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Cortana sure is an awesome feature. However, I'm rather reluctant to open up any information about me, what I do, or what is on my computer to the cloud - and if I stop Cortana from doing that, it is hardly any more advanced a search feature than that already present in Win 7.
I did do AI programming myself in the past, and therefore I do understand why Cortana needs that much data to learn. But at this point I am not (yet) willing to give up my data to a service that may or may not be responsible, secure, and also valiant in defending my privacy against the likes of the NSA.
Maybe Microsoft deserves my trust in this. But if it does, it does an incredibly horrible job to convince me. Hint: aggressive schemes to push W10 on my W7 system through intrusive, unwanted nagging ads does not serve to build trust!
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Personally, I fail to see the depth of concern. I understand the argument, I just don't care if Cortana needs information or not. And I don't care what Microsoft does with it.
However, I think Cortana's search features are FASTER by a lot on my Win10 box versus previous Win 7. I suspect more stuff is being indexed AND the Win10 box is newer. But it finds more stuff than was found in Win7. And I'm just talking about local things. Not AI networked things.
Like, I know I used a file yesterday and I know what I called it, but I can't remember where I put it. Just type the name in Cortana's window and it QUICKLY finds it.
I am ALL in favor of pushing out stuff instead of people not updating their machines and making themselves and everyone around them more vulnerable because they haven't got the latest security updates.
Look at all the people still running XP with IE6!!
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Win 10 is still in beta state. I wouldn't upgrade from Win 7 just yet, unless you are having system-related problems that would require serious work fixing.
I've upgraded my Win 8 Ultrabook because I really hated W8 - compared to that, in spite of some rough edges, Win 10 is an improvement. That said, the upgrade from Win 8 wasn't clean. I have occasional shutdowns (no warning, no bluescreen - just an instant power down), and experience a few odd quirks. Mary Jo Fowley apparently had the same issues, but in an article she declared they went away after a fresh installation, so that's what I'll try shortly.
My Win 7 desktop works fine, and I'll leave it that way. I'll buy a new one next year, and it will also be Win 7. I't s the most stable OS I ever had besides Win XP (after a couple of service packs) and I really don't see why I should instead use a juvenile OS that endangers my privacy and introduces UI changes that are inherently unhelpful (I hate how in the flat UI design it's impossible to distinguish labels from flat buttons  )
The only things that would make me consider upgrading a Win 7 system to Win 10 is (1) being able to take advantage of DX 12 (if your graphics adapter supports it) and (2) Support for W7 ending (in 2020)
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I've upgraded several machines and am quite happy this far. No big advances, no big show-stoppers, but you're aware of that. Move forward. Don't be Luddite.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Anders, I am a late adopter. So consider that.
I am on win 7 and loving it.
We have 2 windows 10 machines here, and feedback from 2 other developers who had to make the plunge:
1) Audio Drivers no longer work, or are crazy flaky, making one guy dial in with a phone on meetings!
2) Edge Browser does not make a multi-line web field sizeable (works in IE, and chrome) (mantis site)
3) Privacy Concerns: The default is that they can record your keystrokes and send them to Redmond
4) The WONDERFUL Windows Key: Add -> Add or Remove Programs. NOT QUITE as nice in Windows 10.
Half the time, it cannot find what I am searching for. Worse, it gives me WEB search results, and
takes me to a web page as a penalty for clicking on it (I did finally disable this)
5) A couple of old stalwart programs started crashing on windows 10.
6) Other hardware issues. (builtin web cam issues)
7) Having weird crap, until a full powerdown and reboot. About 4 times on one computer. I barely
reboot my win 7 machine. Windows 10, we can't keep it for 7 days without it getting flaky.
8) Once MSFT sends you updates in the background, it appears to make #7 worse, It half installs them, and then you need to go through the long reboot/install cycle.
9) On the plus side, my color laser printer was supported out of the box!
So, there is risk. Losing the built in Mic for my meetings would kill me.
If I were to do it, I would clone my system to fresh new disks.
I would do the upgrade on the new disks. And if I hated it, I would revert back by swapping to the other disks. (Admittedly I am on webmail and version control for everything).
YMMV
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My almost 4 years old Alienware laptop became faster after I installed Win 10 over Win 8.1
I liked it very much. Has several goodies that can make your life easier if you know they exist.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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I upgraded 3 of my systems from Win 7 to 10, all 3 are 64-bit hardware but one had 32-bit Win 7 Pro installed. I've not experienced any serious issues but have noticed the boot and login times are longer on all three systems than under Win 7.
The one thing I've encountered that I find exasperating is that programs which display a startup splash screen tend to remain hidden behind the window of the program that was active. Consequently I don't always know the program I just launched is already running so I try to start another instance.
On a positive note some programs I thought would be an issue just work. One in particular is Fender Fuse which is a program that is used to configure a Fender guitar amp via a USB connection. I've had no problems with it even though it was a bit finicky under Win 7 and relies on Silverlight.
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I've upgraded a couple of PCs (one W7, one W8.1) and assisted in helping out non-techies with obscure problems (all W7s with loads of malware) and have to say that upgrading was fairly painless. I wouldn't go back to W7 - it did not take long (maybe an hour) to get reasonably comfortable.
I get good response times and faster booting / closing down, but that may be because my W7 was a clean (not OEM) build and I migrated to an SSD as part of the transition.
Watch the time for making the go / no-go decision. You have a month to decide whether to revert back to W7 / W8.x. I did not use the option and there seems to not be an approved way to remove the backout to W7 files (nearly 6GB) after the month is up. I am considering deleting the $Windows.~WS file and hoping as none of the things that I have searched on the web give techniques that seem applicable for removing W7 backout option after the month finishes.
As you will have seen, some other respondents have had difficulties and regret moving, others ahev found it easy and worthwhile. So, no-one can really tell you what to do. All that I will say is ... BACKUP YOUR OLD SYSTEM FIRST.
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Song of the Week[^]
It's not new or the best song ever or anything, but a friend of mine let me listen to it last weekend and I've been dancing to it all week while making breakfast, cooking, cleaning and working 
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To all the Donald supporters, enjoy your anthem[^]
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! The Swedish Eurodance Rednex (that's waaaay to multi-cultural for Trump!)
Loved that song since the 90's
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Hello -
can someone tell me how "CustomDialog" works with MahApp?
I can't find something what works for me.. for example this[^]?
Thanks
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I'm pretty sure it's magic.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, it's a kind of magic... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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A dozen different package managers
Bizarre command line options
make, cmake, gmake, more ways to make than you can shake a stick at
while there's tons of open source stuff, every single one has some issue. A compiler error, the doc says X, the build does Y. Most of the "how to solve" involves having to update some obscure library.
It really amazes me people still work in something that I consider to be the stone age, if not the dark age. Built a simple python test for RabbitMQ, which worked, after discovering on SO that I had to create users on the RabbitMQ server, which requires three simple commands but wasn't documented anywhere clearly on the RabbitMQ site...
...then I realized, wow, this Python RabbitMQ library I'm using, there's like no Intellisense for giving me a clue as to what functions I use to set the username and password. Ignore the fact that I'm PuTTY'ing in to the BBB and working in a terminal. Nano bites. It took 15 minutes perusing the client documentation because the website is so crappy. I should be thankful there is documentation.
Sure, I can set up cross-compilation (have done so already with VisualGDB so I can use Visual Studio for C++ dev), went through the same motions with that fart of an IDE called Eclipse, it compiles code but can't find the GDB Debugger to do remote debugging (VisualGDB didn't have that problem because it's setting up some environment variables correctly), but regardless, that's another task...
(I'll post the Python RabbitMQ running on a BBB talking to a Windows RabbitMQ receiver as a "quick tip" or something soon.) Trying to get a C version working, because at least on the BBB, we'd like to work closer to the metal. Tried a C++ client, code wouldn't compile do to a change in the g++ compiler, was easy enough to fix, but the examples don't compile, screaming about a missing function for converting big/little endian. Spend all last night looking at compiler switches, etc., to figure out why the f***ing #defines in <endian.h> aren't being pulled in, still have no clue...
*Nix and the *nix world absolutely SUCKS.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: A dozen different package managers
Oh, the dilemma of having multiple choices instead of a single provider!
Marc Clifton wrote: Bizarre command line options
Looks as weird as Powershell first did 
Marc Clifton wrote: *Nix and the *nix world absolutely SUCKS.
I'd disagree, but then I also stay away from the C-compilers on Linux - depending on your problem, the answer on many a forum would be something like 'the source code is the manual, read it'.
Marc Clifton wrote: It really amazes me people still work in something that I consider to be the
stone age, if not the dark age.
Probably because they are not convinced of the added value of moving to the "new age". I'm using the Gnome desktop for that reason - it does what I need it to do, so why use anything heavier?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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 You just have to really know what's happening. Once you get the hang of everything though, it's pretty straight forward. It is annoying that everyone invents their own way of doing things so there's probably about 15 different ways of doing the same exact thing, but that's just the hassles of the open source world.
If you have questions, feel free to ask, I work in Linux world every day. I use cmake, make, ZeroMQ, python, and C/C++ in Linux every day.
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Albert Holguin wrote: If you have questions, feel free to ask, I work in Linux world every day. I use cmake, make, ZeroMQ, python, and C/C++ in Linux every day.
Are you available for some lightweight contracting? I imagine my client would me more than happy to have a resource that is an expert, rather than a 5W bulb stumbling around in a large dark cavern like me, haha. That way I can learn too.
Marc
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I don't really have the cycles to do that.... specially at this time of the year, sorry. I'd be happy to help you here and there though. I understand the Windows to Linux development switch is a bit of a transition when you're used to something.
First suggestion, don't use Eclipse, it'll drive you mad.
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So summarize it for me...more problems, or merely different problems?
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Please give me a proper console, or are you just a toy OS?
--Carlo's daily Windows rant.
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Hi All,
Found in a Pound Shop a glove puppet that is the very image of Mr. Flibble from Red Dwarf!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKHLOo1WgDQ[^] Oh why can I see a prank on the flat mate involving the above just have to think of something suitable! 
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"...the luck virus must have worn off." 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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