Posts by HKmk23 261 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Oct 2007
Waiting for delivery of a Mac Studio. The couple of windows progs that will only run on windows I will run inside a Mac window (Boot Camp).
Windows 11 is a Windows 8 update. There is probably an opening to short Microsoft shares right now.
1.Go to `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WaaSMedicSvc` 3. In right pane, double click on Start registry DWORD to modify its Value data. 4. Set the Value data to 4 to disable Windows Update Medic Service.
2. Disable windows update.
3. Install Edgeblock
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.
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