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Mark_Wallace wrote: What do you call something that you neither want nor request
Very interesting and quite terrible.
In the update section on my home laptop it shows "Upgrade to Windows 10 Now" even though it shows that I have a bunch of important updates. I can't tell if running the update will run the upgrade to win10 or install the security updates.
It's all just crazy.
Even though they are microsoft I don't understand why they think they can just take over your hardware this way -- installing things you didn't ask for and causing your computer to fail due to updates.
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raddevus wrote: I don't understand why they think they can just take over your hardware this way It's worse for me: a foreign corporation is interfering with my property.
Sure there are hackers in Russia, and penny-pinchers in China, but this is worse than either of those, because MS controls the only defenses that you can use against MS.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I prefer Mint. It's Ubuntu with a different shell.
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I had trouble getting network shares to work with mint, and I don't need trouble with such basic requirements, so I dumped it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hi All,
Earlier Today I used a bit of tech that is missing from most modern PC's...the floppy drive!... I must admit with today's machines and the Wacky Wide Web pretty much all of the things you could need are on the web. I needed a file that was an old Word Perfect document I had typed when the earth was hot (well early 90's) the copy I had backed up on CD failed.
The worst part was trying to find the floppy and then the USB floppy disc drive. I feel like Indiana Jones!
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I actually miss the sound of floppy drives initialising.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Brilliant!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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That's what floppies are for. Excellent.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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We were watching a film at the weekend, name withheld for legal reasons, and in it was a scene that involved someone using a dial-up modem. Both daughters were "de elephant dat?"
veni bibi saltavi
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Just as well it wasn't an acoustic coupler, can see why directors liked them!
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The last time I needed a floppy, I found an old drive, added it to the PC, inserted the disk, and...got "general failure reading drive A".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: general failure reading drive A
What a poor General when he's named Failure. But at least he was reading drive A!
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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It's pronounced "fell-yure"; he's French.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No, he's 'Murican: he's with the NSA.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have a lot of disks, but no drive to read the data. But some is really to old: Installation disks for Windows 3.1.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I raise: DOS 3.2.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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And I will raise you a DOS 2.11 (on 360k 5.25" floppy)
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Still have a stack of punch cards from my Ph.D. thesis.
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I have my punch tape from my tech school's PDP-11.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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OS2 Warp anyone?
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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glennPattonInThePUB wrote: when the earth was hot cold (well early 90's)
FTFY
*effect of global warming
Thanks,
Milind
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This PC has a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive. But it can't use both at the same time.
Oh, and a 56K MODEM.
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