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 Jimbocous  Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 1 Apr 13 Posts: 1083 Credit: 104,181,241 RAC: 87,259 
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I have divorced myself from as many M$ apps as possible. I prefer Open Office, Firefox and other software over anything the girls and boys in Redmond offer. Amazed here at how much better FF 57 is over previous FF 56, and any version FF beats M$ browsers. As for Open Office, it's ok, though Calc is pretty weak and clunky compared to Excel for power users. Half the stuff I used to do on Excel either can't be done or take twice the effort on Calc. Talking specifically about the setup and formatting tools, and their ease of use. 
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Siran d'Vel'nahr Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 6193 Credit: 7,466,610 RAC: 81
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I have divorced myself from as many M$ apps as possible. I prefer Open Office, Firefox and other software over anything the girls and boys in Redmond offer. Yep! My only M$ software is the OS: Win7 Pro 64bit. That's only because it's a pain in the you-know-what to try to get Windoze programs to run in Wine on Linux. I swear by Firefox. Started using it when it first came out and haven't looked back. Oh, I have tried others: Opera, Chrome (hate it with a passion), that browser put out by Apple (cannot remember it's name), and when I tried Win10 I tried Edge. Back to Win7 and Firefox I went. Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr XO USS Vre'kasht NCC-33187 Windows 10 can be tamed into submission! Microsoft wants us to "Imagine life without walls"... I say, "If there are no walls, who needs Windows?" |
JaundicedEye  Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 3798 Credit: 29,423,785 RAC: 17,107
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Agree, FF latest is a vast improvement in speed and a world above Exploder. My desktops both run Window$ 8.1 with little problem except 'Mail', what a useless P.O.S. I have to log into Outlook to save or send images and half the time I get a "XXX@msn is currently unavailable" when I'm just dumping my junk mail. I also have email through Gmail and Xfinity but each have other problems.  "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
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JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 3798 Credit: 29,423,785 RAC: 17,107
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And the latest and greatest 'Creator$ Update' has rendered the stylus on my $urface Tablet inoperative in Firefox. Probably another wrench thrown into the workings of Mozilla by the boy$ and girl$ in Redmond..... ALL HAIL MICRO$OFT! "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
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Siran d'Vel'nahr Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 6193 Credit: 7,466,610 RAC: 81
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And the latest and greatest 'Creator$ Update' has rendered the stylus on my $urface Tablet inoperative in Firefox. Hey JE, Don't you know? Micro$oft can do as they damn well please since they are answerable to no one. Contrary to them putting out security updates, they don't care about us little people. They are above ALL on this ball of rock called Earth. Window$ 10 and their revised EULA, taking away our freedom to use Class Actions, did that for them. Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr XO USS Vre'kasht NCC-33187 Windows 10 can be tamed into submission! Microsoft wants us to "Imagine life without walls"... I say, "If there are no walls, who needs Windows?" |
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 9411 Credit: 7,254,809 RAC: 858 
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Is this something long and old that is newly coming into prominence? Why this special article just now?... How To Fix The 'Page Fault In Nonpaged Area' Error In Windows 10 The Windows 10 error "Page Fault In Nonpaged Area" usually results in a BSOD and can be quite frustrating to troubleshoot. The error is caused by Windows not finding a file within memory that it expects to find. If you need to fix this error, well, this is how to do it... IT is what we allow it to be... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 1350 Credit: 613,105 RAC: 237
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Windows 10: Now you can see every bit of data Microsoft harvests from your PC The Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer was made available yesterday to those testing early builds of Windows 10 under the Windows Insider program.  
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 9411 Credit: 7,254,809 RAC: 858
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Windows 10: Now you can see every bit of data Microsoft harvests from your PC That is also detailed by The Register: Microsoft whips out tool so you can measure Windows 10's data-slurping creepiness Diagnostic Data Viewer gives users a peek into what Redmond gathers from your PC... For the normal form for The Register, that article is rather subdued... All far too obvious to need risking their legal budget/insurance? Instead, the comments there are somewhat illuminating as is too often the case... IT really is what we allow it to be... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 9411 Credit: 7,254,809 RAC: 858
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Windows 10: Now you can see every bit of data Microsoft harvests from your PC Tom's Hardware has picked up on the story also: Microsoft Introduces New Privacy Tools For Windows Insiders ... Microsoft has already been threatened by Data Protection Authorities in the EU in regards to how it collects data on users in Windows 10. With the much stricter General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect later this spring, we’re starting to see many companies, large and small, offer users more control over the data that is collected on them as a way to become compliant with the new data protection regulation. Note: Those user-friendly regulations do not include the rest of the world such as the great "US of A"... IT really is what we allow it to be... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Ageless Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 14417 Credit: 3,624,570 RAC: 453 
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Ah, but when Kaspersky sends back information about the version of AV that's installed on your system, it's bad, and everyone needs to know how bad it is, and that it's Russian - purportedly Kremlin run - and that you should not ever install it again on any of your systems. When Microsoft does it, it's "let's install this on all our computers in the Pentagon!". Jord Ancient Astronaut Theorists can tell you that I do not help with tech questions via private message. Please use the forums for that. |
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JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 3798 Credit: 29,423,785 RAC: 17,107
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Ah, but when Kaspersky sends back information about the version of AV that's installed on your system, it's bad, and everyone needs to know how bad it is, and that it's Russian - purportedly Kremlin run - and that you should not ever install it again on any of your systems. When Microsoft does it, it's "let's install this on all our computers in the Pentagon!". Which is why I would NEVER let Kaspersky within a thousand yards of my equipment. I know, McAfee, Norton and probably every other AV program(and most Apps), also 'report back' to their masters, but those masters are not former heads of the KGB.............. "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
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Ageless Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 14417 Credit: 3,624,570 RAC: 453
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I've just renewed my license with them. They're better than frickin' Bitdefender which stills keeps asking me to reboot once, twice a week, else it can't update. 20 more days before it's going off and Kaspersky is going onto that system as well. As for the CEO of Kaspersky having graduated from The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School and then served the Soviet military intelligence service as a software engineer, that's how schooling with follow-up work was done in the USSR before the Wall came down. I doubt you'll find anyone there of our age that wasn't taught in some intelligence school and didn't serve in the navy, air force or military. I'm sure that if the Wall hadn't come down, it was still going on like that. But leave it to the Americans to be scared by absolutely nothing at all, and only because it's a Russian product, it's outlawed. Next stuff from China will be bad. Followed by anyone or anything coming from Europe. Jord Ancient Astronaut Theorists can tell you that I do not help with tech questions via private message. Please use the forums for that. |
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Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 9618 Credit: 124,045,987 RAC: 85,088 
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But leave it to the Americans to be scared by absolutely nothing at all, and only because it's a Russian product, it's outlawed. Next stuff from China will be bad. Followed by anyone or anything coming from Europe. The difference is that any backdoors in US products are there for the US intellgence services, where as the ones in Chinese & Russian products are for their intelligence services. Grant Darwin NT |
Keith Myers  Volunteer tester  Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 4209 Credit: 244,930,423 RAC: 587,484
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I am not employed by the U.S. military or government. I have tried all the major and some minor AV programs or suites. Kaspersky is the least troublesome so far. So when renewal comes up again in a couple of months, I will renew again. I haven't seen any concrete evidence, only unverified accusations, that any personal information of mine is being shared with the Russian government. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours  
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Al  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 1603 Credit: 323,130,389 RAC: 485,654
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Umm.. that would be 1984...? lolI just started my tablet(which the upgrade service previously said was not eligible for the Win10 upgrade due to graphics hardware)and it immediately started into the 'updating your system' routine even though I have update turned off. I went into update history, sorted by date, which indicated nothing had been installed since 1/19/16.  
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Ageless Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 14417 Credit: 3,624,570 RAC: 453
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One that ML1 won't like so much (and he surely already knows it, but he's been keeping it a secret for y'all, as it's about Linux... ;-)): Ubuntu will by default start sending back diagnostic data. We would like to add a checkbox to the installer, exact wording TBD, but along the lines of “Send diagnostics information to help improve Ubuntu”. This would be checked by default. The result of having that box checked would be: * Information from the installation would be sent over HTTPS to a service run by Canonical’s IS team. This would be saved to disk and sent on first boot once there is a network connection. The file containing this data would be available for the user to inspect. That data would include: * Ubuntu Flavour * Ubuntu Version * Network connectivity or not * CPU family * RAM * Disk(s) size * Screen(s) resolution * GPU vendor and model * OEM Manufacturer * Location (based on the location selection made by the user at install). No IP information would be gathered * Installation duration (time taken) * Auto login enabled or not * Disk layout selected * Third party software selected or not * Download updates during install or not * LivePatch enabled or not * Popcon would be installed. This will allow us to spot trends in package usage and help us to focus on the packages which are of most value to our users. * Apport would be configured to automatically send anonymous crash reports without user interruption. The results of this data would be made public. E.g. People would be able to see that X% of Ubuntu users are based in .de vs Y% in .za. Z% of our users run Dell hardware, and so on. The Ubuntu privacy policy would be updated to reflect this change. Any user can simply opt out by unchecking the box, which triggers one simple POST stating, “diagnostics=false”. Jord Ancient Astronaut Theorists can tell you that I do not help with tech questions via private message. Please use the forums for that. |
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ML1 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 9411 Credit: 7,254,809 RAC: 858
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OK... So about as advanced for user profiling as Microsoft was at about the turn of the millennia some 18 years ago... Unfortunately, that does follow up on the Canonical people (Ubuntu) moving ever closer to being raped by an 'IPO'.... Thankfully, there are other Linux mainstream distros yet that will continue to protect your freedoms. IT is all that you allow it to be... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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Dr Who Fan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 1350 Credit: 613,105 RAC: 237
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Here we go again with M$ FORCING UPDATES on unsuspecting Win10 users: Microsoft forces Win10 1709 upgrades on PCs set to restrict telemetry Howls of pain from Win10 1607 and 1703 users who were forced to upgrade to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update today. No advanced warning. This is the third time some Win10 customers have been pushed onto Win10 1709.
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Grant (SSSF) Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 9618 Credit: 124,045,987 RAC: 85,088
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Here we go again with M$ FORCING UPDATES on unsuspecting Win10 users: Yep. They're just like Android & Apple now. Grant Darwin NT |
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JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 3798 Credit: 29,423,785 RAC: 17,107
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"Don't attempt to adjust the vertical, don't attempt to adjust the horizontal.......and we will not return control of your PC to you............suck it up customers, you bought it and now we OWN you." "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
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