TRS80 Model 1 Level 1 4K, paid $795 for it in 1978 The "level 1" BASIC was integer-only math, numeric variables limited to A-Z, string vars also A-Z.. Surprising though what you could do with it, even with those limitations.. Kinda wish I still had it, be worth quite a bit as a museum piece.
Yup... The only time I've done a rideshare was last October when my flight was late landing and I didn't want to wake the wife up. I spent a few moments deciding on which one to install and chose Lyft, as even back then Uber was pulling weird shit.. I installed the app and created an account and had a ride home in less than 10 minutes with this really nice (and cute) recent Russian immigrant in her Nissan Altima. Got home, the app detected that we were at my destination, the app showed me the fare and would I like to leave a tip.. I left the lady a nice $5 tip for a $14 fare. Later I checked what a taxi would have cost me for the same trip... (shudder) close to $50 WITHout a tip... Yeah.. Lyft is OK with me.. FUCK Uber and their endless bullshit...
So you poor sheep that *still* use Windows are getting further ass-raped.. No more information as to WHAT is actually *in* the updates they force on you... Kinda like MS saying "You'll take what we send you and you'll LIKE it.. You don't NEED to know whats *in* the package we send you..."
Soooooooooooooo damn glad I no longer deal with MS issues.. I did that for 20 years and when I retired, I decided my systems would be 100% Linux.. Couldn't be happier...
If the software you want to use runs on Windows... you can try Wine.
And if the opensource/free version of Wine won't run your Windows application, try the commercial/VERY well supported version of Wine, called CrossOverOffice.. It costs $$$ but since your Linux OS was free, why not spend a few bux to avoid the need for Windows. CrossOverOffice even runs MSOffice (older versions I believe) and a LARGE number of Windows games...
Which is why the ONLY Windows 10 install I run is a Virtualbox VM with the Linux host running a firewall that blocks ALL the MS sites. If/when *I* decide to update the VM, the firewall on the Linux host is temporarily stopped, then restarted afterwards.. Just had to say it.. FUCK YOU MS!!
I second that.... HEY APPLE.... GO FUCK YOURSELF.... Glad I've never owned an Apple product and I damn sure never will... Yeah, I know.. They don't care... and the "useful idiots" that are addicted to Apple won't care...
So where exactly are these places that taxis are so hard to come by?
Try Las Vegas, for one... They ALL run up/down the strip (locals call it the "resort corridor"), and just *try* to get one to come out into the areas where those of us who LIVE here actually LIVE... Its like pulling teeth.. I'm sooooo glad we now have Lyft (the only one I've actually used.. with all the bad-vibes about Uber, I'm kind of afraid to) and Uber...
I gotta funny feeling taxis EVERYWHERE suck!! My one experience with either of the major ride-shares was last October from the airport home via Lyft.. Since I'd never used either service, when my plane landed late and I decided I didn't want to wake the wife to come get me, I installed the Lyft app from GooglePlay and signed up for an account. Total time from loading the app to hopping into a nice Nissan Altima with a lovely lady driver was less than 10 mins, including my derp-out of not being in the right location for pickup and the driver having to make another circuit of the drive. All in all I was seriously pleased with Lyft and the driver, who I found out was a recent immigrant from Russia, doing Lyft as a side-gig.. The fare was $14 and I gave her a $7 tip.. Found out later had I taken a taxi, I would have paid close to $50 withOUT a tip.... After reading all of the horror stories about Uber, I believe I'll stick with Lyft in the future, should I need a ride somewhere...
I just wonder.. if too many "sheep" go "off-the-reservation" and dump Windows for Linux/BSD, I really wonder just how long it will be before MS gets one of its "pet" congress-critters to introduce a bill making it illegal to use anything besides a proprietary OS on a personal computer.. They don't really even have to get an actual bill passed in congress, just get the NSA to fingerprint everyone not on Apple or Windows and get the FBI to pay a visit.. And I'm not even wearing a tinfoil hat.. I really don't think it will be too very long..... Hope I'm dead and buried by then (just turned 67)....
Geez... Whoever wrote this article is an idiot.. Number 2 and 8 conflict.. I get some nice "alone time" or have close friends over to watch a movie here at home.. Fuck the noisy punks, sticky floors, high snack prices at theaters.. I don't do theaters, just like I don't do Windows anymore...
I wonder who paid Verge to run this stupid article, and how much they got paid... I won two $10 giftcards for a large movie theater chain from a raffle and peddled them off on Craigslist for face value.. If/when a movie comes out I actually *want* to see, I wait till its on Redbox, rent it for the day, pop it in my DVD drive on the computer, rip it to my Plex media server and watch it from there on my bigscreen tv.. Haven't been in a theater in close to ten years and not planning on that changing.. Waiting now for Rogue One to hit Redbox (I understand April 11 is the date)...
If you believe this, I have a nice bridge in a city I'd be willing to sell you for just $100.. Since I don't do business (nor will I) with those particular entities, I'm waiting to hear what *my* ISP, Cox, has to say about this "gift" from the jackasses in Congress.. I'll be just as skeptical with them as I am with this crowd...
Yeah.. This.. I signed up as an "insider" waaay back when it was still in beta.. I tried a couple of builds on a spare machine and played with it a while, tried both installing "castrated" and default on different machines, watched its traffic to/from MS/other sites and compared the traffic seen from the castrated install vs the default install... Virtually no difference.. Which told me all I needed to know about Windows 10... or as I call it "Windows NSA Edition".. Bottom line is MS is likely showing me as one of those users, even though I don't have anything MS running on my systems as they're all Linux....
Or Discovery and its "Naked and Afraid".... I used to like the Discovery Channel, back when they ran IceRoad Truckers... Now everytime I turn the damn channel on its "Naked and Afraid"..... At least if you're gonna call it Naked and Afraid, quit pixelating the "fun parts"... Since this is cable, you don't have to worry about the FCC bugging you if you actually show "naked"....
I'll second this.. I'm 67 and a retired Windows/Linux admin and I have become the defacto neighborhood "techie". I've installed Linux on quite a few ex-XP systems for folks near my age, but who are VERY non-technical. I stick strictly to Ubuntu LTS versions, so I'm not playing the "upgrade-every-six-months" treadmill.. Several of the folks I've upgraded were originally done using Ubuntu 10.04, and have been upgraded since then to 14.04. I'm holding off on going to 16.04 as I'm leery about the switch from init() to systemd, and what it may break. These folks used to call me all the time with "oooh my pc is slow again...." when still on Windows, but I hear this cry MUCH less now, on Linux.. I don't like Mint, as theres no viable upgrade path and unless you pick a Mint release thats based on an Ubuntu LTS, you'll be stuck doing clean installs every time that Mint release goes EOL.. My suggestion? Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04. Even if you go with 14.04, you've got 2 years before its EOL, and 16.04 is good till April 2022..
Boy! does that take me back.. Picture it, 1994, a stack of 1.44mb floppies, a brand new "whitebox" 486DX2 with 16mb of ram, a Hercules mono video card/monitor, and me feeding said floppies one-at-a-time into the hungry drive slot.. Later (much later) I had a semi-working Linux install... We've sure come a LONG way!!!!!
I used/supported/admin'ed Windows for 20 years, and when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with anything MS, and went 100% Linux on all of my home systems.. After seeing and reading about all of the abuse that MS heaps on those who, for whatever reason, still use Windows, I couldn't be happier with my decision to quit making a contribution (however small) to MS's continued ability to screw up people's computing. Frankly I'm surprised it took this long to get a class action suit against MS going.. Good luck to the firm that is taking this case.. Hope they kick MS squarely in the 'nads... Couldn't happen to a more appropriate target...
Hope HE doesn't decide to kill theirs, as, even though my ISP, Cox, has native ipv6, for some damn reason, it doesn't work reliably for me. I got fed up with fucking with it, and got another HE tunnel, which *just works* whereas Cox ipv6 *doesn't* --at least for me--
I suspect thirdparty firmware for routers, like Tomato/DDWrt/OpenWRT might be the first to introduce a feature like that.. I'd love to have that feature on Tomato as thats what I'm running on my Asus router.. Though I don't run Windows on any of my systems here, I do have family members/friends of family members who often bring Windows systems in the house and use the guest wifi I have configured on the router, which just connects to the internet, nothing else..
I've got 4 friends who have Windows 10 systems they got around Christmas last year. Every damn one of them is begging me to find the time to upgrade them to Linux. 2 of the 4 had older systems I'd upgraded to Linux and they want to have their new shiny i7 system cleaned of the malware that is Windows 10, and the other 2 are referrals from some other friends who heard I do Linux "upgrades"...
Why in the WORLD don't you put these end-users on an Ubuntu LTS? You must LOVE the extra work upgrading Ubuntu every six months rather than every 5 YEARS....... I've put some elderly relatives/friends on Ubuntu, and I'd NEVER in my worst nightmare use anything but an LTS. Several of these folks were originally put on 10.04 then upgraded to 12.04, and now they're on 14.04 EasyPeasy, only have to worry about it once every 4 or so years..
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TRS80 Model 1 Level 1 4K, paid $795 for it in 1978 The "level 1" BASIC was integer-only math, numeric variables limited to A-Z, string vars also A-Z.. Surprising though what you could do with it, even with those limitations.. Kinda wish I still had it, be worth quite a bit as a museum piece.
Yup... The only time I've done a rideshare was last October when my flight was late landing and I didn't want to wake the wife up. I spent a few moments deciding on which one to install and chose Lyft, as even back then Uber was pulling weird shit.. I installed the app and created an account and had a ride home in less than 10 minutes with this really nice (and cute) recent Russian immigrant in her Nissan Altima. Got home, the app detected that we were at my destination, the app showed me the fare and would I like to leave a tip.. I left the lady a nice $5 tip for a $14 fare. Later I checked what a taxi would have cost me for the same trip... (shudder) close to $50 WITHout a tip... Yeah.. Lyft is OK with me.. FUCK Uber and their endless bullshit...
So you poor sheep that *still* use Windows are getting further ass-raped.. No more information as to WHAT is actually *in* the updates they force on you... Kinda like MS saying "You'll take what we send you and you'll LIKE it.. You don't NEED to know whats *in* the package we send you..."
Soooooooooooooo damn glad I no longer deal with MS issues.. I did that for 20 years and when I retired, I decided my systems would be 100% Linux.. Couldn't be happier...
If the software you want to use runs on Windows... you can try Wine.
And if the opensource/free version of Wine won't run your Windows application, try the commercial/VERY well supported version of Wine, called CrossOverOffice.. It costs $$$ but since your Linux OS was free, why not spend a few bux to avoid the need for Windows. CrossOverOffice even runs MSOffice (older versions I believe) and a LARGE number of Windows games...
Which is why the ONLY Windows 10 install I run is a Virtualbox VM with the Linux host running a firewall that blocks ALL the MS sites. If/when *I* decide to update the VM, the firewall on the Linux host is temporarily stopped, then restarted afterwards.. Just had to say it.. FUCK YOU MS!!
I second that.... HEY APPLE.... GO FUCK YOURSELF.... Glad I've never owned an Apple product and I damn sure never will... Yeah, I know.. They don't care... and the "useful idiots" that are addicted to Apple won't care...
So where exactly are these places that taxis are so hard to come by?
Try Las Vegas, for one... They ALL run up/down the strip (locals call it the "resort corridor"), and just *try* to get one to come out into the areas where those of us who LIVE here actually LIVE... Its like pulling teeth.. I'm sooooo glad we now have Lyft (the only one I've actually used.. with all the bad-vibes about Uber, I'm kind of afraid to) and Uber...
I gotta funny feeling taxis EVERYWHERE suck!! My one experience with either of the major ride-shares was last October from the airport home via Lyft.. Since I'd never used either service, when my plane landed late and I decided I didn't want to wake the wife to come get me, I installed the Lyft app from GooglePlay and signed up for an account. Total time from loading the app to hopping into a nice Nissan Altima with a lovely lady driver was less than 10 mins, including my derp-out of not being in the right location for pickup and the driver having to make another circuit of the drive. All in all I was seriously pleased with Lyft and the driver, who I found out was a recent immigrant from Russia, doing Lyft as a side-gig.. The fare was $14 and I gave her a $7 tip.. Found out later had I taken a taxi, I would have paid close to $50 withOUT a tip.... After reading all of the horror stories about Uber, I believe I'll stick with Lyft in the future, should I need a ride somewhere...
Mute works pretty well.. At least you don't have to *hear* the $@#%#%!#@% drug ads that seem to be EVERY OTHER commercial...
Which is why I call Windows 10 full-blown MALWARE... Tell me I'm wrong.. I dare ya!!
I just wonder.. if too many "sheep" go "off-the-reservation" and dump Windows for Linux/BSD, I really wonder just how long it will be before MS gets one of its "pet" congress-critters to introduce a bill making it illegal to use anything besides a proprietary OS on a personal computer.. They don't really even have to get an actual bill passed in congress, just get the NSA to fingerprint everyone not on Apple or Windows and get the FBI to pay a visit.. And I'm not even wearing a tinfoil hat.. I really don't think it will be too very long..... Hope I'm dead and buried by then (just turned 67)....
Watch Samsung sue said researcher.. Gotta keep those liars err lawyers busy ya know...
Geez... Whoever wrote this article is an idiot.. Number 2 and 8 conflict.. I get some nice "alone time" or have close friends over to watch a movie here at home.. Fuck the noisy punks, sticky floors, high snack prices at theaters.. I don't do theaters, just like I don't do Windows anymore...
I wonder who paid Verge to run this stupid article, and how much they got paid... I won two $10 giftcards for a large movie theater chain from a raffle and peddled them off on Craigslist for face value.. If/when a movie comes out I actually *want* to see, I wait till its on Redbox, rent it for the day, pop it in my DVD drive on the computer, rip it to my Plex media server and watch it from there on my bigscreen tv.. Haven't been in a theater in close to ten years and not planning on that changing.. Waiting now for Rogue One to hit Redbox (I understand April 11 is the date)...
Ahh yes, CNN the "Contrieved News Network"....
If you believe this, I have a nice bridge in a city I'd be willing to sell you for just $100.. Since I don't do business (nor will I) with those particular entities, I'm waiting to hear what *my* ISP, Cox, has to say about this "gift" from the jackasses in Congress.. I'll be just as skeptical with them as I am with this crowd...
Yeah.. This.. I signed up as an "insider" waaay back when it was still in beta.. I tried a couple of builds on a spare machine and played with it a while, tried both installing "castrated" and default on different machines, watched its traffic to/from MS/other sites and compared the traffic seen from the castrated install vs the default install... Virtually no difference.. Which told me all I needed to know about Windows 10 ... or as I call it "Windows NSA Edition".. Bottom line is MS is likely showing me as one of those users, even though I don't have anything MS running on my systems as they're all Linux....
Or Discovery and its "Naked and Afraid".... I used to like the Discovery Channel, back when they ran IceRoad Truckers... Now everytime I turn the damn channel on its "Naked and Afraid"..... At least if you're gonna call it Naked and Afraid, quit pixelating the "fun parts"... Since this is cable, you don't have to worry about the FCC bugging you if you actually show "naked"....
I'll second this.. I'm 67 and a retired Windows/Linux admin and I have become the defacto neighborhood "techie". I've installed Linux on quite a few ex-XP systems for folks near my age, but who are VERY non-technical. I stick strictly to Ubuntu LTS versions, so I'm not playing the "upgrade-every-six-months" treadmill.. Several of the folks I've upgraded were originally done using Ubuntu 10.04, and have been upgraded since then to 14.04. I'm holding off on going to 16.04 as I'm leery about the switch from init() to systemd, and what it may break. These folks used to call me all the time with "oooh my pc is slow again...." when still on Windows, but I hear this cry MUCH less now, on Linux.. I don't like Mint, as theres no viable upgrade path and unless you pick a Mint release thats based on an
Ubuntu LTS, you'll be stuck doing clean installs every time that Mint release goes EOL.. My suggestion? Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04. Even if you go with 14.04, you've got 2 years before its EOL, and 16.04 is good till April 2022..
Boy! does that take me back.. Picture it, 1994, a stack of 1.44mb floppies, a brand new "whitebox" 486DX2 with 16mb of ram, a Hercules mono video card/monitor, and me feeding said floppies one-at-a-time into the hungry drive slot.. Later (much later) I had a semi-working Linux install... We've sure come a LONG way!!!!!
I used/supported/admin'ed Windows for 20 years, and when I retired in 2010, I decided I was done with anything MS, and went 100% Linux on all of my home systems.. After seeing and reading about all of the abuse that MS heaps on those who, for whatever reason, still use Windows, I couldn't be happier with my decision to quit making a contribution (however small) to MS's continued ability to screw up people's computing. Frankly I'm surprised it took this long to get a class action suit against MS going.. Good luck to the firm that is taking this case.. Hope they kick MS squarely in the 'nads... Couldn't happen to a more appropriate target...
Hope HE doesn't decide to kill theirs, as, even though my ISP, Cox, has native ipv6, for some damn reason, it doesn't work reliably for me. I got fed up with fucking with it, and got another HE tunnel, which *just works* whereas Cox ipv6 *doesn't* --at least for me--
I suspect thirdparty firmware for routers, like Tomato/DDWrt/OpenWRT might be the first to introduce a feature like that.. I'd love to have that feature on Tomato as thats what I'm running on my Asus router.. Though I don't run Windows on any of my systems here, I do have family members/friends of family members who often bring Windows systems in the house and use the guest wifi I have configured on the router, which just connects to the internet, nothing else..
I've got 4 friends who have Windows 10 systems they got around Christmas last year. Every damn one of them is begging me to find the time to upgrade them to Linux. 2 of the 4 had older systems I'd upgraded to Linux and they want to have their new shiny i7 system cleaned of the malware that is Windows 10, and the other 2 are referrals from some other friends who heard I do Linux "upgrades"...
Now I just go and update Ubuntu every 6 months ;)
Why in the WORLD don't you put these end-users on an Ubuntu LTS? You must LOVE the extra work upgrading Ubuntu every six months rather than
every 5 YEARS....... I've put some elderly relatives/friends on Ubuntu, and I'd NEVER in my worst nightmare use anything but an LTS. Several of these
folks were originally put on 10.04 then upgraded to 12.04, and now they're on 14.04 EasyPeasy, only have to worry about it once every 4 or so years..