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How Does My Phone/Tablet/Computer Decide In Which Order To Update Stuff?
« on: 23/08/2012 18:30:25 »
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Re: How Does My Phone/Tablet/Computer Decide In Which Order To Update Stuff?
« Reply #1 on: 24/08/2012 14:31:22 »
well well - sheepy's got a posh new mobile. 
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=33187.0

And as regards the question - dunno.  not sure I want to know - mobblies have got so complicated that I have long since stopped trying to understand them.  its like the arthur c clarke law - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 

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Re: How Does My Phone/Tablet/Computer Decide In Which Order To Update Stuff?
« Reply #2 on: 25/08/2012 01:17:57 »
Quote from: imatfaal on 24/08/2012 14:31:22
well well - sheepy's got a posh new mobile. 
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=33187.0

And as regards the question - dunno.  not sure I want to know - mobblies have got so complicated that I have long since stopped trying to understand them.  its like the arthur c clarke law - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 



Yaysh !!......updated my phone so that it could update itself !



Gosh !...my phone is magic !!......But it won't make my phone bill disappear !!...hurumpth !!
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Re: How Does My Phone/Tablet/Computer Decide In Which Order To Update Stuff?
« Reply #3 on: 29/11/2018 05:43:38 »
Quote from: neilep on 25/08/2012 01:17:57
Yaysh !!......updated my phone so that it could update itself !



Gosh !...my phone is magic !!......But it won't make my phone bill disappear !!...hurumpth !!

Your phone bill is the Mana which is the requirement for the magic to work.
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Re: How Does My Phone/Tablet/Computer Decide In Which Order To Update Stuff?
« Reply #4 on: 29/11/2018 07:07:21 »
When I was lectured on the internals of computers in the late seventies we were told that there was a system of priorities built into the firmware. 
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« Reply #5 on: 06/03/2019 07:06:41 »
An "updater program" usually is running in the background and checks for a particular entry with a newer date on the server, if there is not one there it does nothing and hibernates until the next day for the next look-in
If there is a new entry by date in the list on the server it then checks its' permissions for download of the new software add-in.
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