Your problem is MY freedom!

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Gossamer

Discussion Starter · May 20, 2009

"On Tuesday, Microsoft was granted US Patent No. 7,536,726 (it was filed in 2005) for intentionally crippling the functionality of an operating system by 'making selected portions and functionality of the operating system unavailable to the user or by limiting the user's ability to add software applications or device drivers to the computer' until an 'agreed upon sum of money' is paid to 'unlock or otherwise make available the restricted functionality.' According to Microsoft, this solves a 'problem inherent in open architecture systems,' i.e., 'they are generally licensed with complete use rights and/or functionality that may be beyond the need or desire of the system purchaser.' An additional problem with open architecture systems, Microsoft explains, is that 'virtually anyone can write an application that can be executed on the system."

Read this ****.

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gamefreak94

· #81 · May 22, 2009

Cheesus said:
If you go scuba diving, and you buy the most expensive equipment ever, with the best of everything humanly imaginable... but your air tank has a leak, are you any safer? Not really. By the time you'll need anything else you'd already be dead.

Same logic if you don't update. If you're not going to let Microsoft see your computer and fix it, than you're letting the rest of the world into it. Your choice - the professionals, or the hackers. Pretty obvious choice if you ask me...

Did you read the bit about obtaining critical status security updates via another source? Even then I don't dl all of them, like if there's an update saying "Critical security loop-hole in Windows Live Messenger when connecting via port 80" or something then I'm just gonna ditch it. The only M$ apps I use are MS Office and WMP 9, that's it.

zidine00

· #82 · May 22, 2009

gamefreak94 said:
Did you read the bit about obtaining critical status security updates via another source? Even then I don't dl all of them, like if there's an update saying "Critical security loop-hole in Windows Live Messenger when connecting via port 80" or something then I'm just gonna ditch it. The only M$ apps I use are MS Office and WMP 9, that's it.

and internet explorer, might i add.

gamefreak94

· #83 · May 22, 2009

Spyhop said:
Schedule updates for when you're in bed fool.

You fool I don't keep my PC on when I'm in freakin' bed and put my MSN status to Away

Electricity's damn expensive and the last thing I want while sleeping is the UPS making sharp loud beeps when the power goes out.

Spyhop said:
It's not "infinite TBs"....if you update regularly you might be looking at 20-50mb or so.

^ Epic fail. When I installed Windows 7 on a 11GB partition and installed some basic apps along with it, I only had 350MB of free space, but after a day or so it filled up almost 100% and only like 3.1MB of free space was lost. I think 297MB of data somehow magically entered my PC and filled it up.

Or wait...could it be? Could it possibly be that it was some stupid updates as the last time I shut down my PC I got a message saying "Please do not turn off your PC. Installing updates 1 of 23"

These updates might come in handy with an OS like Win7 since its fairly new, but with something that's as refined as XP SP3 there's hardly a need for it IMO.

Spyhop said:
You also need to get out of this mentality that updates add functionality, because that's rarely the case.

When did I say they add functionality??? oO Provide quotes please....

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Kaizen

· #84 · May 22, 2009

Spyhop said:
It's funny how you're often complaining about windows problems in Software discussion while I've never had an issue eh?

:evil:

Squall-Leonhart

· #85 · May 22, 2009

its funny how random dumbasses complain about having driver issues, yet i've only ever had problems that nvidia themselves have mentioned

ElijahTW

· #86 · May 22, 2009

gamefreak94 said:
but after a day or so it filled up almost 100% and only like 3.1MB of free space was lost. I think 297MB of data somehow magically entered my PC and filled it up.

Umm, swap file?

Demi Fiend

· #87 · May 22, 2009

Well.. I like to update the windows, but I have nothing against those who choose not to update it. I can even understand why people with slow internet connection doesn't update it. I can imagine the pain in the ass for the first update in a 300kbps connection.

Squall-Leonhart

· #88 · May 22, 2009

BigIg said:
Umm, swap file?

worse, the NT6 system restore folder which lacks size limitation controls >.>

ElijahTW

· #89 · May 23, 2009 (Edited)

Demi Fiend said:
Well.. I like to update the windows, but I have nothing against those who choose not to update it. I can even understand why people with slow internet connection doesn't update it. I can imagine the pain in the ass for the first update in a 300kbps connection.

Pfft, I feel bad for my few remaining friends with 56k. I mean, the updates can be in the 20MB range some times.. = 20480Kbytes / 5 Kbytes (avg dialup speed) = 4096 seconds, or 68 minutes.

And for some reason most of the people I know are unable to connect at around 56k, the remaning servers around here suck and the phone lines are poor in some areas, so 30k is more likely. (Usually it'll connect at 48k and then drop back to 33k) = ~83minutes for 20MB.

Demi Fiend

· #90 · May 23, 2009

Not to mention when you need to format the system and re-update all the stuff. In low speed connection that can become a living hell.

gamefreak94

· #91 · May 23, 2009

BigIg said:
Umm, swap file?

Nope

1) Swap files would've been there when I had 300MB space too, so it doesn't make any difference.
2) I'd just booted into Windows, nothing was running. In fact, there must have been more page filing when I had 300MB free space and many FF tabs were open then when I just booted in.

Squall-Leonhart

· #92 · May 23, 2009

its system restore then.

gamefreak94

· #93 · May 23, 2009

I don't have any restore points. Never did, never will

ElijahTW

· #94 · May 23, 2009

It's enabled by default and makes it's own restore points....

gamefreak94

· #95 · May 23, 2009

Well I just opened the System Restore console and there aren't any.

Squall-Leonhart

· #96 · May 23, 2009

that doesn't mean there isn't any

gamefreak94

· #97 · May 23, 2009

lol I just said there aren't any

Just to be sure I clicked "Delete all restore points" and got an error saying "There are no system restore points"

Squall-Leonhart

· #98 · May 23, 2009

did you actually unhide hidden files, add your account to the system restore folders permissions list and look inside the folder.

-StrikE-

· #99 · May 23, 2009

Meah, i completely got rid of that, imo its useless.

Squall-Leonhart

· #100 · May 23, 2009

its really not.

I've managed to restore computers back from Virus destruction by booting to BartPE and replacing the entire registry with that backed up in the system restore folder.

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