Win 7 - Long Term Plan?

On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 22:10:46 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 12:34:01 +0000, Ed Cryer
wrote:

Good Guy wrote:
On 01/11/2015 21:22, wrote:
I'm getting too old for the kind of BS
and trauma MS creates.


Don't worry about any BS and trauma you are facing because Microsoft
will continue supporting Windows 7 until 14th January 2020 but its
servers will be online for many years after that just like Windows XP
servers which are still online and people are still getting updates and
telephone activations if necessary.

If you are getting old then you really need to stop thinking for more
than 1 year because statistically you are going to die by the time you
have reached your 82nd birth-date. Very few people live up to the age
of 88. Tom Graveney dies aged 88 but he was healthier than you are.

Tom Graveney http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/34716024

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You have an obsession with old age and death which is psychologically
dangerous. Take some good advice and cast your focus elsewhere.
Stop reading Dante's Inferno & Vergil's Aeneid book VI; stop listening
to Mahler's Kindertotenlieder & Schubert's Winterreise; stop spreading
misery and despair, for t'will simply redound on thine own head.

Ed

P.S. Have you ever watched "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey"? Some come back.


Actually Ed, I am old and 82 is only a few years away - Yikes! And
for reasons I won't document here, I'll welcome death when it's time.
Meanwhile I try to find joy and satisfaction in things every day, to
offset all the negative things going wrong with me.

DC


Are you Good Guy?
My post was targeted against his chronic spleen and vitriol.
Not against you. You come across as a well adjusted man.

Ed

I'm not Good Guy, but I like to think of myself as a good guy. I'm
not Old Guy either, but consider myself old. Sorry if I confused
anyone and thanks for the complement.

DC

Per VanguardLH:
Even though re-imaging takes some time (about an hour, for me, using 1
HDD for the OS partition and another HDD for the backup partition), I
can go to sleep, take a long break, go to lunch, use another computer,
or do something else until the re-image completes. A lot less stress
than trying to ferret out everything a update screwed up.

Exactly... there's Clock Time... and theirs My Time... Re-imaging only
takes a few minutes of My Time.... as long as it's not critical-path to
some job that I have to have done ASAP.... otherwise, it's an excuse for
a break...come back and it's done.
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Pete Cresswell

In message , Mayayana
writes:
| Fortunately for me, my 20th century OE has
| no trouble dropping out his HTML.
|
| I was going to say something similar, but my Turnpike has a 2007 date
| (-: [I'm assuming by "dropping out" you mean "rendering" - I'm not
| familiar with the former expression.]
|

No, I mean it doesn't render it. It drops the HTML.
He's posting like an email, with plain text and HTML
versions of the same post, to accomodate different
software. Most email comes that way to accomodate
email programs that can't render HTML. But not long after
HTML email was invented it began to be clear that it
was a security risk, so there's often an option not
to render it for that reason. I have mine set to always

My Turnpike offers the choice between the versions offered, but if you
choose HTML, it only renders the most basic aspects of HTML - I don't
think it runs scripts at all, for example, and I don't ever remember
seeing an HTML email that even had frames. I _tend_ to read the plain
text version anyway, ...

display only the plain text version, so that's what I
see from "Good Guy". If he managed to block the
plain text version from being transmitted I'd see nothing.

.... only looking at the HTML version if the plain one is obviously
missing things (a lot seem to be sending both but in practice the plain
text version is often very broken; some big companies are the worst
offenders in that respect).

If you look at the actual content of the post you'll
see this:
"This is a multi-part message in MIME format."

Below that are delineated a plain text version
of the post and, below that, an HTML version
of the same thing.

Turnpike spots those, and offers the choice (via tags or buttons, I
forget which ATM).


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