What else do you expect
He stole Facebook from Harvard University effectively.
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Hear Hear,
every six months or so I download and install some variation of Linux, each time I sadly rebuild back to windows. My favourite programs will not run on Linux and once I get away from the linux GUI opening screen it is gobbledegook....
Yes, I am using Office 2010, Jiosoft Money Manager, Excel 2010, Brave Browser, Visio 2007, Dymo label V.8, Picasa, and...they all work! I am using a homebuilt i9 with 64gb of ram and 18tb of hd storage over five drives.
I design things and monitor the finance market so I do not want outsiders to see my work. My email machine is air gapped to my other networks which are air gapped to my storage. So "cloud" computing will never be of any interest to me.
I dare microsoft to let windows 7 to be open source.....bye bye windows, Mac and linux if that ever happens.......
Brexit would have been great if.......
Great (UK) had followed on with tax haven status, free ports, incentives for start ups etc, but until the house of lords is abolished and the house of commons is filled with people selected the same way as jury selection...
You serve because you have not been found guilty of a crime and you have to serve for 4 years and you will be paid £100,000-0 per year) and not the elected scrotums that currently occupy or are trying to occupy parliament.
We will not succeed in being the power in the world we once were (note I said power in the world NOT world power...there is a big difference).
I am still happily using Office 2010 (offline of course) and posting anything from my standalone internet machine. My networks are all air gapped. All I am waiting for is a Linux edition of my favourite programs: Visio, Jiosoft Money Manager, Myinfo database. I have tried Cinnamon and Mint both Ok, but limited software.
So Fujitsu have been awarded £48 million for a four year contract to supply an new Police National Computer system over the next four years and Fujitsu have at the same time announced that they are pulling out of mainframe computers in four years time......so no backup, no service, no spares......
I supposed they are supplying all the left over surplus remaining clear out stock to the PNC and once its all been dumped on the UK, that's is they are out of it......
That is what you get I suppose when people who have never had to earn any money (or been in business) are spending money they do not know what the value of....
Install a standalone pc (no network) transfer incoming attached emailed files via usb stick,and open them, print the files, scan the printouts back onto an internal networked pc.
Format the usb's after each and every use.
Each night rebuild the standalone from a previously vetted image.
and....of course backup your data......and backup your backups OFFSITE.
My mottto..... " I know I am paranoid....but am I paranoid enough?"
Many years ago I read that eventually those who are unemployed will be the new normal and we needed to be re-educated to look down on the few employed.
AI and our current pandemic has accelerated this.
Those who are productive and inventive and cannot stay idle,will happily work remotely or in fact anywhere, those who need to work in herd environments will need to be re-educated to believe that counting the growth speed of daisies is a valuable contribution to society.
Head in the clouds has been a statement for woolly thinking for ever...... as far as I am concerned "In the cloud" has just been the excuse used by ex (failed?) double glazing salesmen (salespeople?) who do do know have a clue about IT systems to explain what they nor the customer understands.
If Windows 10 is the best Microsoft can do they are finished......an unfinished not fit for purpose operating system that seems to hope that the customers will sort out all the problems....if Windows 10 was a car would you buy one? Not a chance, you have all been hoodwinked by the "free" upgrades.....I have stuck with Windows 7 pro and do not regret it one tiny bit. I dare Microsoft to make Windows 7 open source and then they would find out what an operating system should be.
Happily running windows 7 pro offline and off grid....no problems.....
just keep this one expendable laptop connected to the web with no data or programs on it of any import.....and standalone with its own printer scanner.
I just wish Huawei or even Google would bring out an opsys that would run the half dozen windows programs I love to use. Tried Linux and it does not play nice and Crapple are even worse.....there is an absolute fortune waiting out there for the writer/vendor of a working alternative.
Even now I cannot buy a pocket device that will take a spoken memo or letter and ACCURATELY transcribe it WITHOUT being connected to the web, so it can subsequently be emailed/printed .
So reading pin numbers or passwords at 200 metres or whatever is puff, when they cannot even transcribe my shopping list!
Shitmail.....think about it, basically it is all shit anyway, and those who generate it are generally Sh#ts....
so perhaps if we all starting referring to it as shitmail anyone involved might realise what we think of them, assuming of course the unlikely possibility of them having 2 working brain cells.......
apologies to the moderators but I think it is about time we started to regard spam as what it really is.
I am running windows 10 build 14393.... as it works I stopped it from getting any updates. Of course there are no programs or any information on it of value all that is on my air gapped windows 7 systems.....
In a single sentence can anyone tell me what I have missed apart from the grief everyone seems to be experiencing?
I think the next war is already being fought and won (or lost) in a test tube in a laboratory somewhere. Do I hear the words selective DNA targeting? I understood that Aids/HIV was an early attempt by a letter agency to eradicate certain sections of society and because it was also aimed at some ethnic groups and the technology in 1964 was not sufficiently advanced it did not work as intended....but it has not gone away.
The author wrote "The shooter appeared to have spent as much time planning for the social media impact of his actions as the actual actions themselves."
There you have it. "social" media is the cesspit and like all cesspits that is where all the sh#t ends up. Those who indulge are therefore simply sh#t themselves.
It's not the interface so much as the software that will not run, please do not talk about Wine or any V software they are simply too much hassle. So when Linux can run Visio, Smart Diary, Vegas Pro, Supereyes, Drive pro to name just a few ( which I cannot see Ms#@te ever letting happen) I am stuck as I said happily with Win 7 pro. Just for the record Ubuntu seems to be the most user friendly interface although Mint is a close second.
eg; Who else needed a label "Do not iron this shirt while wearing it"?
When they have nothing else to say the Demoprats revert to "there is a red under the bed".
Trump with all his faults is the best President they have had since Teddy Roosevelt, he has in half a term put their economy back on its feet and although no-one likes to admit it he is also right about the Wall.....why should you not be able to lock your front and back doors? You can still give asylum to people with a genuine need but there is no requirement in the world to have an open house for every terrorist or drug pusher.