Recent content by 50ShadesOfDirt

Or, and this is my personal favorite, run a HostOS (you are using linux), run virtualization, and in a VM run that OS or application from 20 years ago *like it just came out yesterday*. Virtualization allows us to keep running the things that "just worked" back in the day, and you can pretty...

I'm not aware of any modern-day resource issues in modern x64 windows platform ... you won't have 90% of the machine waiting around because some resource value in the remaining 10% "got exhausted". I can't remember the year (decades ago?) when this might have been a problem. Folks can have...

I would figure out (all of) the requirements first ... just to start: AI (needs an "AI" coprocessor, lots of ram), trading machine (needs cores, ram, graphics, multiple monitors) seems to place the system at the "higher end" of the business class of machines, vs the gaming machine. What all does...

Sure ... run XP to your heart's content. If you are licensed (or can get at license keys), just run it forever in a VM (as suggested above). My copy runs just fine, and I can bring it up whenever I need to explore old tools, office xp or nearby, or whatever. MS abandoned it, but that never...

My guess ... something is executing (probably too often) in the background, and mouse pointer is set to "show" this activity ... root cause is perhaps best found with TaskMgr or similar tools. In the meantime, consider ... "Here's a solution I've found to at least stop the blue circle: Start...

You have a synology nas, so you already have automatic & free backups at hand (synology's "active backup for business"). Turn it on at the nas box, install ABB at each pc, done (with some configuration). Synology accommodates all backup types (image, file, sync, etc.), and if there's something...

The intent was not to make this a "complaint thread", rather, it was to point out that a move from "we offer the right to buy a license to use" to "we only offer a subscription to use" is kind of harsh. It is the right of every individual software company to try this subscription sales approach...

Another hidden problem: some software companies have done away with the "one-time purchase". I keep running up against companies who have indeed done away with the single one-time purchase, and expect me to join their subscription plan. I politely write them an email explaining why I can't do...

Subscription software, according to all the companies talking about it, and trying to get us switched to it (whether we want that or not), has a big hidden problem: *nobody can afford to switch every single piece of software they use to the subscription model* To illustrate this problem...

I'd think you have to sort out the (non-business) user base first: "I (barely) know how to turn it on." About 90 to 95% of the world, these folks have Windows, however Microsoft chooses to serve it up to them. Nothing really changes here, until the user chooses to learn more, and this group is...

One of the advantages of virtualization is that you can continue to run the software, using licenses you've already paid for, from many years past. +1 to jimbo's suggestion: a VM running a copy of winXP or win7, office 2003, and the relevant updates from those time periods, and you are good...

It is interesting to see others learn more about an OS (and a "build" of that OS) by tweaking, modifying, or otherwise changing it from a stock installation, and/or using a pre-built "tiny" version. You can't discount the knowledge available from this, and I appreciate the links & such to these...

Adding some definitions, as much derailment occurred in this thread: 1. OP is not a EULA debate, but let's see if more words help. When I say "you own the OS", this is meant to relay: - you own the license that you paid money for, and can use that license forever. - you own the "build" (how you...

"Somehow, I doubt it ..." You don't know anything about me, nor what I've read and experienced, but, sure, go ahead and assume that I don't know about EULAs, patents and IP. If you want to debate a EULA, then by all means, start a new thread ... Ownership, as defined by one side only (the EULA...

Sure ... the EULA says "licensed, not sold". Not a problem ... you still "own" it, and can use it forever. Virtualization enables it. The FUD from everywhere (including article in original post) leads folks to believe that it has to stop being used, or risk death and destruction. The method...