Memory allocation, and more importantly access to system ONLY locations in RAM. Such as the Kernel. Just my opinion: seems we have been down this road before with memory "leaks". Was it ever more than a privacy issue ? Is it more of a concern than....remote code execution ?
Last Edit: Feb 10, 2018 9:33:35 GMT -6 by Bayer A.User
Memory allocation, and more importantly access to system ONLY locations in RAM. Such as the Kernel. Just my opinion: seems we have been down this road before with memory "leaks". Was it ever more than a privacy issue ? Is it more of a concern than....remote code execution ?
I'll play the devil's advocate here. This "flaw" in the chips has been around essentially forever. Yet no one has evidence of an exploit...Yet. I can see this being an extreme issue with servers, Huge amounts of info at risk. For the average PC user....Is it a real concern ?
Also, the "Featureset" of CPU's is why we pay big bucks for the latest hardware. So far the firmware patches from intel have caused system slowdowns and bootloops. Is that a reasonable tradeoff ? From what i've heard "newer" processors are subject to less slowdown after being patched. To me that sounds an awful lot like an excuse to get people OFF the old hardware. Locutus said it before"..are we supposed to throw all of it in the trash ?"
One more thing- I know for a fact that legacy OS run great on newer silicon(7 & 8.1 on AMD A10) Unfortunately MSFT doesn't want you or I to do that and will not support those installs via WU anymore.
Last Edit: Feb 10, 2018 10:28:39 GMT -6 by Bayer A.User
<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