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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 31, 2015, 11:17:05 AM »
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>embedded

Heh! First article in my reader this morning;

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2955298/web-browsers/microsoft-firefox-windows-10-mozilla-fight-itbwcw.html

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 31, 2015, 11:11:10 AM »
>Was Windows 8(.1) like this?

Yeah.  From the UI standpoint, it really didn't take many tweaks (the 8.1 UI fixes, boot to desktop, mainly) to make 8.1 like XP with some (useless, smartphone-ish) eyecandy.

>Bing

Yes, Bing is *really* embedded in this one.  Watch your logs.

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Traffic / Re: Hey! An article on hidden text and seo
« on: July 30, 2015, 04:46:08 PM »
You also did shitty, flashing, 'click here NOW' 468x60s that had a helluva ctr but crappy conversions. Don't ask me how I know this.

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Traffic / Hey! An article on hidden text and seo
« on: July 30, 2015, 04:41:57 PM »
Anybody remember seo?

https://devx.lt/en/seo-hidden-text-and-ajax

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 30, 2015, 04:33:29 PM »
Windows 10: The first 5 things you need to do immediately after you install it

http://bgr.com/2015/07/30/windows-10-upgrade-installation-settings/

Take a look at scheduling updates. The path is
Settings > Updates & Security > Windows Update >Advanced Options

While there,

> Choose how updates are delivered.
I turned off "Updates from more than one place" --hopefully forcing MS-only delivery.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 30, 2015, 01:24:30 PM »
>marks

The average user will install it and love it ...for a few days. You can't trust those dumbasses. So far, I'd rate it a 7-8, but look how much I've gutted it.  I was fine with a filleted 8.1, too.


>service

What's that we say here?  "The power is in the defaults."  I fully expect MS to try some of the xbox subscription service type stuff. That's why this upgrade is free.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 30, 2015, 01:00:27 PM »
Didn't MS cut cpu use way back on W7-8 to counter complaints about Vista being a hog?  It feels like they are trying to slip back into something heavier now.  Just a feeling, no real data to back it up, but some of these old machines might groan under the load.

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Marketing / Re: Amazon Dash
« on: July 30, 2015, 12:18:18 PM »
Amazon starts selling quick-buy Dash Buttons for $5 each

http://www.techspot.com/news/61569-amazon-dash-buttons-5-dollars.html

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 30, 2015, 01:32:01 AM »
Slower to cold boot than W8.1 and waaaay slower to shut down

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 10:41:15 PM »
Settings > Personalization > Start will allow you to enable or disable a few key features. I nuked “Show most used apps” and “Show recently added apps”. It also allows you to add folders you want to directly access, I added Documents and Photos.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 10:13:35 PM »
Cortana is baked in.  You can't uninstall but you can turn it off. Done.  Looking at OneDrive next.

>hardware

Nothing special, but very light on peripheral devices -just 3; usb monitor, keyboard, & trackball.
Lenovo media server.  Celeron 1.6ghz, 4g ram

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 08:05:10 PM »
There is now some sort of MS map program in the default apps for offline map viewing. I dug around and turned off automatic updates.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 07:57:09 PM »
Did a custom install, turned almost everything off.  Chrome seemed slow, so I went to the Start/Windows icon in the taskbar and found the active app section called "Life at a glance" and killed almost everthing, most of it MS bloatware. For the few I kept, I killed the live tile feature.  Speed seems OK now, maybe a tad slow.

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Hardware & Technology / W10. Hold my beer
« on: July 29, 2015, 04:44:19 PM »
I'm going in.

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Water Cooler / Re: Don't start any long conversations
« on: July 29, 2015, 03:07:56 PM »
I was figuring 36 hrs.

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