Google Drive chokes:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57574874-93/google-drive-goes-down-for-many-users/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57574874-93/google-drive-goes-down-for-many-users/
The Reason I Have Always Called It "Clod" Computing
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Just wait until it gets hacked and folks stuff gets pilfered. Day gwonna be mad.
Picture the "cloud" floating away......
Picture the "cloud" floating away......
The very reason that when a salesperson suggests I take my data off site I stare a laser hole straight through their forehead. One of the few things that a salesman can say that actually makes me mad. The other is suggesting that I take my operation software to a Microsoft platform.
You are probably better off for it. It is one of those things you either love or hate.
Jags, BB, you have any experience with the new-ish UEFI setups?
Got a new laptop with it and seems very MS-centric. Easy enough to work around, yet annoying.
Not so much. I know the freeware / opensource folks don't care for it. It makes loading alternate OS's difficult. It is VERY MS-centric because of the required "secure boot" for Win8 with a private key. (bastids).
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I got an ssd for it and swapped that yesterday, disabled secure boot and loaded Ubuntu 12.10 w/o too much effort.
Windows 7 on it right now.
Came w/8.
Windows 7 on it right now.
Came w/8.
By default w/8 comes with secure boot enabled. A whole bunch of bitchin was going on about MS trying to elbow out the other OS's. You HAVE to disable that to load a different OS.
Why MS decided to go with a platform designed for touch screen and apply it to a PC is beyond stupid. I hope w/8 goes the way of w/ME. Or at least they come out with an update to easily toggle the interface back to something designed around a keyboard and a mouse. Business production from a w/8 machine sucks.
Why MS decided to go with a platform designed for touch screen and apply it to a PC is beyond stupid. I hope w/8 goes the way of w/ME. Or at least they come out with an update to easily toggle the interface back to something designed around a keyboard and a mouse. Business production from a w/8 machine sucks.
hehehe.....go ahead, you'll probably sound like me or my BIL.
He ABSOLUTELY hates MS. I refuse to go there too often and found an alternative instead of getting all riled up.
He ABSOLUTELY hates MS. I refuse to go there too often and found an alternative instead of getting all riled up.
I have a business to run and a pile of end users to keep happy. MS is still the industry standard for desktops. Just like MS Office. Its the only reason I entertain MS (well that, and if I run MS I always have something to do).
Agreed, but that don't mean I have to like the way MS shoe horned their butts into it.
I swear you pointy heads talk in binary. 
I had to get help from the Internet people when my modem burned up. What kind of computer do you have sir... "uh.... it's black?"
I had to get help from the Internet people when my modem burned up. What kind of computer do you have sir... "uh.... it's black?"
My son is at microsoft. He won one of his awards -I think Excellence in Engineering- for Wizard.Please don't say anything nasty about it...
I meant, about Wizard. And I was using levity.....sort of.
He's been there since 1999. I have a pretty thick skin.
He's been there since 1999. I have a pretty thick skin.
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