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I'm old fashioned in many respects, and I like my old Minolta Dimage A200 camera.
OK, it doesn't have WiFi, it never heard of Farcebok, and it's only 8MP - but it's got a good lens, and it's a Minolta and I understand them (Used them in the very old "Film" days before I bought a pocket-sized Fuji digital).
But ... it's Compact Flash, and my card reader failed, so I can't access the pictures.
So I bought a cable for £2 from FleaBay. And added an XP VM To Virtualbox. Plug the cable in, turn on the camera and ... it recognised it, installed it as an HDD and gives me the pictures. Win 10? Nah ... don't be silly ... 
Quick - Snapshot that bugger, Griff!
Yay! I can flog that cheap vacuum sealer I bought to tide me over on FleaBay!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I still run XP on a couple of machines at home. One has a scanner attached that didn't work on Windows 7 but was otherwise amazing - 48 bit, scan film negatives wonderfully with built-in scratch repair (that actually worked) and fast!
The other is used as a backup, backup file server and extra wide-format, Canon inkjet printer server. I have a large pile of cartridges for the printer and a giant roll of paper (actually called "butcher's paper" but it take inkjet printing beautifully) that I have fixed up that lets me print nice looking maps, castle layouts and metres long, 18" wide strips of hexes - good for RPG and big war games like Star Fleet Battles.
Neither are connected to the interweb, haven't been updated since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and still work perfectly well, every time!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Now I've finished transferring the pictures, I shut down the VM, turn off the camera, unplug it all.
Then I thought - what about Video?
So I turned the camera on, plugged in the cable, and reached for the VM. But before I got there, a USB drive appeared in "My Computer" and it's the camere files ... 
I think I scared Win10 into submission ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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XP was incredible OS, I kept it until the bitter end. Reliable, dependable, kinda like a faithful old dog!
Windows 7 has been a good OS as well but if they would have kept supporting it I probably would have stayed with it.
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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Mike Hankey wrote: Windows 7 has been a good OS as well but if they would have kept supporting it I probably would have stayed with it.
It's still under support.
But then, given that one of this month's patches breaks network shares, I wish they stopped "supporting" it.
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Mistyped; if they would have kept supporting XP I probably would have stayed with it.
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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I still have an XP VM I fire up every once in a while. If known exploits were still being patched, I'd probably use it more often. But knowing that it's got known problems, I'm doing a lot less with it than I would otherwise.
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Ditto I also have a XP VM, haven't fired it up in quite a while. I have Visual Studio 6 on it that I used to develop on but that' been a few years now.
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
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why would you install win updates in 7?
they are not adding anything new and in fact admitted they are taking stuff out.
they've also admitted even fixing broken stuff is off the table unless it's really really severe.
there is nothing anyone needs in w7 updates - read the release notes - THERE REALLY IS NOTHING.
if you're on w7 you should really have turned off updates a year ago (if not before.)
Do that and it'll last another 10 years.
(If you don't disable updates ms will break it, I'm not dissing ms here, they've actually admitted that this is their intention.)
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Lopatir wrote: read the release notes
I do.
I'm not looking for new features in updates. I'm only installing them to get documented exploits fixed.
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hah! I was using the 64 bit version of XP (so I could use all of my massive 4 MB) until maybe 5 years back when dragged into win7 (for some work I needed to do in .net4.5).
actually don't really miss it.
win10 - nah. gone linux. for the odd occasion I need winduds I vm it.
btw: gone are the old days of linux farting about with obscure shell commands to get the video or/and sound or/and wireless kb or/and wifi or/and .... working
- linux is install and go (ubuntu, mint to name the easiest) and in fact can configure a full working linux system much faster than w7/w10 and then even drive swap it into a different machine and just switch it on and it still goes.
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Yeah I don't do WinDud either and like you I"m migrating to Linux...Debian/Ubuntu/Raspian are my choices, depending on platform.
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Just because they stopped "supporting" it doesn't mean it's not still usable.
I'll be using Win7 (in a VM) for the rest of my days.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah me too, I refuse to go to that ad infested POS WinTurd! Using Linux more and more!
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
JaxCoder.com
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While Win 7 & 10 have been stable machines for me, I still have an XP Pro machine as well; registry tweaked to be "embedded edition".
I enjoy the old fashioned solitaire and freecell.
I prefer using the older SQL tools than SSMS.
And I honestly miss some of the games from Vista that were one edition only
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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MadMyche wrote: I enjoy the old fashioned solitaire and freecell.
I copied the WinXP binaries into a non-OS folder, and run them in Win7 (in a VM). I don't like the Win7 versions either.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I didn't experience XP very much (only for testing) as Win2K was really, really good. I moved straight from that to 7 and now on 10.
I really don't get all the ranting about Win10 except that it's probably the most widely used OS for developers and we don't complain about the things we don't use. 
The only major problem I've ever had with 10 is the seemingly uncontrollable updates and unattended restarts. I changed my behavior to not leave unsaved work in progress overnight. There are still the weird things like custom registry settings/permissions getting reset, but those are small problems that only happen occasionally. Yes, I've tried various Linux flavors in VMs through the years, but then could never find anything really useful to do with them...at least nothing that contributed to the business. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Win2K was really, really good.
I'd second that. In particular, when I was "upgrading" my NT box to Win2K, the entire process was fully completed in just 10 minutes. It took me a lot longer than that to be convinced that everything really was upgraded and working properly, but it all was and that machine carried on for me for years. In contrast when I eventually moved the machine to XP it took about 90 minutes and initially left quite a bit broken.
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I have a machine in our lab running XP. If it ever dies, one of our products will no longer be supportable. This machine runs a development environment for an embedded process, and the IDE is protected by a (God save us) parallel port dongle.
And before any of you say "but you can still buy parallel port adapters!", yes, I know. Unfortunately our experience is that most of them don't implement bidirectional I/O properly, which causes the dongle to fail.
Software Zen: delete this;
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COuld have happened to my kids. Review's awesome.
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Quote: And then the cat crept in and crept out again
The cat crept in and crept out again
So I open the door for that high-heeled paw
I said the cat crept in
Ooh
And crept out again.
I said the cat crept in and we crept out again.
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perhaps they have a dog? or a python?
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Cat's are obviously Top Down thinkers.
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