Recent content by MrTransistorm

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    Windows Update failures in the last six months: A Theory

    The only time WU is slow on my Windows 7 machines is on Patch Tuesday or immediately thereafter. It's not maxing out a core or thrashing the HDD/SDD. It's probably just waiting for the update servers to respond. That said, even when it is running smoothly, it has never been as fast as it is in...
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    Adobe Flash Direct Download Links Page To Be Decommissioned on 1-22-16

    Same here. I've had the FF plugin disabled for many months now. It has been the sole reason for any hanging or lag in FF, and I'm sick of having to constantly update it. If I absolutely need flash, I'll open Chrome instead. I might as well uninstall the FF plugin at this point. There's only one...
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    Windows 10 Insider Preview no longer receiving Preview Builds

    That sentence describes Windows 10 to a T.
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    Remove Old Devices from Google Account

    Try this: https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity It only shows devices from the past 28 days though.
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    Windows 10 Iso ?

    The answers forum is useless. Don't trust anything you read there unless it's directly from a MS engineer. The moderators are not always good sources of info, and there are several prolific posters who routinely post rumor-based opinions as if they were facts. It's a shame that MS doesn't take...
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    Free subtitles maker?

    Aegisub It may or may not be as easy as you require, but it's widely used and there are tons of tutorials out there.
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    When a windows 8.1 update shows failed does it try and install it again ever or not?

    It's very rare that I have an update fail, and usually a failed update works on the second try. There was one earlier this year that failed to install repeatedly. It took some searching on many different fora to find the answer. It turns out that this particular update would fail to install if...
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    Getting Windows 10 for free - not by upgrade route

    Doesn't surprise me. People are way too optimistic to expect a free license just for testing the preview. But how is that going to work? If you're testing the preview, you would have had to install it over the top of an existing 7/8.1 install in order for MS to detect it. I imagine that many...
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    So how are you liking Win10 so far?

    Did you install the Guest Additions? It's incredibly sluggish otherwise.
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    Just discovered a Windows Explorer trick you guys probably all know...

    Wizmouse is your friend. It even works on windows that don't have focus. Also, it appears that it is finally fixed in Windows 10.
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    Can you convert Kubuntu 13.04 to 13.10?

    FWIW I upgraded my Ubuntu Server 12.04 to 14.04 without a hitch. It might be a different story with a desktop version though.
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    Switching to the dark side....

    Your memory is a little hazy. The first Intel Macs in early 2006 had Core Duo (Yonah) CPUs: MacBook MacBook Pro iMac EDIT: Sorry, I may have misread your post a little. At first it seemed like you were saying that the first Intel Macs had C2D. If that's not what you meant, then I apologize...
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    NFS randomly hiccuped, now everything is screwed up

    On my home server (Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS) resolv.conf is automatically generated. In fact there is a comment at the top of the file that warns against editing it manually. Instead, my DNS server settings are in the /etc/network/interfaces file. In fact the man page (on Debian-based distros)...
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    Windows 8.1 Update 2 Start Menu

    Same here, mainly because most Linux DE's use categories. That's a concept that Microsoft has ignored for way too long. Instead Windows either allows every program to create its own start menu folder (7 and older) or dumps everything in a huge list (8.x). What a mess! Sure you could create your...
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    Your Home Server Fantasies and a cheap "replacement" for WHS v.1 and 2011

    I also ditched WHSv1 for Linux about three years ago. I had a failing storage drive that caused WHS to BSOD. A storage drive should not cause the whole system to crash! On top of that, WHS failed to detect any problems with the drive after rebooting. :thumbsdown: I immediately dumped WHS for...