On 10/20/2017 08:13 PM, B00ze wrote:
On 2017-10-20 14:26, T wrote:

And it is not Cobian's fault. VSS really is jammed. Restarting
VSS cures the problem.

Yeah, that's no good. And there's nothing in Event Viewer? I'm just
curious as to what crashes VSS ;-)

No idea. Services says it is running. Maybe it is the position
of the oon or a dog barked. This is Windows after all!

:-)


With the Samsung (I am an authorized reseller of Samsung SSDs),
shutting down and starting up is really quick too.

Best SSDs out there as far as I'm concerned.

Don't get me started. Stay the hell away from Intel's SSD!

They don't appeal to me for some reason. The only thing I like from
Intel are CPUs. But then we all got screwed who bought one recently,
because AMD came out with lots of cores and that forced Intel to move
its ass for once and release 6-Core i7's. Screw you if you bought your
CPU 3 months ago...


The only thing I buy from Intel these days is their CPU's
and occasionally, their network cards.

I have never noticed Windows being able to uer more than 4 cores
effectively, so I tell folks to just get an i5 and save their money.

Linux, on the other hand is noticeably faster with my cores and
more threads, but Linux is a whole 'nother dimension of technology.
But, most speed, Linux or Windows, comes from a fast hard drive,
like an SSD.


On another note: I have been replacing Firefox 56.0.1 with
57.0b9 (v57 beta 9) and it fixed a lot of the performance drag
and video player issues folk have been having it 56.0.1

Firefox 52-56 are a bit funky because they have lots of mixed legacy/new
code in them; there are some strange bugs because of that. FF57+ will
still have bugs because it is so new, but it will get much better as
time goes by. Too bad Web Extensions cannot do some of the things the
old XUL AddOns could, but for customers who don't do AddOns, FF57+ will
be very good.

I noticed that 59b9 put he zip back into Firefox. On my machine,
I am stuck with 52.3.0 ESR. Bummer.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1392014


I usually only install an ad blocker customer's machines.
uBlock Orgin is being a pain in the ass lately:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/2982


I got about eight extensions on mine: cliget, ghostery, tabs
on bottom, you tube downloader, tile tabs, https everywhere,
uBlock orgin.

Tile tabs takes some getting use to, but is really powerful when
comparing specs on two different pages.