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On 16/08/2015 09:53, xmetman wrote:


I have to know what is a 'weather diddie'?

As far as Windows 10 is concerned my advice would be to backup and install as others have said. The latest version is what Windows 8 should have been. My Vantage pro works even being plugged into a serial port/USB convertor. Delphi development works for XE6 but not Delphi 2006 so now all my mapping is from Openstreet map. The old Media player was left behind so I still have music but I'm reworking my old Jukebox app to get round the long-term hole that will leave. I may have to write my own photo web album application for my images if Google abandon Picasa.

I did read an article somewhere online that said Microsoft were planning to charge by the month or year for the use of the Windows operating system like they do for Office 365, if you unsubscribe I imagine the OS would keep working but you wouldn't get updates or security patches.

What I dont like about the way things are going in computing is that you are being forced to use the cloud when local storage has never been so cheap. I don't mind being given a choice, but now its being forced so that they can turn storage of music and images and creation and editing of documents into a web service that they can monetise.


Bruce.


Bruce, the monthly charge was invented by journalists with nothing
better to do than invent stories - the horrider the better. Of course,
it may be that MS will go down that path - if they do expect Apple to
follow suit.

You're not 'forced' to use the cloud, it's easy to use local storage.

As for the data going back to MS, this can be changed. However, the
targeted ads should be an improvement on having any old stuff sent down
to you. Graham D - I believe you can 'train' Amazon to give you ads that
are better than what you're getting. Whether MS's ads are better
targeted remains to be seen - I hardly get any ads anyway....

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"Metman2012" wrote in message
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As for the data going back to MS, this can be changed. However, the
targeted ads should be an improvement on having any old stuff sent down to
you. Graham D - I believe you can 'train' Amazon to give you ads that are
better than what you're getting. Whether MS's ads are better targeted
remains to be seen - I hardly get any ads anyway....


I rarely get ads either. I suspect they really do think that our Graham
needs some care and attention in his old age, like his car! :-)

Will
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On 16/08/2015 11:37, Keith (Southend) wrote:
I'm interested with this as like yourself I have this old PC running
24/7, which must use some electricity over time and the onlt reason is
for updating from my WMII every 15 minutes. Can you also upload to WOW?
Do you have to connect a monitor to it?


I used to have a dedicated home built PC to run all the time for my
weather station, sunshine recorder, media server and website uploads
etc. Even with an 'energy' efficient power supply unit and restricting
the processor and services, it still used around 20 to 40 watts.

I toyed with idea of a laptop but all the ones I tested used around 30
watts.

Then I discovered a netbook called Asus Eee PC which had an Atom
processor and was fanless. I bought a second-hand one off Ebay for £60
and I now use that for all the weather stuff, and as a media and VPN
server. It works flawlessly with Windows 8.1 and can run for months (I
suspect years) without me having to touch or reboot it. I can log in
remotely from anywhere to access files or even use remote desktop from
the internet. It uses around 5 to 10 watts. With only 1GB of RAM I have
installed a 16 GB class 10 SDHC memory card and set it as ReadyBoost
memory. That works a treat and speeded everything up immensely. I have
had it running now for nearly 3 years and it has never crashed, faulted
in anyway.

It has worked better than I had imagined and only uses the tiniest
amount of electricity. It has a 2TB USB drive attached where I store all
my music, photos etc and also the HTPC records all its programs to it.
Using the VPN I can access this from the internet. Having an upload
internet speed of 10 Mbps helps.

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On 15/08/2015 22:34, Alan White wrote:
I did revert. There were so many bells and whistles that I would never
use and the absence of Windows Media Player, which I use quite a lot,
just didn't make it worth 'upgrading'. This, coupled with the fact that
I was all set to replace motherboard, memory, CPU and graphics card,
clinched it. One step at a time.


Windows Media Player is still there in Windows 10.

It is the rather excellent Windows Media Center that is missing so I
won't be upgrading my media computer in the lounge. I've tried Linux
alternatives but they've never worked as well or looked as good as WMC.

Shame as I like Windows 10 and it runs faster than Windows 7 on my very
old laptop. You just have to uninstall or disable all those 'apps' that
I don't/never need but that only takes a few minutes.

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On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:28:00 +0100
"Eskimo Will" wrote:


"Metman2012" wrote in message
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As for the data going back to MS, this can be changed. However, the
targeted ads should be an improvement on having any old stuff sent
down to you. Graham D - I believe you can 'train' Amazon to give
you ads that are better than what you're getting. Whether MS's ads
are better targeted remains to be seen - I hardly get any ads
anyway....


I rarely get ads either. I suspect they really do think that our
Graham needs some care and attention in his old age, like his car! :-)


If my old age is like my car then it doesn't exist. I find growing up
is highly overrated and to be avoided at all cost.

Half of the e-mails I get from Amazon contain well-targeted
and sometimes useful contents but the other half are just ridiculous.

Yes Bruce, I heard a while ago that you could "train" Amazon but found
it didn't work in practice.

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On 16/08/2015 21:08, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:28:00 +0100

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Yes Bruce, I heard a while ago that you could "train" Amazon but found
it didn't work in practice.

Bruce is exmetman - I'm Metman2012. I've never 'trained Amazon' either
and it seems to major on what I've looked at when logged in. But then I
hardly ever look at the ads anyway!
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On 16/08/2015 21:08, Graham P Davis wrote:
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:28:00 +0100

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Yes Bruce, I heard a while ago that you could "train" Amazon but found
it didn't work in practice.

Bruce is exmetman - I'm Metman2012. I've never 'trained Amazon' either and
it seems to major on what I've looked at when logged in. But then I hardly
ever look at the ads anyway!


Perhaps if you used proper names then there would be no confusion, just a
thought?

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