Posts by JW 1

Re: The ONLY things going for it were

>>Am I mis-remembering, or was NT 3.51 quite a bit more stable than NT4 until SP3 came out?<<

If I remember right, NT4 was mostly 3.51 with a 'slicker' front end. SP's made it better of course.

Re: I'm one step ahead of Satya!

At first it sounded like you weren't paying for Spotify since you said "shuffle everything" but then mentioned price. I also do the four account thing which is awesome. But I can and do point Spotify to my local music. Also the only thing it wants me to shuffle play is if I just go to a specific artist and don't select an album.

Can't see Spotify as just 'usable' and they are making constant updates probably cause they know that people get soooo terrified of a big change.

Citizens United

Pretty much says, along with former presidential candidate Romney, that a company is a person. Designed specifically so that companies could donate to candidates. So why wouldn't ethics apply? I mean I know they won't, but if it weren't for the voracity of shareholders, it might not.

Re: Go ahead @kryptylomese

Not tried this but Google says:

http://blog.zwiegnet.com/linux-server/install-ksplice-on-linux-mint-2/

Re: Esc

Nice :wq

And History

For God's sake until PowerShell gives us persistent history by default it will make my blood boil.

Always this old canard

I'm by no means an Apple fan (don't own a single device) but Microsoft was busted due to an ILLEGAL monopoly. They coerced PC vendors to sell only Windows with ONLY IE on it. And, since Windows was at one time >90% of the PC market they controlled a monopoly on OS.

Apple, nor anyone else for that matter, has ever come close to that monopoly power. While Google may own a great deal of the search market they aren't forcing themselves on people. You can easily switch engines.

Just stop it with the why not Apple? Apple does not hold a monopoly on anything.

Re: Evidence.

>>In my opinion the Universe was created 5 minutes ago, including not only all the fossils but also us and our memories.<<

oooh, put's me in the mind of the great movie Dark City. May fire that up tonight as the world remakes itself. If you haven't seen it Roger Ebert rightly stated 'if the Matrix were perfect it would be Dark City'

JW

Re: I still shudder...

Forgot about that but soooo true. Yesterday a client had me getting files off an old Vista laptop prior to wipe/Win7 load. That file copy problem still existed in SP2. An 8gig wifi file transfer was supposedly going to take anywhere from 2 hours to 19 hours. Fortunately he had an old external hd but shocking how horrible that system was at the most basic of computer tasks.

Re: I reckon that I have something...

Seriously, Dark City? That is actually a masterpiece so probably too deep for you. Ebert would get many film professionals and review it frame by frame for the extraordinary elements in it. Read his reviews and enlighten yourself.

Re: Cloud first indeed

3 months ago I would have agreed with you. Then I was let go from a tanking 'enterprisey' company. When I took over the IT management we were out of capital. Capital expenses are killer to struggling or small companies. The latter I'm becoming very aware of while consulting. These guys just cannot lay out the $2-$3K we regularly did back in the enterprise when we had cash. But most of them in either circumstance can dole out the monthly charge.

In terms of MS raising prices, as long as there is competition, and there's plenty in this space, I bet they don't raise prices.

In terms of lock-in I've been using Office 365 for four years now and have moved three new companies to it (it's fantastic for new, and smaller companies) and because of the OneDrive integration with the desktop a move off there really wouldn't be that tough.

Just my experience though.

JW

Re: Plenty of retailer incentives for MCX

Man, if I could pay by bonking my phone on the clerks head that's the only form of payment I'd use.

Lenovo smartshell

What is this smartshell. I can't find any reference to it.

Re: RISK

Geeky board game, yes. What you're looking for is RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing). Since you spelled it wrong twice you lose some credibility especially after such a tediously long post. And yes tl:dr.

Re: Well that's all well and good, but...

Having just gone through this as a test with a laptop's restore disks;

I had to install all pending updates then installing 8.1 from "The Store" the Update came with it. It wasn't a separate install.

Side note a fresh restore of a Win8 laptop had to install 180+ updates before it would even attempt to install 8.1 and that sucker is more than 3.5gb.

Re: Quick fix

Surely Ctrl+Shift+P

Re: @obligatory smug Linux geek (Hans 1)

Ha, what? I've upgraded Ubuntu machines from v7 all the way to 12.04 with nary a blink. In fact an upgrade fixed a broken command line only box. I just went from from 13.04 to 13.10 in about an 90 minutes.

Linux may not be a panacea but it's much better in terms of upgrades and package management.

Re: "We love you, Steve!"

My sister-in-law works there and is bizarrely proud of a Steve Ballmer signed Windows 7 box. It's a mass produced stamped signature, but by god it's got Steve-o's name on it. They go voluntarily.

@Ian But an 'Illegal" monopoly?

I don't believe there's actually anything wrong with being a monopoly if you don't do it illegally. If they don't coerce the action to use the product like Microsoft did to PC companies with regards to the OS and tying the browser into the OS, then it's not illegal. Not really Google's fault everyone uses their search engine other than quality returns.

I would wait to see if there's a technical or competitive reason Google prevents WP7 from accessing YouTube APIs.