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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 27, 2014, 06:05 AM »
My thoughts on W10
-fredemeister (October 26, 2014, 03:24 PM)

As I moved from XP to Vista, W7, W8 and now I've tried both builds of W10 in VMs the thing that gripes me most, other than having "Apps" forced on me even though I have no use for them, it that each OS seems to add yet another Layer where your user account supposedly in the Administrators Group, has fewer privileges to do mundane things.  OK I don't mind if it asks me if I really want to run an exe the first time around if I just downloaded it.  That makes sense.  But having to do stuff like take ownership of the Program Files tree just to avoid running every little program that updates an .ini file in its own folder, as administrator, is silly.  Each release it's more of these distractions even when I put UAC to the minimum.

Also I notice my small ahk Tray programs that do simple things like watch the active window for Folders and add them to an MRU list, or that just moves windows around, have to be run as Administrator.  For this reason they may not start with Windows simply by adding a shortcut to the user's StartUp Folder.  I suspect the Start Screen business adds another layer in the way of the desktop.  But I'm not sure of the nature of it.


The other thing that annoys me is they jettisoned Glass.  It takes a lot of User Draw code just to write text on Glass.  It's very annoying to program.  But it looks cool.  Having gone to the effort of using a bit of it here and there to make program Guis look better it frosts my ass(pun unintentional) when they just chuck my work away.  Stuff that looks good in Vista and W7 often just looks stupid in W8 and later.

They don't get the whole concept that made the PC.  The idea that I have my own computer so I don't have to ask permission from the IT Guy to do something.  They want to put an IT Guy in the cloud now to boss us all around.  When it gets unbearable maybe then people will bite the bullet and do Linux or a similar open source OS instead.

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Living Room / Re: Who is your Favourite "Doctor"?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 26, 2014, 04:47 PM »

The thing I could never wrap my head around was the concept of The Doctor as the last of a race of Time Lords.  I mean, if these guys are always scampering around in the centuries how are there not any of them left around even if they got killed in the future?

I guess it's a suspend your disbelief thing.  :)
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Living Room / Re: (Hypothetical): If DC Grouped Together...What could be achieved?
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 26, 2014, 08:21 AM »
I occasionally have the unrealistic fantasy that groups like this one can put together a project that would provide incomes for the members who participate.  Sort of like using our talents/passions/skills to free us from perhaps our normal methods of making a living, which may be less than satisfying.  But these kinds of ideas never seem to really take off, and instead turn into soon to be abandoned open source projects.

I would be very interested if any such project was able to generate additional income for participants in a good way.
-superboyac (October 25, 2014, 08:18 PM)

That concept seems attractive.  I've never participated in anything like that where the "workers" for want of a better term, started the "company."  Therefore I have no idea how it would be funded.  Who would want to invest and why etc..

I figure I have about zero chance of a hire in the IT industry if I am to believe all that about an IT guy over 30 being over the hill.  But I have to wonder how something could be set in motion on a paid basis.  IOW people performing tasks at some salary and perhaps some incentive if there is a "profit" involved at some point.  Otherwise if it is along the lines of "let's start making something and hope we can sell it" then I think it will end up being unpaid effort shortly abandoned.  The Super Group Blind Faith at least produced one album before they expired.  :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 26, 2014, 07:50 AM »
The new build, 9860 is out there to play with.  No iso direct from MS though.  They want you to do the update process.  But on tenforums you can find tutorials how to extract an iso once you have the update download files.

From what I've seen it's a step backwards afa stability.  When you close a window it uses the animation API that's been there at least since Vista to shrink disappear the window.

If you try the update the fastest way is to turn off everything Update such as "automatically update drivers and apps" unless you are into apps.  Otherwise there's like 5 count ups to 100% during the install and config instead of 1 or 2.  I tried to update and it hung on Almost Ready.  My VM would boot and it said 9860 evaluation in the corner of the desktop, but I couldn't run anything to clean it up and defrag.  So I made an iso and did a clean install.  To me it looks like W8 with a bit different Start Menu.

Edit:  Even with a clean install to get stuff to work a bit better you may have to delete that $Winxxxsomething hidden folder directly under C: and defrag.  For some reason the iso extraction still has that hidden folder taking up about 340 MB.


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Living Room / Re: Malware blocked at DC !?!
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 26, 2014, 07:02 AM »
I did this by doing the following:


[ attach=1 ]
-Stephen66515 (October 24, 2014, 06:32 PM)

I was looking for something like this.  Just pasting the image would be cool.  But this is close.  :)
-MilesAhead (October 25, 2014, 05:53 PM)

Huh?  :huh:
-Stephen66515 (October 25, 2014, 05:56 PM)

Some sites allow you to paste images directly into the form editor thing.  I asked Mouser if he could add that.  But this is close enough.  Albeit tangential.  :)

Edit:  At first I did a simple quote of the post I followed but that pasted in the graphic again.  That's why I only put the "attach=1" line for reference.

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Living Room / Re: Malware blocked at DC !?!
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 25, 2014, 05:53 PM »
I did this by doing the following:


[ attach=1 ]
-Stephen66515 (October 24, 2014, 06:32 PM)

I was looking for something like this.  Just pasting the image would be cool.  But this is close.  :)
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Living Room / Re: auto wifi
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 25, 2014, 10:16 AM »
The job sounds suited for an auto form filler like LastPass.  On the other hand, if you're not connected to anything yet you may need a form filler that uses a local store. (I haven't used LastPass in awhile.  It may have that as an option.)

Here's Gizmo's list:
http://www.techsuppo...uick_Selection_Guide
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox windows and CPU slow-downs and restarts
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 24, 2014, 05:37 AM »
I'm running Cyberfox x64 on Windows 8.0 x64.  If I had a lot of email to handle it would be unusable.  As it is it's mostly receipts for purchases or notices from forums.  Even so it's click and wait to the max.  I've been using hotmail since before MS bought it.  So I don't think I'll abandon it.  Just for grins I'll have to try with Opera x64 andd see how it responds.
 

Edit:  Opera is snappy.  For some reason though every time I click a mail it shows the context menu, then opens it.  There's no lag though.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox windows and CPU slow-downs and restarts
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 23, 2014, 01:30 PM »
I thought it was just me.  :)  Usually I have no more than 8 or 9 tabs running.  But I notice stuff like hotmail is glacial.  I click an entry in my inbox and twiddle my thumbs waiting for it to show as selected.  Scrolling is often weird too.  Herky jerky delays.

This is all with no animation or videos playing.  Not even audio.

Latest Cyberfox x64 but FF Portable does the same.
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Living Room / Re: Chip Wars: AMD vs Intel .... GO!
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 23, 2014, 09:26 AM »
That thing surged so it sounded like a tropical storm was outside.
-MilesAhead (October 23, 2014, 05:35 AM)

Seeing as you're in Florida, it probably was  :P
-4wd (October 23, 2014, 06:56 AM)

Too often true.  Seems like every big breeze the cable went out for 2 weeks.  No internet, no TV. Usually we got power back in 2 to 4 days.

Ironically Katrina passed right through but it was only up to 80 MPH.  I didn't lose cable or power.  It picked up all the ferocity over the gulf.
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Living Room / Re: when will we eventually be able to
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 23, 2014, 09:21 AM »

I don't know if one can actually win a thread...but this is definitely a contender..

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Living Room / Re: Chip Wars: AMD vs Intel .... GO!
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 23, 2014, 05:35 AM »
All the other listed CPUs were very noisy.
-MilesAhead (October 22, 2014, 06:20 PM)

Do CPUs actually make noise? :huh:
-Deozaan (October 22, 2014, 07:15 PM)

Well, they can play Madonna.  :)

It turns out on the Phenom it was actually the GPU fan kept kicking in.  That thing surged so it sounded like a tropical storm was outside.


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Living Room / Re: when will we eventually be able to
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 23, 2014, 05:28 AM »
Ford unveils a car seat which detects when a driver is having heart attack

No High Tech needed there.  The guy just got a look at his monthly car payment.  :)
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Living Room / Re: Chip Wars: AMD vs Intel .... GO!
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 22, 2014, 06:20 PM »
I don't know but I seem to be 180 degrees out of phase.  I bought 2 HP desktops in succession with Intel Pentium 4 CPUs with hyper-threading when i should have purchased AMD 64 bit CPU based machines.  When I finally got a quad core it was a Phenom I when I should have purchased one of the Intel quads.

I think the only one I was really happy with was the AMD 5200+ Dual Core.  That machine ran smooth and quiet.  It performed fairly well considering it only had 2 GB ram.  But it had one of those crippled Intel on the motherboard video chips with only 8 MB ram on the chip.

All the other listed CPUs were very noisy.
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Living Room / Re: when will we eventually be able to
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 22, 2014, 05:21 PM »
You'd be safer in the jungle with a Voodoo witch doctor.
-Stoic Joker (October 22, 2014, 04:58 PM)

For grins one time I searched the Nobel Prize awards for chemistry.  You may be surprised how many were just for synthesizing the medicine the rain forest witch doctor got from the wild.  I seem to remember it being at least 1/2 dozen.  The Sean Connery flick Medicine Man was a Hollywoodization, so to speak, of the process.

Edit: I made this search back during my "news junkie" period, early to mid 90s.  Since then with the concern over the rain forest being burned and cleared I would conjecture there's a concerted effort to get as many medicines as possible before they are lost forever.  The synthesized medicines may well be in the dozens by now.  I don't really know.  End Edit


I'm sure it was shown in the best possible light, but even so this documentary I saw had a section on the system in Taiwan.  Inserting a smart card may have flaws but it has to be better than me running around in one hospital trying to get them to fax my mother's medical records to another.  I don't know what people do who have nobody to run these errands for them.  It's pitiful.

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Living Room / Re: when will we eventually be able to
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 22, 2014, 04:30 PM »
I'd just settle for an at-the-pump receipt now and then.
-crabby3 (October 22, 2014, 01:39 PM)

Heh.  We keep expecting exotic convenience through technology when in the US we can't even get them to put personal medical history on a Smart Card.  Just the fax mam.  :(
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Living Room / Re: when will we eventually be able to
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 22, 2014, 04:37 AM »
For electric cars they can just Tesla Zap you.  :)

There may be a long wait to "fully charged" though.
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Living Room / Re: when will we eventually be able to
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 21, 2014, 06:20 PM »
Hmm, there's something to be said for the old manual way of doing things.  When I was in High School my father got this sudden urge to take a break from electronics and become a gas station dealer.

In the summer it was actually fun.  Especially wiping the wind screens of hot chicks in mini-skirts.  The customer just sat on his or her ass and rolled down the window to order fuel.  The attendant wiped the windshield and if requested, checked the oil and even the tire air pressure.  There was no slot to put quarters in for compressed air.  It was free and at sufficient pressure it didn't take 5  minutes to inflate one tire.

The full service gas station had its good points.  I probably never would have gotten into auto repair except from my father's station I learned tire change, balance and oil change etc..

Winter and heavy rain is another story best forgotten.  :)  I remember the summers.  :)
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Living Room / Re: Unlimited Energy Solution Found!
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 21, 2014, 06:06 PM »
(see attachment in previous post)
-Stephen66515 (October 21, 2014, 05:17 PM)

If you hook a coke machine up to your power source is that cat-a-tonic?
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Living Room / Re: Unlimited Energy Solution Found!
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 21, 2014, 06:05 PM »
That cat looks pretty offended/scared/worried about Batman eating that pony.
-Deozaan (October 21, 2014, 05:13 PM)

I thought he was going to tell me "only you can prevent wild fires."  :)
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Malwarebytes FREE and PRO/Premium - Mini-Review.
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 21, 2014, 11:06 AM »
The main flaw I find in MBAM now is if I right click a file or folder to scan it and get the Database is out of Date, it doesn't resume the job after I update.  Either that or I don't know how to get it to.  So I've taken to running it, click update if it needs it, close it, right click yadda yadda.  That kind of kills off the convenience factor.  :)
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Living Room / Re: Unlimited Energy Solution Found!
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 21, 2014, 10:59 AM »
I just hope no one makes any s-cat-ological references. 

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Living Room / Re: when will we eventually be able to
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 21, 2014, 10:29 AM »
Why would petrol companies deny money from people with inferior or not specific dna?

The same reason Winston Smith could not get new razor blades.  The politics of shortage.  Winston was only a member of the Outer Party(tm.)

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Living Room / Re: DRM in your coffee maker, to stop you from brewing unlicensed coffees
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 21, 2014, 05:46 AM »

So, yeah, now I have a 1 cup coffee maker, without DRM, that cost me a whopping $0.33. And it brews loose tea, too. :D

App that's cheating.  Your coffee maker should have a slot to swipe your credit card.  :)
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Living Room / Re: DRM in your coffee maker, to stop you from brewing unlicensed coffees
« Last post by MilesAhead on October 21, 2014, 05:45 AM »
I only drink 2, maybe 3 coffees in a day so I'll defer to those with experience.  Is it possible to get good Espresso results using ordinary drip methods?  I'm not sure if the cafe con leche places use an espresso machine for speed or if it's really necessary to get the quality.

Some customers get the coffee staight up.  But if you add a lot of milk I think it takes the concentrated coffee to stand up to it, if that makes any sense.

For a time I used Medaglia D'Oro canned espresso in a drip maker.  But I only used the regular amount of coffee.  I was going for the flavor of it rather than trying to make Espresso.

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