You need an old version (9.2.1) to get XP support. Basically pick what updates you want, then it will download it, and build it in a form that basically you can double click the installer and it will run the updates.
Moving the comments count to the upper right and making it almost imperceptible.
Putting a share < in its place, with manky mouseover links to some networks.
And worse, getting rid of the rounded corner on the upper left of stories on the main page.
Thanks, Slashdot.
Thlashdot.
Why do people think we want to share everything? I'm annoyed at Youtube for making the description disappear, and replacing it with social networking share links when the video finishes.
Do you mean ReaganPhone from the mid 80's or BushPhone from 2005 when it was expanded to cellphones (with the first phone issued during the last few weeks of Bush's administration)?
On May 31, 2004 Royal Bank Canada (unrelated) had a similar massive failure of a software upgrade. As a result none of their customers had transactions processed, and it took almost a week to fix and clear the backlog. Not only did this impact individuals banking with RBC, but if an employer's payroll was through RBC, none of their employees got paid. Mortgage payments, car payments and other bill payments were bouncing all over the place.
As far as where people bank, I'm surprised how many people willingly pay $5,$15, or $25 per month at a bank that they're only at because their parents set up a kids account there years ago. We have two free "virtual" banks in Canada: PC Financial, and Tangerine (formally ING) that are tangentially associated with a real bank (and you have free access to their ATM network): CIBC, and ScotiaBank respectively. They both have unlimited free debit, ATM(at their ATMs), online bill pay, etc. PCF even has unlimited free cheques.
I've said it before and here it is again. Within a decade, perhaps within the next 5 years, some bright young web designers will "discover" new methods of making websites that will turn out to be almost identical to the usable, intuitive, and inviting websites we had in 2008. I'm talking side navigation panes, site maps, links with actual words on them, legible text and fonts, content borders, actual fucking dense, readable, clear content instead of a 2+MB page that take 5 seconds to fade in a single login screen. In short people will discover how to make a motherfucking website again.
I'll be glad when that happens. Webpages are getting slow and slower with more JavaScript crap that doesn't gain anything (fine if it's an interactive Office App, but just a blog post?) It's causing me to have to retire computers simply because surfing the web is too slow. The requirements of a web page are normally pretty simple: Show text, show pictures, show links, and in select cases show videos.
Sounds about right. I'm shocked how much DDR2 has gone up. For DDR the only way I could justify upgrading old PCs from 512MB to 2GB to upgrade to Windows 7 was to get used RAM from the local Computer store (they're the only ones in town selling used RAM).
On my new system I went with 16GB, but only filled 2 of 4 slots. The system can handle 32GB, so when prices come down enough I'll put in the other 16GB.
Gigabyte B85M-D3H Motherboard (Intel B85 chipset). Core i5-4690 (picked for best value for single thread execution) 16GB RAM (upgradable to 32GB) 256GB Crucial M550 SSD for OS and applications 1TB Western Digital Black HDD for storage I use the onboard graphics because I don't game, has h.264 hardware acceleration, and it has outputs for HDMI, VGA, DVI, so I can connect 3x 1080 monitors. I have a VGA extension cord running to the living room, so I can plug it into the VGA port to use as a "media PC" with wireless headphones and Logitech K400 keyboard (in addition to my desktop keyboard/mouse set). Windows 7 Home Premium
I didn't build it myself, but had a local PC shop build it.
I know plenty of people with 40GB PSTs too, you haven't been limited to 2gb since Office 2007
But sometimes Outlook ends up in "compatability" format and will screw up at 2GB.
If I were using Outlook at work, I'd probably partition my emails off into PSTs by calender year. That way I can have a fixed archive for previous years. I partition off "My documents" by year as well.
The article also seems to think 3D printers can make anything out of thin air. You save transportation costs because you don't need to ship anything, and you avoid supply chain disruptions because you don't have to ship anything.
From the article:
The effects of natural disasters extend far beyond individual companies. In 2012, a severe drought temporarily halted the transport of goods down the Mississippi River, affecting the entire region. This is the type of problem likely to become more common in a changing climate. The ability to print goods where they are needed would clearly decrease vulnerability to droughts and other disruptive weather events.
which could be shut to cargo from companies including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. next month.
-Agricultural. We can print food now?
“If you’re shipping raw materials to a steel mill in Chicago, you’re trying to figure out if you can go to Cincinnati or Louisville, Kentucky, unload it out of the barge and rail it up to the steel mill.”
-Thank god 3D printers can print steel out of nothing
Barges on the Mississippi handle about 60 percent of the nation’s grain exports entering the Gulf of Mexico through New Orleans, as well as 22 percent of its petroleum and 20 percent of its coal.
Except, obviously, that it's Windows 10, not Windows 8.1. My HP tablet comes with Windows 8.1 with Bing, and I've been suspecting the "free upgrade" I'll be getting will be to an equivalent Windows 10 version.
Windows 8.1 with Bing is actually free to manufacturers of cheaper devices. I assume that was partly why it was on my $150 HP tablet.
Is it a Stream? I've been surprised at how well my $100 HP Stream 7 (with free case) runs. Chrome (even in desktop mode) is actually designed for touch use (keyboard pops up when required, mobile type select, copy, paste functions), and I'm surprised that most desktop applications function properly with drag scrolling, and pinch zooming.
The agreement was that you would not only pay the fee but also pay it from United States soil and remain on United States soil while viewing works available through the service. What makes such a contract invalid?
No. I setup a Netflix Canada account. A courtesy they provide to all Netflix users is to provide the content library of the region you appear to be in, regardless of where you registered your account. They just think me, and thousands of other Canadians, and UK, and Australians, are just visiting the USA for months at a time, from the same IP.
It can't even be imagined as "stealing" in my mind. Since it's paid for in the U.S., I fail to see the difference if you had driven to the U.S. and purchased something to take back to Canada. it might be "smuggling" if anything, by way of avoiding paying whatever bullshit tariffs Canada might be able to levy, if there even are any that apply.
You actually set up a Netflix Canada account, and pay in Canadian Dollars. Connect by VPN (or DNS proxy), and Netflix thinks you're "visiting" the US. Regardless of where you registered your account, Netflix will provide the content library of the country you appear to be in. Netflix will do this no problem even though you were just in Canada moments earlier, and even though you apparently travel to the states for months at a time, and are coming from the same IP as hundreds or thousands of other Canadians (and other international customers).
Netflix very much turns a blind eye to this. There's no way they don't know about how many people are bypassing region locks, but they turn a blind eye because they know people will pay to sign up for the crappy Canadian content, with the intention of VPNing into the US content. They try to do the bare minimum to make content creators think that they are trying to block it, without really doing anything.
Myself, I use TVUnblock It's free, and it's just a DNS setting. To get it to work on Chromecast, I set the router DNS to TVUnblock, and I set a firewall on the router to prevent Chromecast from connecting to Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) causing it to fall back on the router's DNS settings.
It is coincidental that this article comes out just as I lost a lot of data on my computer last night after shutting it off. I have an SSD, however I think it might have been because I didn't let Windows 8 shut down cleanly I simply powered it off. I can't be sure if it is because of the unclean shutdown or being off for a number of hours. When I booted my machine just moments ago and tried to login, it said the nvidia and intel graphics drivers were corrupt. Also, my laptop's updater tool is missing from the program files. I don't know how many different files I might have lost. I was able to boot into safe mode and start repairing, however. Note: I don't normally just shut it off like that, but I was heading to bed and I was bit groggy so I just held the power button out of apathy. I really didn't expect an utter catastrophe to follow.
You haven't been supposed to just force power off since at least Windows 95, so almost 20 years. You must have been running on battery, normally I go start->shutdown, then walk away and let it do it's thing (or just leave it running). What make/ model SSD do you have?
The drives will instantly brick themselves at the following Monday.
That's being optimistic. More likely is Saturday night at 3AM, resulting in a call in to repair the downed system. Bonus points if you don't require people to be "on-call" rotation, so you have to find someone that isn't too drunk to come in.
Even if i think that it is seriously problematic to include "twitter/tweets" in searches, i understand that more sources available to search is usually not a bad thing; BUT i have serious problems with excluding terms in Google, i.e., this "-" thing does not always work (i can even claim that "often does not work") - and it (as the other logic operators) used to work always for me in the pre-Google era...
Actually this is my major criticism for Google: i want my logic operators back.
Another Slashdot user pointed this out to me:
On your search results, go Search tools->All Results->Verbatim.
I like the search engine "StartPage" (Google results minus the tracking) but browsers seem to be getting broken as far as adding custom search engines. https://startpage.com/
When I first clicked the link I was expecting an article about how Electric cars (Like Tesla), or Self driving cars (Like Google) were going to be disruptive to the industry.
The Infotainment system?
Good grief.
Maybe I'm wrong, and while I admit a lot of shoppers are shallow, I think basic practicality places much higher than the infotainment system. Aux-in / Bluetooth pairing are essential (or highly desirable), but after that most people really don't care about the entertainment system. People are more interested in: Price, Fuel Economy, Reliability, Safety, handling, availability of repair network. A PC, you can setup a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and you can't tell and wouldn't care what brand PC they were attached to. There's a lot more reasons to buy a car, and a lot more difference between brands and models.
And as it is a phone has a "life" of 2-3 years. Though owners with high disposable income may change to the new shiny car in 2-3 years, on average 10 year old cars are very common. At that point is the version of Android Dash even relevant any more? As it is, the stereo in many old cars with only get a second life because a cassette/aux in adapter can be used. That's two complete generations of in-car entertainment out of date (CD player, and then the current USB/Bluetooth paired phone). There's even new cars shipping that stopped shipping with CD players.
Personally I'd like to see the environmental nightmare of the Keurig and Tassimo curl up and die.
I own a keurig and a half dozen reusable pods that I throw in the dishwasher. I actually waste less coffee, coffee filters, etc.. now that I own a keurig and I like that I can make a single cup of coffee in the morning without any waste. I used the 20 pods that came free with my keurig but I haven't bought any since. I don't understand why people continue to buy those overpriced pieces of plastic when the same exact coffee is a fraction of the cost. Are people really that lazy that they can't spend 3 seconds dumping the old grounds in the trash?
I only have one reusable pod, but I find it works just dandy at work. I have a french press at home, but at work I don't have the resources to clean out a french press, and a standard coffee maker usually results in the coffee burning away all day, and no one cleaning out the machine. Single serve coffee works great in this situation.
But why would I pay $0.50-$1.00 per cup of disposable Keurig, when I can pay $2 for a reusable pod, and $8 for a kg of ground coffee
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WSUSOffline will do what you want:
http://download.wsusoffline.ne...
You need an old version (9.2.1) to get XP support. Basically pick what updates you want, then it will download it, and build it in a form that basically you can double click the installer and it will run the updates.
Moving the comments count to the upper right and making it almost imperceptible.
Putting a share < in its place, with manky mouseover links to some networks.
And worse, getting rid of the rounded corner on the upper left of stories on the main page.
Thanks, Slashdot.
Thlashdot.
Why do people think we want to share everything? I'm annoyed at Youtube for making the description disappear, and replacing it with social networking share links when the video finishes.
Do you mean ReaganPhone from the mid 80's or BushPhone from 2005 when it was expanded to cellphones (with the first phone issued during the last few weeks of Bush's administration)?
On May 31, 2004 Royal Bank Canada (unrelated) had a similar massive failure of a software upgrade. As a result none of their customers had transactions processed, and it took almost a week to fix and clear the backlog. Not only did this impact individuals banking with RBC, but if an employer's payroll was through RBC, none of their employees got paid. Mortgage payments, car payments and other bill payments were bouncing all over the place.
As far as where people bank, I'm surprised how many people willingly pay $5,$15, or $25 per month at a bank that they're only at because their parents set up a kids account there years ago. We have two free "virtual" banks in Canada: PC Financial, and Tangerine (formally ING) that are tangentially associated with a real bank (and you have free access to their ATM network): CIBC, and ScotiaBank respectively. They both have unlimited free debit, ATM(at their ATMs), online bill pay, etc. PCF even has unlimited free cheques.
I've said it before and here it is again. Within a decade, perhaps within the next 5 years, some bright young web designers will "discover" new methods of making websites that will turn out to be almost identical to the usable, intuitive, and inviting websites we had in 2008. I'm talking side navigation panes, site maps, links with actual words on them, legible text and fonts, content borders, actual fucking dense, readable, clear content instead of a 2+MB page that take 5 seconds to fade in a single login screen. In short people will discover how to make a motherfucking website again.
I'll be glad when that happens. Webpages are getting slow and slower with more JavaScript crap that doesn't gain anything (fine if it's an interactive Office App, but just a blog post?) It's causing me to have to retire computers simply because surfing the web is too slow. The requirements of a web page are normally pretty simple: Show text, show pictures, show links, and in select cases show videos.
By 51 apparently
Sounds about right. I'm shocked how much DDR2 has gone up. For DDR the only way I could justify upgrading old PCs from 512MB to 2GB to upgrade to Windows 7 was to get used RAM from the local Computer store (they're the only ones in town selling used RAM).
On my new system I went with 16GB, but only filled 2 of 4 slots. The system can handle 32GB, so when prices come down enough I'll put in the other 16GB.
Gigabyte B85M-D3H Motherboard (Intel B85 chipset).
Core i5-4690 (picked for best value for single thread execution)
16GB RAM (upgradable to 32GB)
256GB Crucial M550 SSD for OS and applications
1TB Western Digital Black HDD for storage
I use the onboard graphics because I don't game, has h.264 hardware acceleration, and it has outputs for HDMI, VGA, DVI, so I can connect 3x 1080 monitors. I have a VGA extension cord running to the living room, so I can plug it into the VGA port to use as a "media PC" with wireless headphones and Logitech K400 keyboard (in addition to my desktop keyboard/mouse set).
Windows 7 Home Premium
I didn't build it myself, but had a local PC shop build it.
I know plenty of people with 40GB PSTs too, you haven't been limited to 2gb since Office 2007
But sometimes Outlook ends up in "compatability" format and will screw up at 2GB.
If I were using Outlook at work, I'd probably partition my emails off into PSTs by calender year. That way I can have a fixed archive for previous years. I partition off "My documents" by year as well.
Anonymous Coward,
We would rather you buy our garbage can shaped Mac Pro.
--Tim Cook.
The article also seems to think 3D printers can make anything out of thin air. You save transportation costs because you don't need to ship anything, and you avoid supply chain disruptions because you don't have to ship anything.
From the article:
The effects of natural disasters extend far beyond individual companies. In 2012, a severe drought temporarily halted the transport of goods down the Mississippi River, affecting the entire region. This is the type of problem likely to become more common in a changing climate. The ability to print goods where they are needed would clearly decrease vulnerability to droughts and other disruptive weather events.
From the linked Bloomberg Article on the drought:
which could be shut to cargo from companies including Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. next month.
-Agricultural. We can print food now?
“If you’re shipping raw materials to a steel mill in Chicago, you’re trying to figure out if you can go to Cincinnati or Louisville, Kentucky, unload it out of the barge and rail it up to the steel mill.”
-Thank god 3D printers can print steel out of nothing
Barges on the Mississippi handle about 60 percent of the nation’s grain exports entering the Gulf of Mexico through New Orleans, as well as 22 percent of its petroleum and 20 percent of its coal.
Good thing we can print fossil fuels now too.
Can we get a network of 3D printed things?
sorry, let me re-word that for the New Slashdot
You Won't Believe this Network of 3D Printed Things!
Is it a Beowulf cluster? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
Except, obviously, that it's Windows 10, not Windows 8.1. My HP tablet comes with Windows 8.1 with Bing, and I've been suspecting the "free upgrade" I'll be getting will be to an equivalent Windows 10 version.
Windows 8.1 with Bing is actually free to manufacturers of cheaper devices. I assume that was partly why it was on my $150 HP tablet.
Is it a Stream? I've been surprised at how well my $100 HP Stream 7 (with free case) runs. Chrome (even in desktop mode) is actually designed for touch use (keyboard pops up when required, mobile type select, copy, paste functions), and I'm surprised that most desktop applications function properly with drag scrolling, and pinch zooming.
>I think the purpose of tarrifs and duties is to specifically hinder this kind of ad-hoc cross-border arbitrage
Duties on all items brought over for personal consumption/use is GST, or HST in areas having HST. This pegs the maximum legal of charge at 13%.
There is actually a parts of Canada outside Ontario. Here HST is 15%.
The agreement was that you would not only pay the fee but also pay it from United States soil and remain on United States soil while viewing works available through the service. What makes such a contract invalid?
No. I setup a Netflix Canada account. A courtesy they provide to all Netflix users is to provide the content library of the region you appear to be in, regardless of where you registered your account. They just think me, and thousands of other Canadians, and UK, and Australians, are just visiting the USA for months at a time, from the same IP.
It can't even be imagined as "stealing" in my mind. Since it's paid for in the U.S., I fail to see the difference if you had driven to the U.S. and purchased something to take back to Canada. it might be "smuggling" if anything, by way of avoiding paying whatever bullshit tariffs Canada might be able to levy, if there even are any that apply.
You actually set up a Netflix Canada account, and pay in Canadian Dollars. Connect by VPN (or DNS proxy), and Netflix thinks you're "visiting" the US. Regardless of where you registered your account, Netflix will provide the content library of the country you appear to be in. Netflix will do this no problem even though you were just in Canada moments earlier, and even though you apparently travel to the states for months at a time, and are coming from the same IP as hundreds or thousands of other Canadians (and other international customers).
Netflix very much turns a blind eye to this. There's no way they don't know about how many people are bypassing region locks, but they turn a blind eye because they know people will pay to sign up for the crappy Canadian content, with the intention of VPNing into the US content. They try to do the bare minimum to make content creators think that they are trying to block it, without really doing anything.
Myself, I use TVUnblock It's free, and it's just a DNS setting. To get it to work on Chromecast, I set the router DNS to TVUnblock, and I set a firewall on the router to prevent Chromecast from connecting to Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) causing it to fall back on the router's DNS settings.
It is coincidental that this article comes out just as I lost a lot of data on my computer last night after shutting it off. I have an SSD, however I think it might have been because I didn't let Windows 8 shut down cleanly I simply powered it off. I can't be sure if it is because of the unclean shutdown or being off for a number of hours. When I booted my machine just moments ago and tried to login, it said the nvidia and intel graphics drivers were corrupt. Also, my laptop's updater tool is missing from the program files. I don't know how many different files I might have lost. I was able to boot into safe mode and start repairing, however. Note: I don't normally just shut it off like that, but I was heading to bed and I was bit groggy so I just held the power button out of apathy. I really didn't expect an utter catastrophe to follow.
You haven't been supposed to just force power off since at least Windows 95, so almost 20 years. You must have been running on battery, normally I go start->shutdown, then walk away and let it do it's thing (or just leave it running). What make/ model SSD do you have?
The drives will instantly brick themselves at the following Monday.
That's being optimistic. More likely is Saturday night at 3AM, resulting in a call in to repair the downed system. Bonus points if you don't require people to be "on-call" rotation, so you have to find someone that isn't too drunk to come in.
Notice at 0:44 the lady talked about windows apps. Contrary to popular belief Apple didn't invent the word "App"
-twitter -tweet
Even if i think that it is seriously problematic to include "twitter/tweets" in searches, i understand that more sources available to search is usually not a bad thing; BUT i have serious problems with excluding terms in Google, i.e., this "-" thing does not always work (i can even claim that "often does not work") - and it (as the other logic operators) used to work always for me in the pre-Google era...
Actually this is my major criticism for Google: i want my logic operators back.
Another Slashdot user pointed this out to me:
On your search results, go Search tools->All Results->Verbatim.
I like the search engine "StartPage" (Google results minus the tracking) but browsers seem to be getting broken as far as adding custom search engines.
https://startpage.com/
People are more interested in: Price, Fuel Economy, Reliability, Safety, handling, availability of repair network.
Forgot to mention: Passenger comfort, Passenger capacity, cargo capacity, and tow rating.
When I first clicked the link I was expecting an article about how Electric cars (Like Tesla), or Self driving cars (Like Google) were going to be disruptive to the industry.
The Infotainment system?
Good grief.
Maybe I'm wrong, and while I admit a lot of shoppers are shallow, I think basic practicality places much higher than the infotainment system. Aux-in / Bluetooth pairing are essential (or highly desirable), but after that most people really don't care about the entertainment system. People are more interested in: Price, Fuel Economy, Reliability, Safety, handling, availability of repair network. A PC, you can setup a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and you can't tell and wouldn't care what brand PC they were attached to. There's a lot more reasons to buy a car, and a lot more difference between brands and models.
And as it is a phone has a "life" of 2-3 years. Though owners with high disposable income may change to the new shiny car in 2-3 years, on average 10 year old cars are very common. At that point is the version of Android Dash even relevant any more? As it is, the stereo in many old cars with only get a second life because a cassette/aux in adapter can be used. That's two complete generations of in-car entertainment out of date (CD player, and then the current USB/Bluetooth paired phone). There's even new cars shipping that stopped shipping with CD players.
You mean the Bush phone? After all the first cellphones were issued in 2008, when Bush was president.
Is your cat Pusheen?
Personally I'd like to see the environmental nightmare of the Keurig and Tassimo curl up and die.
I own a keurig and a half dozen reusable pods that I throw in the dishwasher. I actually waste less coffee, coffee filters, etc.. now that I own a keurig and I like that I can make a single cup of coffee in the morning without any waste. I used the 20 pods that came free with my keurig but I haven't bought any since. I don't understand why people continue to buy those overpriced pieces of plastic when the same exact coffee is a fraction of the cost. Are people really that lazy that they can't spend 3 seconds dumping the old grounds in the trash?
I only have one reusable pod, but I find it works just dandy at work. I have a french press at home, but at work I don't have the resources to clean out a french press, and a standard coffee maker usually results in the coffee burning away all day, and no one cleaning out the machine. Single serve coffee works great in this situation.
But why would I pay $0.50-$1.00 per cup of disposable Keurig, when I can pay $2 for a reusable pod, and $8 for a kg of ground coffee