ThatsTheGuy
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Is it too late for coffee? I'm brewing a cup now. Only one....Maybe.
The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 03: Come On In
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TarnishedPenny
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HP, much as I admire persistance, may I ask why you are hell-bent on self-flagellation with a semi-obsolescent programme? I liked 7 better than I do 10, but unless you have a true fetish for the computer version of the E model Jag, why knout that deceased equine beast?
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Pour me some. I need that last shot of caffeine before an early night.
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I liked 7 better than 10 too. I think it has something to do w/the pre-programmed hard drive. It's messing w/my processor as well. I'm trying to figure a way around it or how to integrate it into something entirely different I'm looking into.
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Semi-obsolescent? I think Microsoft is actively killing Win 7.
I've not driven one, but I suspect the E-model Jag was way more interesting than Win 7. The Jag may have even required less frequent maintenance.
I think HP is still a DOS fan. I won't point and laugh, because I still resort to the Unix command line rather often.
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"Free plot bunny to a good home."
Cereal at midnight. No, that's not the name of my latest story but it might have potential. Rather, I got a hankering for Cheerios, and then HM decided she wanted some. Then it ended up with three naked people sitting on the floor around the coffee table eating cereal. We've finished off the whole box of Cheerios and most of a gallon of milk.
So, now I'll make fresh coffee for the morning crew. Have fun, if nothing else.
Cereal at midnight. No, that's not the name of my latest story but it might have potential. Rather, I got a hankering for Cheerios, and then HM decided she wanted some. Then it ended up with three naked people sitting on the floor around the coffee table eating cereal. We've finished off the whole box of Cheerios and most of a gallon of milk.
So, now I'll make fresh coffee for the morning crew. Have fun, if nothing else.
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Some [unspecified] while ago, I replaced XP with 7 on one of my rebuilt machines (an exercise in home-brew). Then uSoft decided to get 10 out there by an automatic 'upgrade' and I was prevented from stopping it. So I persisted with 10, despite there not being a suitable manual on it, and came to the conclusion that it was not designed for blokes like me ('all things to all men'; and at the same time).
Eventually, I had to give in on XP [sadly] and got 7 pro.
I see no valid reason to fork out a small fortune on Win 10 when, quite frankly, I can do most of what I need in DOS 6.22 or Win 3.11.
And - Yes, I still remember DOS with some affection. In those days you could LEARN about computers, not have an assembly/ collection of what some blighter thinks I should have ("keyboard failure - press F1").
And with that, I'll have a large coffee, if you please.
My desktops all run 7 Enterprise. My notebook/tablet hybrid runs 8.1 Enterprise. I was going to upgrade to 10 and try it out but the Enterprise version costs a fortune and I need some of the tools enterprise provides (I is a software engineer of the sort what does stuff that at times needs accesses that not-enterprise versions simply do not allow).
8 & 10 add overhead (a HUGE amount of overhead) that does nothing for desktops that do not have a touchscreen, and the interface sucks if you isn't using a touchscreen - you have to switch to desktop mode and the unused drivers are still sucking up CPU like mad - without the enterprise version that lets you kill that stuff - yuck. Since the drivers for my drawing tablets do better than the Win tablet driver (the driver that supports the pen (stuff like handwriting and drawing)) included in 8.1 and 10 I decided until win 10 actually works better than 7 I'm not updating.
So far my experiments with employer puters indicate that as of Jan 2018 win 10 performance is still about 1/2 of what I get out of 7 for stuff like rendering CGI, compiling programs, and reading/writing porn - the big 3 users of my (personal) puters
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8.1 on my Yoga 2 Pro sucks but not nearly as much as 10 does.
7 works better than Vista (so does a calculator with a bad battery, but that's a different rant), and is almost as fast as XP was but has fewer dumb crashes. And it only takes 5 minutes to boot up (I really really need to get modern HDs).
8 & 10 add overhead (a HUGE amount of overhead) that does nothing for desktops that do not have a touchscreen, and the interface sucks if you isn't using a touchscreen - you have to switch to desktop mode and the unused drivers are still sucking up CPU like mad - without the enterprise version that lets you kill that stuff - yuck. Since the drivers for my drawing tablets do better than the Win tablet driver (the driver that supports the pen (stuff like handwriting and drawing)) included in 8.1 and 10 I decided until win 10 actually works better than 7 I'm not updating.
So far my experiments with employer puters indicate that as of Jan 2018 win 10 performance is still about 1/2 of what I get out of 7 for stuff like rendering CGI, compiling programs, and reading/writing porn - the big 3 users of my (personal) puters
.8.1 on my Yoga 2 Pro sucks but not nearly as much as 10 does.
7 works better than Vista (so does a calculator with a bad battery, but that's a different rant), and is almost as fast as XP was but has fewer dumb crashes. And it only takes 5 minutes to boot up (I really really need to get modern HDs).
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Well, I do empathize. I stuck with 7 until a hardware problem forced me to get a new computer. Not being possessed with HP's skill or persistance, I am now possessed by 10.
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I think that sequence was wrong HP. Coffee first, THEN the computer....
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Looks like you should start a coffee nap thread as well.That's good. Most guys and/or the company they work for are all about ripping people off. The ones who take the time to show you tricks of the trade are the ones whom I do business with for that reason alone. If I'm being ripped off, I'll damn sure let them know.
On a side note, I'm a pretty handy Jack of all trades type to have around. Most house/apt building plumbing I'm very familiar with as an aside. I've made extra money doing such things whenever I've been in a pinch. I don't have it in me to rip people off. I'm a cocky prick - not a ripoff prick.
I stopped doing many things free or decent prices cuz someone I never met tried taking me to small claims court over some stupid shit. They lost badly - pathetically bad. The residing judge made them reimburse me for my time and court costs. I did no have an attorney either.
Heh. I layed down to relax and relaxed until daybreak. I put coffee in fridge and nuked it this morning.
Cream and sugar are on the counter.
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From the problems I'm getting ('Is that a hardware problem, Sir ?") to say nothing of the legalese junk (I'm sure a very large part of the price of software is going towards their legal beagle's Bills).
['Enter your 58 digit Key code now' which is no help if you've put the code somewhere SAFE].
FaeLissa My desktops all run 7 Enterprise.
8 & 10 add overhead (a HUGE amount of overhead) that does nothing for desktops that do not have a touchscreen, and the interface sucks if you isn't using a touchscreen - you have to switch to desktop mode and the unused drivers are still sucking up CPU like mad - without the enterprise version that lets you kill that stuff - yuck.
I decided until win 10 actually works better than 7 I'm not updating.
7 works better than Vista (so does a calculator with a bad battery, but that's a different rant), and is almost as fast as XP was but has fewer dumb crashes. And it only takes 5 minutes to boot up (I really really need to get modern HDs).
Nicely put, that.
I think that sequence was wrong HP. Coffee first, THEN the computer....
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Thank you, Chloe; just what I need
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This guy has his own small business. Just the two of them and a friend recommended him so i talked to the lady that owns the house (it's her dad's and he lives with her now, right across the road) and she talked to him and they hit it off I and he was right on it. Almost done now. Only the painting of the walls and the carpet to replace and it's done.... should all be fixed by the time my beloved returns.
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Large black, please.
I long for the simpler days, when Bill Gates was still the boy genius and upgrading to a 386 was cause for celebration.
I long for the simpler days, when Bill Gates was still the boy genius and upgrading to a 386 was cause for celebration.
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Ah, a latte and two whole hours to apply edits to the poetry book.
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Ah, the good ol' days, when trolls were something only billy goats had to deal with.
Here's a spooky thought. In 40 years, our kids will be looking back at 2018 as 'the good old days'.
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*shivers*
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Does anyone know enough Latin to do a good translation for me? I guess it's too colloquial for google translate to work.
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I can try as long as it isn't too long. Send a PM.
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It's one sentence and a pm coming in seconds....
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Bill Gates was never a genius at anything besides ripping people off. He bought the DOS he sold IBM from someone else.
Hey now, I still have a 386 under the desk for mule work. It runs on Linux as fast as some modern computers.
Fresh coffee for the afternooner crowd.
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Glugging noises and ... it's gone! Let me make the refill
- coz I just got home and the plumbers are a-painting, Ogg gave me my latin (for my Geek Day story... getting totally erudite here) and I am heads down pounding away. Decided to take a break from my novel, finish the geek day story and get it in coz I like it.
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Put it up here Chloe - then we can squabble about it (nicely of course).
Already got it.
Thx to Ogg - he must have done Latin at school 
Check out the story title in my signature line. From Virgil and The Aeneid (“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes”), except perhaps not quite as Virgil wrote it.
