It is a sales tactic...

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller I don't think there is a free upgrade path to 8.1 only directly to 10

How would that help his situation then? Once he has the upgrade rights, just jump to 10. I must be missing something.

I may be missing something, but there is a free path from 7 to 10 as well. Just if you are wanting to take advantage of the free upgrade and have imaging rights you have to manually do the upgrade from 7 to 10 before you are allowed to image.

Just killing time watching the numbers grow...

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch there is a battery in the units that the customer takes with them in the car?

I've never seen where those units come apart to provide a new battery.

They don't. You have to replace them.

How long do they last? I feel like ours is over a decade.

Yeah - years .. I have no idea how many. I have one for my yearly trips to Chicago. It's at least 5 years old now. I expect to have to replace it at any random time in the future now.

Illinois uses I-Pass and is a separate network than EZPass but the units are compatible.

I-Pass units have an expiration date clearly printed on the units themselves for this reason.

I have the same tag from NTTA for the past 19 years, usually goes into the car that I have first. If I buy a second car or third, I get a new one which is a passive device and essentially just a sticker.

Our tags have always been passive. My original tag is kind of beefy, but it doesn't have a battery. They also used to have a license plate frame for some cars with some window coating, mostly GM 90's models like their minivans and full size cars, so they are very much passive. So a tag shouldn't need any battery, just that someone picked a loser of a technology. When I used to go back and forth to Chicago a while ago, I forgot how bad the Illinois Tollway was behind compared to the NTTA. Wasn't it around 2004 they even offered any kind of electronic toll collection?

A nice article about how our system works:

http://tollroadsnews.com/news/texas-turnpike-now-ntta-recognized-as-pioneer-in-transponder-tolling-history

I have that one too. I hate NTTA but their tags work great. Definitely no battery and works from really far away. Even at really high speeds. I think I've used it at 90mph.

I don't know what they are doing in other parts of the country, but I do like the fact that now if you don't have a tag, they take a picture of the license plate and mail you a bill.

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller No, i went straight from 7 to 10 on my desktop

Hmmmm... we'll need @Dashrender to explain what is his sticking point in the upgrade process.

I think his sticking point is he has to manually go to each machine initially to upgrade them.

@MattSpeller Scotch is where it is at. I love the floral highland scotch's!

Scorpio you're totally mad...

@Dashrender said:

Yeah, this is my current problem... I'm going to have to manually upgrade all of my win7 and win 8 to win 10... Then use my VL to roll images... What a pain!

I think he just has pcs on both win 7 & 8, not that he has to go through each version.

@MattSpeller I'm seeing it online between $45 - $55 USD... i don't know what the actual liquor store will have priced at.

@brianlittlejohn and home as well. Just to be thorough.

Piano Guys Radio on Pandora

https://vimeo.com/48070839

I guess I'm in the minority... I don't like Austin that much.

Try uninstalling the USBHost Drivers and reinstalling. I've seen issues with them when stuff wasnt detected before.

@JaredBusch I think your theory is correct.

@mlnews said in My Mom Runs Linux from Freedom Penguin:

https://freedompenguin.com/articles/opinion/mom-runs-linux/
They are lost from the "start"...,

Favorite line!

Found these for 2012R2

Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup 'Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)' -Enabled true
Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayGroup 'Remote Event Log Management' -Enabled true
Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Windows Firewall Remote Management (RPC)" -Enabled True
Set-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Windows Firewall Remote Management (RPC-EPMAP)" -Enabled True

I think this year I handled the time change better than others... i just had alot of Jameson the night before, then didn't care about doing anything the next day

I only buy movies in disc format... than convert to what format I want it in.

@scottalanmiller I would just assume retail doesnt exist as well. I only consider VL licensing for servers.