On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 15:50:03 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 1/5/16 3:40 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 14:53:51 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

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On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:42:28 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 1/5/16 10:11 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 1/5/16 12:24 AM, Califbill wrote:
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 17:13:35 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

...a legit copy of Microsoft Windoze 10 and I suppose I'll try to
install it on an older Dell machine I have sitting around doing
nothing.
Should arrive this week.


. AKA self injecting ebola


Got a new Motorguide xi5 trolling motor with GPS for Christmas.
Opened up
the control fob to check batteries and dang if there is not a Linux
processor inside. Kool. Probably will not see any virus on it.


I installed a LINUX distro on the older Dell some time ago, and then I
lost interest in LINUX. So, clearing off the HD and starting anew with
Windoze 10 should be easy enough. It's not an upgrade Windoze, my buddy
sez...it's the full deal, for "home" use. Sounds good enough.

Win 10 arrived, software in the form of a USB thumb drive...machine
"accepted" it, and we'll see what happens. So far, nothing strange
happening as far as I can tell...

Will probably have to hunt for some Dell proprietary drivers...

Just put your service tag number into the Dell web site and they will
pop, no hunting necessary.


Found them all by itself. Even the oddball Dell video driver and my $10 USB
WIFI dongle.

Actually I don't remember struggling with XP drivers that much and I
have scratch loaded several machines fairly recently.
W/98 was the one where you were beating the bushes looking for drivers
but I was also using field assembled machines in those days with
random cards and system boards I bought on the internet or pulled from
other machines.
A lot of times I was reading chip numbers and trying to match it up
with another card that used that chip set when it was a "no name"
card. That was really my "hobby" days ;-)

The old socket 7 boards were still the most reliable PC platform I
ever used. It was still plenty for an MP3 player. You could fire one
of them up in a 130 degree car and they still ran just fine.
Unfortunately the capacitors on those old boards finally just go too
old and I was not interested in replacing them.
I have still never found an off the shelf player with a numeric key
pad capability.


Hmm. I have no real use for this rejuvenated Dell, so I suppose I will
stuff it back into the storage room and keep it around for the
occasional overnight guest/relative who needs access to a computer and
who I will not let near my wife's or my computers. I wonder if there is
a way to keep the machine from downloading any of the obnoxious software
these visitors tend to like...the games, the scripts, the whatevers.

Dunno about 10 but you can restrict users on XP.
These days everyone who comes here brings their own machine including
the kids.
The only reason I have the PC back in the kids room is to drive the
big screen TV. My oldest was using the PC for something else tho.
It may have just been the novelty of looking at you tube on a 60" TV.
There is one on the desk back there but I am not sure anyone uses it.