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Forum: General 02-17-2022, 08:31 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Yes looks pretty much abandoned to the basic...

Yes looks pretty much abandoned to the basic driver in Windows update, post Windows 7...
Forum: General 02-17-2022, 07:10 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Onedrive can be disabled and uninstalled. You...

Onedrive can be disabled and uninstalled. You should find guides online.

With Windows 10/11 you have to complete setup of your user accounts offline otherwise MS force you onto Microsoft account...
Forum: General 11-09-2021, 11:14 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
The Windows 11 system requirements are...

The Windows 11 system requirements are interesting:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-11-specifications

Some highlights:

64 bit only
Intel Core 8th gen / AMD Zen+ minimum...
Forum: General 09-02-2021, 12:06 PM
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Posted By cynwulf
I've never seen build scripts invoking apt...

I've never seen build scripts invoking apt specifically.. That seems particularly shoddy. Seems like holding the hands of a perceived majority of Debian and buntu users at the expense of all other...
Forum: General 08-18-2021, 03:53 PM
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Posted By cynwulf
The "puck mouse" was terrible. Like a lot if...

The "puck mouse" was terrible. Like a lot if Apple crap, it was a gimmick. Designed for idiots [by idiots?].
Forum: General 07-28-2021, 12:14 PM
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Posted By cynwulf
Regardless of the OS a port is open if a) there...

Regardless of the OS a port is open if a) there is a server listening in that port and, more importantly, b) the port is actually open in the firewall.

You could leave leave port 22 (ssh) open,...
Forum: General 07-23-2021, 11:53 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
My "organisation" switched to 365 and now I have...

My "organisation" switched to 365 and now I have a Microsoft account... The main difference is that outlook is now even slower and more sluggish.

Yet more "cloud" nonsense - and companies buy...
Forum: General 07-19-2021, 02:12 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I see it's argumentum ad populum again?

I see it's argumentum ad populum again?
Forum: General 03-24-2021, 10:34 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
What little I've read about "Discord", it seems...

What little I've read about "Discord", it seems to be a platform for online gamers. It has been the subject of numerous controversies regarding the use/abuse of the platform and hosted neo-Nazi...
Forum: General 03-17-2021, 01:21 PM
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Posted By cynwulf
"the now defunct Free Software movement" ...

"the now defunct Free Software movement"

"Open washing" has largely succeeded there. Some of the biggest enemies of free software now have their corporate logos emblazoned on the website for the...
Forum: General 03-16-2021, 07:58 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I started computing in the late 80's but only...

I started computing in the late 80's but only with the web in around 2001. That was using Windows 98SE, 56k dial up and Netscape Communicator.

I remember using a dial up provider (can't remember...
Forum: General 02-04-2021, 12:06 PM
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Posted By cynwulf
I remember talking to people many years ago,...

I remember talking to people many years ago, probably 90s, who were on "computer studies" or "IT" courses and when they told me about the sort of things they were doing, it just seemed like "business...
Forum: General 10-15-2020, 11:02 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I also seem to remember there being talk of it...

I also seem to remember there being talk of it being a myth or urban legend.

However DOS had an imposed limit of 1M (640k of that being what was free for programmes, the rest being system reserved...
Forum: General 10-15-2020, 02:42 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I believe it was Bill Gates who made that now...

I believe it was Bill Gates who made that now infamous statement to the effect that no one would ever need more than 1MB of system RAM. That's why early x86 was so linited in that respect.
Forum: General 09-28-2020, 08:48 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I believe the source has been released under NDAs...

I believe the source has been released under NDAs before and there have been other historic leaks, so it's entirely possible that those "reverse engineering" compatibility layers for Windows already...
Forum: General 08-10-2020, 08:25 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
There is a difference between a binary "blob",...

There is a difference between a binary "blob", such as the nvidia proprietary display driver and the device firmwares used on various hardware devices - the main difference is that the "blob"...
Forum: General 08-08-2020, 04:35 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-free-windows-10...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-free-windows-10-upgrade-offer-still-works-heres-why-and-how-to-get-it/

MS want everyone on Windows 10, it's that simple. This is why they're "containerising"...
Forum: General 08-04-2020, 07:17 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
You don't, but most Linux distributions use it by...

You don't, but most Linux distributions use it by default. It's the chosen solution by Linux distribution projects and maintainers.

This is the process for UEFI boot with syslinux on Slackware:...
Forum: General 08-03-2020, 11:22 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Amazing how booting x86 now involves a horrible...

Amazing how booting x86 now involves a horrible tangled convoluted mess called UEFI and that in order to boot a Linux kernel on x86 some resort to the bloated monstrosity that is grub2... plus...
Forum: General 07-01-2020, 03:22 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Android is a huge market for the "virus industry"...

Android is a huge market for the "virus industry" just like Windows, where desktop Linux hobbyists are not. While the kernel is the same, that's where much of the similarity ends. Libc, userland,...
Forum: General 05-22-2020, 01:55 PM
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Posted By cynwulf
"free software" (remember that?), perhaps not......

"free software" (remember that?), perhaps not... "open washing" springs to mind...
Forum: General 12-23-2019, 08:16 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
OOXML is indeed an open standard, apologies for...

OOXML is indeed an open standard, apologies for not making that clear, but it's certainly not an entirely unencumbered one. It comes with the infamous "covenant not to sue":
...
Forum: General 12-23-2019, 05:58 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
It's matter of unchecking one box and it goes...

It's matter of unchecking one box and it goes away, but that's largely beside the point.

You're conflating the openoffice/libreoffice projects with opendocument:...
Forum: General 12-20-2019, 11:08 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
MS Office has become the de facto standard for...

MS Office has become the de facto standard for business and public sector. Some of it is good, some bad. But it's often difficult for home/hobbyist computer users to see any of it as particularly...
Forum: General 12-20-2019, 10:20 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
And those programmes are generally proprietary...

And those programmes are generally proprietary and only available for Windows.
Forum: General 11-07-2019, 08:11 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Removing all drivers* and putting them back one...

Removing all drivers* and putting them back one by one.......... didn't change a thing.

*means uninstalling the devices, removing all the drivers from the print server, removing the files from...
Forum: General 11-07-2019, 05:19 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I have recently hit a problem in "Vista8.1" where...

I have recently hit a problem in "Vista8.1" where the "devices and printers" applet does not show any printers. I searched the web and found some with the same problem, the "advice" from "VIP" "Pro"...
Forum: General 10-11-2019, 03:06 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Not so different to the long established goals of...

Not so different to the long established goals of the gnome project really.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2011-June/007335.html...
Forum: General 09-13-2019, 07:31 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Was doing the first boot set up of a new Windows...

Was doing the first boot set up of a new Windows 10 laptop today, at work and after all the usual:

"Hi..."
"We're setting up some crap..."

I got to the user account creation...

I don't set...
Forum: General 09-10-2019, 06:32 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Link?

Link?
Forum: General 08-13-2019, 02:54 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
You are free to do so. Even most FreeBSD users...

You are free to do so. Even most FreeBSD users agree that Linux accounts for well over 3/4 of web servers. I accept of course that such stats are often based on faulty data, for example see...
Forum: General 08-12-2019, 09:22 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
It's obviously targeted at enterprise - i.e. for...

It's obviously targeted at enterprise - i.e. for those with the need to run multiple headless Linux servers virtualised.

In enterprise, I don't think anyone apart from IBM/Red Hat or SUSE is...
Forum: General 08-12-2019, 09:02 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
WSL and now WSL2. It's an attempt to keep Linux...

WSL and now WSL2. It's an attempt to keep Linux systems off "bare metal" and maintain the market for Windows server. When all is said and done, the competitor is Red Hat, when it comes to "the...
Forum: General 08-05-2019, 03:22 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I have an Acer old laptop here which was...

I have an Acer old laptop here which was previously running OpenBSD, but which I have wiped and was intending to restore to it's previous state of running Windows Vista and pass on to others... one...
Forum: General 07-10-2019, 08:45 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I've not seen this problem with cortana just...

I've not seen this problem with cortana just disabled via the registry.

There is no "start menu" in Windows 10 regardless. It has the Windows 8 style "start" screen condensed in the bottom left...
Forum: General 07-10-2019, 03:51 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
For now the registry method still works to...

For now the registry method still works to disable it.
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search"
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search" /v...
Forum: General 05-09-2019, 02:43 PM
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Posted By cynwulf
It's been going around in circles for over 200...

It's been going around in circles for over 200 pages. That's the whole point in fact. It probably serves to keep all of the "Mickey$haft Winblow$ vs Linsux" stuff all in one place.

I find it...
Forum: General 05-01-2019, 10:59 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Could be tested in FreeDOS perhaps, but I've no...

Could be tested in FreeDOS perhaps, but I've no experience of it personally.
e.g.
devicehigh=foo.sys
Most likely it would freeze.
Forum: General 05-01-2019, 03:17 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I tried it under dosbox and it freezes... ...

I tried it under dosbox and it freezes... Perhaps it only ever worked the other way round? - renaming executable code (not batch files) to any of the executable extension types?
Forum: General 04-30-2019, 08:34 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Funny you mention command.com, as that's what all...

Funny you mention command.com, as that's what all recent amd64 windows releases lack. So I would guess that such behaviour was only reproducible with command.com - and that would have executed the...
Forum: General 04-30-2019, 06:35 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Bizarrely, I recall that this used to work (or at...

Bizarrely, I recall that this used to work (or at least I'm sure it did):
C:\> echo echo foo > foo.bat
C:\> foo.bat
foo
C:\> ren foo.bat foo.exe
C:\> foo
Error message GUI dialogue instantly...
Forum: General 04-30-2019, 03:08 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I remember reading that the old 8.3 filename...

I remember reading that the old 8.3 filename system was introduced (in some very old OS from DEC) either before files could be organised into directories or where sub-directories weren't allowed, so...
Forum: General 04-29-2019, 07:33 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
The file extensions themselves raise a few...

The file extensions themselves raise a few important issues. They're a dated concept, going back to C/PM, probably earlier and inherited by MSDOS and thus Windows, as a result.

Hiding extensions...
Forum: General 04-24-2019, 03:00 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
Windows has steadily moved towards "features"...

Windows has steadily moved towards "features" which are of little use and only serve to add confusion for the end user. I work in tech support, I repair and refurbish specific types of hardware and...
Forum: General 04-23-2019, 10:46 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
It's confusing complexity all in the name of...

It's confusing complexity all in the name of "ease of use". No doubt in Windows marketing speak "all of your files are right where you need them" or some such twaddle.
Forum: General 04-23-2019, 09:40 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I've used quite a few early MS and IBM DOS. ...

I've used quite a few early MS and IBM DOS.

I came from the Windows and DOS world, my first home PC was an old 286 based elonex, running either Windows 1 or 2 with one of those old amber mono...
Forum: General 03-27-2019, 12:17 PM
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Posted By cynwulf
Exactly. In my experience, the end user...

Exactly.


In my experience, the end user runs whatever will run their apps and allow them to do what they want to do - with minimal fuss. Whether that be Windows, Android, macOS/iOS... a...
Forum: General 03-27-2019, 04:11 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
While modern day FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc...

While modern day FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc have their roots in BSD, it was not until 1991 with the release of Net/2, that the first "fully free" release was available. Then you had the USL vs...
Forum: General 02-21-2019, 06:30 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
I'll leave you to get on with your dick waving...

I'll leave you to get on with your dick waving and assuming you know what other's know...
Forum: General 02-20-2019, 07:50 AM
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Posted By cynwulf
That is where you are wrong. Being able to...

That is where you are wrong.

Being able to "read C" does not equate to being able to understand what a codebase on the scale of systemd's does... even kernel developers no longer fully understand...
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