Mint, Ubuntu or whatever....They are all cool in their own right and nowadays you don't have to be a geek to run them. Main thing is that if millions did this there would be far less waste going in our landfills at least...
In reply to: Re: Windows XP holdouts
And Adobe Acrobat Reader....replace it perhaps with one of the more secure ones...I'm just going to image my hard drive...then if it starts acting flaky just wipe it and reload...shouldn't be too hard. If all else fails...
In reply to: Re: Partially mitigating XP security risks
my best friend's sister makes <$67> every hour on the internet . She has been fired from work for seven months but last month her payment was< $18211> just working on the internet for a few hours. try this site...
In reply to: education
I remember setting up modem pools with a Shiva LANRover on a NetWare 3.11 network back in the day. People used to fight over who had been connected too long! Ah, the memories!
In reply to: Re: The 13%
A great tool for managing approval workflows for multiple types of documents can be found at http://www.convergepoint.com/ We have great document creation and management sites with user-friendly interfaces. We...
In reply to: Custom Approval Workflows
I have friends calling me all the time (seniors) asking if they should upgrade their computers becasue MS is threatening to cut off support for XP. I tell them if it isn't broke don't fix it. I know of companies...
In reply to: What a bunch of BS
Ah yes, the new capabilities in Windows 7/8... The little box you can scroll for commmand and the popup boxes you can't navigate in reverse are really cool! The thing they call a search box in the upper right corner...
In reply to: All The Super New Features!
I have an old Windows XP computer, Pentium 4. Compared with my Windows7 box XP is slow to boot and to surf. Scrolling on web pages or Word is slow. The big problem will come when web pages no longer work with IE 8, as this...
In reply to: Upgrade from Windows XP
God Cuthbert, why is there always someone like you spouting about mint? Nautious.
In reply to: Re: Windows XP holdouts
Everyone needs to stop whining around like fat old ladies. Like MS patches are so great..... Just image your hard drive and stfu already.
In reply to: Fat old ladies
Startup time as a reason to migrate to a new system is 100% pure, unadulturated B.S. I have a Windows 7 laptop at home, not even close to 50% filled and it takes as long as my Windows XP laptop at work, which is 95% filled....
In reply to: Regarding Item #3
The obvious (and free) solution to most of these excuses is not even mentioned in the article. Any system which can run Windows XP can almost certainly run a modern Linux system (such as Linux Mint 16). Installing...
In reply to: Windows XP holdouts
Clearly, getting new computers with a modern OS is the safest bet, but for those who hold on to XP for any reason, at least get rid of Java and Flash, which are two major attack vectors; and make sure to have a good security...
In reply to: Partially mitigating XP security risks
I have a PATA cd-rom with no SATA capability and my bios won't allow usb installs. XP can fit on a CD, but not Windows 7. I ended up using that pc as a linux console for use as a Minecraft server. I would...
In reply to: My only reason for having to use XP
My family recently had an experience that was the opposite of what many healthcare providers are now focusing on. Having heard our daughter might need a minimal procedure we were anxious to schedule it, yet the person responsible...
In reply to: The Opposite of Engagement
Is the front end where the next battleground is going to be? Integration will always be a salad, and the insights themselves are the value add. So far it's hard to differentiate between pie charts and bar graphs, although...
In reply to: That's the back end
Why do we need a special processor to run both? I thought windows 8 rt and android could run on processors like snapdragon? I think the public should demand this kind of product. Consumers are the ones who are spending the...
In reply to: good idea, but whats with special intel processors?
"Intel is the biggest loser here. It engineered processors that are capable of running two operating systems, and these chips were to play a crucial role in the dual-boot machines in question" This is the first...
In reply to: A big step by Intel
Its a very well written article so far i have ever reaad but it really does not matter that what came first, What matter is what people are prefering now a days in this such modren working environment where data security...
In reply to: www.dataprotecto.com/secure-online-cloud-storage-file-sharing/
Can you expand on this? I've never heard of this "feature" in Windows. When was this? Which version of Windows? Which version of Linux. When you say you put it in it's own disk space in the...
In reply to: Re: Windows used to 'fix' Linux
Dual-boot tablets have zero appeal. If anything, I want to run Android and Windows apps side by side with full integration. There is point in having to swap out the entire OS and wait for it to boot just so that I can start...
In reply to: Re: Dual-boot tablet appeal?
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