Computer Upgrades, Issues and Conventions
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Woah Sunskriti!! I never thought people would do that!
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Scrolled too fast and read spam as having 'er' in the middle instead of 'a'Julie2owlsdene wrote:I don't even speak to spam callers!
I can usually identify SPAM callers purely on the fact that they take more than five seconds to speak once I pick up. If they haven't said anything in that time I hang up.
We fairly regularly get calls asking for various people we've never met and I believe the calls (some of them at least) originate from Virgin Mobile. Our landline is with Virgin so why they think it belongs to four or five other people is a mystery.
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Well thank goodness for that, Julie!Fiona1986 wrote:Scrolled too fast and read spam as having 'er' in the middle instead of 'a'Julie2owlsdene wrote:I don't even speak to spam callers!
We only speak to them if it's clearly someone who thinks we're still in US and it promises to be fun to play along for us!
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I haven't worn a mac since being at school. A shame that they have rather gone out of fashion.I've not upgraded my Mac recently
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The only Mac I've ever had is a Big Mac -- but not for years!
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Well, mine (the computer, that is) is working very well with the new system, probably even better than before, so I'm happy. And especially relieved that Mac OS 10 doesn't seem to be any relation to Windows 10.
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Apple products have their own downsides. I bought my iphone 4s in 2011. The latest update that iphone 4s could support was iOS 9 introduced in early 2015, if I am not mistaken. After that, my iphone could no longer be updated. If I were to update my iphone 4s to iOS 9.1, it could have made my iphone to stop functioning properly.
Because of this inability to update, I could still use the basic functions like call, message and some of the downloaded games but most of the downloaded items have become obsolete because they could no longer be updated. This is the subtle way "told" by Apple that I need to get the new and latest iphone in the market in order to get the new updates!
Apple is one brand that keep introducing new update every so often! Unlike phones with Android.
Because of this inability to update, I could still use the basic functions like call, message and some of the downloaded games but most of the downloaded items have become obsolete because they could no longer be updated. This is the subtle way "told" by Apple that I need to get the new and latest iphone in the market in order to get the new updates!
Apple is one brand that keep introducing new update every so often! Unlike phones with Android.
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As much as I recommend progress, I also wish that sustainability of ressources and investments of customers would be satisfied as well. The introduction of new standards and the vulnerabilty of those to abuse by malevolent members of the human society that makes well-running machines of a previous generation obsolete because they're no longer supported is most annoying.
Many people know that javascript is an open door for malware, but most sites state that without javascript their site doesn't function. I know their reason behind it, they want to collect data, and they don't care much about the security of their customers as long as they get what they want.
If your system is already endangered just by browsing a web page without actually clicking anything, I can't help getting the feeling that something turned terribly wrong. Why isn't it impossible to introduce standards that allows you to browse the web without the permanent danger of getting your system hijacked? It's absolutely absurd if the ministry for security offers a "secure" browser which has to run in a virtual machine run by Virtual box (software to create virtual machines), Virtual box has to be a defined version so you can't use newer versions for other purposes, and you can't run different versions of Virtual Box on your system.
Many people know that javascript is an open door for malware, but most sites state that without javascript their site doesn't function. I know their reason behind it, they want to collect data, and they don't care much about the security of their customers as long as they get what they want.
If your system is already endangered just by browsing a web page without actually clicking anything, I can't help getting the feeling that something turned terribly wrong. Why isn't it impossible to introduce standards that allows you to browse the web without the permanent danger of getting your system hijacked? It's absolutely absurd if the ministry for security offers a "secure" browser which has to run in a virtual machine run by Virtual box (software to create virtual machines), Virtual box has to be a defined version so you can't use newer versions for other purposes, and you can't run different versions of Virtual Box on your system.
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The key is thay they do not want their old products to sustain the period much longer than needed. Their R&D will continually create new products. In order to have potential buyers, their old products should become obsolete so that the buyers will replace the obsolete products with the new ones. This hidden marketing strategy is to ensure that their new products are popular and guarantee to have great sales. At the end of the day, they will do anything to boost the sales of new products that will lead to profit enhancement.
The targetted buyers:
1) People who love gadgets who will buy new product just for the fun of it and to satisfy their curiosity of what is the advanced new technology that new product can offer.
2) People who old product has become obsolete(software etc) so that they will seek for the new products with the latest software/technology.
The targetted buyers:
1) People who love gadgets who will buy new product just for the fun of it and to satisfy their curiosity of what is the advanced new technology that new product can offer.
2) People who old product has become obsolete(software etc) so that they will seek for the new products with the latest software/technology.
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We have one of the rare old black macs, but after many years it's system sort of just stopped working well. It may well become a collectors item one day, black macs were only manufactured for a short period of time.
We now have two Airs, and one is a few years old but has been working very well so far, even after upgrades. I have El Capitan, and don't wanna upgrade it to Sierra, like ever, cause, well, I love this one!
We now have two Airs, and one is a few years old but has been working very well so far, even after upgrades. I have El Capitan, and don't wanna upgrade it to Sierra, like ever, cause, well, I love this one!
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My Air is almost 4 years old (it was a year old when I bought it) and it's still working as well as the day I got it, especially with the new upgrade. I skipped El Capitan, though, so I can't compare it with Sierra! I was happy with the previous system I had (Mountain Lion), but this has some new features and otherwise works just as well.
I would be a lot more annoyed if I had to replace the entire computer every few years instead of it being upgradable (especially considering how much it cost, even second hand). As Wolfgang says, technology companies are brilliant at making their products become obsolete very quickly so that people will have to buy the new ones. It's not good for the environment, with all the electronic waste, and not good for customers' bank balances either (only for the companies').
I would be a lot more annoyed if I had to replace the entire computer every few years instead of it being upgradable (especially considering how much it cost, even second hand). As Wolfgang says, technology companies are brilliant at making their products become obsolete very quickly so that people will have to buy the new ones. It's not good for the environment, with all the electronic waste, and not good for customers' bank balances either (only for the companies').
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Since I installed Windows 10 and wanted to use Office XP Microsoft always notified me that it wasn't able to install SP3 but will try again. And it tried and tried and tried... and failed. Trying to download the SP3 manually and installing it aslo failed - for whatever reasons. I assumed for some time that it was due to the 64bit-version of Windows I was using.
Some time later I realised, on my Laptop things run just fine, and I had saved the SP3-update file there as well. So I copied it on my PC, and the installation ran without a problem.
The same happens with some more updates after installing SP3 - MS notifies me that they're available, but doesn't want to give them to me
Some time later I realised, on my Laptop things run just fine, and I had saved the SP3-update file there as well. So I copied it on my PC, and the installation ran without a problem.
The same happens with some more updates after installing SP3 - MS notifies me that they're available, but doesn't want to give them to me
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I just spent the last three hours to create a video-DVD-menu of some video-files I had subtitled. I had tried the files before I doctored them, and that worked well. After doing all the subtitles the software said that the process was fine although it wasn't - it didn't write any data. I made an update of the software, and now it complained that there wasn't enough space available, although the drive it should have written the files had more than 100GB free. I started to suspect that it was the drive on which XP was installed, although it still had 5 GB free.
So I installed the software on a Windows 7 system of a virtual machine, and now it produced the necessary files, but the aspect ratio didn't work. I suppose I have to try tomorrow again...
So I installed the software on a Windows 7 system of a virtual machine, and now it produced the necessary files, but the aspect ratio didn't work. I suppose I have to try tomorrow again...
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It could be interesting to monitor our blood-pressure while we tackle computer problems....
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No need. We know it'll go through the roof!
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