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Mark_Wallace wrote: To the Linux guys:
For God's sake produce an OS with a semi-decent UI!
Ubuntu PC operating system | Ubuntu[^] looks pretty good these days (and ASP.NET 5 now compiles and runs happily on it) 
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I've got Ubuntu set up on this lappy (dual boot). I have a feeling I'm going to be using it more and more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I switched to OSX when Windows 8 came out and haven't looked back. Windows feels clunky and half-finished these days - I only use it for .NET development these days.
I like Ubuntu as well - I wouldn't be surprised if more and more people move away from using Windows eventually.
The whole thing's rigged to blow, touch those tanks and "boooom"!
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I agree with you 100%.
I'm having update issues with Windows 7 on a home laptop and the VM I previously mentioned.
The home laptop is forcing me to upgrade to Win10, which I am trying to do, but it fails every time from every Microsoft provided way of upgrading even though they say it will work fine.
The VM is now finally completely updated but one .NET framework update (4.5.1 to 4.6.1) fails consistently.
Why do we use Microsoft OS at all? The updates are now so pernicious at this point it is as if you really do not own the hardware at all. Microsoft will tell you what you will run on your machine. 
Here's a snapshot of the failure and MS offer of help which is a total failure.
http://raddev.us/images/sysinternals/winupdatefailagain.png[^]
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I've got quite an interesting screenshot, myself: winupd_01.jpg[^]
Note the operating system, and the time of the last recorded update (I get security updates from another source).
The "Onedrive for Business" thing was installed just after 3pm yesterday.
Installed without my requesting it, and without my permission (and with win 8, they still need explicit permission).
What do you call something that you neither want nor request, but that is installed on your computer stealthily by another program you have previously installed, with the objective of making money out of you?
How many more lines is MS going to cross?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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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.
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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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