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Comment Good! (Score 1) 142

While I don't 100% agree with some of what they removed, I have Windows 10 on a couple of low powered tablets. It runs well. As far as a tablet is concerned I don't think I will be missing system management tools. Although the registry editor is really lightweight. I noted an argument about dropping Cortana. That would not make sense for a tablet. Although as someone running Windows 10 on tablets with only 2 gigs of ram, I am more concerned with reducing what get loaded into memory by default than over how much mass storage takes up. As far as tweaking Windows 10 startup as an end user, that is beyond a lot of people no matter how simple it may be for some here.

Submission + - SPAM: Coffee Break: The UNIX System: Making Computers More Productive.

wjcofkc writes: From The AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System.

This 23-minute film from 1982 about UNIX was designed for students with an interest in engineering, math, computer science or other sciences.

Hosted by Victor Vyssotsky in a Carl-Sagan-esque turtleneck sweater, this film includes Dennis Ritchie, one of UNIX's inventors, along with Bell Labs staffers and programmers Brian Kernighan, Catherine Ann Brooks, Lorinda Cherry, Alfred Aho, Nina Macdonald, and John Mashey. Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson started work on what would become UNIX originally in 1969. They developed it to run on a DEC PDP-7 to begin with; it would eventually be ported to other computers. By 1976, UNIX was used in more than 30 Bell Labs groups, and there were UNIX installations at over 80 universities.

Whatever your opinion on YouTube is or is not, this video is a lot of fun. So grab a cup of coffee and kick back. Here is a link to the entire AT&T archive. The official archive does require Flash.

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Comment Edge is great! (Score 1) 172

But not THAT great. I used it exclusively for 6 months just to get a solid feel for it. Edge is definitely a worthy contender. With some patience on the part of MS, it will organically gain greater market share. So far, it deserves it (OSS politics aside). But it shoving down peoples throats? I thought MS was growing out of that flawed marketing ideology. This will not create more Edge users. It will create more Thunderbird users and other alternative email application. As for my own installation of Windows 10. I use Thunderbird and Firefox anyhow.

Comment I want to know more, but not likely a fit (Score 1) 93

Purely random musings ahead.

I really truly want an alternative to a smartphone. But still have to be demanding on a couple features. A qwerty keyboard is likely something I would consider a must have, but would be willing to give something like this a try despite its lack of one. As far as the OS, whatever. I am curious about the app store. i don't use facebook but if people somehow magically got on board... Yeah, not likely. Chiefly I need a high end camera. I use my s8+ for a lot of business related and even product photography. Similar with video. Safe to say this won't meet that standard. As far as apps go, It bugs me that most of the apps I use, outside of a phone, are rendered in a browser. It would be nice if high end cloud services could be better designed to render on a mobile browser over installing an app. As far as my S8+ goes, I don't use over 99% of the features that make it a so called smart phone. To me it is a device for texting, email, navigation, and a high end camera. Those things shy of apps that are otherwise rendered in a browser on a desktop. Safe to say, for those few features I depend on, I am not going to be upgrading for a few years. It is an awful lot of fancy hardware for something that gets such limited use. I still lament the failure of BB10. With the exception of a not so hot camera, the Classic is still the best phone I have ever used.

Comment Re:What were they thinking? (Score 1) 153

Most people gave up on Wine as forever hopeless over the first few years (it did seem so at the time), and so have not bothered with the most recently releases. At least this is the sort of talk I have seen on other tech related boards over many years. As far as the "(after some tweaking)" part? I can only suspect that a lot of people go on their most absolute first impression and do not even know what you mean by that.

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