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Post by rally2xs on Nov 11, 2015 9:40:39 GMT -5
Hmmmm... its Veterans Day morning and nobody bothered to get on and post. I wonder if that 27-item Microsoft update last night broke everyone's computer! Broke mine - it took 2 hours for "Startup Repair" to re-enable my computer to boot. I'm blaming the Microsoft Update last night. Too big of a coincidence for it not to be. Up all night (1:30 AM - 4:30 AM) attempting to get the computer back up, and backed up. It is both, but it wasn't easy - you have to be patient and let Windows "Startup Repair" go for a couple hours, and then you get your computer back. Or... maybe it was just something with my computer, but again, too big a coincidence.
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Post by bobathon on Nov 11, 2015 9:51:27 GMT -5
We've all been raptured and you're still in Purgatory.
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Post by rally2xs on Nov 11, 2015 10:20:33 GMT -5
Yeah, prolly. That would explain the computer going TU.
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Post by bobathon on Nov 11, 2015 11:26:05 GMT -5
PS That was YEARS ago. Think about it.
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Post by DA on Nov 11, 2015 17:56:44 GMT -5
Hmmmm... its Veterans Day morning and nobody bothered to get on and post. I wonder if that 27-item Microsoft update last night broke everyone's computer! Broke mine - it took 2 hours for "Startup Repair" to re-enable my computer to boot. I'm blaming the Microsoft Update last night. Too big of a coincidence for it not to be. Up all night (1:30 AM - 4:30 AM) attempting to get the computer back up, and backed up. It is both, but it wasn't easy - you have to be patient and let Windows "Startup Repair" go for a couple hours, and then you get your computer back. Or... maybe it was just something with my computer, but again, too big a coincidence. I don't allow them to install updates unless I authorize it. No way am I going to upgrade windows 7 to 10. Made the mistake of updating Windows so I could get Windows 10 before I learned about it, and then it constantly kept saying it would update to 10. I finally was able to undo the reminders by cancelling the actual update, and now it does it no more. What version of windows are you using?
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Post by k9krap on Nov 11, 2015 18:12:54 GMT -5
The problem is obvious! It's MS Windows! You should be using a version of Linus or Apple OS, which is a version of Linux.
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Post by bobathon on Nov 11, 2015 19:58:50 GMT -5
Isn't the next famboy supposed to be from the linux group?
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Post by rally2xs on Nov 11, 2015 22:29:17 GMT -5
The problem is obvious! It's MS Windows! You should be using a version of Linus or Apple OS, which is a version of Linux. Linux sucks - is compatible with virtually nothing - and you always end up screwing around on a command line with millions of little 2-letter commands to get anything done. Do I want to go casting about all over the internet if I want a version of a game to play on Linux? Photoshop for Linux? Nope, you have to trick it, starting with some of the accursed command line jargon, such as: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks before you can get started trying to get PS6 to install. Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. Linux is free only if your time is worth zero. At least with windows, you stick in a CD or DVD, wait for the installer to pop up on the screen, agree to the license agreement that nobody really reads, and you're off - just answer the questions, a 6 year old can do it in most cases. Oh, wait, there's more command line nonsense for Linux and Photoshop. Here's another: winetricks atmlib gdiplus msxml3 msxml6 vcrun2005 vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008 ie6 fontsmooth-rgb Really? Could ANYONE not some kind of a linux geek ever figure that out? Nope. And the zinger is the next line: "If a few errors pop-up, don’t worry – chances are this install will still work." Chances are that the install will work? CHANCES ARE? Well, what if it DOESN'T work? Fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. In point of fact, all I had to do was wait 2 hours for a built-in program to repair the bootup routine in Win 7, and I didn't need a freakin command line to do it either - no syntax errors, no catastrophes if there is a single bad character in the command line that really tells it to do something completely different. Computers suck in general, but Linux has a whole special corner of sucking in the computer world. Maybe that's why the masses have not migrated, even tho its free? 'Spose?
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Post by k9krap on Nov 11, 2015 23:04:53 GMT -5
If you're editing photos, Apple OS is much better for it. Every professional photographer I know or have interacted with swears by it.
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Post by rally2xs on Nov 11, 2015 23:54:45 GMT -5
If you're editing photos, Apple OS is much better for it. Every professional photographer I know or have interacted with swears by it. Yeah, I've heard Apple is actually better than Windows for this. But this last upgrade of the Apple OS I read a lot of whining on the net because Apple didn't make very much of an effort at backward compatibility, so a lot of people lost a lot of $$$ having to re-purchase software they'd been using for years. Windows sux, but it does, I think, suck less. Computers suck in general, but I'd really hate to have to be buying some expensive program all over again because Apple decided to do something hinky with their OS, and my old SW won't work now. I'm about to make the leap to Win 10. Most everything I have will run. Some games won't, I'm gonna lose Call of Duty United Offensive, but that was ancient when they used to set it up on Saturday night for group gaming at my duty in Iraq. Fun 1st-person shooter. Another non-compatible is Pinnacle video editing software, but all I really need from that package is the drivers for the Dazzle modem to convert NTSC TV video to digital video, and THAT is now available on the net. Otherwise, I have a video editor in Creator 10, which supposedly will work. We'll see. New disk arriving tomorrow night, prolly do clean install of Win 10 on it. Insisting on clean install this time to be able to drop all the crap that builds up over time and would likely be carried forward. Tried an SSD in my old computer late last week, and the new SSD would not accept Win 10 with the old motherboard's SATA disk controllers. Happens sometimes, I'm told. So a little hardware fiddling, sent back SSD to Amazon, order WD "Black" performance 1 TB 7200 RPM drive which should be here tomorrow night. Shouldn't take more than 3 weeks to find the installs for all the programs I have on Win 7 now. Prolly won't PUT all those programs on - I have programs I haven't used yet this year. MoveOnBoot - haven't needed it for a couple years, I think. I'll just keep the installer, but not install it. AXE, a binary editor, haven't used it in years. Stuff like that. Try to cut down on the bloat.
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Post by DA on Nov 12, 2015 0:23:11 GMT -5
Rally, if you upgrade to Windows 10, make sure you set up the permissions and don't take the standard ones. Windows 10 pries way too much into everything on your computer. I'll stick with my Windows 7 as long as I can.
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Post by rally2xs on Nov 12, 2015 4:52:22 GMT -5
Rally, if you upgrade to Windows 10, make sure you set up the permissions and don't take the standard ones. Windows 10 pries way too much into everything on your computer. I'll stick with my Windows 7 as long as I can. Do realize that Win 10 is only free for a year, and at some point they'll stop supporting Win 7, and you'll practically be forced into either 10, or one of the non-windows OS's. OTOH, Win 10 is only about $110, so... no problem if you want to wait 'til 2035... <G> There's speculation that this is the _last_ Windows flavor. No 11, 12, 13, etc. Hopefully. Tired of the continuous upgrades. The only big improvement I think I'd like to see is the ability to change 1 setting and then be able to run anything that used to run on Win XP. Win 7 has a mode that allows XP emulation, but then you're completely out of 7 and into XP, so your Win 7 stuff doesn't work - not Microsoft Office in Win 7, not anything current. You have to go and populate every little thing in the XP emulator. Not what I really want. But anyway, that capability is gone in Win 10 too.
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Post by DA on Nov 12, 2015 5:16:20 GMT -5
Can't remember if I heard it was only upgraded free for a year or not, thanks for the info though. Eventually I may switch, but will wait until last minute if I do. I need to research it more before I make my final decision.
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