@Mike-Davis said

What if it was one of our computers and it decided to upgrade and we sat down to work and it was sitting there for 2 hours displaying "do not reboot your computer"?

This is a statement which belongs on a bookshelf marked comedy.

Can Windows 7 upgrade to 10 without any user action? No.

Find me a single provable source across the entire planet where Windows 10 has become self-aware and upgraded without a user clicking "upgrade"

Are Microsoft being trigger happy with the constant prompts? Yes but it is still end user choice. By the same token, if a cryptolocker pop up appears on a website, will you just click "yay download please"

@Mike-Davis said

I got a call on Sunday from a family member after their computer upgraded overnight without their approval. I don't think Microsoft is playing fair.

I don't believe it. There is a hysteria about computers doing things without asking for approval but despite the media stories, it's all up to individuals.

As for fair from Microsoft.
You want a secure up to date operating system but don't want to install updates.
You want a stable OS but leave it running 24/7 with no reboots in months.

Microsoft are simply following in the foot steps of Google & Apple, there is nothing fundamentally new about Windows 10 on the market, they are simply catching up to Apple & Google. Forced in your face constant prompts for updates? Where have we seen that before...

If Microsoft were not as pushy, would Windows 10 just be "another thing you'll get around to" and more people would miss out?

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1402353-doa-return-issue?page=1#entry-5440759

And it continues...

@Carnival-Boy said

Until he finds out that his favourite websites all use Silverlight!

Looking at you streaming websites!

Any other Aetherstore users with feedback/thoughts?

I have no disclaimer. I have a signature which says who I am, who the company is (legally registered bla bla) but that's it.

They are legally useless.

@MattSpeller said:

What's your target audience? What do you want to get out of it?

We want to help our clients learn, a better informed client is one who can make better decisions, on the flip side this can also help other IT guys.

"What is encryption" might be a topic.

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Breffni-Potter said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@geertcourmacher said

Seems that GTA V with the latest update has finally gotten rid of the cheaters/modders. Anyone here still playing it?

I never play online, I play offline with mods

Would love a private multiplayer separate to the rockstar servers but their legal team keep shutting down those projects rapidly.

why not just play private sessions online?

Because I can't play with mods then.

Something which is still being played is the unofficial mod San Andreas Multiplayer. If Rockstar took the handcuffs off the modders and let them tinker with the game outside of their pay to win multiplayer servers, then it might be more popular.

The next question you'll have "But who is your client"

They could be non technical, but a decision maker.

They might be an IT admin, who is new to a concept, needs a quick primer.

Or someone who wants to see a benchmark/performance test of a product.

Both sides of this took ques from Trumps playbook on politics, remain and leave. Both were terrible.

If it was just the drive that was failing , can you get a new drive, let it rebuild the array and then backup the data?

Or is it the NAS unit itself which is failing?

@scottalanmiller said

Only one of the two sides could be "with Trump" because Trump only agreed with one side.

But your assumption is (quite wrongly) that people are with or against Trump. Trump was only used as a flag by the remain crowd who said "Look at this lunatic, you don't want to be like him do you" and all that did was anger the leave crowd and galvanised the ones in the middle.

Instead of talking about the real issues, they focused on the BS like "Do you want to support XYZ" - More so than Trump (who is widely considered a dangerous clown) the name Farage is passed around a lot.

I setup VMWare workstation for a home user only because the UI was much nicer/prettier to look at in 2014.

@MattSpeller said in So we are leaving..............:

@Breffni-Potter said in So we are leaving..............:

(who is widely considered a dangerous clown)

Infinite upvotes.

A dangerous clown who knows how to entertain, He is playing the game very very well.

@Dashrender said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

@Dashrender said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

@wirestyle22

If the culture around you is not changing and despite your best efforts you cannot improve it, find a culture who will value and embrace you.

the problem is that there aren't nearly as many companies out there looking as their are workers looking.

True, but are you one of the workers looking or are you staying put in the current culture?

I'm not sure the point of your question?

As in.

Are we throwing our hands in the air going "I'm trapped, this will never get better"

Or, are you learning, training yourself, advertising yourself, polishing CV, learning how to pitch yourself to new employers, Getting references/reconsiderations, Trying to network yourself.

So whilst the sales are on, I'd like to ask for suggestions for RTS Games or even 4X games.

I need something to spend my money on before the stocks get even lower.

Go.

The biggest problem @scottalanmiller @JaredBusch with a match-making site is how do you sort out the liars?

I'm sure I've not seen even half the candidates you two have, yet when you have a candidate who claims to have done xyz then fails to explain the most basic fundamentals about it.

I'm not talking about "Explain this model to me, or how does this exact thing work" more like general concepts.

I liked that they gave all 3 factions a way of printing money in the late game.

US supply drops
Chinese hackers
GLA, black markets

So...thought I would try the sync client again, been awhile and I might as well use it as another backup target.

Downloaded from the portal, run the installer.

It's trashed my install of Office via 365. No word, PPT or Outlook.

Doh.

@thwr said in RTS Games:

@coliver said in RTS Games:

That being said C&C Red Alert 3 was very good. C&C Tiberium Wars and Tiberium Twilight were decent but really odd.

It's on sale on origin.com again: https://www.origin.com/en-de/store/buy/c-c-the-ultimate-collection/pc-download/bundle/ultimate-collection

Gonna buy it.

This will be my first and only origin game. Because stuff you EA.

Windows updates? Event log entries on the file-server?