Re: Sparky's Magic Fusebox
But if you have a car with Lucas Electrics, you need to keep one of these on hand:
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> I dropped my Hulu subscription when some of the programs I was watching suddenly required a valid cable subscription to watch. I mean, WTF?!!! If I had cable TV why would I be using Hulu in the first place?
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Yes, I hate taht bit, especially when the channels you want to watch are loaded with commercials. I mean, Hello? You're running commercials on it, so you're **already** getting paid for them. In the end I just say "you don't want me to watch your shows? That's fine with me. I'm quite happy NOT to watch them. Goodbye suckers." We have AcornTV for the British shows, once I'm working again I'll subscribe to Crunchyroll and perhaps the high-end Hulu to get all those shows without commercials, and we have Netflix for.... Um.... Well, we had it for something/
> I may be naive, but what on earth do you get for $150 a month? That's gotta be about £100 at the moment?
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That's why we dropped cable entirely. Now we just have Crapcast for internet and phone. For the couple of shows we really wanted to watch, it wasn't worth the extra $80/month. Especially since the vast majority of what I was watching was on Netflix, Hulu/Funimation or Crunchyroll anyway.
Are you kidding? ReactOS is *only* 10-12 years away from functional Win-XP compatibility...
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Of course, ROS should have gotten a group of corporations to throw moey and resources behind it back in 2011, about the time they seriously started considering the impending EOL for XP. For a fraction of what they're going to spend migrating to MSW7, 8.x or (ugh) W10, they could have had a usable drop-in replacement that THEY could exert control on. But the MBAs running companies these days are brain-dead.
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Then again, isn't saying "MBA" and "brain-dead" redundant anyway?
Not quite MSW 3.11, but in the days of MSW 3.0, I had one of those MSW demos that would load *from floppy*. I had found MSW3 so un-inspiring I just continued to use MS-DOS applications. But I *did* want to play Solitaire occasionally, so I cooked up a 2-floppy setup that would boot the computer with a (then) mega-sized disk cache, and then load sol.exe as the MSWin "shell" (so it would boot and immediately load Solitaire). The first game through would be dog-slow (even considering it was MSWindows anyway), but subsequent games would fly.
I'm looking at their list of machines they would consider "eligible", and I'd probably be grateful to have something that new. My daughter still uses an HP Pentium4 laptop with Linux, and it just logs into her school Google Docs account. Perfectly functional (which the corresponding MS "trade-up" probably wouldn't be).
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This stinks of the same sort of BS as President Obie's "cash for clunkers" scam, where every car I had and was still using would have been too old to qualify. I might (emphasize "might") have been happy trading one of mine for one of those so-called "clunkers". Are you sure MS isn't part of the Obama administration?
> You'd have to sacrifice the whole population of London in order to upgrade iTunes into a simply dreadful programme. Anything less and you just make it stronger.
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The only reason I ever installed whyTunes (and in a MSWin VM at that, since it just refuses to work under Wine) was to use a $50 gift card I got. And you know what? Over a year later, I still have $12 credit on it (the jPop selection on whyTunes stinks).
> Another year or so of updates and it should be one of the better OS MS have shat out...
If you don't mind that the interface/desktop is severely F-U-G-L-Y....
There is simply NO way to make the W10 interface look other than something designed by a 6-month-old with crayons and a full diaper...
>> "I have just bought a GPS that REQUIRES Windows (or a Mac) to upgrade
>> the maps. Imagine my disappointment"
> Always read the small print.
> But check if Wine will do the trick. Or Vista in a VM.
Or RearmWizard with a MSWin7 evaluation install....
And, seeing as it's a hack on top of the Enterprise version, it will never *offer* to upgrade to MSWin10 either.
But definitely in a VM. I would never waste physical hardware on MSWin. Except for some crap laptop (dead battery, broken DVD drive, falling-off keys, etc) with MSWin10 TP. Which I haven't booted in months anyway (hoped to find some parts to make the lappy usable again).
> (no way of loading malware, unless you are tom cruise),
Ah, he's going to stand next to it and rant about Scientology? Or will he actually make it watch one of his movies? Either way, the hardware will fry itself just to be relieved of it's misery.
I find it amusing to see the defunct brand names companies will fork over money for. For those in the NYC/Tri-state area, there was an electronics chain called "Crazy Eddie". Eventually the company was forced into bankruptcy (but not after Eddie and family spent the entire lifetime of the company skimming profits and cooking the books), with Eddie Antar being extradited from Israel and sent to federal prison for a few years. So tell me, why would ANYONE in their right mind want to buy the rights to THAT name? I mean, you could hire their hyperactive pitchman Jerry Carroll without having to own the extremely tarnished Crazy Eddie name (presuming Carroll is still alive, that is).
Yeah, I had one job where a couple of months after I was sacked, the owner called me and wanted some technical advice. I gave him some vague, useless and sufficiently BS answers (hey, I could be a politician or IT salesperson <g>), I proceeded to send him a bill for 2-hours colsulting time (was a 5-10 minute phone call). Needless to say, he never bothered me again.
> Plus the reason people usually use Firefox is that they don't like Chrome. But Mozilla just want to turn Firefox...into Chrome.
Yeah, that's part of it. Another *significant* reason is that GoogleChrome tends to bring my system to a standstill (and that's on a Linux box, where applications should never have the ability to kill the OS itself). Chrome must want to be the only app running on a system, because as soon as it starts, nothing else will run. And on MSWin? I found on *multiple* machines (and multiple MSWin versions) that, even if you were to set the home/default page to a *completely blank* local HTML page, the browser would barf on loading that page, or just crash altogether.
Yeah, TB is significantly more important to me than FF. Maybe the LibreOffice folks can take it and clean it up from all the MozillaSuck it's weighed down with.
> Windows ME wasn't all THAT bad, personally I found it a better OS especially compared with the shite they called Windows 98.
The MSWin ME CDs were handy for extracting some updated files in order to install a "hacked" version of MSW98. When I was running MSW98, I would install it using the "98lite" utility (which actually pulled files from MSW95) in order to (of course) remove the cruft from '98. But the ME files were useful if you were running the highly-unofficial "Win98 Third Edition", which was a lot of aftermarket, 3rd-party patches which would bring MSW98 up to Win2K or WinXP compatibility.
> Anywaym this means I'm definitely in the "feeling old" camp ... may even start reminiscing about loading bootstraps using front panel switches and stackes of fanfold paper tape if I'm not carefull!
You mean like the hardware I had to use in my high school days? This was my "terminal" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33) attached to one of these: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11)
And here we are, 30 years later, and MSWin once again has a flat, boring, lifeless look, and they even brought back the "hamburger menus" (that's right, does that object in the window corner look familiar?) So I guess all that *really* changed with MSWin10 is they moved the decimal point over one space and bloated the code up with lots of extra cruft.
> Unfortunately this is the way everything is going, we can hold out in windows 7 for a few years, but then we the El Reg comentards can go Linux. But our mums will still be bewildered by MS, and we'll still have to help them. Even if we do bang our heads against the screen in frustration.
Hey, could always go for a MSWin-clone like ReactOS. They're expecting to have a v1.0, fully XP-compatible release available in about 10 years from now....
> SELinux isn't much protection against an attacker with root access!
That's presuming SELinux was in use at all. 17 **YEARS** after it was first introduced, there are *STILL* major packages that require you to entirely disable SELinux for them to run. And a large number of them are made by the "geniuses" at IBM.
> To put some linux distro on my chromebook.
I did kind of the opposite. I took some nearly 9lb Pentium4 laptop with Linux Mint, and set up a login that auto-hides the panel and autostarts Google Chrome, logged into my daughter's Google Desktop account from elementary school. Made a free pseudo-Chromebook of sorts. Lightweight it ain't, cheap it is (and if she breaks it, I still have a Thinkpad T23 to use, or maybe I'll have a spare used X64 machine by then).
> My wife's Windows 7 laptop just received a huge update...I can only assume it's Microshit's spyware bundle. It totally fucked up the laptop. She turned to me last night and said "I want Linux on this laptop when you get a chance."
All our machines, including my wife's, were running Linux. Then she got into fecking World of Warcraft. Now she has a MSW8 machine for her fecking gaming, and she says "you're not allowed to touch this one".. Hey, fine by me.
> in fact you can pretty much make it look and behave just like Windows 7. This was the big U-turn people were talking about a little while back that I guess you missed.
Ah, so you can disable the themes service and get back the Win2000 look, just like you could all the way through MSWin7??? What? No you can't? Ah, I guess I must have misunderstood you while you were talking out of your ass.