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Thanks. Can you do a fresh install with the 1115 media with a Win 7 product key?

Do we know?

Ain't that the truth.

MS' website clearly says only W7 and later are eligible for free W10. I checked before posting.

Is there a later version available at MS for the same purpose? BTW I have a couple of copies of Vista which I never used. What a waste.

Last time I checked (a few months ago), their Office apps for Android and a scanner app all wanted every permission under the sun to run. So I backed off and didn't install them. I forego about 5x apps than I install for this reason.

Ain't so bad. It's the stuff in the bathtub that's weird. I wouldn't post something you wouldn't click, Lunar.

Really weird stuff.

Yeah, you guys are right, I also thought the same. My first powerful LED (12W) in my daughter's room is naked, on a side-wall, pointing down at a 45° angle. The one I put in yesterday is naked too, hanging down from the ceiling in the living room. The proposed one for the torchiere will point...

I replaced a working exactly 2-year old 23W 2700K 1550 lumens CFL with a 13W 3000K 1300 lumens LED, and it is quite a bit brighter (I know that the CFL has probably dimmed down a bit, but still) . This lamp is on about 5 hours each evening so I thought it worth replacing with something that...

Thanks, but sorry, I still don't get it. You're talking about the end-point usage of power - the motor etc. I was wondering more about the point of entry. If the motor and flourescent lamp work on DC, and are designed to be plugged into an AC circuit, then: 1) There might be an optional AC step...

Thanks guys.

Ok, here's the Cliff's Notes version: I initially thought it was the chargers, but many here and elsewhere blamed the charging cable. So I bought cables known to be fast at charging. It is now proven that the chargers are good but the USB charging cables they come with are totally lousy. Using...

I sorta have to agree with you DD. During my extremely limited exposure to Linux, I saw messages to do various shell things which I have no idea about. I last worked on Unix between 1995 and 2000, and that too, on a "need-to-know" basis, meaning I learned just enough to get things done, and...

First I'm hearing about this. Any more info?

Well, I'll be damned. On the advice of some folks on another forum, I bought these cables. I used one of these new cables with my charger and put the Charger Doctor in-between. My phone battery was about 85% full. My charger, that was supposed to be lame, began charging at 0.9A! Why, oh why are...

How would I boot into single user mode? I thought all desktop Linuxii booted into single user mode only? With Xubuntu (which was suggested to me for my portable computing environment on a USB stick), I downloaded from the Xubuntu site, was able to install really easily, install tools, etc...

All you guys on the east coast, take care. Hopefully this will be over soon. The past few months, the weather has been bizarre. Flooding in a few parts of the world, drought elsewhere, etc. Hope it's not going to become the new norm.

Thanks Howell. I downloaded an Ubuntu VM from osboxes.org but had two problems: 1) couldn't get it to install VMWare tools in the VM; it spent some 4 hours then barfed. I'll unpack the compressed file and try again. 2) osboxes says the root password is the same as the normal user: But I...

Thanks Tim. I had tried Xubuntu in a VM and it was amazingly easy to use the basics. I also tried a ready-to-run Ubuntu VM that was quite frustrating. Just saying...

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How long did it take? A couple of hours?

Reviving a decade+ old thread. For support reasons, I'd prefer a mainstream version even if there's a bit of a learning curve. Would that be Ubuntu and not Xubuntu or Kubunu? Also, when they say AMD64, I guess that will work on Intel 64-bit as well? Thanks!

I fast-read this, but was pretty interesting. Numbers don’t lie—it’s time to build your own router I don;t know enough about Linux to do this, though.

Thanks for the link, Handy.

Thanks guys. So maybe W10 isn't all that bad; maybe ok if run with all the protection like Anti-beacon. I also love Handy's idea of using Linux for mainstream use and W7 in a VM for Window's specific things. I do have a i5-3570k, 16 GB RAM and enough disk space, so this should be quite...

Cheap? They're giving them away! Are these obsolete or something? Wish I could take advantage of this incredible offer.

Thanks Howell, that helps a lot. I'll do some research and decide if I want to jump on the W-10 bandwagon. Can the regulars here help by telling me who's all using W-10 on their main/primary machine (as opposed to a test or "play-with" machine) ? Thanks.

Apparently Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey is dead at 67.

Thanks guys. My paranoia stems from the facts that a) MS is now spying on us and b) They're not telling what the updates do. I'm also concerned that despite the "I'm on a metered connection" setting, Win-10 will become a data hog. Even you guys in the US are now running into data caps, albeit...

I realize that, but that much iteration for each number will kill me. I'll be dead before I'm done with a quarter of my stuff! :)

My system is already 3 years old. I expect it to live for another 3 (CPU & MB). My fear is that it may fail in that interim period. It usually makes sense to buy the latest hw so that it can have a long life. By the time support for 7 & 8.1 ends, of course, all bets are off. I would have...

I is screwed :( Skylake users given 18 months to upgrade to Windows 10 Next generation processors, including Intel's "Kaby Lake", Qualcomm's 8996 (branded as Snapdragon 820), and AMD's "Bristol Ridge" APUs (which will use the company's Excavator architecture, not its brand new Zen arch) will...

I never made the connection that Hans was him. The mustache / beard combo threw me off. Of course when I saw the movie way back, I didn't know about him at all. And when Potter came out, I still didn't make the connection. It's only when I saw a photo of Hans in his obit that it clicked. He was...

Nobody noticed that Alan Rickman died?

After trawling the web, my assessment is that Aphex Exciter > Behringer Sonic Exciter SX3040 > BBE.

SD, I spent quite a bit of time last evening / night finding and downloading plug-ins for Audacity, then I found this in the Audacity Wiki :( This makes it difficult / useless for me to use plug-ins, I would think...

Thanks DD, these seem to be outstanding for the price! I've saved the info. These are out of range for now, since they need an amp to drive them pushing up the cost, plus there's no space for them near my monitor. Perhaps they'll be good to replace on my main stereo system, which is ~ 28 years...

What Snowhiker said. Also, Nikon has has a sale - 10% off on refurbished stuff. 1/15 to 1/18.

See this for some info on the D5 in the field: http://oleliodden.com/photo-gear/field-reviews/beta-test-report-nikon-d5/

Thanks. I do have Audacity and have used it only to chop off audio that I didn't want. The plugins page you linked to has links to other pages which are frighteningly humongous; it'll take me time to digest all that stuff!

KB2952664 & KB3035583 in the latest updates seem to push the "Get Windows 10" out to Win 8.1 and Win 7 users. I unchecked them.

Sheesh, they were supposed to be one of the better ones, and now this? I'm not running TrendMicro, but thanks for sharing.

Actually this suits my needs better than a discrete hardware device. 99% of my listening these days is at my PC. Most of the music I listen to is either live recordings with makeshift equipment or old - '50s thru '70s professionally recorded songs. In either case the recordings are low-fi -...

Cool, thanks SD. Behringer has a ton of dealers here, very surprising. They have dealers in really remote places, but only one in my metro city! No matter, I'll call around Monday. How does this compare with the BBE series of similar equipment, would you know? BTW, it seems the recommendation...

Question for audiophiles and specifically to SD: How good is the Aphex Aural Exciter? It's about $350, so it better be good. The bulk of my music suffers from lack of bottom and top end because of poor recording. The premise of the Exciter is it puts back what's missing - harmonics. I've been...

That's odd. In India now we have simultaneous release with the US, or a day later. Previously (a decade or so ago) it used to be almost a year. I saw the movie late because my daughter was away visiting cousins and I waited for her to get back home and then have time off at college so we could...

To each his own, Buck, I have no problem with that. I started wearing glasses when I was ~ 12. My head is quite asymmetrical; my ears are also not level. The frames available then used ti bite into my head near the ear one side or the other, and never fit quite right. With the advent of flexible...

Some PJs reg. this hobby. These were inflicted on me, and I'm passing on the favor: I read fifty shades of grey to learn more about white balance Q. What’s the best way to make money in photography? A. Sell all your gear. Ken Rockwell ordered an L-lens from Nikon, and got one

Sorry man, It's been out so long I thought I was the last to see it :( I didn't reveal much, btw.