On most carriers, theres a tool on google play that reloads the correct radio/modem that readds LTE.. My Nexus 4 is on Ting/tmobile, and it works peachy here... https://play.google.com/store/...
God I wish I hadn't commented already so I could mod THIS up... Frankly I don't think its gonna be very long at all before those of us who use Linux and don't suck at the MS teat will be targeted.. first, just by marginalization, then further on, being persecuted/arrested/jailed due to some regulation that some government bureaucracy decides to add to the infinite "rules/regulations" that these unelected crooks keep coming up with. I seem to recall a couple of years ago, some Congresscritter called Linux a terrorists tool... Call me a conspiracy nut, but remember you heard it here first...
That's what I do.. both my desktop and laptop came with Windows 7, but I 99.99999999% gave up Windows in 2011, and moved to Linux on both systems. However, since there are a couple of Windows programs I need to run that don't play nice with Wine (or Crossover even) I installed Win7 as a Virtualbox VM, and used the key that came with the laptop and desktop to run Winblowz on VBox.. Yes, I know.. this is against MS's precious EULA, but I couldn't care less as I extend my middle finger at Redmond.. Lately I've found I have to turn off WU as it keeps trying (in vain) to stuff that turd, known as Win10 on my VMs, along with trying to put the "telemetry" crap on also....
Now on the topic at hand.. WTF is Canonical smoking to want to have ANYTHING to do with MS?? MS probably is slipping a few million to Canonical to get this kind of insanity on the table... I currently run KUbuntu 14.04 but am seriously considering going back to my Linux roots, that being Slackware, since the next LTS release comes with that abortion, systemd..
I spent my childhood until 9 years old in San Francisco, and recall going downtown with my mother on the bus from our home near Mission and Army and seeing Market Street being torn up. Every block or so had a fenced in workarea ofset from the streetcar platforms. My mother told me they were building a subway. I've been back a few times since BART was completed, and found it to be a pretty nice way to get around the bay area..
To be fair to the BART designers though, If I designed something that lasted twice a long as specced and carried four times the passenger load, I'd be pretty happy.
Kinda like NASA and the Mars Rovers.. designed for a 90 day mission.. Here *one* of them is *still* exploring Mars after over 12 flippin' YEARS... That, friends, is GOOD DESIGN!!!!
I've come to the conclusion that Windows 10 and MS's abhorrent behavior makes Windows 10 a computer-equivalent of a sexually transmitted disease.. Call it say, a CTD. Of course in the case of the STD, a nice little rubber balloon does a fair job of protecting the "family-jewels" from said STD. In the case of a CTD, its quite a bit more complicated, but simply disabling WU does a pretty fine job...Of course, Windows being what it is, I certainly wouldn't advise disabling WU unless you take certain other precautions prior to using the system on the wild-n-wooly internet...
Trust = Windows 7 with WU OFF... Only way to be safe.. Yes, you *may* pick up a zero-day due to having WU off, but if you don't use any browser but Chrome or FF and sandbox them via Sandboxie, plus uBlockOrigin/Ghostery, I'd say you're pretty safe and you won't pick up the guaranteed "malware" from MS that comes via WU...
Good god... No kidding.. I too, played with it for a while during preview and actually converted one of the OEM licenses for 7 Pro that came on one of my Dell systems over to 10, and installed it on a spare drive for my laptop. Since I normally (99.9999% of the time) am running one Linux distro or another on the laptop, I figured it would be a good way to see what all the hubbub was about.. Sure, it looks fairly nice and seems to run fairly smoothly on a Core2Quad with 8Gb of ram.. But, after seeing what a privacy nghtmare it was, even when installed in a "castrated" manner, I put the drive on the shelf to be used when I decide to play around with another Linux distro on the laptop.. Ain't NO way in hell I'm gonna use MS products anymore, despite the fact I used/supported them as a helldesk flunky+sysadmin for nearly 20 years.. Being I'm retired I have become the defacto neighborhood tech support, and I do my best to keep the less-knowledgable folks I work with to stay on Windows 7 for the time being.. The way MS keeps playing whack-a-mole trying to get their spyware crap on these systems, I've advised everybody to turn off WU.. I put Sandboxie on said systems, and force Firefox to run via Sandboxie, plus uBlock Origin/Ghostery. MS has lost ANY trust I *ever* had for them... Yeah, I know, they're a souless corporation and this kind of behavior is to be expected.. NOT BY ME!!!
Dell seems to be on a kick of only offering Linux on their consumer-grade systems..ie: Inspiron/XPS/Alienware. I've yet to see any Ubuntu offerings on any Precision workstation laptops.. Of course, it may be that technically astute users who would buy a Precision workstation with Ubuntu Linux might just buy the system as-is with Windows, and then either dual-boot it with Linux or like I did with my current system, a Precision M4400, which was to wipe Windows 7 off the system, install Ubuntu, and Virtualbox and install Windows 7 as a VM using the product key that came with the system. Admittedly I don't use the Windows 7 VM much anymore, since Linux does pretty much everything I need, with a couple minor exceptions of a couple of Windows programs that don't work under Wine (or Crossover Office).. Lately its become necessary to completely turn off updates on Windows 7 to prevent MS putting their telemetry shit on my system....
I supported/used Windows since Windows 3.11 as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with MS products. Since I'd started with Linux way back in the mid 90s, I decided all of my home systems would move to Linux when I retired in 2010. Since both of my main home systems came with Windows 7 Pro, I created a Virtualbox Windows 7 VM on each, using the productkey for the original Windows7 on the system. Up until the fact that MS was sliding their crapware "telemetry" updates into Windows 7 too, I'd been only firing up the VM every month or so to let it update. Now, I have disabled WU on it, and keep it for "legacy" sakes.. Frankly I'm torn between laughing my ass off when I hear about how MS has fucked up Windows 10, and being really really sorry to see so many people using it and having no flippin' clue (OR just not giving a shit) about what a total nightmare Windows 10 is..
Sure.. theres all sorts of tutorials on castrating Windows 10.. How sure are you that *your* system is going to *stay* castrated?? Sure, you can completely turn off updates by messing around in the registry (shudder), but when you have such a "trustworthy" corporation like MS, who is to say *your* system will *stay* castrated?? I used/supported Windows for close to 20 years, retired in 2010, and decided I was done with MS products.. After seeing the nightmare that *is* Windows 10, I couldn't be happier on Linux...
Its one thing to pull this shit on Windows 10/home and pro, but when they do it on enterprise, they're cruizin' for a bruising... All it takes is for a large corporation (or a class action group of corporations) to sic their legal departments en mass on MS, and watch the fireworks.. Sure, their EULA spells out what they're doing (if you speak lawyer-ese), but this might be a good test in the courts about the validity of some of the off-the-wall EULA's being peddled by corporations...
I STRONGLY suspect that Windows 10 being what it is, blatant spyware, as time goes on, and more companies and people figure out what it is, Linux (and Mac) are gonna get a nice bump in usage...
The only way out is to use a.n.other OS. But you will not.
Hey!! The NSA needed *something* to fill up that big datacenter in Utah, so they bugged their partner, MS, to provide the "stuffing" for all that diskspace...
But you have to be careful that MS doesn't detect they're gone and re-download/install them.. I gave up dealing with them and moved all of my systems to Linux completely (used to dualboot Windows) back in 2010. After seeing the shitstorm/nightmare that is Windows 10, I couldn't be happier with my decision...
The problem here is these are NOT "true liberals", they have nothing to do with classic liberalism.. They are progressives, and I suspect one of the things they desperately want is to be led around by the nose by their government. How ELSE would they be so happy to champion sharia law, and elect somebody like Obama who thumbs his nose at America and its Constitution. As Dr Michael Savage puts it, "modern "liberalism/progressiveism is a mental disorder"... He's hit the nail on the head on this one....
They are going to manipulate it into giving them exactly what they want without ever having to work for it.
No kidding.. What the hell do you think Comrade Bernie Sanders is all about? To listen to him, his platform is freebies for everybody (err.. everybody *he* likes).. If he gets "elected", we are sooooooo screwed, FAR beyond how screwed we are already with Comrade Obama....
Hey Sparky.. you'd lose that bet BIG time... I tried Windows 10 for a couple of weeks on a spare system, and all I could think of, was HOW THE FUCK ANYBODY can use this crapfest.. I went back to Linux and reformatted the Windows 10 disk.... shudder
Unix and linux are for morons. Come on guys get with the f*ckin program.
Ok then, I guess, according to you, I'm a moron then, since I don't use ANYthing on my computers besides Linux. But though I'm a moron, I'm a thousand times more intelligent than *you*... Of course, that goes without saying since you don't have the balls to post without hiding behind AC...
Theres NOTHING "basic" about it.. Windows 10 *is* blatant spyware, of the worst kind. Sure, if you read AND *actually* understand 50+ pages of legalese in their EULA, the lawyers at MS tell what they're gonna do. They tell you they are hoovering up EVERYthing you do on *your* computer and they *may*, in their sole judgment, shuffle that info off to law enforcement at any time.. I retired after nearly 20 years of using/supporting MS products, as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with MS products, and I'd run Linux on all of my home systems. After seeing (and trying out, for a while, in a VBox VM) Windows 10, both the preview and the release, I shudder when I think of all of the naive joe-six-packs who now have a Geoge Orwell-approved/1984-compatible spy device in their very own home.
I keep wondering WHY everybody keeps calling it the "Affordable Care Act"... By this time, its PAINFULLY clear its the "UNaffordable Care Act"..... (shakes head)
Guess your family member doesn't play games. Gaming is the only reason I HAVE a windows computer.
I swear I'm soooo fucking tired of people claiming "you gotta run Windows if you wanna play games"... Ummm Hellooo, Steam has had a Linux client and an ever-growing number of games in their catalog are Linux versions for quite some time now.... I finally gave up Windows for good in 2010, switching to Linux 100%, and prior to Steam having a Linux native client, I ran the Windows Steam client under Wine, which gave me all of the games that *I* play. Once Steam released the Linux native client, I quit the Wine workaround, and things *just work*... And after seeing what a nightmare Windows 10 is, I couldn't be happier with my decision...
Call me a conspiracy nut, I don't care, but *somebody* has got to step up to the plate to fill that giant NSA datacenter in Utah.. I suspect MS has partnered with the NSA to do that very thing, and the way MS is trying to shove Windows 10 down the throats of all of the poor schlubs who still use Windows makes this "conspiracy theory" damn near a sure thing. Given that and the way they're force-feeding the telemetry crap on Windows 7/8/8.1.... Sooooooooooooooo glad I quit sucking on the MS teat...
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On most carriers, theres a tool on google play that reloads the correct radio/modem that readds LTE.. My Nexus 4 is on Ting/tmobile, and it works peachy here...
https://play.google.com/store/...
God I wish I hadn't commented already so I could mod THIS up... Frankly I don't think its gonna be very long at all before those of us who use Linux and don't suck at the MS teat will be targeted.. first, just by marginalization, then further on, being persecuted/arrested/jailed due to some regulation that some government bureaucracy decides to add to the infinite "rules/regulations" that these unelected crooks keep coming up with. I seem to recall a couple of years ago, some Congresscritter called Linux a terrorists tool... Call me a conspiracy nut, but remember you heard it here first...
That's what I do.. both my desktop and laptop came with Windows 7, but I 99.99999999% gave up Windows in 2011, and moved to Linux on both systems. However, since there are a couple of Windows programs I need to run that don't play nice with Wine (or Crossover even) I installed Win7 as a Virtualbox VM, and used the key that came with the laptop and desktop to run Winblowz on VBox.. Yes, I know.. this is against MS's precious EULA, but I couldn't care less as I extend my middle finger at Redmond.. Lately I've found I have to turn off WU as it keeps trying (in vain) to stuff that turd, known as Win10 on my VMs, along with trying to put the "telemetry" crap on also....
Now on the topic at hand.. WTF is Canonical smoking to want to have ANYTHING to do with MS?? MS probably is slipping a few million to Canonical to get this kind of insanity on the table... I currently run KUbuntu 14.04 but am seriously considering going back to my Linux roots, that being Slackware, since the next LTS release comes with that abortion, systemd..
I spent my childhood until 9 years old in San Francisco, and recall going downtown with my mother on the bus from our home near Mission and Army and seeing Market Street being torn up. Every block or so had a fenced in workarea ofset from the streetcar platforms. My mother told me they were building a subway. I've been back a few times since BART was completed, and found it to be a pretty nice way to get around the bay area..
To be fair to the BART designers though, If I designed something that lasted twice a long as specced and carried four times the passenger load, I'd be pretty happy.
Kinda like NASA and the Mars Rovers.. designed for a 90 day mission.. Here *one* of them is *still* exploring Mars after over 12 flippin' YEARS... That, friends, is GOOD DESIGN!!!!
I've come to the conclusion that Windows 10 and MS's abhorrent behavior makes Windows 10 a computer-equivalent of a sexually transmitted disease.. Call it say, a CTD. Of course in the case of the STD, a nice little rubber balloon does a fair job of protecting the "family-jewels" from said STD. In the case of a CTD, its quite a bit more complicated, but simply disabling WU does a pretty fine job...Of course, Windows being what it is, I certainly wouldn't advise disabling WU unless you take certain other precautions prior to using the system on the wild-n-wooly internet...
Trust = Windows 7 with WU OFF... Only way to be safe.. Yes, you *may* pick up a zero-day due to having WU off, but if you don't use any browser but Chrome or FF and sandbox them via Sandboxie, plus uBlockOrigin/Ghostery, I'd say you're pretty safe and you won't pick up the guaranteed "malware" from MS that comes via WU...
Good god... No kidding.. I too, played with it for a while during preview and actually converted one of the OEM licenses for 7 Pro that came on one of my Dell systems over to 10, and installed it on a spare drive for my laptop. Since I normally (99.9999% of the time) am running one Linux distro or another on the laptop, I figured it would be a good way to see what all the hubbub was about.. Sure, it looks fairly nice and seems to run fairly smoothly on a Core2Quad with 8Gb of ram.. But, after seeing what a privacy nghtmare it was, even when installed in a "castrated" manner, I put the drive on the shelf to be used when I decide to play around with another Linux distro on the laptop.. Ain't NO way in hell I'm gonna use MS products anymore, despite the fact I used/supported them as a helldesk flunky+sysadmin for nearly 20 years.. Being I'm retired I have become the defacto neighborhood tech support, and I do my best to keep the less-knowledgable folks I work with to stay on Windows 7 for the time being.. The way MS keeps playing whack-a-mole trying to get their spyware crap on these systems, I've advised everybody to turn off WU.. I put Sandboxie on said systems, and force Firefox to run via Sandboxie, plus uBlock Origin/Ghostery. MS has lost ANY trust I *ever* had for them... Yeah, I know, they're a souless corporation and this kind of behavior is to be expected.. NOT BY ME!!!
Dell seems to be on a kick of only offering Linux on their consumer-grade systems..ie: Inspiron/XPS/Alienware. I've yet to see any Ubuntu offerings on any Precision workstation laptops.. Of course, it may be that technically astute users who would buy a Precision workstation with Ubuntu Linux might just buy the system as-is with Windows, and then either dual-boot it with Linux or like I did with my current system, a Precision M4400, which was to wipe Windows 7 off the system, install Ubuntu, and Virtualbox and install Windows 7 as a VM using the product key that came with the system. Admittedly I don't use the Windows 7 VM much anymore, since Linux does pretty much everything I need, with a couple minor exceptions of a couple of Windows programs that don't work under Wine (or Crossover Office).. Lately its become necessary to completely turn off updates on Windows 7 to prevent MS putting their telemetry shit on my system....
...why I advise my customers to avoid it like an STD..
Heh... No kidding.. Hadn't thought about that.. It *is* like a STD (for your computer).... PERFECT DESCRIPTION!!!
I supported/used Windows since Windows 3.11 as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with MS products. Since I'd started with Linux way back in the mid 90s, I decided all of my home systems would move to Linux when I retired in 2010. Since both of my main home systems came with Windows 7 Pro, I created a Virtualbox Windows 7 VM on each, using the productkey for the original Windows7 on the system. Up until the fact that MS was sliding their crapware "telemetry" updates into Windows 7 too, I'd been only firing up the VM every month or so to let it update. Now, I have disabled WU on it, and keep it for "legacy" sakes.. Frankly I'm torn between laughing my ass off when I hear about how MS has fucked up Windows 10, and being really really sorry to see so many people using it and having no flippin' clue (OR just not giving a shit) about what a total nightmare Windows 10 is..
Sure.. theres all sorts of tutorials on castrating Windows 10.. How sure are you that *your* system is going to *stay* castrated?? Sure, you can completely turn off updates by messing around in the registry (shudder), but when you have such a "trustworthy" corporation like MS, who is to say *your* system will *stay* castrated?? I used/supported Windows for close to 20 years, retired in 2010, and decided I was done with MS products.. After seeing the nightmare that *is* Windows 10, I couldn't be happier on Linux...
Reminds me of kremvax... guess that kinda dates me...
Its one thing to pull this shit on Windows 10/home and pro, but when they do it on enterprise, they're cruizin' for a bruising... All it takes is for a large corporation (or a class action group of corporations) to sic their legal departments en mass on MS, and watch the fireworks.. Sure, their EULA spells out what they're doing (if you speak lawyer-ese), but this might be a good test in the courts about the validity of some of the off-the-wall EULA's being peddled by corporations...
I STRONGLY suspect that Windows 10 being what it is, blatant spyware, as time goes on, and more companies and people figure out what it is, Linux (and Mac) are gonna get a nice bump in usage...
The only way out is to use a.n.other OS. But you will not.
Yes, I DO... Linux 100% FUCK MICROSOFT....
Hey!! The NSA needed *something* to fill up that big datacenter in Utah, so they bugged their partner, MS, to provide the "stuffing" for all that diskspace...
But you have to be careful that MS doesn't detect they're gone and re-download/install them.. I gave up dealing with them and moved all of my systems to Linux completely (used to dualboot Windows) back in 2010. After seeing the shitstorm/nightmare that is Windows 10, I couldn't be happier with my decision...
The problem here is these are NOT "true liberals", they have nothing to do with classic liberalism.. They are progressives, and I suspect one of the things they desperately want is to be led around by the nose by their government. How ELSE would they be so happy to champion sharia law, and elect somebody like Obama who thumbs his nose at America and its Constitution. As Dr Michael Savage puts it, "modern "liberalism/progressiveism is a mental disorder"... He's hit the nail on the head on this one....
They are going to manipulate it into giving them exactly what they want without ever having to work for it.
No kidding.. What the hell do you think Comrade Bernie Sanders is all about? To listen to him, his platform is freebies for everybody (err.. everybody *he* likes).. If he gets "elected", we are sooooooo screwed, FAR beyond how screwed we are already with Comrade Obama....
Hey Sparky.. you'd lose that bet BIG time... I tried Windows 10 for a couple of weeks on a spare system, and all I could think of, was HOW THE FUCK ANYBODY can use this crapfest.. I went back to Linux and reformatted the Windows 10 disk.... shudder
Unix and linux are for morons. Come on guys get with the f*ckin program.
Ok then, I guess, according to you, I'm a moron then, since I don't use ANYthing on my computers besides Linux. But though I'm a moron, I'm
a thousand times more intelligent than *you*... Of course, that goes without saying since you don't have the balls to post without hiding behind
AC...
Windows 10 is basically spyware.
Theres NOTHING "basic" about it.. Windows 10 *is* blatant spyware, of the worst kind. Sure, if you read AND *actually* understand 50+ pages of legalese in their EULA, the lawyers at MS tell what they're gonna do. They tell you they are hoovering up EVERYthing you do on *your* computer and they *may*, in their sole judgment, shuffle that info off to law enforcement at any time.. I retired after nearly 20 years of using/supporting MS products, as a sysadmin, but when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with MS products, and I'd run Linux on all of my home systems. After seeing (and trying out, for a while, in a VBox VM) Windows 10, both the preview and the release, I shudder when I think of all of the naive joe-six-packs who now have a Geoge Orwell-approved/1984-compatible spy device in their very own home.
I keep wondering WHY everybody keeps calling it the "Affordable Care Act"... By this time, its PAINFULLY clear its the "UNaffordable Care Act"..... (shakes head)
Guess your family member doesn't play games. Gaming is the only reason I HAVE a windows computer.
I swear I'm soooo fucking tired of people claiming "you gotta run Windows if you wanna play games"... Ummm Hellooo, Steam has had a Linux client and an ever-growing number of games in their catalog are Linux versions for quite some time now.... I finally gave up Windows for good in 2010, switching to Linux 100%, and prior to Steam having a Linux native client, I ran the Windows Steam client under Wine, which gave me all of the games that *I* play. Once Steam released the Linux native client, I quit the Wine workaround, and things *just work*... And after seeing what a nightmare Windows 10 is, I couldn't be happier with my decision...
Call me a conspiracy nut, I don't care, but *somebody* has got to step up to the plate to fill that giant NSA datacenter in Utah.. I suspect MS has partnered with the NSA to do that very thing, and the way MS is trying to shove Windows 10 down the throats of all of the poor schlubs who still use Windows makes this "conspiracy theory" damn near a sure thing. Given that and the way they're force-feeding the telemetry crap on Windows 7/8/8.1.... Sooooooooooooooo glad I quit sucking on the MS teat...