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Have entered the 21st century
Posted by holy-cow on August 29, 2019 at 12:50 pmWindows 10 now. Had been at the XP level for many years. The RPLS Today system booting me off a looooong time ago because of my age (XP age that is). Have had to view on the wife’s laptop with more modern technology. Hate that keyboard so had to hunt and peck. The last straw with the XP was when it refused to allow a connection to my email account. Sooooooo, many dollars later I am back. It’s not the money so much as the constant, nagging insistence that anything we have must be replaced at short intervals to ensure the rest of the world that we are stupid because we don’t know how to do everything the newer technology is capable of letting us do. Have been fighting this syndrome with copy machines for over 40 years. Why must you “learn” how to make a copy on someone else’s machine before you can simply put your document in and hit a button and BAMMMM there it is. Oh, heck no, that would be too simple.
Watch out. My posting rate is sure to increase now.
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I could not agree more! I was happy with the bells and whistles many releases ago, and I hardly have time to learn any of the new things the latest upgrade is supposed to do. Someone even told me my smart phone would make phone calls!
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The need to upgrade is driven by security, not the addition of new features. Your XP is a security vulnerability to the whole of any network it may be attached to. That’s why you were cut off from access. Blame the hackers, not Microsoft.
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XP? Didn’t the Chinese invent that during the Xing dynasty?
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Security updates, sure. But I still want newer operating systems to look like XP. That was the golden version for the user interface.
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The XP is and will remain my workhorse computer. It never gets connected to the internet because like a vampire in sunlight, it would probably go poof.
I have a few DOS programs that are great and nothing modern will outperform them.
Was informed by TurboTax that beginning in 2020 to be able to work my 2019 income taxes it will be necessary to upgrade to Win10. It was only two years ago I had to upgrade to Win7 to use TurboTax.
There comes a time when life is too tech-savvy. Many of my clients have simple flip phones and they are not on social media and do not text.
My name is on Facebook so I can post pictures of my grandchildren and that is the extent of that. I do check out their shop and post groups and have purchased a few things from local people.
BeerLeg, aka RPLSToday.com, is my social media presence.
The best way to contact me is to text me as my attention is usually consumed with putting the myriad of metes and bounds puzzles together and analyzing survey data of what is on the ground to compare to those metes and bounds by the rules of evidence and trying to understand why some of the monuments I find were placed by putting their client’s interests first and neglecting the rights of others.
There ain’t no app or Windows system or any other computer or AI that will do all that for me.
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I don’t mind the upgrades as long as they actually upgrade something. They pump this garbage out and change stuff that was never broken just to keep their worker bees working. It’s absolutely stupid and annoying.
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Posted by: @norman-oklahoma
The need to upgrade is driven by security,
Personally I believe it’s driven by the same thing that drives everything in the world, good or bad, $Money$. ????
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Windows XP was introduced in August 2001. The twenty-first century started in January 2001. 🙂
I have software that I need to work and it does not require the massive amount of entertainment functionality of the latest operating system. The only function I want in the operating system is to be able to run the software I use.
Today’s computers are like modern pickup trucks. Too fancy to do any work.
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My favorite PC has XP Pro for its OS. It hasn’t been connected to the internet for over 10 years. It sits directly to the left of me and still uses an old CRT monitor.
I use it all the probably weekly (besides the fact it has all my old job files and dgns on it) for my TopCon’s GR5s needs and various other things that all these newer versions of Windows don’t like. It even has an ancient version of AutoCAD on it along with an oldie-but-goody called Lotus 1-2-3. Oh, it also has some software on it where I can download my old Nikon TS…if the need ever arises again.
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Posted by: @paden-cash
My favorite PC has XP Pro for its OS. It hasn’t been connected to the internet for over 10 years. It sits directly to the left of me and still uses an old CRT monitor.
I use it all the probably weekly (besides the fact it has all my old job files and dgns on it) for my TopCon’s GR5s needs and various other things that all these newer versions of Windows don’t like. It even has an ancient version of AutoCAD on it along with an oldie-but-goody called Lotus 1-2-3. Oh, it also has some software on it where I can download my old Nikon TS…if the need ever arises again.
My No.1 PC where I do +90% of my “real work” is a XP machine with 4 physical drives (1 of them a new solid state drive), that has NEVER been connected to the Internet (or any “network”). There are literally hundreds of “DOS” programs on it, and an ancient CAD program, ALL-TOPO, and gobs of other “stuff.”
When it breaks (which it does from time to time), I get it fixed, the rest of the time, I just make money with it!
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I’ve said it before, so many surveyors are a bunch of Luddites and are living with technology that is 20 or more years old. In fact I know of several who are still using cobbled together Windows 95 computers and others who run plain DOS.
I imagine most of you guys would be quite content to use coal for heating and cooking and use an outhouse with old news papers and corn cobs to clean up with.
SMH.
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Classic shell – works great – except on certain older Lenovos. Had to completely wipe my Thinkpad & install Win10 from scratch
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Posted by: @just-a-surveyor
… so many surveyors are a bunch of Luddites and are living with technology that is 20 or more years old….
To prove that, post “HP41 for sale, still in the box, w/survey module”.
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Surveyors are notorious for hanging on to hardware and concepts that are tried and trued by actual production. And although some might think me a Luddite, I still use formulae thunked up by a man named Pythagoras many years ago. But I’m sure the latest version of whatever software doesn’t use any of that old stuff…
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As I read the news today, I saw an article where the tech giants are all in hot water over their fancy automated devices that listen for commands then do whatever was asked (Alexa, Siri) because they had employees listening to what the devices listened to, and in many cases, them devices were recording things they were not supposed to. And, to make matters worse, many of the employees were making copies of said recordings to share with their friends. So much for privacy! I can be certain I will never have one of those devices anywhere near my home.
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Those are snooping devices manufactured in China.
They have already banned one cell phone maker that was putting snooping chips in their phones and certain computers have been found to have snooping chips and who knows what else.
Practically any tech that can communicate wireless is under suspicion of snooping and can be hacked to snoop and if it has a camera, that can be turned on to take pictures and record video.
Many new smart TVs and computer monitors have a video camera that is not mentioned in the manual and have been used to snoop.
It is getting to where if you are not using your new tech, turn it off and unplug or take the battery our if you really want to have peace of mine.
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I read George Orwell’s novel “1984” when I was school-boy. The thought of every household having a camera for “Big Brother” to watch (and listen) to folks seemed bizarre to me back then.
And now it’s not so far from reality. But here’s the real kicker: Big Brother didn’t have to pay for the cameras…we’ve bought them all by ourselves!
(this world keeps getting nuttier by the day) 😉
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@norman-oklahoma
The HP41 with a survey module would be closer to 30 years old.
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Well they are notorious for a lot of things and holding on to old obsolete computers and software is one of them.
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