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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.
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
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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!
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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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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.
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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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???
Pack of 1: $8.74
Pack of 2: $25.00
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... Braille[^]
I ...
I just ... can't find the words.
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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It says "Move along there's nothing to see here"
Got my site back up after my time in the woods!
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Yes, at first sight it seems mad to have a Braille message on a purely visual amusement. However, ask yourself how, without it, a blind kid would know that this item is purely visual?!
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Precisely. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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And on toll machines on toll roads too.
How do blind people even find the braille messages?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: How do blind people even find the braille messages?
Well, when they fall over the object they will want to feel it to figure out what it was [that they fell over]...
"you have just fallen over a visual aide you stupid git, next time look where you are going."
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For the curious ones: The braille text says (surprise, surprise!) "Fun reflections".
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 I checked that myself with an online reader ... It's harder to read than I expected, easy to make mistakes.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I knew a guy back in college who was blind, and could read IBM punch cards using his fingers. He said they were a PITA compared to Braille, because the holes were spread so far apart.
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Watch blind people using an electronic braille line - you'll be impressed! They use both hands, reading the first half with the left hand, then the right hand takes ove reading the second half while the left hand moves back to the beginning, ready for the next line. Some of them read braille faster than I read printed text! Their hands move so fast that you'd think they are trying to brush away the flies...
Another point that impresses me: I look at the Braille tables and do not recognize some codes that they read, but they tell: Oh, that's just because they use the OP table for representing the special Norwegian alphabetics! Or they use this table, or that table, or maybe UTF8 coding or ... There was at least three different ecodings in use for non-AZ-characters before UTF8, but they never thought of it: A single occurence of a "strange" braille code revealed "This text uses encoding so-and-so". Problem solved, nothing to worry about 
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