Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 5:17:51 AM

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lucius septimius 10/6/2021 5:23:28 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 1:

Excellent use of dramatic tension in a photograph.

vxbush 10/6/2021 6:07:49 AM

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Kosh: 

I probably can simplify it but
find . -iname 'file*name*with*wildcards' -exec grep -H stringImLookingFor '{}' \;

Aw, yet again the terminal comes up with a win! And I discovered today that the Windows 11 software is available as a Windows *feature update* through MECM, despite being a supposed overhaul of the UI and who knows what kind of hardware compatibility issues. Winning!

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 6:16:14 AM

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In #3 vxbush said: Windows 11 software is available as a Windows *feature update*

It's not a bug, it's a feature/

I'm not sure I want to try it yet, but maybe, since I had to order a replacement system for one Dell can't figure out how long it will take to get the parts for. That one comes today (a 45% off deal), so I could try Win 11 on it without losing much. But I am not so sure that it will give me much, although an update right away is less painful. I also read that Firefox figured out the way to set all the browser defaults, so that eliminates one pain.

vxbush 10/6/2021 6:24:06 AM

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In #4 Kosh's Shadow said: I'm not sure I want to try it yet, but maybe, since I had to order a replacement system for one Dell can't figure out how long it will take to get the parts for. That one comes today (a 45% off deal), so I could try Win 11 on it without losing much. But I am not so sure that it will give me much, although an update right away is less painful. I also read that Firefox figured out the way to set all the browser defaults, so that eliminates one pain.

We have to set up a test machine to evaluate software running under Win11, and it's going to be a question how many Windows 10 drivers will still work under Windows 11. In the past, it was a given that most of them would work, but given all the trumpeting of security and new features, I have to wonder which ones are going to fail. 

Joy. One more reason to be overworked this fall. 

Occasional Reader 10/6/2021 8:22:04 AM

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Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 8:22:35 AM

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Took the dogs out and FedEx showed up. Nice solid system, but the home, end keys overlap with F11 and F12, and I prefer being able to use F2, etc. Oh, well, I'll get used to it.

Just told it to upgrade to Win 11. We'll see

Occasional Reader 10/6/2021 8:24:11 AM

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War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and racial discrimination is “anti-racism“:

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2021/10/05/madness-ucla-suspends-professor-for-refusing-to-assign-grades-based-on-skin-color-n1521910

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 8:32:52 AM

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In #7 Kosh's Shadow said: Just told it to upgrade to Win 11. We'll see

Call be a guinea pig, I guess.

vxbush 10/6/2021 8:42:51 AM

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In #8 Occasional Reader said: War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and racial discrimination is “anti-racism“:

Whatever is poured into this kids' minds is what they accept as the truth. And now that it is becoming an example of domestic terrorism to stand up to this nonsense, how many will choose to do so? 

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 8:47:33 AM

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In #9 Kosh's Shadow said: Call be a guinea pig

PIMF, call me

JCM 10/6/2021 8:58:58 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 8:

I identify as black.... give me an A!

vxbush 10/6/2021 9:02:45 AM

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In #12 JCM said: I identify as black.... give me an A!

I identify as an A student. So I should have the grade with no work. 

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 9:03:06 AM

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In #10 vxbush said: Whatever is poured into this kids' minds is what they accept as the truth. And now that it is becoming an example of domestic terrorism to stand up to this nonsense, how many will choose to do so? 

And our VP supports that lies can be "your truth".

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 9:16:00 AM

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System has blue screened 3 times - and it has not even downloaded Win 11. DOA. 

With this and the other system, I can tell Dell where to go.

Occasional Reader 10/6/2021 9:16:33 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 11:

Mmmm… guinea pig…. 

/HomerVoice

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 10:06:02 AM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 15:

Dell support thinks that it might be the Win11 upgrade, even though that never really started; it was still downloading. Although something I read says it tries to upgrade while it is running

vxbush 10/6/2021 10:46:15 AM

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In #17 Kosh's Shadow said: Dell support thinks that it might be the Win11 upgrade, even though that never really started; it was still downloading. Although something I read says it tries to upgrade while it is running

Did you check all the drivers? Make sure they are latest/greatest? Remove all the bloatware? 

buzzsawmonkey 10/6/2021 10:48:14 AM

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The Unknown Citizen

---WH Auden

(To JS/07 M 378
This Marble Monument
Is Erected by the State)

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint,
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.
Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was popular with his mates and liked a drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured,
And his Health-card shows he was once in hospital but left it cured.
Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Instalment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 11:05:58 AM

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In #18 vxbush said: Did you check all the drivers? Make sure they are latest/greatest? Remove all the bloatware? 

I had started it before all the other updates, including firmware. Those updates have been done, and the system hasn't crashed again. Will complete all the driver updates before trying again. Microsoft utility says the system is capable of running Win11

vxbush 10/6/2021 11:10:21 AM

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In #20 Kosh's Shadow said: I had started it before all the other updates, including firmware. Those updates have been done, and the system hasn't crashed again. Will complete all the driver updates before trying again. Microsoft utility says the system is capable of running Win11

Ah, but did you sacrifice a goat to the network gods? They are not appeased with lesser sacrifices. 

/

buzzsawmonkey 10/6/2021 11:35:25 AM

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NEW! Improved!

At last!  The underarm deodorant for everybody!  

Try 14th Amendment™---the new roll-on that guarantees Equal Protection!

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 11:51:26 AM

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In #21 vxbush said: Ah, but did you sacrifice a goat to the network gods? They are not appeased with lesser sacrifices.  /

Someone must have. They started fixing the one in for repair, too.

The Azal-Dell goat was sent into the wilderness of the Dark Web, carrying all my sins against Microsoft.

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 11:55:32 AM

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In #22 buzzsawmonkey said: Try 14th Amendment™---the new roll-on that guarantees Equal Protection!

But Old Spice Trade gives extra protection for blacks whose sweated a lot when they were slaves.

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 2:07:32 PM

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vxbush 10/6/2021 2:10:33 PM

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In #25 Kosh's Shadow said: Still downloading driver updates. Why is the audio driver 1.25 GB? The video driver was only about 750 MB

Probably they included all the available codecs. 

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 2:28:00 PM

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Reply to vxbush in 26:

True; there are more audio codecs than video. 

Anyway, the system has stayed up for hours now. I think it started to install some update that needed a reboot, and continued instead of rebooting, leaving the system unstable. I had something minor like that happen on a different system when the Bluetooth driver was updated - the Bluetooth mouse stopped working until after the reboot. 

Will try win11 after these updates are done. Only another 400 MB to download

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 3:17:39 PM

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Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 3:28:42 PM

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Microsoft OneDrive is brain dead. You CANNOT sync desktop links to applications that are not installed on one of the computers. You get broken links.

But the only way to stop it is to set the desktop to be a shared desktop for all users on the computer.

Idiots.

Kosh's Shadow 10/6/2021 4:36:07 PM

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It now appears Win11 is not yet available for the new system.

But I do think the blue screen problem has been fixed with the driver updates. I will check, as I am downloading WinDbg, which lets me read crash dumps and see if it is in an older driver. (I've analyzed crash dumps many times in the past)

Still don't think Dell should ship a system that crashes. They need to update their disk image. Maybe that is why this system was 45% off