[Ronin]

High Treason, on 08 November 2012 - 09:42 PM, said:

Haven't had a fun night, spent most of it in hospital... erm, if you don't like gory details, you needn't read beyond this point.

Spoiler

In short, those health drinks had a bad reaction and I've just spent the night in hospital bleeding from a place I really shouldn't be - I'll leave that to your immagination. I should be alright, but I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

I've been allowed home but I'm still bleeding at the moment, hopefully it will stop, in the meantime I will try to get some sleep as I keep having panic attacks and I have a horrible sense of impending doom... I should be OK, I certainly hope I will be.

Well that's pretty horrible, I hope you get better man.

[Lunick]

If anyone is interested in the Alan Wake games on Steam, you can win a 50% off coupon from http://www.autumnseal.com/

If you can't be bothered waiting, I have a 50% off coupon for both games if you pm me

[Hank]

It's Poppy day in Canada - for all the vets (US and Canada) on this forum - thanks

[Sangman]

Windows 8 is a good OS and anyone who doesn't want to even try it based on the new start menu stuff is just being silly. All it takes is some getting used to and after that you'll have an OS that is miles ahead of Windows 7 in every area that matters - stability, security, performance,...

[Hank]

Windows 8 is Windows 7 with a new skin, please tell me what security features Windows 8 has that 7 does not?

Oh, Oh don't tell me: you invested in MS, and wanna make sure 8 sells? Don't worry, it does.

[Sangman]

I'm not here to educate you. Go put in some effort k thx

[Hank]

MS is the first to admit it, what I wrote!


The difference between 8 and 7 is the skin, i.e. more user friendly for touch screen hard ware. It is not more stable or the other shit you claimed!

[Jeff]

I just don't see the point in upgrading to a new OS every couple years. Sounds too much like a money grab. Personally I might just keep Windows 7 until they cancel the support for it (eg. for XP that's 2014, for Windows 7 is probably 2020 or later. They haven't actually confirmed the date, yet). Does everything I need it to.

[Hendricks266]

Hank, on 11 November 2012 - 04:32 PM, said:

The difference between 8 and 7 is the skin, i.e. more user friendly for touch screen hard ware. It is not more stable or the other shit you claimed!

O RLY?

[Hank]

Hendricks266, on 11 November 2012 - 09:40 PM, said:

O RLY?

I assume you read and understood the article you linked too ... anyway - by all means spread the news that Windows 8 has all those improvements

[Inspector Lagomorf]

I'm not purchasing Windows 8 simply because I don't have a reason to.

[Kathy]

If I was building new PC then perhaps I would have bought Win8 along with it, but right now there is indeed no much point. And I'll probably not gonna buy another PC before next Windows release.

Jeff, on 11 November 2012 - 09:09 PM, said:

Personally I might just keep Windows 7 until they cancel the support for it (eg. for XP that's 2014, for Windows 7 is probably 2020 or later. They haven't actually confirmed the date, yet).

January 2020
http://windows.micro...ducts/lifecycle

[Jeff]

The other thing is that just because the support ends, doesn't mean that you also have to upgrade. I read a few years ago that some people were still using Windows 98.

Some people say that by not upgrading that you open yourself up as a security risk, but Windows isn't as secure as say, Linux, so it wouldn't matter. I don't know, we'll see.

[Kathy]

Jeff, on 12 November 2012 - 10:08 AM, said:

The other thing is that just because the support ends, doesn't mean that you also have to upgrade.

But it is strongly advised.

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Some people say that by not upgrading that you open yourself up as a security risk, but Windows isn't as secure as say, Linux, so it wouldn't matter.

Here we go again... Then turn off Windows Update if it wouldn't matter.

[Sangman]

Lol, I got Windows 8 for free, legally. Otherwise yeah I think I might have stuck with Windows 7... But I'm pretty comfortable using 8.

[Kathy]

I don't want to upgrade Win7 OEM version only to buy another one once I buy new PC. This baby is gonna stay as long as MB's alive.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Burnett, on 12 November 2012 - 11:11 AM, said:

Here we go again... Then turn off Windows Update if it wouldn't matter.

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I wonder how many of those people who bitch about Windows' security disabled Windows Update as soon as they first got their PC.

[Kathy]

Yeah, if you disable all the measures then Windows become unsecure as shit compared to Linux in the same situation. But with proper measures taken the gap between Windows and Linux security will diminish to the point of being a non issue.

edit: Well, at least for a widespread security vulnerabilities, malware and stuff. If you're attacked on an individual basis, which is really rare, it might be different. But still Windows have lots of options to lock system as tight as crocodile's ass if you want it.

[Sangman]

Here's a thought: Linux' userbase is relatively small (yes I know it's commonly used for web servers and what not but I mean consumer-wise), maybe that's why not as many people are interested in creating viruses for it.

[Kathy]

Duh, no shit...

[Hank]

Burnett, on 12 November 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

Duh, no shit...

I spilled my coffee - try to be less funny next time

- love Ubuntu, unfortunately it does not work with AutoCAD, other wise we would permanently switch to Ubuntu. Fast, efficient, user friendly and designed for the desk top, and is still free.

[Kathy]

Since I use my PC for watching blurays and playing videogames there isn't much point in going Linux.

[Sangman]

Burnett, on 12 November 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

Duh, no shit...

I just said that as a response to someone claiming Linux is secure. Maybe it is secure, but if the mainstream doesn't try to actively hack it we might never know for sure.

[Hank]

Burnett, on 12 November 2012 - 02:46 PM, said:

Since I use my PC for watching blurays and playing videogames there isn't much point in going Linux.

As you know, Blue Ray and HD DVDs have an encryption on it. It also checks where the movie was sold and where you are probably watching it. Those BD+ can not be programmed on an open source software. Since most Linux based software is open source, watching a high quality movies is a pain in the neck or simply not possible. But this is not Linux' fault though.

The Big Brother Digital Protected All Knowing Blue Ray movies can only be watched in the country you bought it. Meaning don't pick them up in the US, while the comp is an official Canadian computer operated with an super fine legal Windows OS. I can change countries five times, i.e. Canada, US and Germany, then my own movies will not play.

As for games, yep, no games.

Yet, Linux for on the road, with my little CAD, word, email, texting and Scype - it works. and this is on a very old old old old lap top

[Kathy]

Hank, on 12 November 2012 - 04:57 PM, said:

The Big Brother Digital Protected All Knowing Blue Ray

It's similar with DVDs.

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movies can only be watched in the country you bought it. Meaning don't pick them up in the US, while the comp is an official Canadian computer operated with an super fine legal Windows OS.

USA and Canada has the same bluray region - A.

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I can change countries five times, i.e. Canada, US and Germany, then my own movies will not play.

http://www.avsforum....owerdvd-and-tmt

[Hank]

Burnett, on 12 November 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:

It's similar with DVDs.

USA and Canada has the same bluray region - A.

Unbelievable, fuck me tender, I still got the receipts!

[High Treason]

With DVD's though, you could cheat, for whatever reason, on Windows 98SE the reigonal lockout was controlled at a software level and setting the code to 0 did not use up one of the chances of the firmware and seemingly removed the lockout... I never really tested it that much though, but it appears to work and is a contributing factor to why my "media centre" runs 98... It isn't a fan of 1080p though if I'm honest, bit down on power for that.

In continuation of my previous post, my health seems to be improving a little at the moment, I have some weird swelling in my stomach that I'm going to get checked out at some point, but I don't think it's anything to be worried about. Probably just as well, I've run out of entertainment on the internet for the most part now, I've watched a hell of a lot of scrapheap challenge because I haven't been able to do anything else.

[Kathy]

Sangman, on 12 November 2012 - 03:22 PM, said:

I just said that as a response to someone claiming Linux is secure. Maybe it is secure, but if the mainstream doesn't try to actively hack it we might never know for sure.

Of course, there is no point in making as much malware for Linux as for Windows.

High Treason, on 13 November 2012 - 05:41 AM, said:

With DVD's though, you could cheat, for whatever reason, on Windows 98SE the reigonal lockout was controlled at a software level and setting the code to 0 did not use up one of the chances of the firmware and seemingly removed the lockout...

With bluray drives region is also controlled by a disk playing software, not by a drive's firmware.

[Tea Monster]

Linux may be more secure than Windows, but that dosen't mean that it's immune to the attention of hackers.
Android is based on Linux and they are finding out the hard way that penguins aren't bulletproof.

[Master Fibbles]

So, I just read on the BBC that Google is putting fiber all over the US city of Kansas...didn't know Kansas was just a city.