OS WARS MEGA THREAD (Now debating proprietary vs. open-source!)

[Urwumpe]

I assume your HDD is not 100% used, neither might be your System/SSD nor the Recovery "Partition".
After all the "Size of the backup" might also just be the "zipped" size.
Your simple sum-up is the problem, not the OS

I think I have the answer: When I redirected a windows directory by softlink on the HDD so that the SSD is not clogged with windows update residuals, the HDD also became a system partition and was included into the backup as system image.


So, its either: Windows not working because system partition is full. Or Windows backup not working because backup image exceeds size of external HDD.

I think I need a better solution there than the BOFH approach.

 

[Notebook]

Well, more than 13 hours after I told it to go back to W8.1, its finished re-installing 10 again! Maybe the missing start menu is part of the re-install? Marvellous.
My little HP mini still has no audio device, but that's not a big problem.

Can't wait till I switch the PC box on in the study...

 

[dseagrav]

I think I need a better solution there than the BOFH approach.

There's never a better solution than the BOFH approach.

 

[kamaz]

(Note the one at the bottom regarding the Bitlocker password being stored in your Microsoft OneDrive account)

 

[SolarLiner]

This is getting borderline conspirationist there ... (although I do concede that looking into private files and sending keystrokes is a bit too much)

 

[Face]

This is getting borderline conspirationist there ... (although I do concede that looking into private files and sending keystrokes is a bit too much)

Ever since Edward Snowden, conspiracy theories regarding "how THEY are spying on you" are not theories anymore. It is reality. The only question is: does it even matter today? People are sharing what they have voluntarily via social networks and the like, and don't think twice, anyway.

Of course, the real impact on everybody's real life will only be seen after it is much too late to pull it back. Until then, though....

Party on!

 

[jangofett287]

I saw an article about how some of these 'features' don't actually stop sending data when you turn them 'off', but I can't remember where it was now.

 

[Urwumpe]

Ever since Edward Snowden, conspiracy theories regarding "how THEY are spying on you" are not theories anymore. It is reality. The only question is: does it even matter today? People are sharing what they have voluntarily via social networks and the like, and don't think twice, anyway.

It is a difference between voluntarily sharing data on a per-case decision, and secretly and uncontrollable collecting such data for you without giving the person in question a chance to decide about it, except not using your product. And since Windows 10 is not telling you "Hey, I am for free, but I want to know spy on everything you do with me", you can sure say that Microsoft is cheating its customers, just like its illegal to demand money for services, after saying first in big large letters its for free and hiding the real price in fine print, in light gray letters on white background.

 

[Face]

It is a difference between voluntarily sharing data on a per-case decision, and secretly and uncontrollable collecting such data for you without giving the person in question a chance to decide about it, except not using your product. And since Windows 10 is not telling you "Hey, I am for free, but I want to know spy on everything you do with me", you can sure say that Microsoft is cheating its customers, just like its illegal to demand money for services, after saying first in big large letters its for free and hiding the real price in fine print, in light gray letters on white background.

Absolutely. However, governments and corporations seem to not give a dime about if it is illegal or not anymore. Orwell and Huxley were optimists IMHO.

 

[Urwumpe]

Absolutely. However, governments and corporations seem to not give a dime about if it is illegal or not anymore. Orwell and Huxley were optimists IMHO.

You are right there. The rule of the law is over and you have to be stupid if you obey it. That's what our elites show us as role model and that is what we should all do.

And policemen are just clowns in uniform, without law giving them power.

(Sorry. The recent example about the lack of any business manners of my new car insurance tries to ruin my holidays and what ruins my holidays makes me a tiny bit angry)

 

[meson800]

(Note the one at the bottom regarding the Bitlocker password being stored in your Microsoft OneDrive account)

To be fair, that's been a known issue long before Windows 10. That's why I'm not using bitlocker.

Too bad TrueCrypt imploded....

Right now I have Windows 7 on my desktop, with full disk encryption through Truecrypt.

Unfortuantly, my laptop is UEFI, and Truecrypt doesn't work with UEFI and isn't getting updated ever again.

So there I just updated to Windows 10, and have a Linux Mint installation which is fully encrypted.

 

[Fabri91]

(Note the one at the bottom regarding the Bitlocker password being stored in your Microsoft OneDrive account)

When encrypting a volume you get the choice of storing the key in a local file to print-out/delete or into the MS account for retrieval.

At least it works this way for non-OS drives. For that one, I haven't tried.

 

[kamaz]

Too bad TrueCrypt imploded....

https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows 95 going on sale. Nothing much has changed since then I suppose?

 

[jedidia]

I had to dig out a system log for the first time because my program that is currently undergoing long-term stability testing wasn't running anymore in the morning, with no log messages on its own.

Good god, Windows seems to have some errors going on all the time. I'm a bit shellshocked. I feel like the computer might blow up in my face any time... :shifty:

 

[dseagrav]

Microsoft is cheating its customers

You seem to be under the incorrect impression that the average Windows user is Microsoft's customer.

The average Windows user is a PRODUCT being sold to Microsoft's true customers, and Microsoft is very much working in their customers' interests.

 

[Hielor]

Good god, Windows seems to have some errors going on all the time. I'm a bit shellshocked. I feel like the computer might blow up in my face any time... :shifty:

It's always been that way, it's just that the reporting for them is better now.

Plus, consider the fact that all those errors are happening yet the system still runs smoothly to be a good sign!

 

[jedidia]

Plus, consider the fact that all those errors are happening yet the system still runs smoothly to be a good sign!

Oh sure, it was just a bit of a shock... I was never aware that the system was catching errors from services, drivers and whatnot all the time.
Plus, it helped me to find the bug in my app pretty quickly (was catching the wrong exception, so the thing crashed when it tried to send an email when there was no network connection), so overall a nice learning expierience.

 

[Enjo]

You seem to be under the incorrect impression that the average Windows user is Microsoft's customer.

The average Windows user is a PRODUCT being sold to Microsoft's true customers, and Microsoft is very much working in their customers' interests.

Made my day

 

[Linguofreak]

Today is the 20th anniversary of Windows 95 going on sale. Nothing much has changed since then I suppose?

On that note, one thing I would really like to see, though I'm not holding my breath, would be for Microsoft to crowdfund a source release of their 16-bit era code. With Win64 now being in common use, it's becoming a lot harder to find options for running old games. FreeDOS and Dosbox provide a fairly good implementation of DOS itself, but have a few rough edges, and Wine will handle a fair bit of Win16 code, but its developers also have to focus on keeping newer windows applications running. It would be really nice for the retrogaming community to A) be able to acquire copies of Win 3.x (or even 9x) legally, and B) be able to modify it to run smoothly on DOSBox and FreeDOS.