Now that I’ve gone four days without a BSOD, it does appear Microsoft realized it had rolled out another lemon, and, nearly two months later, patched things. Goodness knows how many hours it has cost people worldwide—the forums have a lot of people reporting BSODs (maybe it’s confirmation bias, but I really don’t remember this […]
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The path of least resistance: we humans aren’t discerning enough sometimes
I came across a thread at Tedium where Christopher Marlow mentions Pandora Mail as an email client that took Eudora as a starting-point, and moved the game forward (e.g. building in Unicode support). As some of you know, I’ve been searching for an email client to use instead of Eudora (here’s something I wrote […]
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Windows 10, with the BSOD-prone Creators fall update, is calming down
I wonder if we have finally got there with Windows 10’s many BSOD crashes. Since my last post on the subject in late January, I have had a few more BSODs, but (knock on wood) things have been more stable for a few days. Then again, I haven’t pushed the computer quite as much. […]
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Windows Unreliability Monitor
Microsoft should rename Windows’ Reliability Monitor to Unreliability Monitor. This isn’t too unusual for Windows 10, is it? I’ve put Oracle Virtualbox and Cyberlink Power2Go back on, because it’s becoming more apparent that Windows 10 is incompatible with my hard drives in certain circumstances. It’s always when a drive (including a phone set […]
Another program rendered incompatible with Windows 10’s fall Creators update
It’s fast becoming apparent that Windows 10’s fall Creators update is a lemon, just like the original Windows 10. As those of you who have followed my posts know, my PC began BSODing multiple times daily, on average. There were brief interludes (it went for three days without a BSOD once, and yesterday it […]
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Mozy driver could have been behind 100–200 BSODs since the Windows 10 Creators fall update was installed
A post shared by Jack Yan 甄爵恩 (@jack.yan) on Jan 14, 2018 at 4:04 p.m. PST Two very helpful people—bwv848 at Bleeping Computer and Sumit Dhiman at Microsoft—have taken me through the steps to figure out what was going on with my Windows 10 desktop computer, on which I’ve had between 100 and 200 BSODs […]
The perfect storm: there’s a spike in users being told by Facebook they have malware today
Many years ago, I was locked out of Facebook for 69 hours. It was completely a Facebook database problem, but in those days, they just locked you out without any explanation. It happened on a Friday. I believed I would not get back in till Facebook staff got back to work on Monday—and I was […]
Developer creates a tool to expose bigoted, fake Twitter accounts; Twitter bans it
In theory, one of the positive things about social media should be the fact that a company has as much chance of succeeding as an individual. Another is that it shouldn’t matter who you are, you have the same opportunity to get your word out. No one should get special treatment. But, on Twitter, […]
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Even before the exposés, I never used Über
I really don’t know why anyone would use Über. All the sexism and misogyny aside, I actually don’t know how anyone could use it. For example, on my phone, I installed it (before I learned about their totally inappropriate behaviour), tried to log in, and the app would tell me I have used […]
Solving my BSODs with Windows 10 Creators fall update—it’s not the usual culprits
Amazingly, Microsoft Windows 10 Creators fall update arrived last week on my desktop PC, and it took all of 25 minutes to do (running a Crucial 525 Gbyte SSD). (Add an extra 35 minutes for me to put my customizations back in.) This is in contrast to the Anniversary update, which took 11 attempts over […]
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