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Gerry Schmitz wrote: What is your average (older) person going to do with a DEMAND for a pin
As an older person I can tell you they would get the standard pin I use for all hotel room safes and any other pin requirement. The bank pin would never be used anywhere but the bank web site that I access via the link I store in favourites.
Seriously just because we are old does not mean we are stupid, possibly senile but someone will have taken their computer away from us by then.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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How about my "old" father then who is 90% blind?
You know what I meant; I didn't think it necessary for a whole song and dance.
In any event, I had another ("farm-type") "older relative" get ripped off by the "infected pc script" site who should have contacted me first.
Her "farm-type" nephew could have fixed it too.
Or is farm-type a problem for you too?
Oh, and I'm probably older than you.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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If you're closer to 70 than 60 you might just be older than Mycroft.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Want to make something of it if I was?
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Yep, you'd be an old Mike Hunt.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Is that good?
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Is that good?
Being old and not dead is always very good. Mike Hunt is rhyming slang for ladies parts and is generally not a good thing to be called, though here in Australia it is a term of endearment used amongst close mates.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Yah crappy day and you got the brunt of it  Xamarin has got get better than this FFS.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Rick York wrote: and ready to punch one of those dimwitted dumbasses in Redmond.
get in line. The forced updates "we will help you" decision, in my opinion, is grounds for summary dismissal. If you worked for me, the conversation would go:
me: Who decided to force updates and reboots on users?
DD: That was me, it will make us more secure.
me: Ever thought about developers, people who run multiple virtual machines?
DD: Sure, but it will make us more secure.
me: take it out now
DD: No, the marketing manager made me put it in.
me: Okay....
DD: Hey, that's my keyboard!
me: Not anymore...
The arrogance shown in that they continue this nonsense...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: On top of it, Microsoft will tell you if your pin is "too easy"?!
Y'know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they came up with "This four-digit pin code is too easy because it only contains four digits".
Seriously, no level of stupidity from ms would shock me, any more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: All Windows updates are now "paused" by me. Note: I can't stop them.
Although it's overkill for most people, if you have other needs for it anyway, then WSUS is the way to go if you're trying to have the final say on OS updates. And that covers all versions of Windows.
Not a single update can slip through without you (a) asking for it and (b) approving it. IF you configure it right (which is pretty trivial).
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Thanks for the tip!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Or just turn off the update service.
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Not that I've ever tried this, but wouldn't the OS start popping up warning messages incessantly? At least with WSUS, you don't have to turn off Windows Update on the clients...
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Interesting.
So you can turn off WU without a single warning, yet if you dare turn off the firewall, OMG, the sky's falling...even though you're sitting behind a router that does a much better job than the Windows Firewall could ever wish to be capable of doing. Or the AV.
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yeah, but you can turn off firewall warnings too cant you? Pretty sure there is a setting for it somewhere.
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I've never had to leave it off long enough for me to look into it to be honest.
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You signed in with Microsoft Account?
I don't think this happens with local or domain accounts.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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MS account. Nothing has varied from my sigin / sleep procedures. No setting changes. Nada. This was triggered by their update. While in sleep mode.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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PIN only happens on MS Accounts. You may have been lucky till now.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Why the fuss? I have one pin to sign in to Windows, and different pins for my bank and credit cards.
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It wouldn't let me sign in without setting one up.
Why do I object to someone "putting a lock on my own house"?
Or consider this: it wanted a new pin without me signing in ... in which case, "whose" pin is it?
No explanation, no "cancel" ... just a loop.
I have yet to make any sense of it ...
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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I'm with you.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Myself I actually like to turn my computers off when I am not using them.
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