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Comment You can Disable Windows 10 OS upgrades (Score 1) 221

by danwat1234 (#58187632) Attached to: New Study Shows Windows 10 Home Edition Users Are Baffled By Updates
You can disable Windows updates now, if you have an older build of Windows 10. Specifically, version 1703 which is build number 15063.1387 for me. With this version u can permanently disabled windows updates within Services. When the c:\Windows10Upgrade\ folder is inevitably created, remove ALL permissions so nothing can add files to it. Install Process Blocker and have it block C:\Windows10Upgrade\Windows10UpgraderApp.exe C:\windows\softwaredistribution\Download\randomcharacters\WindowsUpdateBox.exe C:\Windows\UpdateAssistantV2\Windows10Upgrade.exe C:\Windows\UpdateAssistant\Windows10Upgrade.exe There u go. Windows update permanently disabled and won't upgrade itself. Should work on the latest build of Windows 10 as well to block major upgrades,though patches will still install.

Comment Re:Doesn't Make Economic Sense (Score 1) 769

by danwat1234 (#27103129) Attached to: GM Cornered Into Defending the Volt
The emissions requirements for diesels in the US are increasing. Sorry, it's late, but it has something to do with new diesels having to have 'Urea' tanks, so Urea mixes in with the diesel exhaust to reduce sulfur or something else bad coming out of the tail pipe.. These increased emissions requirements for diesels in the US reduce the fuel efficiency advantage of diesel over a gas engine to a point where it is below ~~ (from my memory of the interview with Bob Lutz )10% advantage (Bob Lutz). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXA22Q0qXNM

Comment Re:Forget it (Score 1) 323

by danwat1234 (#27061831) Attached to: Open Source In Public K-12 Schools?
Clackamas Community College (CCC) in Oregon City Oregon are trying out Moodle in some online courses, and as learning aids for on-site courses, and may eventually replace Blackboard with Moodle in the future. My Calculus II class at this Junior College is on Moodle and we use it to ask and answer HW questions between class times.
Space

Submission + - 500-fold growth in space comms squeezes SETI@home (networkworld.com) 3

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is receiving 500 times more data from an upgraded telescope and better frequency coverage than project planners anticipated, meaning the SETI@home project is in dire need of more desktop computers to help crunch the data. New, more sensitive receivers on the world's largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and better frequency coverage are generating 500 times more data for the project than before, project leaders said in a release. SETI@home software has been upgraded to deal with this new data as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) enters a new era and offers a new opportunity for those who want to help find other civilizations in the universe. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23469"
The Courts

Submission + - RIAA protests Oregon AG discovery request (blogspot.com) 2

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA is apparently having an allergic reaction to the request by the State Attorney General of Oregon for information about the RIAA's investigative tactics, in Arista v. Does 1-17, the Portland, Oregon, case targeting students at the University of Oregon. See The Oregonian, December 1, 2007 ("UO suspects music industry of spying") and p2pnet, November 29, 2007 ("RIAA may be spying on students: Oregon AG"). Not only are the record companies opposing the request (pdf), they're asking the Judge not to even read it. (pdf)"
Windows

Submission + - More evidence that XP is Vista's main competitor (computerworld.com) 3

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Ian Lamont writes: "Computerworld is reporting that Windows XP Service Pack 3 runs MS Office 10% faster than XP SP2 — and is "considerably faster" than Vista SP1. XP SP3 isn't scheduled to be released until next year, but testers at Devil Mountain Software — the same company which found Vista SP 1 to be hardly any faster than the debut version of Vista — were able to run some benchmarking tests on a release candidate of XP SP3, says the report. While this may be great news for XP owners, it is a problem for Microsoft, which is having trouble convincing business users to migrate to Vista: 'Vista's biggest competition isn't Apple or Novell or Red Hat; it's Microsoft itself, it's XP, [Forrester Research analyst Benjamin Gray] said. So enamored of XP are businesses that Microsoft may feel obligated to extend the operating system's mainstream support past its current April 2009 expiration date. ... He attributed the lowered expectations to a lack of detailed information about Vista in 2006; too-high prices for PCs with 2GB of memory, which is essentially the minimum needed for Vista, according to company managers; and a larger-than-expected number of incompatible applications.'"
Windows

MS Responds To Vista's Network / Audio Problems 528

Posted by kdawson from the designed-that-way dept.
quirdan writes "With the discovery last week of the connection between Vista's poor networking performance and audio activities, word quickly spread around the Net. No doubt this got Microsoft's attention, and they have responded to the issue. Microsoft states that 'some of what we are seeing is expected behavior, and some of it is not'; and that they are working on technical documentation, as well as applying a slight sugar coating to the symptoms. Apparently they believe an almost 90% drop in networking performance is 'slight,' only affects reception of data, and that this performance trade-off is necessary to simply play an MP3."
Google

Submission + - Google admits using Sohu database for Pinyin

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prostoalex
prostoalex writes: "A few days ago a Chinese company Sohu.com alleged Google improperly tapped its database for its Pinyin IME product, stirring controversy on Slashdot whether two databases were similar just due to normal research process. Today Google admitted that its new product for Chinese market "was built leveraging some non-Google database resources": "The dictionaries used with both software from Google and Sohu shared several common mistakes, where Chinese characters were matched with the wrong Pinyin equivalents. In addition, both dictionaries listed the names of engineers who had developed Sohu's Sogou Pinyin IME.""
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Top 10 April Fools Stories 234

Posted by Zonk from the true-history-in-the-making dept.
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ddelmonte writes with a link to a brietbart story on the top ten April Fools Day hoaxes, as determined by the San Diego-based Museum of Hoaxes. Two great British examples: "In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home. In 1977, British newspaper The Guardian published a seven-page supplement for the 10th anniversary of San Serriffe, a small republic located in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semicolon-shaped islands. A series of articles described the geography and culture of the two main islands, named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse."

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