Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

[keeney123]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

Yea most the people my age do not know much about computers. I went to school for electrical technology that taught both digital and analog theory. All of are labs where with discrete components. When I worked in industry they needed a computer technician so that is what I became. Most of the analog stuff was closing down like TV repair and radios. Analog circuits started to make a comeback in 1986. I really wanted to be an artist, but my Dad thought artist were nothing but bums. I needed a sit down profession because I hurt my back doing a warehouse job so I became a technician. This is the only reason I know something on today's equipment. My dad was a controlled alcoholic when he was working. He would save getting drunk for the week end. When we moved to Florida when I was 16 years old he would get drunk every night with his bosses. When he got into his 60's after we moved back to MA he would hide his bottles around the house thinking my mother would not find them. My Brother Gary, not the one who lives near you, became an alcoholic when he was 12 years old. He is still an alcoholic and he is going to be 69 years old this year. He used to be a really nasty drunk. He has mellowed a little with age. He would stay drunk most of the time and usually was hung-over when he worked. So I am well aware of that type of craziness.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

I'm older than that. I like using a mouse as appose to a touch pad. You see most younger people don't understand some of the limitation when one gets old. One's vision gets worse. I am near sited but I can't wear bi-focals because I have a habit of failing with them on. I go into a store to buy things and things within two or three feet I can see well without my glasses on. Then that means if something is down low I have to put my glasses on to see it but then I can't see something two of three feet away. Of course the stores could make the writing large so it would make it easier so farsighted people could read things close to them and nearsighted people could read things away from them. The people who make these signs have no clue. I have gotten the wrong thing several times because of going back and forth with glasses and alternating that with kneeling down to the floor without glasses. OK with that said the solitaire games programmer must of consider older people. The face of the default cards have a simple design on them easy to see. Not complicated with swirls/ect. They have luxurious color to them. Not to saturated and bright, or dim and pale. This make it easy for old people to see what they have. The number and the design is not so large that, that is all you see and causes the person to concentrate on it to much and not consider the other cards and they are not too small that one can not see easily. When a person opens the MS original games to full size screen then it is perfectly easy to see. One does not have to play around with the screen size. After all of this one can change the appearance if one is tired of the type of design they are using.

I understand the getting old part. Although I'm not very old, I have some problems with my body. I can't see very well. It's at the point now where I just gave up driving and let me wife do it. Got some aching bones as well! Bad new, bad back, all that crap. I wasn't trying to imply that his age was what was causing the issues with him using a PC. What I was trying to say was he never really used any real electronics before. For example, no VCRs, no walkmans, no DVD players, no video games, no calculators, nothing. He has me set his watches and he'll call me when he accidently hits the wrong button on the TV remote and changes the video source. I've tried showing him how to switch it back, but I think it's one of those things, you know, he went soooo long without using it, now it's a bit overwhelming. That, and there isn't really a desire for some reason to learn that kind of stuff.

Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy and he loves learning, but he loves learning about how to do wood working stuff and thingies that I don't know diddly squat about. Well, now he's got this shit called alcohol related dementia and it's horrible, but when he isn't drinking, he seems to be good, which is good. I think him and mum finally quit.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

Trent Reznor did this but he wasn't pissed at all so might be someone else.

Solar roadways do not scale (too expensive) and don't produce much electricity.

The video made it look real good (the solar panel roadways). Figures the ones selling the product might be misrepresenting it a bit. They were talking about putting them on some train and it should be able to power itself or something. I found that a bit hard to believe. I mean, I could see it helping to power a train, but my understanding was, they'd cover the whole train with these panels and they would power the train completely. I didn't think we were quite there yet.

I'll confirm with my friend. I've noticed over the years, the more times a story gets told, the more that gets added to it, so it very well could have been an embellished story told about Trent Reznor. He's a NiN fan, so it would make sense if Trent did this, he'd know.

On a side note, my buddy participated in that NiN remix thing they did and he did real well. Got on the top 5 or 10 or something. Trent released these tracks or something and he'd remix them into his own songs and upload them on the NiN site. People really liked his stuff, he goes by Kindred or Kindred1134 or Kindred Spirits or something like that.

[keeney123]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

sodium reactors are dangerous as hell - do a search and see how they managed to mess them up!

anyway, nuclear power is a side-effect, the stations are all for nuclear weapons or industrial isotope manufacturing.

Living is dangerous as hell and death is the final outcome. Sodium reactors will not have a melt down no matter what one does or our many error an operator does. Like with everything there are dangers if it is not built correctly. If one does not build a building correctly it falls down and kills most of the people in it. Sodium reactor need to be keep away from air and water. Those are the dangers. Air will cause a fire and water will cause an explosion. One can minimize these risk by only allow a small storage of sodium to heat the water in a pipe that turns the turbines. This would be away from the main reactor and the large pools of sodium. What that does is prevents an explosion in the main reactor and minimizes it to a small area where the water is heated for the turbines. This would be easier to control if that happen and it would not involve the reactor. Containment of radiated liquid sodium is 300 years as appose to 10,000 years for light water. Sodium reactors will burn 99% of the fuel as appose to 1% with Water cooled reactors. In fact the waste from Water cooled reactor can be burnt in sodium cooled. The only problem in the reactor would be exposing it to air. Were a fire could start. The Tera power design the fuel cell would not have to be taken out of the pool because the cell would be use for the 60 years that the power plant was in operation.

[keeney123]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

See, I can see something like that, where a person wants to emulate a piece of software that they're real foundly of...but when a person is emulating all the programs they used to use in Linux using something like Wine, you gotta ask yourself, why are you running Linux? You know what I'm saying?

I mean, heck, we used to like this program called ImgBurn and couldn't find a Linux equivalent that we were fond of so we emulated that in Linux using Wine.

I'm glad to see you got your parents switched over! I had my dad using Linux years ago until he got a laptop with Windows on it. He would log into my Linux box as his own user and I had it setup to start some solitare card program for him. He has trouble just using the mouse so teaching him how to start the program himself wasn't really a feasible option. We tried, many times though. He had never used a computer until my Linux box. At that time he was maybe 50 or 55 years old.

I'm older than that. I like using a mouse as appose to a touch pad. You see most younger people don't understand some of the limitation when one gets old. One's vision gets worse. I am near sited but I can't wear bi-focals because I have a habit of failing with them on. I go into a store to buy things and things within two or three feet I can see well without my glasses on. Then that means if something is down low I have to put my glasses on to see it but then I can't see something two of three feet away. Of course the stores could make the writing large so it would make it easier so farsighted people could read things close to them and nearsighted people could read things away from them. The people who make these signs have no clue. I have gotten the wrong thing several times because of going back and forth with glasses and alternating that with kneeling down to the floor without glasses. OK with that said the solitaire games programmer must of consider older people. The face of the default cards have a simple design on them easy to see. Not complicated with swirls/ect. They have luxurious color to them. Not to saturated and bright, or dim and pale. This make it easy for old people to see what they have. The number and the design is not so large that, that is all you see and causes the person to concentrate on it to much and not consider the other cards and they are not too small that one can not see easily. When a person opens the MS original games to full size screen then it is perfectly easy to see. One does not have to play around with the screen size. After all of this one can change the appearance if one is tired of the type of design they are using.

[stj]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

sodium reactors are dangerous as hell - do a search and see how they managed to mess them up!

anyway, nuclear power is a side-effect, the stations are all for nuclear weapons or industrial isotope manufacturing.

[keeney123]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

Not necessarily true! For example, I'm going to be President, I know that for a fact! And, I can see a bit of the future. Like the telephone poles, I'm doing away with them. Roadways? I'm replacing them, along with park lots, with solar panels, smart ones. They can light up and display stuff like the parking lines and handicap symbols. They can let you know if deer are in the road up a head, or if there's an accident. These already exist. Google something like Solar Freaking Powered Roadways

They should be able to generate enough electricity so everyone in America can have free, renewable energy.

Then, because I'm President, I'm gonna have to bring world peace. The only way I figured out how to do this is to unite the world by giving them a common enemy. Just gotta find a good scapegoat (or come up with another way on how to unite man-kind)!

I Love it. How about figuring how to put solar cells in paint and then paint everything with them. So anything that had paint on it would be producing power. Then you could use your power connection underground to connect it all up and provide everyone with what they need. No batteries for storing. Just convert it to AC run it all over so if you don't have sun here you have it there. Always could use fast breeder liquid sodium reactor for a back up and then we could get rid of all our atomic waste at the same time.

[diif]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

My friend was talking about this a while ago. He's a musician and a good friend. He said some famous band (I can find out who, I just don't remember) decided to put their new album up on their site and let people donate money if they wanted to, because he was sick and tired of the record labels stealing his cash.

Anyway, when he seen that over half the people downloaded the album for free and didn't pay, he was furious (or so my friend says). He was saying how cheap the American people where and then he took it all back. Even with over half the people getting the album for free, he still made more than what he got from the record labels!

I can check to see who the band was and if they're still doing the download for free or donate thing.

Trent Reznor did this but he wasn't pissed at all so might be someone else.

Solar roadways do not scale (too expensive) and don't produce much electricity.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

...None of use really know what is in the future....

Not necessarily true! For example, I'm going to be President, I know that for a fact! And, I can see a bit of the future. Like the telephone poles, I'm doing away with them. Roadways? I'm replacing them, along with park lots, with solar panels, smart ones. They can light up and display stuff like the parking lines and handicap symbols. They can let you know if deer are in the road up a head, or if there's an accident. These already exist. Google something like Solar Freaking Powered Roadways

They should be able to generate enough electricity so everyone in America can have free, renewable energy.

Then, because I'm President, I'm gonna have to bring world peace. The only way I figured out how to do this is to unite the world by giving them a common enemy. Just gotta find a good scapegoat (or come up with another way on how to unite man-kind)!

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

i hate to break it to you, but the artists generally get screwed.
they get about 1c per download - if they are very lucky.

that's why some just up stuff to the net and make money on concerts and "donations" and goods like t-shirts, posters etc

My friend was talking about this a while ago. He's a musician and a good friend. He said some famous band (I can find out who, I just don't remember) decided to put their new album up on their site and let people donate money if they wanted to, because he was sick and tired of the record labels stealing his cash.

Anyway, when he seen that over half the people downloaded the album for free and didn't pay, he was furious (or so my friend says). He was saying how cheap the American people where and then he took it all back. Even with over half the people getting the album for free, he still made more than what he got from the record labels!

I can check to see who the band was and if they're still doing the download for free or donate thing.

[Spork Schivago]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

Actually, according to my parents, YES. After switching from XP to Linux, they refused all of the Linux OSS clone that I found (PySol; I'm sure there's more), they only wanted the exact look and feel of Windows Spider and Freecell solitaire. They couldn't explain why, so had to chug some Wine. It was fortunate enough that they were willing to use Linux instead of WinXP however, but these exact applications they could not accept alternatives...

Luckily wineing these binaries worked readily.

See, I can see something like that, where a person wants to emulate a piece of software that they're real foundly of...but when a person is emulating all the programs they used to use in Linux using something like Wine, you gotta ask yourself, why are you running Linux? You know what I'm saying?

I mean, heck, we used to like this program called ImgBurn and couldn't find a Linux equivalent that we were fond of so we emulated that in Linux using Wine.

I'm glad to see you got your parents switched over! I had my dad using Linux years ago until he got a laptop with Windows on it. He would log into my Linux box as his own user and I had it setup to start some solitare card program for him. He has trouble just using the mouse so teaching him how to start the program himself wasn't really a feasible option. We tried, many times though. He had never used a computer until my Linux box. At that time he was maybe 50 or 55 years old.

[keeney123]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

you need to think about the future, because windows wont be in it - atleast not in a form you would recognise.

payed-for music is a big issue - the only answer is to download pirate mp3's untill the legit sites get the message.

there are similar issues with E-Books.
atleast with those - there are fixes.
https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/...ls-for-ebooks/

I can not live for the future. I can only live the now. None of use really know what is in the future. I could be like that software engineer that worked for Cisco in Seattle. I could be driving my kids around in a car when some punk gang person tries to shoot another gang person and misses and shoot the guy in the car with the kids. Killing him.

[keeney123]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

i hate to break it to you, but the artists generally get screwed.
they get about 1c per download - if they are very lucky.

that's why some just up stuff to the net and make money on concerts and "donations" and goods like t-shirts, posters etc

Yes I know that is how it is, but they do get some royalties. As I said I am not against them making money. I also know they have contracts that they agreed to in order to advertise their album so I guess these people need to be paid in order to put food on the table. What you are talking about are the fat cats that try and do as little as they can for as much as they can get. As long as people go along with this it will continue. My option is to op out. If the majority oped out then you would see change. Because it would hurt their pocket book.

[stj]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

i hate to break it to you, but the artists generally get screwed.
they get about 1c per download - if they are very lucky.

that's why some just up stuff to the net and make money on concerts and "donations" and goods like t-shirts, posters etc

[keeney123]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

Actually, according to my parents, YES. After switching from XP to Linux, they refused all of the Linux OSS clone that I found (PySol; I'm sure there's more), they only wanted the exact look and feel of Windows Spider and Freecell solitaire. They couldn't explain why, so had to chug some Wine. It was fortunate enough that they were willing to use Linux instead of WinXP however, but these exact applications they could not accept alternatives...

Luckily wineing these binaries worked readily.

So it is like when you have a good product why screw it up. I do not know why Microsoft insist on using different games in their new operating system and then refuse to let others use them even though Microsoft is not using them. I mean like since XP they have not got their money back? I am not against a music artist from making a profit from their hard work. I even have paid for many of the same albums more than once, but this preventing the buyer from enjoying their purchase where ever they choose has got to go or I just will never buy another album again. This is my only recourse. Anytime one depends on what they have done it past as what defines them now they miss out on the now. Their God given creative ability to grow and change for the better. This is Microsoft's problem they are trying to offer less on the good name of the past. Their unwillingness to change for the better through creativity is in my opinion why they are failing. They are failing themselves and people who buy their product.

[eccerr0r]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

Do you really want to play Windows Solitaire in Linux when you can just have your package manager download the Linux equivalent?

Actually, according to my parents, YES. After switching from XP to Linux, they refused all of the Linux OSS clone that I found (PySol; I'm sure there's more), they only wanted the exact look and feel of Windows Spider and Freecell solitaire. They couldn't explain why, so had to chug some Wine. It was fortunate enough that they were willing to use Linux instead of WinXP however, but these exact applications they could not accept alternatives...

Luckily wineing these binaries worked readily.

[Topcat]

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that's not something a u.s. citizen should be openly saying!

This was way back when.....before napster and all the lawsuits. Audiogalaxy used to offer a FTP search engine that users could allow access to their own FTP servers. Great for home-brew FTP servers, and even better when you had a rockin' connection. I was always in their top 5 largest servers....it's been shut down for a good 12 years...The files are securely locked away. I miss those days.

[stj]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

that's not something a u.s. citizen should be openly saying!

[Topcat]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

I do not know how you get the in Linux as the properties show this /media/ubuntu/Windows/Users/Ann as the file location. The songs are in .MP3 I do not want each individual song. I want the albums with the album art as I listen to the whole album at a time and I do not play individual songs.

When I ran the FTP music server back in the day, thats what I specialized in was complete albums. I ended up with a lot of them via the ratio service.

[stj]

Re: Windows 10 and magically hidden files.

you need to think about the future, because windows wont be in it - atleast not in a form you would recognise.

payed-for music is a big issue - the only answer is to download pirate mp3's untill the legit sites get the message.

there are similar issues with E-Books.
atleast with those - there are fixes.
https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/...ls-for-ebooks/