Posted on 08/15/2016 5:46:00 PM PDT by Fai Mao
I’ve installed/upgraded 10 machines now. You can skip the MS account...bottom left of screen...
Linux Redhat. Never look back. Comes with a C compiler. All you need.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
> Not sure if you were using Windows 10 but they require a “Microsoft live account”
They want you to think you do, but you can skip the MS account and use whatever you used before. It should be under user accounts at the control pannel level.
I have an ASUS external USB Blu-Ray recorder I didn’t think would work with Linux. Brasero and K3b failed me. After a brief search I found xfburn. Works great and it was in the software manager. You wouldn’t know it could do that from the summary.
I burn my movies as “data” in the mp4 format to use in my Sony Blu-Ray player for my television, so I can’t tell you if it does the conversion to DVD MP2 format.
Thanks!
I miss that show.
No, you could set yourself up as a local user - I've never had a Hotmail / Outlook account, so I couldn't have played their game even if I had wanted to (which I didn't). Of course, you have to look for third party software since they won't let you download what they now call 'apps' without an account.
Still quite happy that I never let the Windows 10 virus infect this computer. I do play with it some on an old laptop.
Windows 10 ate my email accounts and won’t allow me to
re connect with them.
I clicked on do not update and zap it was changed.
I can’t say I’m happy.
I play Civilization 3. I find there is too much animation for Civ 4 and 5 and 6 for me to enjoy.
Uh, your link is 7 years old ...
Darn it I never knew that, all this time I have been using my hotmail account..will skip the next time
And my Mercedes is still running!
I don't know what you've been doing to your Mac's hard drives but I've been managing Mac networks with upwards of 20 and 30 Macs for a couple of decades. During that time I have seen one (1) hard drive failure on a Mac. I simply do not believe your claim. Apple Macs have to be beaten to death with a Mack truck. The drives Apple uses are selected from the 95% percentile quality of the manufacturers' output. . . only those are selected by the manufacturers; to get an Apple logo and be sold to Apple.
We just retired a bunch of iMacs purchased in 2008 due to upgrades. One of those was the one that had the hard drive fail abut five years in service. Except for one, the rest are still working fine and they are being sold for $400 each at eight years old. The exception has a dim back light and we are selling it for parts for $150, even though it still works as a computer.
Check out the Apple refurb store on Apple.com. You'll find it on the bottom of the page on the second column. You'll save money and still get the factory new warranty. Many of those are actually brand new but returned to stock from cancelled orders from set asides for large companies who order excess but don't need as many as they initially indicated their requirements were. All you miss out on is the retail Apple un-boxing experience.
If you watch the drive activity light on a Windows PC, it flashes all the time. Install Wireshark to see the network activity and you’ll see how “chatty” Windows can be. I have no idea what those servers are that it talks to constantly.
I put wireshark on Linux Mint and I don’t see all that.
Anyhow, this constant activity probably means constant wear on the hard drive of a Windows PC, especially if indexing is enabled.
“Dumb question - why would you look for an account you didn’t know you had - or even remember you signed up for?”
Because as of this morning I to log into that account before I could access the computer. It required me to log in before accessing anything
Thanks!!!!!
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