Stereodude
Not really a
Give it a few years, it could pick back up at any minute.
Windows 10
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Newtun
Storage is nice, especially if it doesn't rotate
Critical Windows 10 vulnerability used to Rickroll the NSA and Github
Attack demoed less than 24 hours after disclosure of bug-breaking certificate validation.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Is Microsoft losing the plot, or is this just another push towards Windows being PaaS on your own infrastructure?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ts-to-do-away-with-windows-10-local-accounts/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ts-to-do-away-with-windows-10-local-accounts/
Stereodude
Not really a
It's not that hard to unplug an Ethernet cable during install or decline to enter your WPA2 key until you're finished.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
I agree, but it's certainly a non-obvious solution to what should be a default and easily accessible option.
Does Win 8 act the same way? My pop has to enter a user/password to login and I'd like to strip that off if possible.
Stereodude
Not really a
What do you mean? You can make any version of Windows automatically log an account in on boot, even with a password.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
ddrueding
Fixture
Just in time for Bing to be good. Dogs and cats sleeping together....mass hysteria.
So lately we have the EDGE. How is that good at all?
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
The sad thing is that some insurance agents I do for work just last week got instructions that they are to only visit certain insurers' sites with IE mode Edge. I tried to explain why this was a terrible idea in 2023 and yesterday I forwarded them the same news article about it going away. But if a company can't be bothered to update its web site in eight years, maybe they aren't a company anyone should deal with. I suppose next they'll get instructions to set up Windows 7 virtual machines. That'll be fun.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I'm hoping it's not State Farm.
Mostly I work with Farmer's agents and independents, but the sites are names you'd recognize if you've ever worked with an independent insurance agent.
I surely hope that the actual records are kept on some controlled computers somewhere else and the local junk is just for access and office work.
I have a countdown clock for Windows 10. After that I'm hoping I can mentally gravitate to
I have a countdown clock for Windows 10. After that I'm hoping I can mentally gravitate to
Spybot Anti-Deacon has gone whack. Now every time the FireFox starts it starts asking all sorts of questions, and if you skip all that stuff it does it again next time it is opened. The defect is caused by SpyBot 3.9. SpyBot 3.8 is fine.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Do you have the paid version of Spybot or just the freebie? Firefox isn't being doing anything differently from normal on a freshly installed Windows 10 + Spybot (with Anti-beacon) for me.
It did take 40 minutes for signature updates to download, though.
It did take 40 minutes for signature updates to download, though.
The paid version of www.safer-networking.org/products/spybot-anti-beacon/.
using the standard installer. I don't think it downloaded anything after being installed.
using the standard installer. I don't think it downloaded anything after being installed.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I just checked using the freebie, but Safer-Networking applications have been obnoxious on Windows 10 since it came out. I believe Windows Defender was even marking Anti-Beacon as unwanted software for a minute, probably because Anti-Beacon disables the telemetry stuff Microsoft insists on using.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Today in tales of oh my god I can't believe this exists, I have found a PC that is incompatible with SSDs. Yes, all of them.
And I've gotten Pentium 2 PCs to boot Windows off SSDs on shitty $20 PCI (note the lack of an "e" there) Syba controllers. I mean this does not work. I've tried six different brands of drives in capacities as small as 64GB and as large as 4TB.
The truth is, this is not something I HAVE to fix. I'm trying to do somebody a favor and it has turned into one of the labors of Hercules, but it does not make sense that it doesn't work.
The HP M7-1015dx is a 17" laptop with a 3rd generation i7 mobile and an internal DVD drive, and for that reason, one of my customer's mom wants to keep it forever. It also has firmware with basically zero user-configurable options beyond the boot order. The old HDD died. Since then I have determined the following:
The internal SATA ports are operating in RAID rather than AHCI mode. What kind of RAID? No idea. HP doesn't list it as needing any additional drivers and Windows 7 and 10 both work so long as they're running off either USB or an internal mechanical drive and they work in either UEFI or BIOS mode. Linux? Same story. I installed Mint. UEFI. BIOS. But still only with works when it's running on mechanical drives or USB. Linux is perfectly happy to run on USB, but Meemaw isn't down for that, so I gotta make Windows work.
Here's the hilarious part: I've downloaded the only available firmware update for this stupid thing on four different systems. Doesn't matter. The firmware update file on HP's web site seems to be corrupt. Thanks HP for being exactly what I always knew you to be. And this is not a Firmware I've ever seen before. InsydeH20? What ever are you? "The most widely used UEFI BIOS in Production" according to its own web site. Not an Award or AMI in sight.
And I've gotten Pentium 2 PCs to boot Windows off SSDs on shitty $20 PCI (note the lack of an "e" there) Syba controllers. I mean this does not work. I've tried six different brands of drives in capacities as small as 64GB and as large as 4TB.
The truth is, this is not something I HAVE to fix. I'm trying to do somebody a favor and it has turned into one of the labors of Hercules, but it does not make sense that it doesn't work.
The HP M7-1015dx is a 17" laptop with a 3rd generation i7 mobile and an internal DVD drive, and for that reason, one of my customer's mom wants to keep it forever. It also has firmware with basically zero user-configurable options beyond the boot order. The old HDD died. Since then I have determined the following:
The internal SATA ports are operating in RAID rather than AHCI mode. What kind of RAID? No idea. HP doesn't list it as needing any additional drivers and Windows 7 and 10 both work so long as they're running off either USB or an internal mechanical drive and they work in either UEFI or BIOS mode. Linux? Same story. I installed Mint. UEFI. BIOS. But still only with works when it's running on mechanical drives or USB. Linux is perfectly happy to run on USB, but Meemaw isn't down for that, so I gotta make Windows work.
Here's the hilarious part: I've downloaded the only available firmware update for this stupid thing on four different systems. Doesn't matter. The firmware update file on HP's web site seems to be corrupt. Thanks HP for being exactly what I always knew you to be. And this is not a Firmware I've ever seen before. InsydeH20? What ever are you? "The most widely used UEFI BIOS in Production" according to its own web site. Not an Award or AMI in sight.
Now that I am on a computer, I found this: https://www.crucial.com/compatible-upgrade-for/hP---Compaq/pavilion-m7-1015dx
I have Fujitsus with a BIOS screen that looks almost exactly like that InsydeH20 one. I suppose it is cheaper for the OEMs to just outsource the BIOS. We are spoilt by the modern graphics BIOS on consumer mainboards.
I have Fujitsus with a BIOS screen that looks almost exactly like that InsydeH20 one. I suppose it is cheaper for the OEMs to just outsource the BIOS. We are spoilt by the modern graphics BIOS on consumer mainboards.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I promise you that there is not a single SSD that works.