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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
Welcome to Administrative Audit unit office
Address: 11th Floor Federal Secretariat, Central Business District FCT Abuja, Nigeria Attention my dear Beneficiary In the course of our investigation, your email address were shortlisted among the first fifteen individuals yet to be paid their overdue Re-compensation funds worth US$2,800,000.00.The Re-compensation funds been successfully accredited in your favor through BANK SWIFT CARD which you can withdraw in any ATM Machine World wide nearest to you. However, we received a Complained today from Mrs. Christina Morgan that you are dead. According to her, you died in Road accidents as such your Fund should be ship to her as the apparent heir. If we fail to hear from you after 48 hours, it will be assumed that the complains of Mrs.Morgan is true and the fund will be delivered to her without further delay. Contact the Director of Audit to verify this from the Administrative Audit unit. And all the necessary documents of the delivery will hands over to her immediately. If we fail to hear from you after 48 hours, and she also wanted to paid the delivery fee of the ATM DEBITS CARD right now but we told her that we will investigation the matters weather true or lie. To avoid undue delay or delivery the fund to wrong individual, we have decided to contact you for confirmation.Your personal information is also required immediately as below which will be needed for confirmations before we transfer the funds to her. (A) Full name......... (B) country........... (C) Residential address....... (D) Active Telephone numbers...... (E) YOUR ID........ (F) Ocupation.......... we are waiting to hear from you soon, if you are still alive. best Regards: Barr. Alberto Lancioli Director audit unit EMail: EMail: |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
On Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:17:50 -0400, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-08-04 07:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote: On 04/08/18 01:30, Caver1 wrote: On 08/03/2018 08:13 PM, Wolf K wrote: On 2018-08-03 19:25, Caver1 wrote: [...] Windows is closed as far as the OS. OSX is completely closed, OS and apps. Linux is completely open. Yes different Families of Linux, Redhat, Debian, Arch... Have their own package managers. This is because of different OS structures. I was under the impression that Linux is Linux wherever you go. Thanks for clarifying that it's just like the closed Windows: stuff that will run one version won't necessarily run on anther. So asking the different families to have the same way to install apps or app structure would be like saying Windows and OSX be able to use the same app structure. Isn't Linux just Linux? Or have the freewheeling devs actually "forked" it into mutually incompatible OSs? Jeez, but that was a stupid idea. I hadn't clue it was that bad. Really. Nothing bad about it. No each family is basically an OS to itself. None of the Linux families are a fork of the other. They were each developed independently. What the fork were they smoking? Something better than MS and Apple. Now with the development of Snaps and Flatpak the Linux world is far ahead of the Windows and OSX world. Just try installing a Windows app on OSX or vice versa. Yeah, well, I've long argued that any program should be able to run on any OS. After all, C++ is C++ on every machine. Just put in a "Let's talk nice to each other" layer between the program and the OS. Good to know that Linux is getting there, despite having been forked with. This just shows your ignorance of the Linux environment. It just shows his ignorance, full stop. [...] Oh, I admit I'm not a Linux expert. After all, I only try the latest Mint about once a year. I like it a lot, but it won't run WordPerfect, and that's a deal-breaker. I can't stand Word and its work-alikes, and avoid them as much as possible. If there's anyone here who runs WordPerfect under WINE, I'd like to hear from them. Some versions of WordPerfect run under CrossoverOffice: https://www.codeweavers.com/compatib...me=WordPerfect |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
Ant wrote:
In alt.os.linux Dan Purgert wrote: Ant wrote: In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Dan Purgert wrote: Mayayana wrote: "Dan Purgert" wrote | So MS pretended .Net was good for Desktop | software. Then with the arrival of Metro trinket apps (the | world of giant GUI buttons linking to online services and | Microsoft store applets) MS pretended that .Net was just | | Was Metro the Win 8 UI? That was what made me sign off Windows | permanently. | Yes. For some reason they suddenly ditched that name. Maybe people in the Midwest didn't cotton to it? I don't know. I think the next name was "Modern" Me neither. I just remember it was clunky and always in the way. So "nope, I'm done." Win XP was by far my favorite, 7 wasn't that bad either. What about 2K? IMO, 2K was the best. Honestly, I skipped right over it from 98SE to XP ... so, I didn't really use it. Ah. I wonder if would had liked it. It's bascially XP's classic theme. Probably - I liked the 98SE look. And I remember using PCs that had 2k on it. I just never had one of them. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281 |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
On 08/04/2018 4:36 PM, Alberto wrote:
Welcome to Administrative Audit unit office Address: 11th Floor Federal Secretariat, Central Business District FCT Abuja, Nigeria Attention my dear Beneficiary In the course of our investigation, your email address were shortlisted among the first fifteen individuals yet to be paid their overdue Re-compensation funds worth US$2,800,000.00.The Re-compensation funds been successfully accredited in your favor through BANK SWIFT CARD which you can withdraw in any ATM Machine World wide nearest to you. However, we received a Complained today from Mrs. Christina Morgan that you are dead. According to her, you died in Road accidents as such your Fund should be ship to her as the apparent heir. If we fail to hear from you after 48 hours, it will be assumed that the complains of Mrs.Morgan is true and the fund will be delivered to her without further delay. Contact the Director of Audit to verify this from the Administrative Audit unit. And all the necessary documents of the delivery will hands over to her immediately. If we fail to hear from you after 48 hours, and she also wanted to paid the delivery fee of the ATM DEBITS CARD right now but we told her that we will investigation the matters weather true or lie. To avoid undue delay or delivery the fund to wrong individual, we have decided to contact you for confirmation.Your personal information is also required immediately as below which will be needed for confirmations before we transfer the funds to her. (A) Full name......... Joe Blow (B) country........... On the border (C) Residential address....... 123456 nowhere Ave (D) Active Telephone numbers...... same as address (E) YOUR ID........ same as phone number (F) Ocupation.......... ****ing you off we are waiting to hear from you soon, if you are still alive. best Regards: Barr. Alberto Lancioli Director audit unit EMail: EMail: |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
"Dan Purgert" wrote
| Honestly, I skipped right over it from 98SE to XP ... so, I didn't | really use it. | I did the same, sticking with 98 for as long as possible. I thought XP required a lot of taming, but once I got settled I found it was much more stable and hearty than Win98, able to handle more load. I ended up feeling similarly with 7: After a couple weeks of exploring I decided that it's basically salvageable, but not preferable. I'm still on XP for most things. When I tried 8 it just seemed too far gone to bother with. On a single-core 1 GHz machine it barely managed to sit there. And Metro was such an irrelevant monstrosity. Then Win10... a rental spyware version of 8.... at that point I gave up on using a future version of Windows. Though I suspect 8 could be salvaged in a pinch. |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You KnowIt
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
(A) Full name......... Joe Blow (B) country........... On the border (C) Residential address....... 123456 nowhere Ave (D) Active Telephone numbers...... same as address (E) YOUR ID........ same as phone number (F) Ocupation.......... ****ing you off You realize the poster is in "alt.privacy.anon-server" and wants you to stop cross-posting to that group. Notice the Newsgroups list was slightly changed to alt.test, and your response went there instead of to alt.privacy.anon-server . Keep your newsgroup field display turned on... To receive the full effect... (USENET in 3D) It's not an actual MMF. Or a Nigerian prince down on his luck. (There actually is a Nigerian oil prince, but he's worth about $2 billion. So if some guy needs $300 Wells Fargo in exchange for $2 billion in oil funds, that one will be for real :-) ) Paul |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
On 08/04/2018 8:02 PM, Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote: (A) Full name......... Joe Blow (B) country........... On the border (C) Residential address....... 123456 nowhere Ave (D) Active Telephone numbers...... same as address (E) YOUR ID........ same as phone number (F) Ocupation.......... ****ing you off You realize the poster is in "alt.privacy.anon-server" and wants you to stop cross-posting to that group. Notice the Newsgroups list was slightly changed to alt.test, and your response went there instead of to alt.privacy.anon-server . Keep your newsgroup field display turned on... To receive the full effect... (USENET in 3D) It's not an actual MMF. Or a Nigerian prince down on his luck. (There actually is a Nigerian oil prince, but he's worth about $2 billion. So if some guy needs $300 Wells Fargo in exchange for $2 billion in oil funds, that one will be for real :-) ) Â*Â* Paul Yeah, I had the field turned off to add 2 more lines to my message space. Funny how these would be shysters never learn. Rene |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
On 2018-08-02, mike wrote:
On 8/2/2018 5:17 AM, Caver1 wrote: Please list those distros; CURRENT version. Enumerate the GUI tools to: Seamlessly integrate with a windows network If you need a tool to do that it's not seamless. What does that even mean? Share the desktop, either direction, with windows assuming you actually mean "Windows": vinagre, teamviewer... Install software (It's amazing that some distros require the command line to install a GUI software installer.) eg: Synaptic? Configure a firewall, on the fly, as new situations are encountered eg: gufw ? Then, there's the whole nightmare of hardware drivers that actually enable all the functions of hardware devices that don't come with linux drivers. I got this far without even mentioning CHAOS...oops... Yeah, they use linux but what of it? The command line is useless if you don't know what to type...or if they moved or renamed the file you need to edit... GUI has the options listed on the screen. Pick one and you're done. the gui has maybe the 5 most popular options listed, fine if you're a cookie-cutter robot, but if you want something slightly different yer stuck. -- ت |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Mayayana wrote:
"Dan Purgert" wrote | Honestly, I skipped right over it from 98SE to XP ... so, I didn't | really use it. | I did the same, sticking with 98 for as long as possible. I thought XP required a lot of taming, but once I got settled I found it was much more stable and hearty than Win98, able to handle more load. For me on PCs: DOS v4 (newbie days) - DOS v5 - v6 -- all with WIndows 3.x. And then Windows 95 - 98 - XP (skipped 2K, but used it briefly like at work) - 7 (right now). Who knows what's next. Maybe full time Linux/Debian. I really hate v8 and v10. Vista was decent to me. :P I ended up feeling similarly with 7: After a couple weeks of exploring I decided that it's basically salvageable, but not preferable. I'm still on XP for most things. Are you online with it too? :/ I had to let go of XP Pro. SP3 on October 2016 due to a nasty HDD crash (clicks of death). It was time to let it go so I finally my bought 64-bit W7 HPE SP1 retail. Better late than never. I'm happy with it to start clean with it. I will keep using it as long as I can! When I tried 8 it just seemed too far gone to bother with. On a single-core 1 GHz machine it barely managed to sit there. And Metro was such an irrelevant monstrosity. Then Win10... a rental spyware version of 8.... at that point I gave up on using a future version of Windows. Though I suspect 8 could be salvaged in a pinch. Its usability was awful. I had to use it for testing at work. Argh. W10 was slightly better, but still annoying especially with its privacy issues! -- Quote of the Week: "The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." --Proverbs 30:25 (Bible) Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / http://antfarm.ma.cx / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
"Ant" wrote
| I ended up feeling similarly with 7: After a couple | weeks of exploring I decided that it's basically | salvageable, but not preferable. I'm still on XP | for most things. | | Are you online with it too? Yes, indeed. And my trusty old OE6. XP probably doesn't even support the most popular malware attacks. But I'm also careful. If I need to allow script, iframes, etc I use a secondary Win7 box. | When I tried 8........ | Its usability was awful. I had to use it for testing at work. Argh. W10 | was slightly better, but still annoying especially with its privacy | issues! | I used it a bit recently. A friend had a laptop with a crashed hard disk and I reinstalled from an ISO I got from MS. It wasn't too bad, actually. I installed one of those Start Menu repair things. I don't remember which. But I never tried to really use the system. I was just getting it installed and doing basic setup. The worst part was getting the ISO. Microsoft required me to download some kind of intermediary tool that then downloaded the ISO. It was ridiculously complicated. They wouldn't allow just downloading from a direct link! That's the kind of thing I do with the Win7 box: Grubby, risky stuff where I have to let sleazeballs have access to the machine. I have to assume that the only reason MS made me jump through hoops was so that they could rummage around while giving me the ISO. |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
On 2018-08-04, Mayayana wrote:
"Dan Purgert" wrote | So MS pretended .Net was good for Desktop | software. Then with the arrival of Metro trinket apps (the | world of giant GUI buttons linking to online services and | Microsoft store applets) MS pretended that .Net was just | | Was Metro the Win 8 UI? That was what made me sign off Windows | permanently. | Yes. For some reason they suddenly ditched that name. Maybe people in the Midwest didn't cotton to it? I don't know. I think the next name was "Modern" UI. A typical, passive-aggressive Microsoft language hijack. Calling it modern made everything else out of date. Modern means many things: "Tableau I" and "Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow" works by Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) are considered Modern Art, and are not entirely dissimilar to the "Metro" look. And there was the world of WinRT, which I don't think was ever defined. Lately I think they're talking about "universal apps", but it's hard to keep track. At-least it was a better name than WinCE -- ت |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
In article
Jasen Betts wrote: On 2018-08-02, mike wrote: On 8/2/2018 5:17 AM, Caver1 wrote: Please list those distros; CURRENT version. Enumerate the GUI tools to: Seamlessly integrate with a windows network If you need a tool to do that it's not seamless. What does that even mean? Share the desktop, either direction, with windows assuming you actually mean "Windows": vinagre, teamviewer... Install software (It's amazing that some distros require the command line to install a GUI software installer.) eg: Synaptic? Configure a firewall, on the fly, as new situations are encountered eg: gufw ? Then, there's the whole nightmare of hardware drivers that actually enable all the functions of hardware devices that don't come with linux drivers. I got this far without even mentioning CHAOS...oops... Yeah, they use linux but what of it? The command line is useless if you don't know what to type...or if they moved or renamed the file you need to edit... GUI has the options listed on the screen. Pick one and you're done. the gui has maybe the 5 most popular options listed, fine if you're a cookie-cutter robot, but if you want something slightly different yer stuck. -- ت |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
On 2018-08-03, mike wrote:
On 8/2/2018 7:02 PM, Paul wrote: Jonathan N. Little wrote: The primary reason that linux didn't take over the desktop decades ago is that they don't give a flying @#(+ about ordinary users AKA windows refugees. @#(+ing refugees, they should get with the program or go home. Make Unix Great Agai - i mean Maintain Unix Greatness Always. :^) Desktop linux needs a radical trimming and consolidation. why? And that will never happen with the current developer mindset. True, you'd have to pay them (buy them off) to even have a chance at partial success. -- ت |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
On 2018-08-03, Nomen Nescio wrote:
In article Dan Purgert wrote: To be fair, the "low skill level" people are just as lost in Windows as they would be in Linux. And most Linux people complicate things beyond belief attemnpting to do things in Windows the same way they do in Linux. Admittedly attempting anything slightly complicated on the the windows command line is usually a mistake. Are there any other common mistakes? Windows systems, on the other hand, tended to have everyone running around "as administrators" (although that has gotten considerably better since Win7). Again you'd be wrong. Windows doesn't do that. Lazy Linux administrators do that trying to force Windows to work like Linux. seems unlikely, what could they have been trying to do? -- ت |
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With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It
In article , Mayayana
wrote: A friend had a laptop with a crashed hard disk and I reinstalled from an ISO I got from MS. It wasn't too bad, actually. I installed one of those Start Menu repair things. I don't remember which. But I never tried to really use the system. I was just getting it installed and doing basic setup. The worst part was getting the ISO. Microsoft required me to download some kind of intermediary tool that then downloaded the ISO. It was ridiculously complicated. They wouldn't allow just downloading from a direct link! of course they do. choose the edition & language and then click the download link for the full iso (32 or 64 bit), no intermediate steps or tools required. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO That's the kind of thing I do with the Win7 box: Grubby, risky stuff where I have to let sleazeballs have access to the machine. I have to assume that the only reason MS made me jump through hoops was so that they could rummage around while giving me the ISO. the only hoops are the ones you created for yourself, but the bigger question is if you don't trust microsoft for a simple download, why do you use their products? |
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