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#1 OFFLINE
Posted 30 November 2017 - 08:03 AM
You don't need to answer this if you don't want to, thanks,
Acadia
#2 OFFLINE
Posted 30 November 2017 - 11:12 AM
Scot was last here on Feb 17 2017.
His contact lists only a Twitter account
https://twitter.com/ScotFinnie
Edited by zlim, 30 November 2017 - 11:14 AM.
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Posted 30 November 2017 - 12:19 PM
By the way, love your signature.

Acadia
Edited by Acadia, 30 November 2017 - 12:22 PM.
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Posted 01 December 2017 - 10:14 AM
hmm I see that he was the editor in chief there
https://www.computer...or/scot-finnie/
I assume a job that needs your attention 24 x 7 eventually takes its toll.
He has articles to write and I assume edit for daily publication.
That's why he appointed administrators to run this site because he doesn't have the time to devote to a forum when he got promoted.
Edited by zlim, 01 December 2017 - 10:19 AM.
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Posted 01 December 2017 - 01:47 PM
Acadia
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Posted 01 December 2017 - 02:39 PM
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Posted 01 December 2017 - 06:58 PM
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#9 OFFLINE
Posted 02 December 2017 - 10:43 AM
Apparently in May, ComputerWorld went from 16 to 6.
It takes me a long time to notice some things. Apparently the ComputerWorld topics stopped in August and I didn't notice the change until December.
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Posted 02 December 2017 - 11:59 AM

But will wait to purchase a new system for a while hoping MS gets its monthly updating worked out.

Acadia
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Posted 03 December 2017 - 11:52 AM
I'm pretty happy with my newest android tablet. 95% of what I do is surf and once I pull the Windows computers off the internet (but keep them so I can play the games that are on them), I think it will be okay. My newest tablet comes with some Office apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and One Note. Since my husband still needs Word and Excel, we should be okay using the tablet.
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Posted 03 December 2017 - 12:29 PM
Acadia
(by the way, still love your Signature)
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#14 OFFLINE
Posted 05 December 2017 - 11:29 AM
zlim, on 04 December 2017 - 11:40 AM, said:
Acadia
Edited by Acadia, 05 December 2017 - 11:32 AM.
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Posted 05 December 2017 - 11:53 AM
The closest Apple store to us is at least an hour away if the traffic is good but longer this time of year so it isn't practical for me.
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Posted 05 December 2017 - 08:16 PM
Of course if you want "death by update" I would recommend Debian Sid. Even that is a pretty stable system. Linux has come a long way and my Linux Mint 18 system just works - for me and the grandkids when they come over.

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Posted 06 December 2017 - 07:19 PM
#18 OFFLINE
Posted 06 December 2017 - 08:16 PM
ebrke, on 06 December 2017 - 07:19 PM, said:
I still dabble in openSUSE. I've been testing Leap on different hardware and I like the fact that it's VNC server works better than Ubuntu. Unity was a pain to get a desktop in VNC. With GNOME installed in Ubuntu it's better now.
Most of my Linux instances I run at work are in virtual machines in VMware vSphere. I have a few Raspberry Pi systems doing low-level service duty: DHCP, DNS, WiFi bridge, router.
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Posted 07 December 2017 - 10:22 PM
Acadia, on 30 November 2017 - 08:03 AM, said:
You don't need to answer this if you don't want to, thanks,
Acadia
I use both Windows and the Mac every day. I went back to Windows when I became a heavy Dragon user. It works much better under Windows. But I never stopped loving the Mac. I've come to grudgingly like Windows 10 quite a bit. Microsoft does a lot of things right in this OS.
I use SugarSync to sync the desktop and a few other folders between my Dell XPS 9550 and my 2017 MacBook Pro Retina. So I'm always looking at the same set of files no matter what machine I open. I have a virtual machine of Windows 10 on my Mac using Parallels. Because of the way you can configure the Mac in your Windows virtual machine to share folders in Parallels, effectively I'm looking at the Mac desktop under Windows in terms of the files in folders it contains. That means that all three daily driver operating system installations see the same data at all times.
So that's how Scot rolls these days.
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Posted 08 December 2017 - 12:48 AM
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Posted 14 December 2017 - 12:14 PM
Edited by Acadia, 20 December 2017 - 02:48 PM.
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