On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 9:06 AM AlyssonR <alyssonrowan@...> wrote:
They are pushing for storage In The Cloud? - no matter that research departments *cough* NASA *cough*
have terabytes of strteamed data on magtape, and that M$ have essentially told the world that those tapes?
are no longer permitted.
All of the research telemetry from naval vessels, military aircraft and weapons tests are on tape - and there is?
no way on God's Green Earth? that any government is going to put classified data into the cloud - let alone
restricted and secret data. Just as well that there is the *nix option (that's what most of the later systems use,
before that, it would have been a mixture of proprietary OSs.)
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 12:35, John Povenmire via <not.my_email=[email protected]> wrote:
Every time I think I've found the level of stupid, there's a
sharp drop.
On 4/25/22 06:16, AlyssonR wrote:
Still on
Windows 7.
I even
installed XP on a machine because M$ decided that no one was
to use a tape drive any more
from Win 7
and upward. They actually installed tape blocking rather than
just removing the support modules.
Ba$tard$.
Cheers,
Alysson
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2022 at 12:07,
John Povenmire via <not.my_email=[email protected]>
wrote:
The
original reason I started using Linux was a computer that got
it's
OS borked and I didn't have the money to replace it. Win 11 is
a good
example, purposely locking out old hardware unnecessarily,
because their
main customer is the computer manufacturers not the users.
On 4/25/22 03:40, SlickRCBD wrote:
> The normal response to saying you have an older edition
of Windows is
> "That's not safe! You should stop using that old thing
and upgrade to
> the latest version that gets security patches. If you
can't upgrade
> Windows, it's time to get a new computer."
> That always irritates me, but it's the stock response.
Computers are
> one of the few durable goods where you can't just keep
using the thing
> for years but are forced to continue to buy new models
for dubious
> reasons, mostly to line the pockets of Microsoft and the
computer
> manufacturers.
>
> I say this because Linux users can get far more use out
of the same
> hardware.
> On 4/24/2022 7:45 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> the more those behind
tamper with what they consider
>> safe, the more difficult it can be to reach content.?
Especially if
>> you are atypical, in say command line Linux, using
older editions of
>> windows, are from? a different part of the world, in
a mobile
>> platform that is neither apple or android etc.
>> ??sometimes I? can edit a
link to and
>> reach the content.? sometimes even google searches
done in basic html
>> will provide
links that work when
links
>> fail.
>> Same can be said for .
>> Which for me got broken again recently.
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