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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Clean Install Instructions

« Last post by Deozaan on August 11, 2015, 03:40 PM »

Remove everything is different than a clean install.  I currently have windows 7 ultimate 32-bit installed.  I want to install windows 10 64-bit.

There's no upgrade path.  I have to do a clean install.

-wraith808 (August 11, 2015, 03:38 PM)

Ah, good point! But if there's no upgrade path, how will you get your 64-bit key? I'm not sure a 32-bit key will work for a 64-bit version.

Let us know how it goes!

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 11, 2015, 03:02 PM »

I just started on Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. I'm only a couple pages into Chapter 1 (but I read the introduction) and it seems like it will be an interesting book.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Clean Install Instructions

« Last post by Deozaan on August 11, 2015, 02:39 PM »

I'm pretty sure the Download Tool in Step 2 can also make a bootable USB for you. But if you're going to have to upgrade from Windows 7/8 anyway, why not just select the option to remove all your settings and programs and files and do a clean install during the upgrade? That's what I did.

Or why not use the "Reset this PC" feature of the OS?



IMO the only helpful part of that guide was how to get your key using ProduKey. But it hasn't been verified yet that it's the actual, legitimate key.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by Deozaan on August 10, 2015, 08:20 PM »

I saw a 3-wheel car on the road within the past couple of weeks. It looked similar to what Elio is trying to accomplish, but I think the two wheels were in the back, rather than in the front like Elio does it.

Personally, I'm a "fan" of the Elio concept. I want one. But I rarely drive anywhere anyway, so I'd like to gas up only once per year rather than once every 2-3 months. Or something.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Where to backup my cloud?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 10, 2015, 08:09 PM »

Besides, not all source is public.

-MilesAhead (August 10, 2015, 04:55 PM)

They have unlimited free, private repositories (up to 2GB each). Should be all you need for "cloud backup" for source code.

-Deozaan (August 10, 2015, 01:59 PM)

But to each his own. Do what works for you.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by Deozaan on August 10, 2015, 02:03 PM »

I suppose it's more of a CYA thing.

The backup camera has an obvious use for convenience/help with backing up the car.

The rest seem to be to have a record of potential traffic incidents, including a view of the driver if the car is stolen or if the driver is attacked or something.

* Deozaan shrugs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Where to backup my cloud?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 10, 2015, 01:59 PM »

For me the upload speed is not the issue because I use it to upload source code.

-MilesAhead (August 10, 2015, 12:37 PM)

If you're doing source code, you're using version control (right?). In which case, why not just push it to a free online repository such as http://bitbucket.org/ as your "backup"?

They have unlimited free, private repositories (up to 2GB each). Should be all you need for "cloud backup" for source code.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 10, 2015, 12:04 PM »

FYI, I don't see anything about a Last BIOS time in Windows 10, so that may not have survived.

-Deozaan (August 09, 2015, 10:52 PM)

There's specific system requirements that need to be available before it shows up from what I gather, one of them seems to be a UEFI BIOS.

The only system running W10 atm is my netbook which, like yours, is too old for UEFI, as such it doesn't show the Last BIOS time info.
My main system is still W8.1 but has a UEFI BIOS so that's where the screenshot came from, so as yet I can't precisely tell you if it occurs in W10 or not.

There may be other requirements, eg. someone mentioned GPT formatted HDD, mine are all MBR so that appears to be wrong.

-4wd (August 09, 2015, 11:31 PM)

This is veering off topic, but I have Windows 10 on my netbook (BIOS) and on my desktop (UEFI). The screenshot I posted above of the Task Manager was from my desktop machine with UEFI. So either that feature has been removed from Windows 10 (or just moved to somewhere else in the OS) or there are other requirements my computer doesn't meet.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by Deozaan on August 10, 2015, 11:59 AM »

1 & 2 - Front and rear dash cam recorder.
3. Driver recorder.
4. Backup camera.

-Renegade (August 10, 2015, 01:42 AM)

Why all the cameras? Just curious.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Deozaan on August 10, 2015, 11:57 AM »

Whoever filmed that was drunk.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Where to backup my cloud?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 10, 2015, 11:49 AM »

The bottleneck is my upload speed is the upload rate limited by my ISP. Not by the cloud services I use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 09, 2015, 10:52 PM »

Windows 10 Task Manager has a new Startup tab where you can see and enable/disable your startup items. Nice!

-Deozaan (August 08, 2015, 10:00 PM)

That appeared in Windows 8.

-4wd (August 09, 2015, 12:55 AM)

Cool. I've never used Windows 8, so I didn't know that.

FYI, I don't see anything about a Last BIOS time in Windows 10, so that may not have survived.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Where to backup my cloud?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 09, 2015, 10:51 PM »

Back it up on Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, MEGA, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft is open-sourcing its iOS to Windows porting tools

« Last post by Deozaan on August 09, 2015, 06:03 PM »

It would be worth looking at if Windows 10 wasn't so keen on stealing your personal data to sell to the highest bidder.

Unfortunately there have been multiple levels of privacy intrusions confirmed with Windows 10, and no easy way to disable them.

Not only that, but Microsoft decided to help themselves to your upload bandwidth using their p2p update feature, the details of which I am not clear on but it sounds suspiciously like they intend to make Windows share updates with nearby systems both in your LAN and in your neighborhood WAN at the cost of your network capacity.

-SeraphimLabs (August 09, 2015, 09:25 AM)

Actually, it's pretty easy to disable them. Including the P2P update feature.

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Living Room / New vulnerability found in older Intel processors

« Last post by Deozaan on August 09, 2015, 12:53 PM »

Emphasis added:

Security researcher Chris Domas has discovered a vulnerability in the x86 architecture of Intel processors made between 1997 and 2010 (pre-Sandy Bridge) that lets an attacker install software in a chip's protected System Management Mode space, which governs firmware-level security. Yes, that's as bad as it sounds: an intruder could not only take more control than you typically see in attacks (including wiping firmware), but infect your PC even if you wipe your hard drive and reinstall your operating system. Domas has only tested against Intel-made CPUs so far, but AMD processors could be vulnerable as well.

A would-be hacker needs low-level OS access to get in, so you at least won't face a direct assault -- you need to fall prey to another attack before this becomes an option. However, this vulnerability might be difficult or impossible to fix in a timely fashion. While it's theoretically possible to patch a computer's BIOS (or on relatively recent systems, UEFI) to prevent these attacks, the chances of that happening are slim. What's the likelihood that your motherboard maker will support a product that's at least 5 years old, or that most people are both willing and able to apply firmware upgrades? Not very high, we'd reckon.

-http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/08/intel-memory-sinkhole-flaw/

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 08, 2015, 10:00 PM »

• Join.me (can't figure out how to disable launch on startup)

-Deozaan (July 22, 2015, 09:15 PM)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run -> join.me.launcher

Of course, whenever you use it, it adds it back

-wraith808 (July 23, 2015, 10:12 AM)

Windows 10 Task Manager has a new Startup tab where you can see and enable/disable your startup items. Nice!

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to team up on a little fun hardware project? a 2xl tinypc toy

« Last post by Deozaan on August 08, 2015, 07:55 PM »

It was my intent to pay for the hardware and shipping charges.. But I have realized that I really can't afford to spend money on non-essentials at the moment, so let's table the idea for now, and return to it when the grass is greener.

-mouser (August 07, 2015, 04:17 AM)

Well, like I said:

In fact, you could probably just make a Linux VM and code it up and have me test it on my C1 (allowing the [on screen] buttons to be either touched or clicked with the mouse) and once it's ready and confirmed working we can order the parts and build the machine it will run on. Your VM would either need to be of an ARM device, or you'd need to somehow have your VM compile it to be run on my C1 (I know this is possible, but can't recall what it's called).

-Deozaan (August 06, 2015, 03:17 PM)

Once it's working on my hardware, we could order out the actual hardware and build it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PSA: Woe to Thee Who Performs a Windows 10 Clean Install

« Last post by Deozaan on August 08, 2015, 04:18 PM »

No? I see the color change slightly when I click. When I click, it looks like the hover/highlight color goes away and returns.

-Deozaan (August 06, 2015, 10:24 PM)

Annnnndddddd....this behavior just spontaneously started working out of the blue last night. Windows 10 works in mysterious ways.

I'm glad all my irritants are solving themselves one by one, but I'd like to know the how/why of the solutions rather than just materializing out of nothing.

-Innuendo (August 08, 2015, 09:01 AM)

There was a "cumulative update" that came out a day or two ago. Did you install it? Maybe that's what fixed it.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: LINUX: In-place upgrade of Mint 17.0 Qiana to Mint 17.1 Rebecca

« Last post by Deozaan on August 08, 2015, 03:29 PM »

Posting from Mint 17.2 Xfce with perfectly working WiFi. All seems well.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: LINUX: In-place upgrade of Mint 17.0 Qiana to Mint 17.1 Rebecca

« Last post by Deozaan on August 08, 2015, 02:18 PM »

Linux Mint 17.2 “Rafaela” Xfce released
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2889

-rgdot (August 07, 2015, 08:34 AM)

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out and see if I can install it over my current Mint installation without destroying the Windows 10 partition.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PSA: Woe to Thee Who Performs a Windows 10 Clean Install

« Last post by Deozaan on August 06, 2015, 10:24 PM »

The only thing that nags at me now is clicking icons on the taskbar offers no visual feedback one has clicked them as previous versions of Windows have done. It's a minor nit, but still a little weird to see.

-Innuendo (August 06, 2015, 08:32 PM)

No? I see the color change slightly when I click. When I click, it looks like the hover/highlight color goes away and returns.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to team up on a little fun hardware project? a 2xl tinypc toy

« Last post by Deozaan on August 06, 2015, 03:17 PM »

Here is some info I've collected for some alternative hardware:

Base Computer:

Odroid C1: $35
USB Power Cable (5 Volts 2 Amps): $2

Plus a screen:

C1 3.2inch TFT+Touchscreen Shield (320x240): $25
Or
Odroid-VU (9-inch 1280x800 touch screen with speakers): $120

You could use virtual buttons on the touch screen. The VU is larger and has a higher resolution which would allow more room for the virtual buttons on the touch screen. It also has speakers for audio.

If you want physical buttons or external speakers:
C Tinkering Kit (has buttons): $16
USB Audio Adapter: $4

Misc. other stuff needed at some point:
Cat5/6 cable for internet (unless you want WiFi)
MicroHDMI->HDMI cable/adapter
Keyboard/Mouse for initial set up
MicroSD or eMMC for storage: ~$5-$20 from NewEgg or similar, depending on how much storage is necessary.


I'd be happy to build it. I don't have the budget to buy the parts, but I did buy a C1 earlier this year and didn't really know what I was getting into, so I got a few extras "just in case" that I realize now I don't need that could slightly reduce the cost of this project.

IMO a touch screen would be sufficient. No need for physical buttons and extra wires/kit required for that. The 3.2 inch screen would probably be sufficient, but then you'd need external speakers (and an audio adapter). The VU screen would allow plenty of room for Cartridge art (or something) and make it easy to scroll through a (large) list of carts with as much relevant info as needed.

It would run Linux (Ubuntu) so pretty much anything you can code there you can code with this stuff.

In fact, you could probably just make a Linux VM and code it up and have me test it on my C1 (allowing the buttons to be either touched or clicked with the mouse) and once it's ready and confirmed working we can order the parts and build the machine it will run on. Your VM would either need to be of an ARM device, or you'd need to somehow have your VM compile it to be run on my C1 (I know this is possible, but can't recall what it's called).

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Living Room / Re: Want to backup your music collection? Tough...It's illegal.

« Last post by Deozaan on August 06, 2015, 01:43 PM »

...copying any copyright protected media, whether from a CD to a PC, one device to another, or even backing up to a remote cloud is entirely illegal.

But wait! In order to watch a video or listen to a song online, my browser (or app) has to download a local copy onto my device so that I can hear/see it!

But wait! If I buy a digital album from iTunes (on my trendy Macbook) and then put it onto my iPod/iPhone, I've just made a copy of copyright protected media! It's on my Mac and my iDevice!

But wait! If I use a service like Subsonic or Plex to have a little media box somewhere that allows me to stream to my TV, Phone, Tablet, PC, or other connected devices, it's copying those files to all those other devices!


Doesn't this ruling basically make the entire proliferation of copyright protected media illegal?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« Last post by Deozaan on August 04, 2015, 06:15 PM »

@Curt, is your taskbar on the right (yeah ) side of your screen, instead of at the bottom? That could explain something. Your other taskbaricons then are hidden behind the > icon.

-Ath (August 03, 2015, 04:52 AM)

I think it's on the left side of the screen. Hence the extra space on the right, and the > which would expand into the open space on the right.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by Deozaan on August 04, 2015, 05:25 PM »

Am I the only person in the world who doesn't have any plans to use this, and will just continue to use a "Guest Network" which I can enable/disable with a few clicks via my routers settings page (It creates a Wi-Fi network that gives zero access to your main one, and because it is broadcasting as if the main doesn't exist, has full security features for the password (WEP/PSK etc) or can be completely open.)

-Stephen66515 (August 04, 2015, 04:49 PM)

Use WiFi Sense on your guest network. Extra security without the hassle of having to type in passwords for your guests.