* Posts by uvavu

6 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Oct 2013

Fiendish CryptoLocker ransomware: Whatever you do, don't PAY

uvavu

Micro$oft, the US and UK governments WANT this to happen to us so that we will insist on a Trusted Computing platform controlled by the Vendors who seek to profit and Governments who seek to spy.

Bonking boffins say bacon biters won't breed

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The promise of a post coital bacon sarnie is a definite pre-requisite in my case.

MS Word deserves DEATH says Brit SciFi author Charles Stross

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Re: Word Perfect largely has itself to blame for it's demise

No, you are on drugs.

I stopped using the word 'paradigm' ten years ago. (I never actually knew exactly what it meant)

We invest in the lengthy learning process of adopting products and we generally stick to them because of this personal investment. That is, the time and mental effort we expended to learn them. It's inertia. The product we see as best, is the product we know the most about. We learn to work around it failings and make the most of it.

I used VI on unix. It's like learning to drive a car. Once you've learnt it, its second nature and worth taking the time to learn. And at the time there was naff all else to beat it on Unix. You don't want to trash all that learning for something else. And then GUI based editors came along.

I've seen the same with the Windows/Mac/Linux debate. We tend to stick with what we have the most invested time and knowledge on, and stay with it and make the most of it.

uvavu

Multimate.

Multimate under dos. How on earth did we manage? Tables -- Luxury. We were lucky if we could even set Tabs. Not to even mention inserting jpegs. I'll get my coat.

Expert chat: The end of Windows XP and IE6

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My mistake, 800MHz FSB, AGP 8 times , 3GHz CPU.

uvavu

Have a 9yr old machine (P4 800Mhz) that runs windows 7 fine. It won't run 720p video, but then neither would Win XP, its not an issue and Flash video runs fine at 480p. All the drivers are supported in Win 7, including a Radeon 9800 video card and on board sound/ethernet.

I tried moving to Suse/Ubuntu/Debian but video/user interface was far too slow. ATI will not release the drivers for any later than the R300 series video chipset under Linux to open source. The Linux ATI video driver sucks, and so I have resorted to Win 7. Maybe i'm one of the few where Windows gives me better hardware support than Linux.

I'm keeping Win 7. I was bitten by the 'Lazy writeback' default cache management when a PSU started failing, but managed to fix the corruption eventually. Turning it off will kill performance but might be a good idea, or buying a decent PSU even better.

It's the only home desktop OS though, that I have ever felt the need to backup before any major updates. Its not as rock solid as XP was.