I've used it successfully, I don't depend on it. It's a piece of junk.

Update connector hanging at 66%?

Update connector hanging at 66%?

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