I was just looking over our Members List and noticed that we have been here for a year now. Our founder started this board with the original intention of having a place to go to spout off about the happenings on the Microsoft forums and it's limitations, all of it was to be in regards to how Windows 10 was being tested and the broken promise from Microsoft when we discovered that they weren't really interested in listening to us like they said they would. We've grown way beyond that and have gathered something of a following here with well over a hundred people checking in on us daily. Though we a small group, we do have some talented and insightful people here and I think we all deserve a pat on the back or something like that for what we've built up here.
It has been a pleasure commiserating with this merry band of misfits and malcontents.
Win10, Story Five The headline on the June 21st webpage read: Microsoft to launch Windows 10 in 190 countries this summer. Well at least there are still 189 to pick from, I thought. Our merry group of computer users, misfits and malcontents all, some would say, now banished from not only the Insider forum for 30 days, but also from the Internet, the entire continental US, and placed on the no-fly and terrorist watch lists. Worst of all, the group received assurance that this behavior would be noted on their permanent records, all their phone numbers would be removed from the national Do Not Call List, and in a culmination of meanness and spite, their library cards would also be revoked. The group decided collectively to each enjoy a month long vacation and get out of the US, to avoid potential rendition to Guantanamo, as the climate there presented as excessively hot, this time of year.
all their phone numbers would be removed from the national Do Not Call List
So THAT's why that happened. I was wondering.
Today after more than a year using stupid flat, square edged controls I finally accomplished getting buttons and controls that have rounded corners and skeuomorphism back into Windows 10 through the use of several tweaks and tools, including the Aero7 theme by sagorpirbd, Aero Glass for Win 8.1+ by BigMuscle, and a few other goodies.
Post by Locutus deBorg on Oct 18, 2016 8:52:29 GMT -6
woo hoo, I made it without smashing any hardware to death
when I tested 9841 there was no way to move beyond as the system was broken and it couldn't update itself then came the 9860 PUIS abuse glad I dodged that one because the system wouldn't update
I actually gave win ape testing a longer run than win oranguten
then I signed in to download the enterprise LTSB 10240 which lasted less than 24 hours they resorted to the XP style of "hey get online and activate or suffer hourly shutdowns" when they don't even allow you the time to configure and secure the system before actually going online that was the end of it
so there are no oranguten systems in operation here
I find the lack of configuration options disturbing !
I felt a great disturbance in the force.. as if millions of win 7 systems suddenly cried out in terror.
I have made it thus far without having to sell anyone a computer with W10 installed! Yay! Still rockin' W7 on all of our systems here at the house and all of my business customers. I did have to go over to the dark side on a test system just so I can support those poor bastards that drank the M$ Koolaid - that system doesn't really get alot of use. Going to run w7 or w8.1(eesh!) until M$ breaks them completely, then it's off to linux. Hope everyone is having a good year.
I wanted to say thanks to all of you who took my little forum and made it something so much more. I always find it refreshing read your threads and posts, especially after reading the mostly party line bullshit on the MSFT forum. You guys are awesome and I look forward to another year. All the credit for content here belongs to you guys.
I wanted to say thanks to all of you who took my little forum and made it something so much more. I always find it refreshing read your threads and posts, especially after reading the mostly party line bullshit on the MSFT forum. You guys are awesome and I look forward to another year. All the credit for content here belongs to you guys.
Michael
Win10, Story Ten
A couple of guys, Mike Kerbin and Michael Masters, came up with the remarkable code to search inside encrypted data. The British expatriate living in Portugal and a retired programmer in Dallas had connected over the Insider forum. They shared a common disgust for Windows 10, as well as NSA and corporate spying, hatched the mathematical ideas necessary to accomplish this. This turned out to be so successful that it allowed the group to encrypt the OS code as well, and use one core of the processor to decrypt the code inside RAM before being sent to the other core(s) in the processor for execution. The RealOS would require a dual core processor as a minimum but would work well on computers as many as ten years old as a result.
The NSA? While there is nothing to indicate that Michael had or had not ever had contact with the Nuns Selling Apples, every firm's name that he did contract work for over the last 35 years, had 3 letter abbreviations, all the way up to the phone company. Weird. Life's funny that way. Sometimes the Nuns send him messages by mistake on his linked in account. They probably mean to send them to Mike. The names are so similar and all. The rest of the story, totally accurate. Mike also invented the phrase "We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, have had to do so much, with so little, for so long, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing at all."
<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
Oct 9, 2022 20:08:58 GMT -6