PC reliability

Microsoft rebooted my Win 7 Pro, 64 bit stem on the 14th to let me know that it was out of support. It has been problem free for several years. It has crashed three times in two days. Once it locked up. the other two were blue screens.

Michael Terrell wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Win 7 anything is vulnerable. Maybe not MS that has hacked you. I would not get online with anything these days other than Linux or Win

The desktop I'm currently using at home runs Windoze 7. I saw the "Your Windoze 7 PC is out of support" message on the 14th. No crashes or problems. Just to be sure, I just ran quick Malwarebytes (free) and Avast Anti-virus (free) scans. Nothing found.

I can't tell from here what broke your machine, but I suggest that you scan it with whatever anti-virus program you are using followed by some kind of anti-malware program scan. If you suspect that you might have a root-kit installed, look for specialized root kit detectors.

I have run them and found nothing. I was getting ready to build a newer sys tem. I have a quad core 3.0GHz MB with 16GB of RAM and a pair of new 3TB ha rd drives sitting here. I just haven't felt well enough to rip apart my mes s of systems to make room for it. The desk has 5 computers, three 24" monit ors and two, four drive NAS boxes. I would tear down the entire mess and re arrange everything to make it neater. It would also eliminate a lot of aban doned cabling.

Thanks to a bad VA doctor, I went without my prescriptions for two months, starting early September. I still have trouble eating, and readjusting to t he drugs. I go upto five days at a time, that I simply can't eat. I'm not g oing to tackle the rebuild, until, and if I ever feel well enough.

Like many others here, it is time to start thinning the herd. My family wou ld just rent a dumpster or leave my workshop unlocked so people would steal what they thought they could pawn.

I've had good results with Tri-Flow (a lubricant with PTFE microspheres) at quieting bushing fans; the solids really do fill in the gaps for a long time. I always peel the label and pry off the seal, don't know if it works with needle injection.

Well, even a Samsung Galaxy J2 balked at entry of password into a Godaddy account. So, "of course" is incorrect at best.

Robert Baer wrote in news:fQLVF.52420 $ snipped-for-privacy@fx35.iad:

My point exactly. It should never have been this way and we should never have accepted it as such, and should also NOT continue to accept it.

It is like y'all like getting screwed around. Half of you idiots put an idiot in office just so you could get further screwed around.

Good job! NOT!!!

Idiot! TINSTAFFL! Ask for a free house, or a free car, or...and a free domain name registration. NOT going to happen.

Linux doesn't exist?

The idiot here is Robert Baer. There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but the free market isn't the only way of distributing goods and services, and for some goods and services it's not a particularly satisfactory mechanism.

The US health care system does come to mind.

Yes, obviously another example is birth registration; your personal name and details of birth are registered for life, without any payment from the individual, because... newborns aren't ready to pay. Free-to-the-user is the only rule that works.

Domain names, though, are like a trademark, are chosen by someone who CAN pay. Names could be bought wholesale by speculators if the price tag were too low. Have been bought thus, in fact.

Alas, if you don't have a personal domain name, you also don't have a personal e-mail address, which is rather inconvenient. Losing a personal e-mail address ought not heppen because of failure to pay a yearly fee that might be based on all-the-market-will-bear. Nonprofit registrars are imperfect, but not unworkable.

Unfortunately even if you have a personal domain, you need to pay additional fees to get the email backbone to accept messages you send. Such is the strength of anti-spam/anti-relay technology that this is a significant barrier (cost) that is met by the major carriers (Google, FastMail and a number of others).

Gone are the days where any old server just just make outbound SMTP requests and send email with any confidence that the email will be accepted and forwarded by the target or the relay servers.

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In the first place, i did not even hint about Linux, which is not exactly free.

The US health care system is expensive: almost everyone pays for it; taxes at minimum.

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ch, but the free market isn't the only way of distributing goods and servic es, and for some goods and services it's not a particularly satisfactory me chanism.

You don't have to pay to download Linux software. The way it gets paid for is interesting and complicated, but from the user point of view it is a "fr ee lunch".

Costs per head half-again higher than the most expensive health care system s in other countries, health outcomes across the population as a whole dist inctly poorer.

talks about the way that less rich people in more unequal societies live sh orter lives than their rich counterparts - less equal countries have steepe r social gradients. It also goes into the fact that even the rich in the US don't live as long as even the poor in more equal countries.

Too much free market in your health system impairs its performance for ever ybody, but more so for the poor.

Since the main point of a national health system is to protect the populati on as a whole from epidemics (though this isn't what keeps them busy for mo st of the time) the US system is particularly unsatisfactory.

What do think is inexact about it? It feels exactly free, along with the boatload of software that inevitably comes along with it. Your SeaMonster internet suite is free. A year ago I was getting free coffee at an evacuation center while a wildfire was burning thru the area. The free section of craigslist has some numbingly nice stuff. Right now I'm sitting at a free desk.

Absolutely NONE of what you mentioned is free.

The Linux OS was not free nor the software you mentioned. At minimum, you SPENT time and energy for research (distro? version? etc?), ditto to get (download at minimum) the files; then time and energy to install.

The SeaMonkey browser may be worse, in that on occasion, one must check for upgrades and fiddle with that.

And, that cup of coffee cost time and money: the beans had to be transported from South America, processed, ground, packaged, cooked/processed into the water (also not free), poured into the (not free) cup and was handed to you.

Craig's list is not free; costs you time and indirectly money to sign up for it as well as use it.

Finally, that desk you rave about so much costs the energy to fell the trees, as well as the engineering time to design the desk, the labor to cut the wood into appropriate shapes, assemble; then transport to where it was placed.

NOT a GD thing you mentioned was free - not even your mad raving.

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It takes time and quite often money to change your system at all.

Linux software is free. You have to make an effort to take advantage of it.

That isn't a cost you can attach to the software.

Again, not a cost you can attach to the software.

But you didn't have to pay for any of it.

Robert Baer provides lunatic delusions for free. They cost him credibility (or would if he had any left), and they cost his readers the time it takes to read them, but that's not a cost you can attach to the lunacies presente d.

So are you glad that you replied to him???

He's nuts! Robert Baer has to PAY to breathe! The time, effort to move air, calories used...

Forget about it Jake. It's the Internet...