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So, if one has a spare W7 key, can one download W10 and do a clean/fresh install with said key? Due to various reasons I've decided to go with W10, but not cold turkey. My goal is to install it on a separate drive from W7; keep W7 as the production machine for now and gradually switch over...

Isn't the D80 a really old model?

All these are new to me. I use VLC for my video / audio needs; I guess these are way better since you're using them. Care to enlighten the ignorant? :)

I thought Android was 64-bit enabled from 4.2 or thereabouts??

Mysterious spike in WordPress hacks silently delivers ransomware to visitors Article also talks about The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit from MS; anybody using it, comments please?

1,500 Windows 3.1 shareware apps are now free, immortalized on your browser

Amen. When there was all that brouhaha about the end of the world with the end of the Mayan calendar (2012 December), I was hoping there'd be multiple events - earthquakes, tsunamis, polar shift, what not, which would wipe out 65 - 80% of earth's population so we could start over. I absolutely...

Yes, that article is quite credible. But it'll be sad if it does happen. The auto industry is severely jaded, and needs someone like Musk to re-invigorate it. Hope he straightens things out by focusing on the day to day nut-and-bolts of the business. It's great to have vision, but a business...

Do you use an engine warming blanket?

Nice an snappy today!

If you have web based email, you get to keep it. If your email ID is provided by your ISP, then you get to keep it if your ISP operates in your new location, else not. Even if you won't have a home phone, you can still be reached on your cell phone, so what's the worry? EDIT: Sorry, didn't see...

When I had to re-install Windows 8 (from the recovery partition on the HDD) and then upgrade to 8.1, and then get all the updates for 8.1, this is what I did; selected updates that totaled about 100 MB at a time, let it update, rebooted, then selected the next batch. Tremendously tedious, boring...

The mystery deepens!!!

I think apart from your hosting provider, there are network issues. Many foreign sites were slow to dead for me yesterday - like ARS Techinca, for example. There's something screwy going on. Maybe a major DOS attack somewhere, or a network outage.

Thanks Handy. Slow right now.

You're the guinea pig, SD. Let me know how it goes. I will follow intrepid SD. I have a spare Win 7 key from Technet that I hope to be able to use.

Site is reasonably fast now. This afternoon and morning (about 4 and 8 hours ago), it was unusable - didn't load at all. Last few days it's been dog slow. Just FYI.

Is the Routerboard 411 only b + g ?

I get a 3 too, which is correct for my system.

Thanks jtr. LED bulbs (at least here) are 2x - 3.5x the cost of CFLs, and the only reasons to get them is the lower power consumption and longer life. But if they fail partially or completely much sooner then expected, they're not worthwhile.

Cryptic as usual.

If it's under voltage, why do some flicker and not others? Because these flickering ones are more sensitive? Over here, Osram has a phenomenal reputation in CFLs and all mine are Osram and nary a problem. But for LEDs, they are rated very poorly, for early death, dimming, and flickering. None...

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...

:rofl:

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.