That sounds like an issue related to Wake on LAN or remote power management. Apps don’t typically wake your comp out of sleep/hibernation unless there’s a setting somewhere enabled.
SIlverlight was a mistake from the beginning. Took *NIX users a couple years IIRC to have Moonlight up to par to be able to watch things that required Silverlight.
I fucking hated it.
I just got the notification on my tray asking me to try windows 10 on my 8.1 computer. Going to get that shit downloaded and decide when I want to upgrade. May actually be closer to the release of KI on PC.
I tried looking at the powercfg -wake file but it closes a split second after it opens. I’ll keep looking into it though. Thanks man.
I love Flash so much and think it’s the best technology and has done so much positive for my browsing experience. I’ve never had concerns about its stability or security or performance.
I don’t know why anyone would ever be interested in looking into alternative solutions that might be able to improve upon anything. There’s no point whatsoever. Flash just is better. I can’t even imagine why HTML5 is necessary: it’s disappointing to me that anybody would ever look towards alternatives, and it doesn’t make sense that people so eagerly embrace HTML5 when Flash is just incredibly amazing. The more Flash videos on a page, the better. I trust Flash videos from random websites. They’re amazing and full of chuckles.
I agree, Missing Person, that Silverlight was a waste of technological investment and didn’t need to exist because Flash is just such a boon for the internet. Let us wear our Flash Fan t-shirts next year at Evo together. And we can walk backwards together as we continue talking out of our ass. :tup:
Don’t get it twisted, I think Flash is a piece of shit, and has been for forever.
However, a proprietary piece of software that only existed on platforms that Microsoft deemed worth being developed on (Re: not *NIX) doesn’t fix the piece of shit that Flash is and was.
Granted, HTML5 wasn’t around back then, but if that was supposed to be a replacement for flash, then why only OSX/Windows?
I didn’t hate either as much as I hated Quicktime.
I love people that have OS biases that overwhelm logic. It’s just not readily apparent. I run Harpsichord OS and because people didn’t support it when they wrote their software that means that we should immediately disregard it. Mind you that the previous software solution in that space caused babies to explode, all dogs to go feral, and spent all your money on hookers and blow while sending pictures of your balls to your family members every ten minutes, but — you know, because Harpsichord OS wasn’t supported at day one I found the new software to be completely utterly unacceptable. How dare they not support the twelve of us that were totally interested in that! They probably just don’t realize that we post a lot and may even turn on the dreaded caps lock button. How dare they focus on getting everything working on more popular systems first! That makes no sense and I’m certain that if I was in charge of a software company I wouldn’t immediately run it into the ground and have it then burst into flames.
I heard a friend who looks like me say once “software is complex: time is finite.” I realize it hardly makes sense to focus on doing a few things excellently when you can simply try to do everything at once shittily, but hey: I for one look forward to your time as CTO. And certainly that dev who’s amazing at PC or Mac software is equally amazing at all other development options. That’s just how it works. You push a button, a magic professional grade developer shows up.
Preppy, you’re forgetting that this was before the time where Microsoft actively had a division that contributed to the Linux kernel. This was around the time where they were actively against *NIX variants, putting together patents and copyrights that would’ve put FOSS devs and projects on their ass if courts actually upheld said patents.
Simply put, I don’t mind *NIX not getting things. But when it’s supposed be a web app designed to replace another web app that already has support on all modern OSes, you oughta be trying to make damn sure that it works on all OSes at some point. Microsoft still hadn’t tried to implement a *NIX version of Silverlight 4 years after they developed it and had no intention to. They left anyone running Linux or BSD to fend for themselves, to reverse engineer the program for a shoddy implementation of it that only worked 60% of the time.
That’s where I’ll say it’s bullshit.
And your analogy of me crying unfair would have merit if I was running something like Haiku full time and crying foul that a major dev didn’t have a full team working on it, not the 3rd most popular platform.
For those of you who upgraded from 7 to 10, did you do a standard upgrade or did you perform a clean install? Wondering if there’s any benefit to the latter.
I did standard. Dunno if there’s a difference but it worked fine.
Clean install will wipe the system, so you will have no files of your own, nothing remaining from your windows 7 build.
The benefit is that there will be all fresh dll’s, settings, and registry entries, so anything that might have conflicted in any of those between 7 and 10 will not cause massive fuck ups on your system.
It may not make much of a difference or, depending on what your setup is, it could break your system not to do a clean install. If you’re paranoid about 10 breaking your system, backup what files you’d need and do the clean install option.
I’ve done several standard upgrades, not just on Windows, but Linux, and there are several instances where they have broken my system to the point where I had to resort to doing a clean install anyway. Not always, but it should be common sense to back up important files when doing a major upgrade anyway just in case it FUBARs your whole setup and you have to do the clean install option.
I’m forgetting nothing. It’s almost like that team was staffed by a lot of my friends. It’s almost like I’d be in a position to watch *IX porting efforts and usage of said ports more so than you. It’s almost like I’d be in a position to have watched what alternatives had been doing to the ecosystem. I see your boo hoo 60% of the time and raise you the entire fucking debacle that is Flash. Something had to give, and if that means that for “n” period of time while people were actively building the framework for what should be ported that that something was not ported to teeny submarket “x” yet: that’s a livable humane trade for anyone that actually cares about the health of the internet.
I used to have the numbers of downloads for *IX ported projects, and they were fucking laughable. People would bitch and bitch and bitch and then all ten of them would download it. You guys fucking wasted so much prime development time because nice people actually listened and tried to give Internet Whiny Guy X what they were looking for. I helped port and adapt stuff and it’d be broken for years (after random vendor X changed some interface on their side) without anyone noticing or saying anything because for all the bitching no one actually was using it.
I’ll politely bow out of this conversation and you will too. If you want to discuss at Evo or other in-person thing, that’s fine, but I’d prefer not to be misinterpreted. This is a dumb discussion.
I went ahead with just a standard upgrade after backing up everything that I needed to. So far so good, and I seem to have an FPS boost in quite a few games. Thanks!
Yep, I agree, this is not a productive discussion at all. No need for us going back and forth on this. No sense in us fighting and losing respect for each other over something like software that will soon be obsolete, if what was said about MS banking on HTML5 being true (most likely is, it’s time for that to be the standard anyway).
We can most certainly agree on flash being ass though.
Yea Flash is a fucking peice of shit, i welcome HTML5. I cant wait for the day i can perminantly uninstall shitty ass flash.
Rumor is that Google is finally bringing native universal apps for Youtube and others to W10. Considering how they totally shunned W8, this isn’t a total shock. It’s hard to ignore how huge the W10 userbase already is.
I’m getting random audio stutters in Windows 10. Is this normal? I think my CPU spikes slightly when it happens but I’m not sure what’s causing it.
It happens quite rarely, but now that I noticed it I can’t not notice it.
I might just do a Refresh install and if that still doesn’t fix it I’ll do a clean install. See how I feel in a day.
EDIT: I couldn’t wait and refreshed. Seems fine now.
Rumor has it that Microsoft wants to give some Windows 7 Enterprise users, Windows 10 Enterprise for free!
So yesterday I was installing the new cumulative update. A power surge happened in the middle of it and fucked up my comp. It wouldn’t boot to Windows at all afterwards.
Last time I had to deal with anything like this was the 95/98 days. Thankfully things have gotten worlds easier.
Had to download W10 recovery onto my USB drive. I’m definitely going to buy another stick just to keep this installed on it.
I know the Reset option has been around for awhile, but it’s pretty damn good. Reinstalls Windows, removes progs/apps, flushes registry, defaults settings… and I’m still able to keep my personal files and downloads. No idea why anyone would clean install when this option is out there. My comp is now running even better and a few issues I had with W10 are gone.