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Rajesh R Subramanian8-Jan-17 23:51

Rajesh R Subramanian

8-Jan-17 23:51

Wow, I had no idea this was even a thing. Would you know why were ships assigned the female gender though?

Jochen Arndt9-Jan-17 0:59

Jochen Arndt

9-Jan-17 0:59

Just Google it: Why is a ship a she? « Etymology « Glossophilia[^].

But there is no definite answer. It is traditional and the initial reason is not known for sure.

Nagy Vilmos9-Jan-17 2:16

Nagy Vilmos

9-Jan-17 2:16

Why is a ship always a'she'?:
A ship is called a "she" because there is always a great deal of bustle around her; there is usually a gang of men about, she has a waist and stays; it takes a lot of paint to keep her good looking; it is not the initial expense that breaks you, it is the upkeep; she can be all decked out; it takes an experienced man to handle her correctly; and without a man at the helm, she is absolutely uncontrollable. She shows her topsides, hides her bottom and when coming into port, always heads for the buoys."

Alternatively, the oft accepted answer is that it stems from the romance languages.

veni bibi saltavi

raddevus9-Jan-17 2:24

9-Jan-17 2:24

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
It may be a personal thing, but I find it tacky when people refer to inanimate things as she or he.

Well, since my wife _is_ a she I think I used appropriate language.

I was referring to my wife being able to use the computer again. Not the computer being a she.

And what if I were a native Spanish (or French) speaker...?
Nouns have gender in those languages, you know?
Spanish nouns - Wikipedia[^]

Mark_Wallace8-Jan-17 16:28

Mark_Wallace

8-Jan-17 16:28

Wait, wait, wait a potton-kicking minute!

Are you saying that all those jerks who, over the years, have immediately responded to windows-problem threads with "You should install linux!" were r1ght?!?

Jeeze, what's the world coming to?

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

raddevus9-Jan-17 2:25

9-Jan-17 2:25

Mark_Wallace wrote:
over the years

Mark_Wallace wrote:
were r1ght?!?

No.

Linux installs weren't so great in the past. But now...

It's the year of the LINUX DESKTOP!!!

Laugh | :laugh:

Mark_Wallace9-Jan-17 2:26

Mark_Wallace

9-Jan-17 2:26

And WINTER IS COMING!

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

User 592418-Jan-17 20:08

User 59241

8-Jan-17 20:08

A similar thing happened to me. I was ill and penicillin cured me but I'm sure it was a fluke and I'm going back to herbal cures.

Peter Wasser

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

Rajesh R Subramanian8-Jan-17 21:41

Rajesh R Subramanian

8-Jan-17 21:41

That's an impressive argument you've put across.

Someone wipes off their hard drive without any sort of backup or without having created a recovery media, which leaves them stranded (surprise, surprise). That surely sounds like a problem with Windows. Neat! Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

raddevus9-Jan-17 2:26

9-Jan-17 2:26

That's funny! I agree with you...
...back to Win10.
Until it crashes again and then I'll swap out the Ubuntu laptop.

Laugh | :laugh:

You really are right, though. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Peter_in_27808-Jan-17 20:38

Peter_in_2780

8-Jan-17 20:38

I'm using my "on the road" laptop. Dual boot, Ubuntu 16.04LTS and Win10. Partitioned the disk into 5 slices of various sizes. Windows gets C: and D:, Ubuntu gets / and /home and there is one shared. Oh and they can mount each others' partitions if I'm too lazy to move stuff to the shared one. But keepass lives there!

Cheers,
Peter

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

raddevus9-Jan-17 2:27

9-Jan-17 2:27

Very cool and very smart. Thumbs Up | :thumbsup:

Best of both worlds!

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter8-Jan-17 21:40

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

8-Jan-17 21:40

raddevus wrote:
I mean, I'm talking about Win10 getting something right

So activating an OS buy moving your SSD to an other computer it's called 'right'? Aren't we a bit too low..

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

Wastedtalent8-Jan-17 22:03

Wastedtalent

8-Jan-17 22:03

Surprised Win 10 doesn't periodically check the license against hardware to prevent this.

Cristian Amarie10-Jan-17 0:15

10-Jan-17 0:15

They check, but not so visible as before, and they offered also Win10 mostly for free.
Better for MS to have Windows 10 on all machines rather than deal with a gazillion of legacy things. That's why they do not hassle the user as msoobe did previously.

raddevus9-Jan-17 2:31

9-Jan-17 2:31

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
So activating an OS buy moving your SSD to an other computer it's called 'right'?

Haha, I had to read that sentence to think about it for a moment.

That is quite a terrible end-user solution, right?

M$ Tech support: "Okay, uninformed user, go and take the SSD out and find another laptop and drop it in there...Hello....Hello...Hmm... I think he hung up!?"

Laugh | :laugh:

Joan M8-Jan-17 21:40

Joan M

8-Jan-17 21:40

Ubuntu with it's capability to "try" it without installing has helped me to solve some friend computer issues. It is a good advice having one close. Cool | :cool:

Cristian Amarie8-Jan-17 21:41

8-Jan-17 21:41

Stopped working can be a million on things. There were issues with registration, upgrade to Win10? I installed 30 times last year and not a single one has failed.
Especially a triple boot xubuntu/Windows 7 x64/Mac OS (hackintosh) and I was sweating during the upgrade of the (non-main) partition of Win7 to Win10 (boot loader is osx). All went perfectly.

Worried Brown Eyes8-Jan-17 22:57

Worried Brown Eyes

8-Jan-17 22:57

Wow - didn't it even mess up GRUB?

Cristian Amarie10-Jan-17 0:10

10-Jan-17 0:10

Exactly. Was restarting like 20 times (very nasty setup on that particular machine, a Lenovo laptop, with whitelist/blacklist on wifi adapters etc) and I died and resurrected with each reboot.
But on the end the only thing not working was wifi on hackintosh (even with kernel patching), no other hassles. Truly my respect for Win32 guys was (again) on the roof.

raddevus9-Jan-17 2:33

9-Jan-17 2:33

I thought stopped working was very definitive answer. Laugh | :laugh:

You are right. Her PC also has Norton AntiVirus (the root of all problems) on it and it may have been causing a conflict. There was no reason that suddenly I could get to the Internet by dropping it in another laptop. I was just glad that I was lucky and things started working. Also glad that the registration process was relatively easy. I should've done that much earlier, but was lazy. Smile | :)

Cristian Amarie10-Jan-17 0:13

10-Jan-17 0:13

Most likely in those AV cases are either the hypervisor/boot protection, or (more likely) real time monitoring ("on access" feature).
Temporary disabling real-time things (either if is disk access, firewall, web traffic) on the AV usually solves such things.

dandy729-Jan-17 2:17

dandy72

9-Jan-17 2:17

FWIW, Windows 10 can be activated with Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 keys. Once it's activated, you "shouldn't" need to enter it ever again when reinstalling Windows 10, even if you reformat/reinstall as, at that point, MS has generated a hardware fingerprint and knows what key is associated with it.

Or at least something to that effect, according to Paul Thurrott.

raddevus9-Jan-17 2:35

9-Jan-17 2:35

Good to know. Thanks. I was glad the registration process ended up being easier than I thought.
I had previously forgotten that my Product keys were on the bottom of the laptops. Was glad when I remembered them and that they weren't worn off these really old laptops. Smile | :)