Jafo

Yep. and to top it off much of it is to enable Cortana...and that's not even available in Oz [yet].

Cortana is available in these regions for these languages:

• China: (Chinese simplified)
• France: French
• Germany: German
• Italy: Italian
• Spain: Spanish
• United Kingdom: English
• United States: English

Yep....

....and there's no point being an insider....unless you want to be the first kid on the block to be fucked royally by your OS ....

starkers....your input re 10 will have meaning ONLY if you ever actually use it.

Spouting someone else's dislike of it is meaningless.  You were constantly TELLING me that my dislike of 8 was because I simply didn't use it enough to like it....and here you are being a total bullshit artist by NOT practising what you preach.

Win 10 is - for want of a better title...a public BETA [whilst the insider ver is at best an alpha].  There are enough quirks on Terry's machine....[a long-running OS upgraded] to NOT  need more of them with the alpha program.

WHEN it is arguably 'finally RTM' it will be a superior OS to any and all before it, and definitely superior to the one you claim has the sun shining out of its arse.

I'm glad to see you feel that way, seriously.  I do intend to upgrade to it before the free period expires, purely for the longer support period, and I'm hoping that I don't have to grit my teeth for too long during or afterward.  I still have hope while leaving in the oven to bake a little longer.

Well....I DO have a sore throat.....

Yep, those Samsung externals are great gear, and a 1TB is on my shopping list for sometime later in 2016.  I figure something that small would be a perfect partner to go out and about with my HP 2-in-1.  Yeah, SD memory cards are okay for basic storage, but not so good for playing music and video... which can so help pass the time while waiting at the doctors/hospital, etc.  I do have a Toshiba 1TB portable HDD that does the job, but it sucks a lot of battery power and a Samsung poratable SSD would serve my needs so much better.

I've been looking at getting one for a while now, but being there's a shortage of storage space in here in the new place, I have some other 'gotta-gets' [wardrobes/cupboards, etc] before I can think about such things.  Never mind, they may have come down in price by the time I'm ready to buy.

Quoting Jafo,

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Latest addition to the 'beast' is a modem/router that actually works.

Since setting it up a week or so ago it hasn't missed a beat...or rather hasn't lost connection and needed rebooting...as the old one did with monotonous regularity.

 

My modem/router never misses a beat, either.  I wish that I could say the same for the Telstra connection outside, which is forever going on the blink and even cutting out altogether.  Although my current provider is iinet, the lines are Telstra's... and they're those fechen useless copper ones that are as old as Moses' great, great grandad.  Curently I'm geeting less than a 1/4 of the speed I'm paying for... and as for the landline, haven't been able to make or recieve a call for a week now.

This is a clear cut case as to why the Turnbull gov't should NOT be using copper frome the node when connecting the NBN to households/properties.  The copper network is antiquated, in some places it's over 50 years old, and has become far too unreliable and costly to repair.  And I'm not the only one locally who's having issues with phone and internet via Telstra's copper lines.  A mate who's a Telstra techie told me that the poor service/no service complaints around here are among the highest in SE Qld, that repairs are piecemeal efforts at best and no plans to upgrade to fibre-optic have been made thus far.... much less the NBN

I like where I'm living - both the house and the area/suburb - so I'd hate to have to move because the phone and internet service is piss poor. 

Damned Telstra, likes to charge premium prices but can't/won't provide a premium service.

Quoting Jafo,

reply 216

Been abourt 2 weeks now and still no drop-outs or any other issues.

Kinda wish I'd got a new one sooner...

Yeah, the Telstra suppied modems are crap, if that's what you had.  I got a free one when I signed up a while back, but I soon swapped it out for a Netgear unit I had. Not only was it more reliable/efficient, I got better speeds from it as well.  Now I have an iinet suppied one and it is very good... and will deliver the top speeds when the 'outside' network allows it.

Speaking of the 'outside' network, the techie came on Friday and sorta fixed it.  I'm still not getting full speed, but it's at least allowing me to load pages, download updates, etc, and stream Netflix.  Couldn't do all that before.  Yeah, he told me that there was a broken wire in the junction box outide, and that he'd done the best he was authorised to fix it.  He said that the copper wiring around here is so brittle and can break with just a creepy crawly walking over it, and that Telstra will not authorise any replacement wiring or components unless absolutley necessary.  All he could do was solder it back together and hope for the best.

And IF EVER the NBN gets here... that's what they'll be using to hook it up to properties now Turnbull effed everything up.  What a fechen joke!  He takes a perfectly good firbre optic network a bottlenecks it with copper to so-say save money.  What a fucken idiot.  As is evidenced by the antiquated copper network around here, there are no savings to be made.... techies don't come cheap and they're out here with monotonous regularity, not that Turnbull gives a rat's arse.

Just as well, they're crap with a capital rubbish,

Yup, I'm starting to dislike Telstra as much as I dislike bankers and Microsoft/Windows 10... the POS that it is.