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This is reallllly cool.

Missed the ability to restore previous versions of files in Windows 8? It's back and better than ever in Windows 10.

Someone needs to spread the word on this.

woot, upgraded the RAM in my lappy

this VM is still just as slow... damn HD3000

lol

@allquixotic: your not entirely standard work one? ;p

quiet today. Nothing major broke (yet) \^..^/!

(since my birthday was almost a week ago ;p)

@MichaelFrank that is like a complete reversal? I had wondered about that often when thinking of upgrading the camera (only5MP older) 20mp sencors need light :-) It is also funny how corelative that is, when high-speed film also has huge silver nitrate particles and is therefore grainy and lower res. Digital sencors still like film.

@MichaelFrank first google then facebook? making military hardware :-) with the guise of distributing health and happiness to all, with the built in secret assasination lasers and microwave brain control :-) That one looks like it hs the simple problem of Wind like some of the other designs.

And amazon is still serious about thier drone package delivery system, even after much difficulty with goverment FFA and people who would readily admit they would be great for target practice.

the battle between man and the machine, starts with man.

Out of work UPS delivery persons go postal on drones , news at 11.

Delivery Drones to have non-lethal defence mechanisms , does a drone have the right to protect itself, who will be liable? news at 12

John Belcher: yes they fly out of that warehouse night and day, buzzing overhead like bats, I find one or 2 crash landed in my pool. Just last week one terrorised my wife when it lost contact with the GPS sattalite , billy my boy just loves it, daddy when are we going to get more free packages?

Drone protection laws passed by congress, that done in your backyard could send you to jail. A bill passed today in the senate that requires you to return all errant drones or face a penalty of $50,000 or 1 year in jail. News at 2

Jeffry Conner drone serial killer dies in jail while awaiting trial: Incarcerated for 14 years now jeff who is accused of shooting down 17 drones in a 5 year period of time , always proclaimed his innocence. Jeffs defence bot submitted to the court 1763 motions of appeal, 483 of them are still not reviewed. Protest bots have been restricted to a 1.2K area around the jail.

Killer Drone Contraversy: Republican leaders in congress are pushing for a bill that would allow delivery drones to protect themselves with lethal force. After recent news about an amazon swat strike force killing 5 family members in a black ops drone recovery , senate majority leader Khloé Kardashian submited a bill co-authored by 6 prominant republicans that allows drones to protect themselves with lethal force. Amazons drone slogan was changed to "Serve, Protect, Deliver"

@JourneymanGeek shhh :P (yes)

"You might not have received a (upgrade) notification because we are working on a specific compatibility fix for your device" If that really was the case for some peoples computer setups, they probably should wait , vrses cramming it in and finding issues with some driver

@Psycogeek I THINK those <32gb tablets are the reason for that

Windows 8 uses a wierd hack to save space, and the regular update method isn't going to work well when half your system files are readonly and in the recovery partition

Yea that would be a good one that isnt "normal"

There are questions out there on SU , with the no reserve icon , and the no notification icon. . . that well just need to have 1 freaking all encompasing answer.

I can SEE ways that i could possibly set SU dupe markers and clean up some of the repetition. But it is like looking in a windows registry EEK there is so much, and so many minor variations.

@Psycogeek Not today when you can remove them in Photoshop.

what automated method could be used for 25% transparency watermark that wouldnt leave a mess? course once you had a formula for undoing the exact text that was there in the exact same place, you could get it fixed 95%

I guess that is why some of the pics they also randomly place the watermarks

But digital code in the pixels should wash away with the right smoothing or grain removal methods.

That is where the digimark has "levels" of how thickly the code is implanted and how badly that changes the pictures.

@Psycogeek How would someone who only owns tablet go about ordering internet package through ISP and setting up wireless router?

--- this one certannly answers one thing "You won’t need a product key for re-activations on the same hardware. If you make a meaningful change to your hardware, you may need to contact customer support to help with activation"

It indicates that once the hardware is activated, Microsoft Account style (i assume), that from then on in it is all just a matter of your computer connecting to microsoft.

Which begs the question, have they already reached the point where if the web is down, if web does not exist at all, will the OS stay alive. Or is it finnaly now fully web dependant?

@Boris_yo here The same way as with a desktop? A standard internet package setup here would come with a wireless router , or get you to buy one. OR a person could buy only a WiFi package baseed on the 2 ISPs WiFi towers that are placed all over the town OR a person might get a mobile connection $$$$ via an adapter thing that would use 2G-4G-LTE via the cell phone tower stuff.

Or a person could hook up to the neighbors wifi , if they werent so stingy :-)

@Psycogeek What if I want to give him my old wireless router? How do I set it up using tablet?

@Boris_yo as i am sure you know, he would still have to have some connection method, like a modem. A wireless router then is a WI-Fi device like any other, default operation is to provide DHCP , the tablet tries to connect, gets an IP address from the router, router passes data from connected net to tablet with wireless singnal. LOL i actually have never used one .

The default factory reset settings of a router , are mostly just plug and play, with all the address junk getting automatically grabbed and assigned. there is nothing to do, until you want to do something that controls any aspect of it.

Setup for any Wi-fi device on anything (the router) would be to make names for the connections, and have passwords for them.

And that is what your really asking isnt it DUHHH . How does the tablet user setup the router. because routers dont have Screen (well mine will if i ever get one)

Everyone here but me would know the answer to that.

Tablet users would go to their desktop PC and set up the router. :)

Or leave it in unprotected mode (possibly more likely)

I can only assume you follow the router manuel, plug it in some default connection name exists, with some default passwords (or open connection), then fire up the router connection method in the tablet and talk to it

(which usually has me looking for ages to find the user name before I try an empty line)

If you have no desktop then connecting the tablet to Wired Ethernet would be a good thing

@Hennes ya see that was easy :-) now what about a tablet communications to router software setup? browser log-in ?

3) Open a browser and to to the IP as mentioned in the manual

4) Log in

5) Configure properly. (read: WPA2!)

Best is if 2) does not work

@Psycogeek I was thinking about changing default password 1234 of router's admin area. Tablet has screen and RJ45 connection.

I would probably disagree with trying to make a specific setup. and instead prefer to factory reset. And provide manuel, hand written or online or whatever. A) someday he will factory rest anyways , and from there have to know what to do. B) even if you set up everything you would then have to provide them your manuel instructions, and again that all becomes a waste when they reset. So they would have to learn 2 things

@Psycogeek Resting by factory? Workers don't rest!

Anyway factory reset is best if something turns up.

well and it is to late to change that piss poor spelling job. May the factory rest in peace

@Psycogeek BTW I am still sitting with chinese tablet and I regret buying it. Even ACER Iconia 8" feels like a difference between HTC Desire and latest Android tablet. It lags so much like it does not have TRIM for it's NAND...

Defrag it :-) Tell me more about this wonderous tablet? how big is it? what os ?

@Boris_yo Eh... there are some pretty good ones, and some absolutely crap ones.

Bit of a minefield out there.

Defrag on flash? Ouch

(also, it probably fragments MORE on disk when you try that)

@Hennes i do it Guilty :-) not overdo it, and it has been said but not proved that it can serve or cause the same functions as trim and garbage cleanup when you cant call a trim.

And my SSD is much faster post full re-prder defrag, SD cards being so slow do not change much.

I know your going to say But what about all those Blocks that are re-arranged :-)

Well that rearragning of everything doesnt happen right away, it happens when there has been a whole freaking lot of writes.

also on SD cards it helpt to linear write them to being with. so if stuff i s on them, one could potentially defrag, but it is easier to "back them up" then linear copy them clean in one move.

Leaving that one terrible thing when defragging. most defraggers will use spare empty sectors as continual i/o areas, beating the heck out of specific areas.

Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this?

file system $bitmap , $logfile, and that $journaling stuff and all, well the OS/file system beats the heck out of those blocks anyway :-) we give them a free ride ?

If it it truely that evil to defrag a SSD a few times, then the file systems recovery stuff is just as guilty. And a Full re-order defrag is many times more recoverable, when the data your trying to retireve is sequential, even if that has since been re-mapped to different blocks , the recovery software doesnt see that.

Soo my ssd was slowing down to ~1/2 speed as it fills up and is being used, trim is operational and i checked. I do my RARE cleanup & re-order defrag of the system after a full backup, and SSD returns to (acting) like it is full speed again.

@Psycogeek Acer Iconia 8

30A in Florida sounds like a dream place for retreat...

@Psycogeek which SSD?

The 840 EVO line is known to have severe issues

@Bob hey yea, that one, how'd you know :-) i am supposed to do a firmware on it, but that is scary for a storage item.

@Psycogeek The firmware updates are specifically supposed to help with this issue :P

Backup first!

@Psycogeek Basically, what happened is they used a rather small process TLC NAND, which was discovered to degrade over time and dramatically slow down reading for older data.

The firmware update does auto-rewrite in the background to minimise data age across the drive.

@Bob and some people turned thiers into paperweights, how the heck is it going to work as a paperweight when it doesnt weigh anything ??? :-)

Not ideal, but better than the severe speed degradation (slower than HDD in some cases) and potential data loss (it gets slow because it's harder to read... eventually the aged data becomes impossible to read...)

@Psycogeek The bricking issue was with an 850 PRO update, IIRC

@Psycogeek I tend to avoid firmware updates when everything's working, too, but when things are broken and the update is supposed to help... might as well.

Take a backup first and claim warranty if it bricks.

You realise i am not going to stop defragging right :-)

I do not think it was Read speed? but i would have to check again, as everything ON it has acted the same. it was just when i went to check the speed. benchies

@Bob if there was a degrade of the stored stuff, and it slowed down reading it, it would be because it was freaking erroring or hard to read the levels , that would be horrible and it should have failed a long time ago?

@Psycogeek It's because in TLC you have three different voltage levels per cell (low mid high) and when the process size os so small (19nm) it can be hard to tell them apart

Easier when freshly set, but once you leave it for a while...

Then it takes the drive longer to read it (error correction? I'm not sure)

And, yea, potential data loss

@Bob heh, I have the other 840s

Which may or may not have the same issue

@JourneymanGeek I have two 840 EVOs (both 240 GB mSATA) :\

(one I bought before finding out. the other came with a laptop where they said it would have a Plextor)

@Bob: planning on moving my 840 down to my laptop eventually

@JourneymanGeek I want to get a 500 GB SSD for the desktop. Honestly not sure what to get.

Sandisk is pretty cheap.

@Bob: I'm pondering a 850 pro

So is 850 EVO, which uses different NAND and is not susceptible to the 840's issues

@JourneymanGeek probably too expensive for me in the 500 GB

yeah, I'll get 250gb

Don't cheap out on your SSD, IMO.

@Huy: my 840 was essentially free

The 850s great for me.

I'm not unhappy with it. Just makes more sense to drive shuffle to upgrade my laptop ;)

Just waiting for Magician to support Windows 10. :)

I haven't checked that ._.

or if licecap needs more tweaking

@Huy You're gonna have to define "cheap out"

"cheaping out" is getting something like MyDigitalSSD (cc @allquixotic)

Once you move above that range, it's entirely debatable whether any given SSD is good enough or not

Just from Samsung's current generation you have the 850 EVO and 850 PRO.

@Bob: Sure, I was just saying it as a general statement.

@Bob: Cheap out to me is literally just looking at the prices and pick whatever is cheapest.

@Huy It's a fairly meaningless statement, all things considered.

Ok.

The performance differences between them are marginal at best, in the same category.

A PCIe SSD is definitely not "cheaping out", but it's also far from practical.

Barring any major bugs, SSDs from most major vendors are similar.

It's very difficult, if not impossible, to tell if any SSD has a major issue prior to purchase.

Then you find out vendor X has a high rate of controller failures, Y has crappy firmware and Z has NAND bugs leading to data loss...

Then you find out A and B use controllers manufactured by X while C and D use Z's NAND.

It's a massive minefield.

At the end of the day, a 20% price difference could well be the deciding factor when there is no other difference.

Sure.

I definitely have zero brand loyalty towards Samsung SSDs, considering the 840 EVO fiasco and the 850 PRO firmware bricking.

I don't either.

My ideal might be Intel (i.e. Intel with their own controllers, not the Sandforce controllers! see above). But they're definitely a lot more expensive.

Anyway, whichever you chose you should always make backups. Never rely on any company being infallible.

I have a 520, that's Sandforce, right?

@Bob: also depends on the kind of data

I just wish Windows could be installed on ReFS or that NTFS had data checksums...

I'd be slightly more willing to cheap out on something that has transient storage

@Huy I believe so, yes.

(or is well backed up)

And they're also supposedly worse (in both speed and reliability) than the Intel controllers in other models.

communities.intel.com/thread/33953

Sandforce earned a terrible reputation early on with the OCZ drives.

For all the vaunted reliability of SSDs over HDDs, the controllers burned out alarmingly frequently.

@Bob: this is why I try to avoid being an early adopter

@JourneymanGeek Everything should be well backed up. You could spend $1000 on a single 128 GB drive and it could still fail.

(Other than that anything I am an early adopter of dies horriby)

Redundancy and backup copies beat expensive single drives. Every time.

(for reliability and data integrity anyway. speed is a different issue)

@Bob: I backup most important data constantly, but manually. Since I'm setting up my PC, I'd like to ask whether you are using a software for this to backup automatically, and if so which?

@Huy I'm currently using Acronis True Image 2014, which works reasonably well for me. But I can't recommend them: their 2015 version is absolute shit.

@JourneymanGeek likes Veeam, I think

Unfortunately, there's a lack of good backup managers :\

I'll have a look at the two of them, thanks for the suggestions.

@Huy It also depends on what kind of backups (full? differential? incremental? reverse incremental?) you want, what kind of schedule (constant? daily? son-father-grandfather? what kind of retention period?) and what backup format (proprietary? zip? vdk?) you want.

There's a lot of factors to consider.

@Bob: Its great when it works ;p

I have NO current backups till veem updates for windows 10

@Huy I'll be exploring other options sometime in the coming months. I want to set up something again when I get onto Win10.

I don't know if the 2014 version of Acronis will carry over correctly.

There's some disk filter drivers involved that might get a bit messy.

@Huy: I have file level backups (with bvckup - which also handles replication) and system level backups with veem

@Bob: I have an SSD with my system and most of my software on it and another SSD with games. I use a different HDD for backups. What would you suggest, as in "kinds of backups"? I'm not quite familiar with everything you said.

My current backup scheme is manual full images when I want, plus incremental daily with full weekly for my important documents.

If win10 installs really are locked into HW, I actually don't really need system level backups as much

@Huy For anything constant, always go incremental (with new full every week or two).

For anything spaced out, it's really up to you.

For full disk images for recovery, I don't bother with a schedule.

I only take those when I'm about to make major system changes.

One of them saved my arse a while back when testing caching - I ended up with a corrupted system partition.

lol

@Bob: opposite of my philosphy now ;p

Windows 10 locked to HW? Bah, that is bad. :(

@Hennes: supposedly

That makes moving the install between VMs or from one laptop to another (eSATA) a PITA

I'm cool with one copy a system

Being able to do a clean install would be handy tho

Huh, I thought you could.

You just need to install three times

1. install win7

2) upgrade to 10

3) clean install of 10

how do you get the key from the upgrade, to do the clean install? ;/

No good idea. I just read about it. I am waiting a few months before doing it myself

Help, my windows 10 would come pre-infected with bloatware.

@djsmiley2k thats just the thing, you dont. Microsoft says once it is setup on that hardware it is done (microsft says a lot of things are done:-) It probably is hardware hash and account to microsoft connection .

At first that was what i was wondering too, grab a product key thing and re-install. but some people said that doesnt even work ???

Ahh it has been a day now, i should be able to find a real hacker left in this world, who knows exactally How it works, what it does.

I'm running into issues too - I want to upgrade but don't run genuine windows :/

Guess I could use the key from my brothers laptop since he won't be upgrading..

@Hennes It's not new, OEM licenses are node-locked and have been for many, many years.

@DragonLord But retail should not be.

A retail license obviously shouldn't be.

I cant even find anywhere from Microsoft to just straight up buy windows 10

Windows 10 Pro flash drive newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832588529

Windows 10 Home flash drive newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832588528

Sadly, not shipping yet.

@SimonSheehan Just install the store :-) bad jokes are my specialty.

@Psycogeek LOL

how oddly confusing

Thats a LOT for the OS too...

How long have they had to prepare for this :-) this is the same people who can organise a global event , or stadium filling meeting

@Psycogeek Used to run $200+ in the Windows Vista days.

Home Basic was $200, Home Premium was $240, Business was $300, Ultimate was $400.

Windows 7 was slightly cheaper.

Insanity lol

This is one of those moments where I appreciate OSX and its lack of serial keys and free updates in the past few years

Untimate i remeber it was like Deep Pocket version, had little more in it, but cool box :-)

@SimonSheehan That's because it's tied to the hardware platform.

Here is MS store link, microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Windows-10-Home/… $119 for home $199 for pro

Macs run a unique set of hardware and any Mac is licensed to run OS X.

It's built into the system's cost.

@DragonLord Still, simplicity.

$119... might do it

There was even a limited edition of 25,000 units of the Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade package, bearing Bill Gates's signature.

I want a Home, Pro, Disk . I think i could survive with Home, but i always end up with "pro" because of a few "technical" features, Network not being one of them.

@Psycogeek Group Policy, Hyper-V, BitLocker, lots of features you might not need now but can come in very handy when you need them...

The GPO is well kinda needed, but only for a few "tweaks" not for user control. Which could be don in the Registry (such fun) Virtual not me, Encryping , nope

How about acting as a RDP server?

There is something else along the lines of control of the machine, or diagnosis that was important before.

@DragonLord: there's decent alternatives there

@DragonLord Hell no :-) I specifically shut that off with a vengance.

For what i turn off , most people woudl call me crasy for dealing with Pro, (and i agree) because i turn it into Home Minus. but there was something that was ProPortant.

How about simple ICS sharing ?

That feature is available in Home.

Home has Resource monitor and task manager, and administrator funtions . event logs , performance monitor , system control, for paging, services snap ins , how about Raid ? the intel and other raid card?

And it is not microsoft raid, dynamic disks and that stuff.

@Psycogeek That's not OS-restricted.

That's firmware level.

@DragonLord thanks.

It's Windows software RAID (dynamic disks) that is not available in Home; Storage Spaces is available in all desktop editions.

@DragonLord ohh great, so it could be that scared me when any indication that raid was not supported.

all the snap ins are still there of any sort you can think of , task SChEDuler can be controlled, device manger, disk manager, full firewall control every ability to personalise and adjust effects and .

For the most part, yes.

the software additions, would be moot point with win10 :-) like built in DVDplay and codec (which costs sombody money) Media center is gone, little games i dont use (solitare) anyway.

windows essential stuff , which covered a crappy video editor, bad e-mail program partly usable text edit and one drive. All can still be used, and none of them were ever used anyways.

Was thinking about MDM and enterprise IT security again.

I'm planning to get a dedicated Windows laptop if required for work.

After the June 2 incident, I now better understand the security demands of businesses, and will work harder to ensure that critical business data doesn't get leaked out.

Significant changes have been made to improve information security.

@DragonLord sigh I'll remind you that it really depends on your workplace.

Not just for the sake of any future employer, but to protect the interests of my friends and family.

Your one was... abnormally strict, to say the least.

Depends what kind of data they deal with too.

What I can say is that the company specialized in retail management software.

There was no customer information or trade secret involved in the incident. It was a corporate network security concern more than anything else.

@DragonLord: I think it comes down to spending some time understanding the culture of the place.

Listen more than you speak.

I've historically had a very hard time maintaining the confidentiality of personal family information.

As I said, security and confidentiality issues extend far beyond the workplace.

@DragonLord: heh. That's something good moderator takes seriously

@DragonLord dont even know what happend, did they "fire you" or "ask you to resign" or did they psych you out and "you resigned on your own accord"

@Psycogeek Directly terminated as "not a good fit".

Employer did so in good faith and meant no ill will of any kind.

Ahh wasnt that nice of em. You should return the favor and sue them :-)

The intent was to avoid causing problems for future employment, such that as if I was never hired in the first place.

@Psycogeek No plans to do so. I genuinely do feel the company and I didn't quite fit together.

Speaking of which....

@DragonLord: I consider any aspect of my job, outside stuff that's public knowedge to be something I would never discuss externally.

If a potential employer is reading this, let it be clear that I've learned my lesson and I now take information security very seriously. I have a better understanding of what may be considered confidential and will make sure confidential information is kept secure.

If I walk about hardware we use, its mostly via publically available sources

Right down to what movies we are working on.

Even if i get my spoilers the same way you do ;)

Since this is public and employers do read social media, I'm trying to leave a positive message about this incident.

Threats can and do originate from social media and it would be foolish for an employer to turn a blind eye to them.

@JourneymanGeek yea and you dont freaking discuss your really cool job, which really sucks, cause i wanted to hear what they up to in it.

@Psycogeek: we blow shit up.

;p

(and do a lot of boring things)

See I knew it You over there doing the coolest stuff

And we totally have a friendly rivalry with the jawas ILM folk across the street ;p

Once again:

Security is all about protecting assets against threats and social engineering is one of the most significant, yet insidious attack vectors these days.

More importantly, its about keeping your sweet gig

I'm actually probably a little worse than I should be ;p

People know which building I work in, more or less, and guessing the company isn't impossible

I won't try. I promise.

lol

I respect that information as confidential.

and At least one person here has my address ;p

What happens at the job stays at the job, or you get a job in social media , and you get fired if you dont tell the world :-)

On another topic:

Windows 10 has basically launched in this fashion.

However, there was an extensive beta test period in the first place.

Windows 10 as it stands is best described as a "release candidate".

It's mostly ready for use, but with some minor unresolved issues here and there.

What I like about Windows 10 is that it's now a rolling release, and development is done with input from millions of users worldwide.

There's a feedback app, and you can post suggestions and problems and upvote them.

I signed a few non disclosure pacts before, and Hated it with a passion. I had aquired some info that was a great conversation piece, but could not converse it. And let me tell you it was groundbreaking and amazing information that should be exposed immediatly to the entier world. Thats right it was bigger than UFO landings, presidental killings and , , , well basically i forgot all about it :-0

@DragonLord You running it, was there anything that didnt work for you?

lol

@Psycogeek Monitor not turning off, Nexus 9 not communicating with the system over USB

i remember one a Ladder that has a sticker on it that says it is good for up to 200Lbs person i was making a video for court. I kid you not in the video the ladder when the base was stressed with weights and expencive measuring devices, it Collapsed at 200.07 lbs of weight.

@Psycogeek That's basis for a lawsuit as it doesn't provide a reasonable safety margin.

ANd the laywers who are tying to get the money , pretty much gave up on that point,

@DragonLord Exactally, I was saying, if you cant argue that in court , something very wrong.

That's static weight. In the case you described, when near the maximum load (not even exceeding it), dynamic forces generated during normal use will result in failure. This is a 100% meritorious claim.

And of course they said, all the goverment regs stuff and paperwork and all, that it fully met those specs for that testing , method and all

So if your 200 lbs, and on a 200lb ladder, dont lean into one of the feet :-)

I'm looking into restoring my old laptop and getting Windows 10 for it

Perhaps as a dedicated Windows Insider testing device.

@DragonLord has anything crashed ever yet on it?

Had one BSOD (Nvidia GPU TDR failed) after rebooting to install drivers.

However, I have no problems with either the IGP or the discrete GPU now and their respective control panels are working. GeForce Experience works as well.

I didn't sign up for Windows Insider because I didn't want to do beta testing on a production machine and I didn't have another rig to do testing on

Except that really old laptop of mine, and my Internet connection is very slow

I can't afford to do OS-level beta testing on the Dragon

I think to be a really good beta tester, you gotta keep working on a system that is all buggy and just feels wrong. Is not good enough to have it over there on the side machine , doing some booring repetitive tasks that it is good at.

So they can pay me to do that :-)

I will find them bugs and pickey stuff they never dreamed of , at a mere $20 an hour

Plus proper beta testing, would mean to document things well, Paperwork, ahh thats going to cost a bit more :-)

for free, i will try it, and the first thing i run into that ticks me off, I will say "well that part is Shi| , fix it", and throw my hands up and walk off :-)

Are there video cameras that have sensor that moves their focal point as you move? amazon.com/gp/product/B00JP12300

Camera is fixated on product and as it moves, camera also moves. Or it's just artificially done giving such assumption?

@Boris_yo it could have been done 3 different ways. human follow, computer follow , with a 10,000 compute camera tracking setup, or just easily done in a video editing program scan&pan , I suspect due to the type of editing, it was done in the computer editing.

hii

looo

ollaaaa

@JourneymanGeek Hmm...

@Psycogeek Computer yes but no way human would know to follow it.

@Boris_yo I think i could. with a shoot of the style you can do "takes" you can re-do stuff, and the cameraman would know what was going to occur. Look at the amazing job they do of tracking figure skating, or olympic events, or (i know) follwing a golf ball in a golf tourney , it's like 6 pixels flying through the air in 3 dimentions, hardly even see it, but 95% of the time they are right on it still.

Besides (watched it more than once) there are flaws in the following.

Just a reminder for everyone: As in Windows 7, you can select which folders to show on the Start Menu.

Can you turn them ALL off?

Yes, you'll just be left with Power and All Apps on the bottom left of the menu.

Well, it seems I can download apps from the Windows Store again. Must have been server issues.

oh cool

@Boris_yo bhphotovideo.com/c/product/433275-REG/… some of these tripod head assemblies are so expencive they are called "rigs" :-) even a partly good tripod for professional work is like $750 minimum

Downloading windows 10 now. I broke down and bought it finally, since ive never bought windows before

@SimonSheehan you purchased a full copy of windows 10?

interesting

@SimonSheehan uhh its not a DNS issue? I have had such issues where landing on a page the page did not render, until a refresh, and it had nothing to do with dns. Sometimes it was a Crappy script that was comming off a different server than the site. and sometimes it was the browser had leaked memory (sort of) and needed to be closed and restarted (note IE browsers do not always close correct see task manager)

If it was a real dns speed lag thing, a Ping of your dns. or you could ping any name of a location, and the name has to be resolved first. Dns has the cache stuff, which can be cleared, and then hosts and order of resolve methods and all that.

(some places do not any longer allow pings, thanks to hackers)

Here is an easy one. unless they really did take that option away , which would suck.

info from the pre-releace suggest that "Ease Of access" high contrast themes was the only way to change that. The options to mess with the start menu and taskbar, desktop are good enough, and people already have hackish ways to change the title bars.

The Intel HD Graphics driver just TDRed on me.

The Pirate Upgrade: "“Anyone with a qualified device can upgrade to Windows 10, including those with pirated copies of Windows,” a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat. “We believe customers over time will realize the value of properly licensing Windows, and we will make it easy for them to move to legitimate copies.”"

Suure they are. Anyone want to take bets that 6months from now the magically "genuine" listed pirate upgrades , seemingly come to a screeching halt, with a nice link to the store :-)

Don't discount the fact that lots of non-genuine copies are on used PCs that the consumer cannot verify prior to purchase.

My translation would be more like. We believe customers over time will realize they wont want to go back to windows 7 , we made it easy to force them into legitimate copies, you think we never had to deal with this before. He who laughs last laughs best

On TDRs: If the graphics driver TDRs six times within a 60-second period, the system will give a BSOD.

forums.geforce.com/default/topic/389688/geforce-drivers/…

TDR ohh there is an abbreviation for it :-) we just call it a GPU recover many of which are directly related to the GPU driver software . although it is good to blame the other guy ;-)

The ATi did that, and the AMD at times, and most often a driver change fixed it.

@DragonLord very good write-up

@Psycogeek 18K?!

@Psycogeek You used Logitech Trackball M570? Know of a good alternatives?

logitech.com/en-ca/product/wireless-trackball-m570

@Boris_yo my trackball search began like this. Roll out keyboard has little space for mouse movement area. The desk above it had space, but was less comfortable reach. I had used Ball mice, and they were a constant cleaning issue. I had great optical mice with many added buttons, but they always seemed to Drag. I had changed the feet and the pads like 15 times , and finnaly had a mouse that floats like an air hockey table, but still I would pressure down on it, and it was not floating.

It always ticked me off that i would have to lift the mouse to reposition the curser. Plus I would always apply a speed curve, with precision slow speed, and through the wall fast speed, which could make repositioning worse (or better)

Of course i had tried about 9 different mices, from huge to overly gadetry. then i tried other things, like i had a joymouse stuck to the side of the keyboard, and tried vertical mouses (even more drag). and I tried some trackball mouses with ok balls.

I remembered that Arcades had these Huge built-in rollerballs for certian arcade games they were like 3-4 inch sized, although i never actually played them. I went online to try and find an arcade chrome and metal ball to build into the desk. but interfacing it back to windows , was beyond my capability and probably would have lag.