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Can we trust the "update history"?
Prior to the anniversery update, my bootup pic/wallpaper was from a
photo. After the AU, the bootup pic was either a scene of the seashore viewed from a cave or a covered suspension bridge. Then after an cumalative update, a head & shower figure was added with no "update history" listed; then sometime later my original bootup pic which was from win 7 & 8 took the place of the black figure & no trace of an update as per the "update history". Today, the bootup pic/wallpaper returned to what was used in win 7 & 8; NO "update history" for the action. Looks like windows 10 is messing around with the system when it is running & looks like changes are made even if there is no update or patch involved. Or is it some changes are not recorded? |
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lew wrote:
Looks like windows 10 is messing around with the system when it is running & looks like changes are made even if there is no update or patch involved. Or is it some changes are not recorded? Changes to wallpaper aren't updates to your system, they're only content so won't show in history, they're just part of a slowly changing slideshow from Windows Spotlight ... |
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On 07-Oct-2016 4:07 PM, lew wrote:
Prior to the anniversery update, my bootup pic/wallpaper was from a photo. After the AU, the bootup pic was either a scene of the seashore viewed from a cave or a covered suspension bridge. Then after an cumalative update, a head & shower figure was added with no "update history" listed; then sometime later my original bootup pic which was from win 7 & 8 took the place of the black figure & no trace of an update as per the "update history". Today, the bootup pic/wallpaper returned to what was used in win 7 & 8; NO "update history" for the action. Looks like windows 10 is messing around with the system when it is running & looks like changes are made even if there is no update or patch involved. Or is it some changes are not recorded? Go to setting/personalization and set "Background" and "Lock screen" to "picture" instead of "slideshow" then you will always have the same picture showing. |
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lew wrote:
Prior to the anniversery update, my bootup pic/wallpaper was from a photo. After the AU, the bootup pic was either a scene of the seashore viewed from a cave or a covered suspension bridge. Then after an cumalative update, a head & shower figure was added with no "update history" listed; then sometime later my original bootup pic which was from win 7 & 8 took the place of the black figure & no trace of an update as per the "update history". Today, the bootup pic/wallpaper returned to what was used in win 7 & 8; NO "update history" for the action. Looks like windows 10 is messing around with the system when it is running & looks like changes are made even if there is no update or patch involved. Or is it some changes are not recorded? The lock screen is also considered a prime candidate for advertising. So count your blessings. In some cases, you will be presented with a brand new picture, and a tiny text prompt on the picture will say "Do you like this". So yes, the lock screen is a play toy. And you can get all sorts of notifications, like "Get Office 365" or similar. If you actually bought App Store applications, you might even get advertising for "similar" software products. ******* On the Windows 10 Insider edition, the Update History is mostly blank. That's because whole OS upgrades come in on that one, and wipe the history. The Release version of Windows 10 can have security patches listed in the Update History. So there should be a short list of stuff there. Any attempts at advertising, won't be logged. You may not know it, but 300MB worth of computer advertisements sit on your C: drive. But so far, they haven't attempted to sell me a Surface tablet, using that collateral material. There is some garbage of that type on the machine, but it hasn't been pushed. Windows 10 is considered to be a giant billboard. Paul |
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On Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:21:37 -0400, Paul
wrote: You may not know it, but 300MB worth of computer advertisements sit on your C: drive. You say that as if 300 MB is a big number. Yes, it's a big number if you're talking about most things, but not if you're talking about disk space. At today HD prices, when a 2TB drive is around $50 USD, 300 MB is worth around 3/4 of a penny. |
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Ken Blake wrote:
On Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:21:37 -0400, Paul wrote: You may not know it, but 300MB worth of computer advertisements sit on your C: drive. You say that as if 300 MB is a big number. Yes, it's a big number if you're talking about most things, but not if you're talking about disk space. At today HD prices, when a 2TB drive is around $50 USD, 300 MB is worth around 3/4 of a penny. The advertising material is more life-style stuff, with pictures of teens chewing gum and using their tablets. And of course you need lots and lots of pictures like that, to sell stuff. I always buy stuff, where attractive people are shown using the product. By buying such a product, I can be attractive too :-) Of course those materials don't belong on an OS drive but what are ya goona do. I see the folder "RetailDemo" on the Insider edition, but not on the Release edition, unless I already deleted it from the Release one... Paul |
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On 2016-10-07, Sergey wrote:
On 07-Oct-2016 4:07 PM, lew wrote: Prior to the anniversery update, my bootup pic/wallpaper was from a photo. After the AU, the bootup pic was either a scene of the seashore viewed from a cave or a covered suspension bridge. Then after an cumalative update, a head & shower figure was added with no "update history" listed; then sometime later my original bootup pic which was from win 7 & 8 took the place of the black figure & no trace of an update as per the "update history". Today, the bootup pic/wallpaper returned to what was used in win 7 & 8; NO "update history" for the action. Looks like windows 10 is messing around with the system when it is running & looks like changes are made even if there is no update or patch involved. Or is it some changes are not recorded? Go to setting/personalization and set "Background" and "Lock screen" to "picture" instead of "slideshow" then you will always have the same picture showing. Thanks. I guess I missed that default change as I never had slideshow on as far as I know; always thought that it was for people with a family & so does a slideshow & so I had turned slide off. Another default change for me to check on each update. |
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Hash: SHA256 On 2016-10-07 6:44 PM, Ken Blake wrote: On Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:21:37 -0400, Paul wrote: You may not know it, but 300MB worth of computer advertisements sit on your C: drive. You say that as if 300 MB is a big number. Yes, it's a big number if you're talking about most things, but not if you're talking about disk space. At today HD prices, when a 2TB drive is around $50 USD, 300 MB is worth around 3/4 of a penny. I still remember being a 12 year-old and thinking that I was so cool because I had a 30MB HD in 1991. Little did I know how quickly things would change after that... - -- Silver Slimer Islam is a disease Gab.AI: @silverslimer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX+PrsAAoJEIwFfgf/rr+uhGkH/R/T0ZkTDw3yTjsVIMXudl4d +i6yvpYqR/nt4nWilL1LhTSb2ryID9mMikfxN5VkE5Qz4fWvgg17mctVVdch CX6K UcRU0jd5K+jTMTtJW2zbeUbQc6w1o6yUCzUZwLoctU5quDUeiN 1B755gQNg39YiZ 6Udtib70TD2sJtkrVV6Al0UZIKX/DO1jaWnGjlb3MeBAvGBcIGFtoFqkeF1OPZ3R q3Ve85XnwJzKRcAINK67BO46DIerVdxcvRYMh6Lnp7hNfudXon +dP1agYVVSc9f/ UnOTkK1S7RwARKLCVdU/sdf7rgeKp65Lazo84bZ4BBEgW/iNaQSUWYxwn3uZ4Cw= =R3A2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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On 10/08/2016 08:55 AM, Silver Slimer wrote:
[snip] I still remember being a 12 year-old and thinking that I was so cool because I had a 30MB HD in 1991. IIRC, my first HD was a 10MB Rodime I called "Huge". [snip] -- 78 days until the winter celebration (Sunday December 25, 2016 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ In Ottawa the xians put up an "abortion stills a beating heart" poster outside the local abortion clinic. Someone wrote over it: "A christian with a gun stills a beating heart." |
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Silver Slimer wrote:
You may not know it, but 300MB worth of computer advertisements sit on your C: drive. You say that as if 300 MB is a big number. Yes, it's a big number if you're talking about most things, but not if you're talking about disk space. At today HD prices, when a 2TB drive is around $50 USD, 300 MB is worth around 3/4 of a penny. I still remember being a 12 year-old and thinking that I was so cool because I had a 30MB HD in 1991. Little did I know how quickly things would change after that... Same here with my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz's HDD. 30 MB! And then, I bought Stacker software, without its hardware card, to increase its disk space virtually. :P -- Quote of the Week: "To the gods I am an ant, but to the ants, I am a god." --unknown Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Hash: SHA256 On 2016-10-08 3:56 PM, Ant wrote: Silver Slimer wrote: You may not know it, but 300MB worth of computer advertisements sit on your C: drive. You say that as if 300 MB is a big number. Yes, it's a big number if you're talking about most things, but not if you're talking about disk space. At today HD prices, when a 2TB drive is around $50 USD, 300 MB is worth around 3/4 of a penny. I still remember being a 12 year-old and thinking that I was so cool because I had a 30MB HD in 1991. Little did I know how quickly things would change after that... Same here with my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz's HDD. 30 MB! And then, I bought Stacker software, without its hardware card, to increase its disk space virtually. :P It's funny that you should mention that because the computer I had a 30MB HD on was the first IBM PS/1. My uncle had a Model 30 though but only had 20MB on it which inevitably means that he wasn't as cool as you were. - -- Silver Slimer Islam is a disease Gab.AI: @silverslimer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX+WIBAAoJEIwFfgf/rr+u3coH/i6EWJfUWSsB3QIudjq4e2U4 pzWLydoWe94ja+LNkzoHNtpOvacpEXnY8pQCWOW1DtlE6EICQY KJ3RcYOmL48jsv LZUIT/o4YzLply7BSgApLOKUnSSwzqEh0WF93Uca6baMdFsI+95CUB3L nPtIVMmz 3JhTPKFvifQ4uY8LUjO6GxPkTlKVRBCxDTsLtSTRSJVqVk10TX c5ZvZ6Q0MDCLkq +IL2fJ3eka3BwuY0m1TB5FgukD5tNSf4rF+4iczNf6XPKcrDwF SK5anTi94e4a9A Czku9ov/OAfpm1Uwo/r2lLqR4JXGnz6hxaiZ/IM+lUWTlKT1Hako9EXD6dzRYNY= =JmwJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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On 10/08/2016 02:56 PM, Ant wrote:
[snip] Same here with my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz's HDD. 30 MB! And then, I bought Stacker software, without its hardware card, to increase its disk space virtually. :P Do you remember how much capacity increase you got? I remember that with disk compression, I'd get a lot less than the doubling they claimed. -- 78 days until the winter celebration (Sunday December 25, 2016 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ In Ottawa the xians put up an "abortion stills a beating heart" poster outside the local abortion clinic. Someone wrote over it: "A christian with a gun stills a beating heart." |
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On 10/08/2016 04:15 PM, Silver Slimer wrote:
[snip] It's funny that you should mention that because the computer I had a 30MB HD on was the first IBM PS/1. My uncle had a Model 30 though but only had 20MB on it which inevitably means that he wasn't as cool as you were. I remember buying a computer in about 1990, and a 30MB HD cost only a little more than 20MB. IIRC, the physical drive was the same, just a different controller. BTW, that controller happened to be incompatible with 386 protected mode. [snip] -- 78 days until the winter celebration (Sunday December 25, 2016 12:00:00 AM for 1 day). Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ In Ottawa the xians put up an "abortion stills a beating heart" poster outside the local abortion clinic. Someone wrote over it: "A christian with a gun stills a beating heart." |
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On 10/8/2016 at 5:50 PM, Mark Lloyd's prodigious digits fired off:
On 10/08/2016 04:15 PM, Silver Slimer wrote: [snip] It's funny that you should mention that because the computer I had a 30MB HD on was the first IBM PS/1. My uncle had a Model 30 though but only had 20MB on it which inevitably means that he wasn't as cool as you were. I remember buying a computer in about 1990, and a 30MB HD cost only a little more than 20MB. IIRC, the physical drive was the same, just a different controller. BTW, that controller happened to be incompatible with 386 protected mode. [snip] Hah! In about 1986 I had a Xebec external hard drive, 20 Mb, that was as big as a modern tower computer. Hmm. Could be wrong but I think it was a SCSI interface. The drive was at least twice the size of the "laptop" it was connected to. Dang. The good old days. When men were measured by the size of their peripherals. :-D -- Ed Mullen http://edmullen.net/ Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. |
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Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 10/08/2016 02:56 PM, Ant wrote: [snip] Same here with my IBM PS/2 model 30 286 10 Mhz's HDD. 30 MB! And then, I bought Stacker software, without its hardware card, to increase its disk space virtually. :P Do you remember how much capacity increase you got? I remember that with disk compression, I'd get a lot less than the doubling they claimed. Take a file filled with random bytes and compress it. How much did it compress ? ******* Get a copy of "dd". http://www.chrysocome.net/ http://www.chrysocome.net/downloads/dd-0.6beta3.zip Unpack it in a scratch folder, and run this from a Command Prompt window. This will make a 1GB file containing pseudo-random bytes of data. dd if=/dev/random of=big.bin bs=1048576 count=1024 Next, I use the 7Zip 7Z compressor set to Ultra and these are the results. big.bin 1,073,741,824 bytes (input) big.7z 1,073,798,899 bytes (compressed output) The compressed file ended up being a bit bigger! Now you can see why the Stacker statement is a statistical one, involving an industry average file mix. Text might compress 3:1, movies not at all. ******* NTFS Compression is still available today, and when you prep a data partition (with 4K NTFS clusters), you can enable compression and see how effective it is. It's a "mild" compressor, maybe as good as LZO or something. Don't expect miracles. If you have a partition with movies, well, enabling that would be a waste of your time. In modern times, hardly any content is compressible any more. Because the file format itself may have included forms of compression of its own. You will find modern movie formats don't compress all that well. Internally, a modern movie format is compressed 100:1 compared to the original uncompressed content. The compression method is lossy, and when the movie is uncompressed, it does not match pixel for pixel, what was shot in the camera. For example, if you use the MJPEG CODEC, there can be numerical ringing on the edges of sharp objects, and this is a form of "loss" during compression. Paul |
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