jaclaz

Great minds think alike ... ... and following ... jaclaz

I am very proud of a (otherwise lousy ) t-shirt I was given for my 50th birthday that reads: The answer is NO, we (cumulatively the "geeks") have already spent a large part of our lives looking for and testing new, strange things, there is no other reason why - unless it is a mere coincidence - we stopped being curious/enthusiastic exactly at the same time some (crappy) products came out, the ONLY possible explanation is that these products are crappy. Show me a different, better[1] way to do something and I will adopt it in no time, today like I did it yesterday (and also the day before). The advantage we have (when compared to the younger folks) is that we ALREADY did that something in more ways they can even imagine, thus we can easily compare the effectiveness and ergonomics of the more traditional tools/methods/approaches against the last, new, hip, one they just devised and rather easily separate the wheat from the chaff. jaclaz [1] better here means actually better.

It loads Power Management. If you don't use it, you don't need it, of course. jaclaz

Curiously/coincidentally, I was talking today of which in Italia is "chi semina vento raccoglie tempesta". It comes from the Bible (just to show how there is nothing new under the sun ) Hosea 8.7: and in its complete version the added "the strangers shall swallow it up" is even more menacing.... jaclaz

Yep , also sometimes removing a safety fuse (a single §@ç#ing fuse worth - say - 0.10 USD) combined with (bad) software engineers can have serious consequences, a re-known case, JFYI: http://hackaday.com/2015/10/26/killed-by-a-machine-the-therac-25/ jaclaz

From memory, a Via C3 based board @1 Ghz is loosely comparable to a P3 @800 Mhz, a C7 should be much faster than that. Via support and documentation usually sucks (and sucks BIG), even if a (EOL) motherboard is now listing only XP support, and "current" ones only list Windows 7, often the drivers for it are also NT 4.00 and 2K, finding this kind of info (which is scattered among two or three sites) is daunting, but it can be done. I presume that the last/most powerful mini-itx board is the EPIA SN series (which also has 2 Gigabit ethernets onboard): http://www.viatech.com/en/support/eol/epia-sn-eol/ and at least the "Hyperion" driver does include NT 4.00 support: http://download.viatech.com/en/support/driversSelect.jsp Have a look at some tests of it: http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1308/via_epia_sn_mini_itx_motherboard/ But most probably you could do with a slightly older (and less powerful) motherboard. jaclaz

Well, but that normally didn't botch the hardware, the temperature sensors (hardware) would have prevented that and shut off the machine. Here we are seemingly talking of the speakers been blown for good. (and we are not talking of el-cheapo external speakers that can be replaced in no time, we are talking of the internal speakers of a laptop that annot even be opened by "common mortals"). jaclaz

You can still find around - I believe - mini ITX and nano ITX boards with 2K (and most even NT4) drivers. I have a few good ol' Via Epia motherboards (mini ITX) that work nicely without a hitch since 2003 or so 24/7, and performance with NT 4.0 is not that bad, don't expect speed records, of course. jaclaz

And when you combine the two worlds, something must happen ... : https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5e1g37/warning_bootcamp_driver_causing_blown_speakers_in/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5e7whh/update_bootcamp_driver_causing_blown_speakers_in/ The day software can actually kill hardware has come. jaclaz

Talking of updates/upgrades, in Redmond : http://blog.win-fu.com/2016/11/every-windows-10-in-place-upgrade-is.html meanwhile in Cupertino : https://onemoreadmin.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/the-untouchables-apples-new-os-activation-for-touch-bar-macbook-pros/ jaclaz

Subinacl OS support may depend on version , I believe "last" version is however very "old". Have you tried Regini.exe? (if available in Windows 10) BUT - hard as it may be to suggest this - most probably you should use Powershell (examples): http://superuser.com/questions/914377/setting-registry-permissions-with-powershell https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/How-to-Manage-Permissions-e5b32b49 jaclaz

Right before the AARD code thing came out, JFYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code jaclaz

Well, to be fair, 99% of first reply when asking about *any* problem with *any* OS in a lot of places is "re-format and re-install OS", the fact that it is popular (and often effective ) doesn't really mean that it is a good idea or that is an appropriate answer to the specific problem at hand. jaclaz

Let's say that IF I were a Windows 10 user I would keep under close watch the new "protocols" such as “ms-windows-store“ or "microsoft-edge": https://www.brokenbrowser.com/abusing-of-protocols/ jaclaz

JFYI : jaclaz

If you never used command line tools, you can remove them. Remember, tomorrow morning, to remove the spare wheel, jack and tools from your car, you also never used them. Truecrypt is no more (since 2014). http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ It has been "replaced" by VeraCrypt (JFYI): https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/ Help subsystem can be replaced (with some little caveats) with xchm: http://xchm.sourceforge.net/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/xchm/files/xCHM for Win32/ jaclaz

In other words, by making your add-ons for Photoshop, you are an accomplice, facilitating and supporting this flawed market model and somehow justifying it. A Court would probably give you a lighter sentence because of your state of need, still ... jaclaz

Only to add some FUD , a nice POC (if you think that NOT having a microphone would do): https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/security-researchers-can-turn-headphones-into-microphones/ jaclaz

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3330 All in all I find it normal that pinging any address on 127.x.x.x loops back (the /8 is "class A" and corresponds to 255.0.0.0 netmask). The source of your 127.0.0.84 port use is something that needs to be investigated, but should be unrelated. jaclaz

Sure, and still that has no relevance whatever when talking of formatting or partitioning (or both), the concepts don't change with size. jaclaz

Introduction/presentation (if needed): https://m.signalvnoise.com/microsoft-reboots-war-on-sleep-a90da0396fb5 Actual Microsoft (Surface) commercial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjs2uiKPo2c Quote of the day: No comment actually needed. jaclaz

Which is good , it means you are "modern", once upon a time people used to get to know things before making opinions on them, even wrong ones. Here are some possibly interesting resources to back up your thesis: http://reboot.pro/topic/21074-windows-10-is-now-shipping-with-linux-command-line/?p=198581 Anyway the issue is only about the actual attempt to "convert" existing usersbase to migration from cmd.exe. The ps.exe as an option? Good, lots of people actually deserve that. The ps.exe forced down everyone's throats? Advanced users will be able to revert that in no time, the less advanced users will be stuck in there and have all kinds of issues attempting to (wrongly) run cmd.exe commands in the new shell, a perfect way to have BOTH dislike the new shell. Yep, and these senseless (partial/wrong) aliases already made their victims, JFYI: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901 jaclaz

It's not about caveats, the given article doesn't say anything different from what you just reported. Whether you call it "votes" or not the essence is the same, if the "integrity" of a file is checked, *something* must be there to compromise it in case of hardware change, and whether the new (not fully known) set of triggers is "morally correct" or "to be expected" (or not), or whether the used method is "forgiving" and "fairly easy to reactivate" doesn't really answer the OP question. Both slmgr.vbs -dlv and MGADiag do not AFAIK actually give any useful information on what is the situation, more or less we have a "black box" that *sometimes* will issue a request for reactivation, and most probably each of the zillion versions and licence types have different "black boxes". jaclaz

The output you posted seems to come from Powershell allright (note the "length" instead of "Size"), the dir is a "standard" Alias, as well as ls, list and gci, of Get Child-Item, you can check the Aliases via Powershell, it is simple and easy to remember : get-alias | where-object {$_.Definition -eq 'Get-Childitem'} jaclaz

There must be a communication problem of some kind. If you use the HP USB format tool, it will make a PARTITIONED USB stick (unlike the "normal" Windows XP, where you CANNOT partition a "removable" device), so if you used that tool, you did partition the USB stick (evidently without knowing that you did so). cfadisk.sys is a THIRD PARTY filter driver and it doesn't exist in XP, or in Server 2003. What (the heck) is an "expandable" HDD? Does it expand (and possibly shrink)? Anyway what is the relevance of it being 80 Gb (and old) ? jaclaz