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More likely laptops which have no or flaky drivers.
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Or which can't be upgraded (even to win8) due to the OS CPU requirements.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I see vista come though here once in a while. The last one was last week but in that instance it was a static zapped mb on a dual core toshiba from the iron age. The customer has her data but that's one less.
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And how many of those machines were because Windows effectively updated itself. I never intended to update to Windows 10 when I happened, and the same is true for a friend of mine. I would like to know what percentage is because of this.
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95% ?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I still don't get that 1.2% sticking with Vista. Stockholm Syndrome?
Probably those who are still waiting for the reboot after they selected to downgrade to XP.  What many of us who have some slight iota of computer savvy don't always keep in mind: Nearly all users (when speaking about these sorts of numbers) are in the group who sort of know what button to press to see their emails, and nothing beyond that.
I definitely wonder just how many of the 20% is due to auto-upgrades, how many didn't want it in the first place, who actually thinks it's "better" than before, what portion is due to new computers comming with W10 preinstalled, and how many of those would gladly revert back to W7/8/8.1 (if they "knew" how). Methinks that would reduce the 20% somewhat.
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Some slow Vista machine arent getting an update.
But I am very curiois WHY THE HACK this crap isnt dumped 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I still don't get that 1.2% sticking with Vista.
How much time do you want to spend working on a 10 year old laptop that's probably just going to sit around as a headless system unless it's needed as an emergency loaner to a friend/family member?
If it's still alive 6 months from now I'll probably attempt a win7 upgrade, or failing that some light weight flavor of linux. (My brother tried to do a clean install of W7 on it 2 years ago when he had it but failed due to lack of official driver availability. I know how to scavenge for compatible drivers from 3rd party sites online; but it's a PITA which is part of why I'm waiting.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Fair enough. I have to remind myself that my visceral dislike of Vista (and ME, for what it's worth) aren't reason enough to upgrade.
TTFN - Kent
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Nope. Especially not when - to do the upgrade - I'd need to touch it more than I did in the yearish interval between when I restored an image from backup after getting it from my brother and today. 
While using it as a distributed computing node I've been hoping it'd die of old age before Vista EOLs. So far it's managed to zombie on though. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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DevOps, ASP.NET Core, random numbers, and more With a special guest appearance by Rudyard Kipling (sort of)
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For next month the Rudyard Kipling should be the poem "If" pertaining to test driven development:-
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
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Yup, and "Tommy" for our long suffering sysadmins.
While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",
But it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind,
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind,
O it's "Please to walk in front, sir", when there's trouble in the wind.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A team of researchers at MIT has developed a device designed to give home owners a better picture of how much power their individual appliances are eating up. If only there were some meter attached to the power line that would help?
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How many people do you think can read those things and know what number means what? The one on our house has EIGHT different sets of numbers it can show, with 15 numbers per set. And there are no labels. Just the numbers.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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IIRC The newer ones my power company is putting out have a digital display; I suspect that means even the linemen these days are getting confused. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And how much power do those meters and transmitters into the internet eat up?
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Earlier this year, Google launched a new section to its Transparency Report that highlighted the use of HTTPS to encrypt connections between its users’ devices and its servers The cat videos MUST be protected!
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“Impostor syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist even in face of information that indicates that the opposite is true. It is experienced internally as chronic self-doubt, and feelings of intellectual fraudulence.” "'Cause I really wanna know who are you?"
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Here's a nice way to overcome imposter syndrome: realize everybody else doesn't have a clue either.
If everybody's an imposter no one's an imposter 
Why does Chrome object to my spelling of imposter?
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So, how do you overcome imposter managers--the ones who are sure they aren't inadequate, but really are?
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Joe Woodbury wrote: how do you overcome imposter managers
You use fear, uncertainty, and doubt, while you help them fail in such a dramatic way they are fired.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Shovel, applied right about there:  ?
TTFN - Kent
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This reminds me of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome [^].
While the word "impostor" suggests someone playing a role, consciously, the Dunning-Kruger syndrome suggests a person who is relatively un-skilled actually believes they are more skilled than they are; and, the reverse: increasing expertise is often associated with underestimation of one's own abilities.
Of course, I'm not absolutely sure of that 
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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