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....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. |
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On 1/4/2016 5:13 PM, 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. Might not install over anything less than windows 7. Let us know how you make out. |
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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 |
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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. |
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On 1/5/16 12:24 AM, Califbill wrote:
wrote: 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. |
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On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:11:22 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:
my buddy sez...it's the full deal, for "home" use. Sounds good enough. === Wow, you must have more buddies than Ted Cruz. |
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On 1/5/16 10:11 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 1/5/16 12:24 AM, Califbill wrote: wrote: 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... |
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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: wrote: 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... You should wait for Don to return for the minute-by-minute continuation of this story. He would give a ****. -- Ban idiots, not guns! |
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On 1/5/16 11:48 AM, John H. wrote:
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: wrote: 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... You should wait for Don to return for the minute-by-minute continuation of this story. He would give a ****. -- Ban idiots, not guns! Go ahead, Johnny...be your usual asshole self. I don't mind. P.S. "10" installed and is now downloading updates. |
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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: wrote: 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. |
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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: wrote: 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. -- Sent from my iPhone 6+ |
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On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 14:53:51 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:
wrote: 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: wrote: 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. |
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On 1/5/2016 4:44 PM, wrote:
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: wrote: 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: wrote: 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. Probably you can have them log on as guest and restrict their privileges. I was prepping an old laptop this afternoon for a house guest arriving tomorrow. Low and behold there was a windows icon in the task tray. I clicked on it and was presented with an offer for Win 10. I said sure and hours later it's still whirring away loading. |
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On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:47:34 -0500, John H.
wrote: I needed no new drivers for the Win7 upgrade I think 7 is really just XP with added LAN security and a new skin. I do see a lot of the drivers are the same. Like Harry says, the install will go get drivers for anything MS knows about silently. It is an option on XP but the default is go look. |
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On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 18:29:25 -0500, Justan Olphart
wrote: Probably you can have them log on as guest and restrict their privileges. I was prepping an old laptop this afternoon for a house guest arriving tomorrow. Low and behold there was a windows icon in the task tray. I clicked on it and was presented with an offer for Win 10. I said sure and hours later it's still whirring away loading. None of my machines "log on". I disabled that. I can force a log in to administrator but the user log in is automatic straight to the desktop. |
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On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 5:13:37 PM UTC-5, 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. There's NO ONE that gives a ****...**** OFF ****. |
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