Posted on 07/17/2014 9:17:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Not content to blow both feet off with a shotgun, Microsoft is going for the kneecaps now by blackmailing it’s customers. If you are still dumb enough to use Windows, you are about have your wallet shaken down by Microsoft in a familiar yet still unwelcome way.We don’t feel the need to sugarcoat this much because the company’s behavior is so blatant and uncaring it is almost staggering. Worse yet the victims, that would be almost all Windows users, have only themselves to blame because the pattern has been well laid out for years now. Microsoft has been unapologetically blackmailing users for years, anyone who bought one of their products in the last few years should have known better.
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Thanks, I will check it out.
Never heard of it, I’ll look into it.
That really isn't true, you know. It is programmatically simple to elevate beyond the current user status. You might stop some of the script kiddies, but any serious hacker can elevate a win box with ease.
“That really isn’t true, you know. It is programmatically simple to elevate beyond the current user status. You might stop some of the script kiddies, but any serious hacker can elevate a win box with ease. “
Nope. Such elevation is completely impossible from a limited user account unless the user allows it by typing in a password in response to a popup UAC request to allow such elevation. You don’t have a clue about what you are talking about. If it’s so easy, prove it by pointing me to a program that can do that.
I've gotten by almost 16 years on dial up. Not by choice but because no other means for service available except possibly Hughesnet. It would be difficult even for that. I have a ridge on three sides of my house and all but the northwest is blocked by it. Cell service in the summer is also hit and miss. Comcast is less than a half mile away and they have no intentions of expanding. I'm too far out for DSL and AT&T is trying to phase out landlines in the next decade or so.
My idiot BIL lives in rural Missouri and has a sat service named Wild Blue which seems to be fairly reliable.
Libre Office saved me a lot of grief when I discovered a lot of my files could not be opened unless I paid an outrageous prices for Works per year.
Right now I'm also getting what I'm certain is false hits on Avast. Dell has an updater {Cloud Back Up} built in that for me is quite annoying as in 50-100MB upload annoying and I haven't figured out how to disable that. About a week ago it stopped uploading which is fine by me. Now it shows as W32:Dropper-Gen on Avast alert pop up. I have a chest full of them LOL. I ran about six different programs scanning it including Hitman Pro. The computer was fairly clean.
Really the only think about Tabs I dislike is being able to tell what Tab is what and the increased risk of closing all pages with one click. With Windows Tabs I know where I'm at.
Yea I think it’s actually the same company as Hughesnet. I’ve heard of it. I’d have to get an installer up here to see if they could get a clear signal and if not how many trees would have to come down. I live on the side of a wooded ridge in a horse shoe shaped hollow surrounding me. I’m about 150 ft or so elevation wise below the top.
Wireless is definitely the way to go, and depending on the local topography the range can be surprisingly good. My astronomy club has an observatory in Blue Mountains, ON and we have a wireless link to an ISP in downtown Collingwood more than ~30km (20mi) away.
The VOIP phone is the way to go as well, because most plans include ludicrous long-distance minutes for $10-15 and unlimited for $20-25. If you don’t mind doing all the configuration and management yourself, you can get phone service for $1.00 per month plus one cent per minute for all calls in North America. My local and 1-800 numbers cost me a total of $2.50/month plus talk time.
Another option if you can’t get a CD is to drive to a public library or a coffee shop in the nearest town. Most coffee shops don’t mind you hanging around if you order something every couple of hours. Go with an independent shop if you do that, though, because a lot of the chains will slow your connection if you do big downloads. OTOH some places have connections that are fast enough to download the CD in less than 30 minutes. As always, YMMV.
Just skimmed the Pale Moon site- is it a 64-bit Firefox build for Windows? I went with Waterfox when Firefox wouldn’t play nice with Win8 and it’s been glitch-free since version 28 (prior versions couldn’t auto-update in Win8.1).
Satellite service is ideal for just about everything except gaming. For virtually all other it’s usually the most economical off-the-grid option.
The reason satellite connections are bad for gaming is the speed of light; the round trip from earth to orbit will be a minimum of 180 milliseconds and up to half a second depending on your location and the position of the satellite. That can be an eternity for any online games that require fast reaction times.
I used to play around with police scanners a lot and had two outdoor antennas both had amps on them One was Omni directional no gain except through my 10 db amp. The other was an old UHF/VHF TV antenna {redneck Yagi} that I built a bracket for to put the elements straight up and down. With that one I could pick up police in Indiana on lower VHF range but nothing even 15 miles behind me in Knoxville. That's where the major tower farms are.
I'm up high enough though that if anything is north west of me I should be able to get it and I know where most of the towers are.
I gotta keep one land line for medical reasons. I have two one is for the computer. My wife has serious health issues and the phone has to be simple, reliable, and work during loss of utility power. She picks up the phone hits one button and calls my cell when I'm out.
Pale Moon has a 64 bit ver. but they say its buggy w/ extns. Best to stick w/ the 32 bit ver. as i have in a 64 bit PC.
My Windows XP just got new patches on Patch Tuesday
I see what you are saying, but...
Microsoft Support Lifecycle for Windows 7
Extended support for all versions of Windows 7 ends 1/14/2020. That includes Windows 7 Home Premium, which is not intended for business use.
Does Microsoft identify your computer as an ATM?
I went from XP to a new Windows 7 machine in April. I absolutely didn’t want Windows 8.
Win7 doesn’t seem to be all that much different from XP. Maybe you could install Win 7.
Opening the link reveals the below:
Published: June 08, 2004
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Thanks. I’m happy with my 64-bit but build so I’ll keep it.
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