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TM Crusoe
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| And now the ARM machine is with a fan. Just two pieces of thin white cardboard, glued together with epoxy and holes cut out. Power comes from the GPIO pins.
Plus something not computer related, but something that have a relation to computers on it.....
I have been working on my battle vest for some time now, and this is as far as I have come. I have ordered a back patch, that covers most of the back, with a motif/picture of a wood carving from the middle ages. It is basically many hundreds of years old copy of memento mori artwork, that will go on the back. (I am in no way finished with my vest. Need more patches)
And yeah.... Computers are a big part of my life, so naturally it goes next to 90's Sepultura...
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Rise MP6
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| Ha ha! Nice one! 
Maxed out the Thinkpad T430 today. It now has a 240GB SSD, an M-SATA 120GB SSD, AC-WIFI and 16GB of ram! |
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TM Crusoe
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| tedster - 2021-05-14 9:55 PM
Ha ha! Nice one!
Maxed out the Thinkpad T430 today. It now has a 240GB SSD, an M-SATA 120GB SSD, AC-WIFI and 16GB of ram!
Wooo!! Hefty upgrade.... How is it to use now, compared to before? |
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Rise MP6
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| It's really competent, one of the biggest boost is from being able to change the wifi card. I had to flash a "cracked" bios to it, as those Lenovo pricks locked out unapproved add in cards.
Fortunately, some clever soul made a tool to automate the process and put it online. There's some great people still around! |
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TM Crusoe
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| tedster - 2021-05-15 12:37 PM
It's really competent, one of the biggest boost is from being able to change the wifi card. I had to flash a "cracked" bios to it, as those Lenovo pricks locked out unapproved add in cards.
Fortunately, some clever soul made a tool to automate the process and put it online. There's some great people still around!
Nice. There are always bright and helpfull people out there. :-) |
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Rise MP6
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| Aye, fantastic of the guy to do it. One of the unsung heroes fixing what shouldn't need fixing!
Have to say, I'm finding that I almost like Windows 10. I've got it on a few machines now, reluctantly, I admit. But it's matured since I first tried it, I still hate parts of it. Don't get me wrong. But I can get most things to work on it now, satisfactorily.
They are letting it activate with win7 product keys again, too.
It still lets me use some of my old (paid for) software without complaint. Office 2007 still works but without the online help. Macromedia Fireworks MX still works perfectly too. I've used Fireworks on every machine since it came out! 98, 98SE, ME, WIn2K, XP, Vista, 7 and now 10. All have run it perfectly fine. Pretty good going I think.
My Thinkpad T430 is the first one with the Chicklet (Island) keyboard. Instead of the traditional IBM style. I've got machines with both now. I think I prefer the newer one!
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TM Crusoe
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| The computing landscape are just evolving into something new these years..... Personally I am done with Windows on my daily driver. I am not using my personal machine for anything work related, so it is purely for private useage. Basically, I can get by with using Linux only.
Speaking of. I installed ARM-Bian on my OrangePI box. And then I installed open mediavault on top. Enabled DLNA plugin and now I can use it for a media server for my television. I am only in the play/testing phase of this beast. However it is streaming music perfectly. I do not see any delay or anything. Just works. |
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Rise MP6
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| Aye, I was going to suggest that bootable Kodi fork for it, the one I have on my Pi 3+
Works really well.
Try as I might I can't get on with Linux, all that sudo app mount bollox! |
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UMC U5S
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| tedster - 2021-05-16 10:58 PM
Office 2007 still works but without the online help.
Yeah, Office 2007 working as it should, without any stupid activation.
But recently i prefer LibreOffice. |
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TM Crusoe
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| tedster - 2021-05-18 2:20 PM
Aye, I was going to suggest that bootable Kodi fork for it, the one I have on my Pi 3+
Works really well.
Try as I might I can't get on with Linux, all that sudo app mount bollox!
Just "sudo passwd root" and give it a password, then you can log in as root.
Using SUDO took a bit of adjusting for me as well, however I need to be root in order to be able to access Amiga FFS formatted harddrives when having them hooked up on a USB-PATA adaptor. You know, when mounting the drive in read/write mode. Then I can transfer files directly, using MC.
I am not the biggest fan of a seperate media center. Nor do I need one, as my tv have video/music/picture app's installed. So I have it set up as a NAS and DLNA server as of now. But yeah. I simply love Linux, and have been using it on and off between 1995 and 2016. Then I switched permanently to Linux, and have been using it daily since then. After all these years of testing and practice, then I had no issue finding the right distribution and I had no issue just installing and using it as if I never used anything else.
Other people will have issues getting started with Linux, and it is a different system than something like Windows.
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TM Crusoe
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| spacedrone808 - 2021-05-18 3:49 PM
But recently i prefer LibreOffice.
I was kind of getting used to Office 2010. Switching to Libre Office in 2016 gave me no issues. It is like Office 2000, just a bit easier to use. I always install Abiword as well. It is more lightweight. |
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| Brostenen - 2021-05-18 8:07 PM
spacedrone808 - 2021-05-18 3:49 PM
But recently i prefer LibreOffice.
I was kind of getting used to Office 2010. Switching to Libre Office in 2016 gave me no issues. It is like Office 2000, just a bit easier to use. I always install Abiword as well. It is more lightweight.
Thanks, it was interesting to hear about Abiword. |
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Rise MP6
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| I'm still using Office 97 on my older machines, 2007 on my less older ones! 
I do have a 2003 disk somewhere, which I think was the last one without the ribbon thing. May try and dig it out. |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | Who said Linux?
Fuck Linux. It had every chance to become competitive and they pissed it away, time and time again. It's great if you want to feel like some outcast who can't leave the 1970s, it even makes your PC perform like it's from the 70s, but isn't suitable as a general purpose operating system. You can blame them for the decline in quality with Windows too, because with no competition, Microshaft have no incentive to ever improve.
Office XP was the last somewhat usable version, everything after that is a mess.
Haven't messed with any hardware since the CGA/EGA thing, want a few days off of it because stupid stuff. I did buy a replacement GTX 460 for the Presler, but I can't quite tell if it's just as broken as the one it's suppose to replace, so I'm hesitant to actually commit to installing it. Swapping the water block over is a tedious job. |
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| I would say that Office 2003 is the last sane version.
But i'm using 2007 version it opens nearly every modern docx without issues.
2010 version presented software activation process. |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | There's a patch for Office XP that can open whatever the hell DOCX is supposed to be, but I don't remember its file name and don't doubt Microsoft have stopped hosting it by now.
The problem with later office versions is that they hide away or omit advanced features. The open source ones also often exhibit problems with such features, such as having no concept of different page numbering for section breaks, if they understand section breaks at all, or else they do see the section breaks to some extent and even reset the numbering, but won't change the style for that numbering. Most all office suites now have issues interpreting style and formatting data per paragraph too - I'm genuinely appalled at how so many of them fail to interpret differing indentations properly, or at all, as this is actually quite important, as well as breaking margins in existing documents. |
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| DXZeff - 2021-05-19 9:00 AM
There's a patch for Office XP that can open whatever the hell DOCX is supposed to be
Wohaa! That's cool. I thought that first version to support was 2003.
And yeah, they already deleting important updates for Windows 7. Don't think that they keep patch you've mentioned. |
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TM Crusoe
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| DXZeff - 2021-05-19 6:55 AM
Who said Linux?
Fuck Linux. It had every chance to become competitive and they pissed it away, time and time again. It's great if you want to feel like some outcast who can't leave the 1970s, it even makes your PC perform like it's from the 70s, but isn't suitable as a general purpose operating system. You can blame them for the decline in quality with Windows too, because with no competition, Microshaft have no incentive to ever improve.
Office XP was the last somewhat usable version, everything after that is a mess.
Haven't messed with any hardware since the CGA/EGA thing, want a few days off of it because stupid stuff. I did buy a replacement GTX 460 for the Presler, but I can't quite tell if it's just as broken as the one it's suppose to replace, so I'm hesitant to actually commit to installing it. Swapping the water block over is a tedious job.
Huh? Yes it might not be for everyone, however I have no problem, using it as my daily driver. For my needs, it has everything I need for home banking, getting online to communicate with whatever that is related to apply for stuff from the gouverment, reading all my medical stuff, recieving mails from the public system og the gouverment, editing photos, writing stuff, uploading to youtube and more. The biggest reason as to why I do not have to deal with Win10 is that I do not game modern games at all.
But everyone have different needs. And some people use computers for things, that they can only use Win10. But saying that it can not be used for anything, is kind of an overstatement I think. Some can use it, and some can not. I could go back to Win7, however that is too unsecure, whenever I wish to do something personal. I dont know about other countries and what level of digitisation there is. However here in Denmark, then nearly everything can be done online. I am talking about all the things that you traditionally walk to city hall and fill out paperwork for. The only thing that you can not do yet, is to renew or apply for a passport. 99 percent of everything else, can be done online. And I will not do this on an insecure system like WinXP or Win7. As I wrote, then I can even go online and read my entire medical journal. And if someone get a hold of my social security number, then they have access to my entire personal history. They can actually take over my entire person. Now, you need to have the code card with one-time-use codes (a bit like enigma codes) and the password also. That is you type in the social security number, your password and you get a code that you find on a keycard that is physical. Then you find that 4 digit code and right next to it, there is another 6 digit code that you type in. Plus when I buy for more than 200 kroners, then I will need to type in a code like that as an extra failsafe, just transmitted through the cell phone. So things are pretty safe, yet I will not compromise by using WinXP/7 for these things.
I can not use Win10, I do not game modern stuff and I really do not like modern MacOS. So I had to switch to Linux.
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| As die-hard Windows 7 user i can't confirm that OS is "insecure". I even doing banking stuff on it. No problems so far.
If you know how computer is working and how to turn off dangerous stuff and you are not forgetting to turn on firewall (even internal is enough) and updated to date nothing bad won't happen.
Just check ms security bulletin and see how many holes fixed for Win7 and Win10 every patch day and do the simple math.
As for Linux, to secure the future computer works (when Win 7 can't handle modern web anymore) i'm taking a deep stare at Manjaro distribution.
As for performance, Win 10 demonstrate atrocious speed on any h/w. Blender is ~ 25% faster on Linux than on Windows 10. Windows 7 is ~15% faster than Win 10.
Hi-core count AMD's are faster on Win 7 despite Win 10 is "more modern" stuff. High end nvme's are faster on Win 7 also. So Win 10 is a garbage.
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Rise MP6
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| My Thinkpad T430 runs Win10 Pro. It updated to the 21H1 "feature" release last night, took all of two minutes. I've had bigger virus definition updates!
I can't see any differences, I think it only updated shit I'd already turned off anyway. |
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| My last Win 10 try lasted half of this year.
During probation period "updates" broke:
- hp printing machine (most popular printer in the world)
- asio asus stx II audio driver (card became single tasked)
- defender sh#t created thousands of undeletable files.
Nah thanks, i don't want to be permanent beta-tester, they don't pay me for that.
And on the top of the icing is telemetry and data-mining. It is crystal clear that they are trying to get from user the maximum, no matter the cost.
And they don't care about quality of product anymore. Machine learning testing my ass.
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| Happy to see that I am not the only one with the same opinion about Win10.... The strang thing is, that there are people out there, who complain to extreme length's about Windows, and still they continue to use Windows10. Some time ago, I made this meme, that perfectly illustrate how excessive their complain's are.
I know it might be over the top, but you guys know who these people are.
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| Messing with an Abit KX7-333R today, using an XP2500+ Barton. Dunno if I can be arsed with it really.
Another one to mess with is a Foxcon AM2 SLi board with an N-force chipset. I've got the "Snappy drivers" set (23GB) so that saves a boat load of tedious driver searches. Thinking of a Vista 64 install, I've a couple of DX10 video cards I could use.
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| I tried Linux Mint for a time, it claims to be "windows like" and the ideal vehicle to transfer a novice over into the wonderful world of Linux.
I wanted to add my HP scanner.... hmm, after several hours trawling forums for help, forums completely toxic to "newbies". It seemed to require several pages of dubious command line inputs and then no way to even scan from within the GUI.
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| So, in the interest of fairness.
I plugged the same scanner into a USB port on my thinkpad T430 running W10 Pro x64.
This scanner is at least 12 years old, it works on everything windows from 98 onwards. Linux missed their chance and left windows with no competition.
No competition, because fuck Apple too!
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