I use Windows 10 at work and on my mom's PC. Personally though I have an Android phone and a old HP running LM17.2 at home as my primary devices. At work there is alot of tweaking we do with Enterprise Windows 10 which has made it overall a great tool that is already being deployed even if it hasn't gotten the royal seal of approval. Most users will have Windows 10 Home which is what my mom has, I actually cloned Windows 7 to a new hard drive and stuck it in a newer Dell(I'm running the old HP) and with very little effort got it running.
I'm a little foggy since this was around October or so.
A couple weeks after the transfer I ran the Windows 10 upgrade over night. There were no hiccups, I think I was asked for a Microsoft login but there was a camouflaged skip icon in the corner. After that all the files showed up were they were suppose to be, the account was configured properly. The main difference was missing launchers in the task bar and what at the time was an oversized but relatively ad free menu. Everything went smooth except Cisco Anyconnect which broke like a couple weeks later. It took a combined 3-4 hours of work over a week to work it out but ultimately it was just cleaning the system out with CCleaner, a reinstall of the newest client, and the special settings of her IT group. I had some complaints the first couple days about how it looked but after that she found it easy and comfortable to use, which is really what counts. I installed one of my copies of Office365 from work and she has loved how smooth office is. All of her work is in Chrome, Outlook, Office, and RDP through her VPN and all of those work great so from a regular user standpoint it's a success.
In my experience with Windows 10 Home I'm overall impressed. My complaints are the features missing in Home Edition(can't really fix that for free) and junk ads for apps in the start Menu. In the Enterprise version I use at work I honestly have no complaints other then missing features for the Virtual Desktop. I'm not going to go out and buy a new PC with Windows 10 but I still have to say it's intuitive and easy to use if you have to have Windows.
Features I love are: The overall theme which is in my opinion smooth and colorful, Virtual Desktops(Finally!), and the way they integrated the look of Windows 8 with the intuitiveness of Windows 7 and even made things easier to use. Yes I still don't care for PowerShell and CMD but for me it's the End-user Experience I'm concerned about. Windows 10 still has alot of features and power under the hood for Admins and I like that since I use it to do tech support but the only thing it did was make the tools flashier.
For most scenarios and most End-users I think the upgrade is worth it overall and is an easy transition for the non-tech savvy
I definitely applaud the creative use. Facebook is clearly out for profit here but I think Wikimedia truly wants to help the world and statistics show education is the answer. The true travesty here is Unitel charging the high rates it does(by Angolan standards) for something that really should be a universal human right by now.
First off where is the clear argument that you can't just push a firmware backdoor (software backdoor is a bad implementation of a worse idea) onto a locked Iphone. Can you? My point is unless a backdoor is already there you can't do anything with the current phone.
To my point, If I think that computer code comes from the book of Revelations and seeps into my phone through osmosis you can't expect me to understand the complications around unlocking the phone let alone the consequences. Pew needs to explain the basics and THEN ask the questions. This is like polling 10 year olds on math and expecting the results to be representative of the Grade School
Well A) The Republican party is out of touch with a majority of their base B) The Republican citizens that support the Republicans that the big ISPs are paying to do this think Bandwidth is the length of that cable they plug into that box that makes the Google go Vroom.
Remember the free exchange of information makes for intelligent critical thinking citizens which is bad for politics. No videos for you, no whiteboard, and definitely no conferencing.
As the world gets bigger and bigger and certain nooks and crannies of the Internet concentrate and amplify violent ideologies I think this kind of bulk scanning will be necessary, Google already does it for business so maybe we should allow them to do it for public safety. I think regardless of what we do this will happen and we can either jump on the bandwagon and try to steer it in the right direction or let it careen down the hill in the control of the corrupt and elite. The biggest problem with the NSA in my opinion is transparency, yes they definitely crossed some lines but their biggest transgression against the American people and the entire world was hiding what they were doing which allowed gross misuse of the power they had.
I've always said that technology is going in a dangerous direction and the reason is because only a few people understand it and fewer care that it is. We need a greater conversation with the general public. This idea applies to politics, privacy, technology, and society as a whole.
In attempt to maintain my faith in humanity... Has anyone considered he gauged the price to bring attention to the problems in medical patent law? I mean anyone with an IQ above 100 should be able to figure out that gauging the price on HIV drugs of all things by 5000% is the best way to get the fury of the public focused on you...this other stuff sadly makes me question my idea:(
I propose we imprison every politician that doesn't hold up their campaign promises so we can study the effects of incarceration on complex political constructs.
Rei raised the best point of all the threads. Minke whales are not endangered so unless we start an outcry over hunting dear or wild boar I don't think this is a big deal.
You should be careful this can either turn into a nightmare if your boss fails to account for your work and your co-workers are the worst of the IT-world worst. Of course if your co-workers are reasonably intelligent, willing to learn, and your boss accounts for your added workload(maybe even a promotion god forbid) then this could be a great opportunity.
I agree Linux Mint 16 with Cinnamon as the shell would be best. LM14 is a LTS release but Cinnamon isn't nearly as clean looking in 14 as 16 in my opinion so it may be a pain but just upgrade them for the next LTS release or even just keep things rolling for a while. For your purposes(10-12 machines) having individual installs is fine, for bigger applications a PXE-boot solution from a central server is much more manageble and smooth. I would make sure to only have Thunderbird, Firefox, LibreOffice and Home Folder on the taskbar. Double check the Samba stuff as specified but shares work pretty smoothly otherwise in LM16. Make sure to disable the update and a couple other unnecesary startup items and run updates every couple weeks or so yourself(ssh-ing in would work great) since no user ever runs updates and it's easier for you to do it.
Use "Conversations" and "Lightning" for Thunderbird. "adblock", "Web of Trust", and HTTPS everywhere(eff.org not in addons list) for Firefox. Also make sure LibreOffice saves in Microsoft formats and stops asking users if they want to save files that way
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Whats next Bird-Finch hybrids?
I use Windows 10 at work and on my mom's PC. Personally though I have an Android phone and a old HP running LM17.2 at home as my primary devices. At work there is alot of tweaking we do with Enterprise Windows 10 which has made it overall a great tool that is already being deployed even if it hasn't gotten the royal seal of approval. Most users will have Windows 10 Home which is what my mom has, I actually cloned Windows 7 to a new hard drive and stuck it in a newer Dell(I'm running the old HP) and with very little effort got it running. I'm a little foggy since this was around October or so. A couple weeks after the transfer I ran the Windows 10 upgrade over night. There were no hiccups, I think I was asked for a Microsoft login but there was a camouflaged skip icon in the corner. After that all the files showed up were they were suppose to be, the account was configured properly. The main difference was missing launchers in the task bar and what at the time was an oversized but relatively ad free menu. Everything went smooth except Cisco Anyconnect which broke like a couple weeks later. It took a combined 3-4 hours of work over a week to work it out but ultimately it was just cleaning the system out with CCleaner, a reinstall of the newest client, and the special settings of her IT group. I had some complaints the first couple days about how it looked but after that she found it easy and comfortable to use, which is really what counts. I installed one of my copies of Office365 from work and she has loved how smooth office is. All of her work is in Chrome, Outlook, Office, and RDP through her VPN and all of those work great so from a regular user standpoint it's a success. In my experience with Windows 10 Home I'm overall impressed. My complaints are the features missing in Home Edition(can't really fix that for free) and junk ads for apps in the start Menu. In the Enterprise version I use at work I honestly have no complaints other then missing features for the Virtual Desktop. I'm not going to go out and buy a new PC with Windows 10 but I still have to say it's intuitive and easy to use if you have to have Windows. Features I love are: The overall theme which is in my opinion smooth and colorful, Virtual Desktops(Finally!), and the way they integrated the look of Windows 8 with the intuitiveness of Windows 7 and even made things easier to use. Yes I still don't care for PowerShell and CMD but for me it's the End-user Experience I'm concerned about. Windows 10 still has alot of features and power under the hood for Admins and I like that since I use it to do tech support but the only thing it did was make the tools flashier. For most scenarios and most End-users I think the upgrade is worth it overall and is an easy transition for the non-tech savvy
I definitely applaud the creative use. Facebook is clearly out for profit here but I think Wikimedia truly wants to help the world and statistics show education is the answer. The true travesty here is Unitel charging the high rates it does(by Angolan standards) for something that really should be a universal human right by now.
First off where is the clear argument that you can't just push a firmware backdoor (software backdoor is a bad implementation of a worse idea) onto a locked Iphone. Can you? My point is unless a backdoor is already there you can't do anything with the current phone. To my point, If I think that computer code comes from the book of Revelations and seeps into my phone through osmosis you can't expect me to understand the complications around unlocking the phone let alone the consequences. Pew needs to explain the basics and THEN ask the questions. This is like polling 10 year olds on math and expecting the results to be representative of the Grade School
Well A) The Republican party is out of touch with a majority of their base B) The Republican citizens that support the Republicans that the big ISPs are paying to do this think Bandwidth is the length of that cable they plug into that box that makes the Google go Vroom. Remember the free exchange of information makes for intelligent critical thinking citizens which is bad for politics. No videos for you, no whiteboard, and definitely no conferencing.
As the world gets bigger and bigger and certain nooks and crannies of the Internet concentrate and amplify violent ideologies I think this kind of bulk scanning will be necessary, Google already does it for business so maybe we should allow them to do it for public safety. I think regardless of what we do this will happen and we can either jump on the bandwagon and try to steer it in the right direction or let it careen down the hill in the control of the corrupt and elite. The biggest problem with the NSA in my opinion is transparency, yes they definitely crossed some lines but their biggest transgression against the American people and the entire world was hiding what they were doing which allowed gross misuse of the power they had. I've always said that technology is going in a dangerous direction and the reason is because only a few people understand it and fewer care that it is. We need a greater conversation with the general public. This idea applies to politics, privacy, technology, and society as a whole.
In attempt to maintain my faith in humanity... Has anyone considered he gauged the price to bring attention to the problems in medical patent law? I mean anyone with an IQ above 100 should be able to figure out that gauging the price on HIV drugs of all things by 5000% is the best way to get the fury of the public focused on you...this other stuff sadly makes me question my idea :(
I propose we imprison every politician that doesn't hold up their campaign promises so we can study the effects of incarceration on complex political constructs. Rei raised the best point of all the threads. Minke whales are not endangered so unless we start an outcry over hunting dear or wild boar I don't think this is a big deal.
You should be careful this can either turn into a nightmare if your boss fails to account for your work and your co-workers are the worst of the IT-world worst. Of course if your co-workers are reasonably intelligent, willing to learn, and your boss accounts for your added workload(maybe even a promotion god forbid) then this could be a great opportunity. I agree Linux Mint 16 with Cinnamon as the shell would be best. LM14 is a LTS release but Cinnamon isn't nearly as clean looking in 14 as 16 in my opinion so it may be a pain but just upgrade them for the next LTS release or even just keep things rolling for a while. For your purposes(10-12 machines) having individual installs is fine, for bigger applications a PXE-boot solution from a central server is much more manageble and smooth. I would make sure to only have Thunderbird, Firefox, LibreOffice and Home Folder on the taskbar. Double check the Samba stuff as specified but shares work pretty smoothly otherwise in LM16. Make sure to disable the update and a couple other unnecesary startup items and run updates every couple weeks or so yourself(ssh-ing in would work great) since no user ever runs updates and it's easier for you to do it. Use "Conversations" and "Lightning" for Thunderbird. "adblock", "Web of Trust", and HTTPS everywhere(eff.org not in addons list) for Firefox. Also make sure LibreOffice saves in Microsoft formats and stops asking users if they want to save files that way