On 06/30/2015 08:48 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I would appreciate some advice on both the software and the
hardware life expectancy of a PC Windows System. While
the hardware / software of the second and third system are
almost 10 years old, I don't consider them, let alone the first
system, topi
On 6/30/2015 5:48 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
At present, I have three systems that I am running:
Dave had some excellent advice. However i had a friend who is a
database developer (mentioned because he's not really interested in
fooling with his OS, etc.) that wanted to upgrade an older sys
> From: Jerome H. Fine
> just how thin is the ice that I am skating on for system (a)?
> ...
> if the motherboard in system (b) is not too old at 7 years and 30,000
> hours
One data point for you: I have a whole flock of old HP desktops (actually,
minitowers) from the late 90'
Hard to answer. I just installed WinXP POSReady2009 on a Neoware CA10
thin client with 1 GB memory and a 800 MHz VIA CPU. It went without a
hitch and MS claimes that maintenance upgrades are good through 2019. I
do continue to get MSE upgrades as well.
The system was a problem only in that
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
I don't think this qualifies as answers persay, but more just data
points really...
I have successfully installed & run Win7 x86 & x64 on Dell Latitude
D620, D630, D820 & D830. Not sure on the age, but they gotta be getting on to
around 7 years. The
Finding this ironic thread considering we here keep machines waay past
their freshness date going. Work with whatever and be prepared to migrate
to another machine as needed. I never set in stone "this is my xzy machine
forever"... see my point? Use whatever is the least hassle now, and will
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Cisin
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> On T
On 06/30/2015 11:05 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
I don't think this qualifies as answers persay, but more just data
points really...
I have successfully installed & run Win7 x86 & x64 on Dell
Latitude D620, D630, D820 & D830. Not sure on the age, but
> > Why not??!?
>
> Fair question, easy answer. Security. Unless it's air-gapped, I
> wouldn't put anything sensitive on WinXP. Every month, we are finding out
> just how much WinXP is like swiss cheese.
>
Well there are other reasons. You buy a new printer and you find it only
works on Wi
On 30/06/15 17:02, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Well there are other reasons. You buy a new printer and you find it
only works on Windows/7 onwards.
Indeed. The latest stuff is (obviously) only tested against the
"current" eco-system, so if you find that
you need a new printer or network interface or wh
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> Carlini
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> Subject: Re: Advice Requested on Life Expectancy of a PC Windows System
>
> On 30/06/15 17:02, Da
Why not??!?
Why do the experts advocate not using something that had been working?
(Windows XP)
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Because the base OS and Applications no longer supports current internet
standards ?
Oh, OK.
I didn't realize that this machine wasn't connecting to the intern
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote:
.. its really great fun Only OS/2 is a little truculent
Have you tried Parallels for hosting OS/2? It was developed originally
for the Russian banking system to get their OS/2 based legacy software on
to modern hardware.
OS/2 worked flawlessl
Why not??!?
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
Fair question, easy answer. Security. Unless it's air-gapped, I
wouldn't put anything sensitive on WinXP. Every month, we are finding out
just how much WinXP is like swiss cheese.
THAT is a good answer/reason!
Why do the experts advo
On 06/30/2015 02:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Why not??!?
On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
Fair question, easy answer. Security. Unless it's air-gapped, I
wouldn't put anything sensitive on WinXP. Every month, we are finding
out just how much WinXP is like swiss cheese.
THAT is a
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Subject: Re: Advice Requested on Life Expectancy of a PC Windows System
On 30/06/15 17:02, Dave G4UGM wrote:
Well there are other reasons. You buy a new printer and you find it
only works on Windows/7 onwards.
Indeed. The latest stuff is (obviously) only tested against the
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