Re: exxos blog - random goings on
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2020 4:30 pm
There are replacements for linux for like Eagle for example, but again some stuff is registered to my old motherboard, are there tools to fake motherboard numbers in linux ? no idea and don't fancy spending weeks trying to figure it out. I don't want to buy updated versions to run on Windows 10 or Linux either..
Thing ares going subscription based like Eagle these days... we don't just pay out once for software and own it anymore.. You keep having to pay out all the time, And to get a full licence is simply not cheap either. People have been moaning about this in Eagle for ages that they are not interested in the hobbyist users (even users like me which will be willing to pay for updates, but again not a fan of subscription services). I know my old version 4 of Eagle will work indefinitely, limiting factor being Windows itself as per usual.
I still play UT2004 Direct IP, I have read people have got this working on Windows 10... I know this is on steam, but frankly I don't play games on steam much because once the hosting server dies, you can't play the game any more.. UT2004 is one of the few games where direct IP can still be played providing windows can run it that is. But with such old software anyway, I don't really want to set myself up in fighting stupid bugs for the next two years with it all.
In terms of Windows going wrong.. I swear Microsoft deliberately put something into break it at some point...Going back to 98SE days, I could have a system running "perfectly well" for years, And coincidentally when the support date ended, I started having issues where even a fresh install was struggling to run.. In the end I gave up and installed XP... where coincidentally not long after the support date ended really strange things started happening (like crashes for no reason etc) when I finally gave up and end installed win7...
I suspect my Windows 7 will start behaving strangely in about a years time. No great surprise some people will probably say... In the olden days, everything was installed from CD and Internet access via modem was slow and expensive, So my old machines were rarely online get infected with something.
I will just see what happens with win7...If it starts to malfunction I will restore a backup and take the machine of the Internet, if it still malfunctions, aside from hardware failures, I would think Microsoft have deliberately broken something in the OS to force people to update, but if that's the case, I am getting off the Microsoft wagon totally and I'm just not playing these games with them any more.
I could possibly install Windows 10 on a spare drive in to see what the hell happens, but I just really don't have the time or patience for it all anymore. If I'm going to start messing about, I might as well just install Ubuntu and just see where I end up. I will just use my Windows 7 rig until it all goes wrong and then retire, that would be the easiest thing to do
Thing ares going subscription based like Eagle these days... we don't just pay out once for software and own it anymore.. You keep having to pay out all the time, And to get a full licence is simply not cheap either. People have been moaning about this in Eagle for ages that they are not interested in the hobbyist users (even users like me which will be willing to pay for updates, but again not a fan of subscription services). I know my old version 4 of Eagle will work indefinitely, limiting factor being Windows itself as per usual.
I still play UT2004 Direct IP, I have read people have got this working on Windows 10... I know this is on steam, but frankly I don't play games on steam much because once the hosting server dies, you can't play the game any more.. UT2004 is one of the few games where direct IP can still be played providing windows can run it that is. But with such old software anyway, I don't really want to set myself up in fighting stupid bugs for the next two years with it all.
In terms of Windows going wrong.. I swear Microsoft deliberately put something into break it at some point...Going back to 98SE days, I could have a system running "perfectly well" for years, And coincidentally when the support date ended, I started having issues where even a fresh install was struggling to run.. In the end I gave up and installed XP... where coincidentally not long after the support date ended really strange things started happening (like crashes for no reason etc) when I finally gave up and end installed win7...
I suspect my Windows 7 will start behaving strangely in about a years time. No great surprise some people will probably say... In the olden days, everything was installed from CD and Internet access via modem was slow and expensive, So my old machines were rarely online get infected with something.
I will just see what happens with win7...If it starts to malfunction I will restore a backup and take the machine of the Internet, if it still malfunctions, aside from hardware failures, I would think Microsoft have deliberately broken something in the OS to force people to update, but if that's the case, I am getting off the Microsoft wagon totally and I'm just not playing these games with them any more.
I could possibly install Windows 10 on a spare drive in to see what the hell happens, but I just really don't have the time or patience for it all anymore. If I'm going to start messing about, I might as well just install Ubuntu and just see where I end up. I will just use my Windows 7 rig until it all goes wrong and then retire, that would be the easiest thing to do