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Grogster Admin Group  Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Where do I find them, MB? Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Paul_L Guru  Joined: 03/03/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 769 |
Grogs -- upgrade to Pro if you can! It enables you to delay the forced updates for a few weeks or months. You can also tell W10 that you are using a metered internet connection and it won't try to download and install big updates. I turn off the wifi link to the router and the ISP's modem when I'm not actually using it. That stops all communications with the mother ship. Some of the updates actually fix bugs and security problems, but most of them just try to turn it into Bill's Jukebox or something useless. The W10 kernel is actually pretty robust. Paul in NY |
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| ryanm Senior Member  Joined: 25/09/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 203 |
I wouldn't be overly concerned with SSD lifespan so long as you have purchased a decent drive. A fresh Win 10 install knows what it is doing and any drive worth it's salt implements flash wear levelling in the storage controller. I haven't done anything on my system which gets heavy use and is running 24/7. I've been running a Samsung EVO 850 in it for at least three years, maybe closer to four. SMART value for wear levelling indicates that only 15% of the write cycles have been used. I go through SSDs by the carton in my business. Had a few failures with lower end Kingston units, but when you're buying an SSD for $40 you get what you pay for. Don't think I've had a failure at all on a Samsung or Intel drive. |
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| BrianP Senior Member Joined: 30/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 292 |
Grogs This may or may not help with your logout problem - I tell my PCs to NEVER go to sleep (can still tell screen to sleep) - also try playing in the power related settings minefield - might help. (I also don't use a password.) ------------------------------------------------------ <<< Below is direct copy from Microsoft so-called "answers"... >>> Follow the steps below to remove or set the time out settings of the desktop and check if the issue is resolved. Press Windows icon key on the keyboard, type Settings and select the top most search result. Select Personalization and click on Lock screen from the left side panel of the window. Click on Screen timeout settings and set the time limit or select Never from the drop down bar under Screen option. Click on Power additional settings from the same page and select Require a password on wakeup from the left side panel of the window. Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable from the window. Enter the administrator password if prompted. Check the Don’t require a password option under Password protection on wakeup to disable entering the password every time logging into the user profile. ------------------------------------------------- ryanm Regarding a DECENT drive... I've had several (read 6-8) Intel 540 & S35 series SSD drives fail in as many different PCs / laptops - including would you believe BOTH DRIVES in a raid 1 setup. The problem appears to be the controller intermittently going spaso - causing all sorts of motherboard SATA controller confusion. The drive disappears from the device mapping - reboot & it's back. Or goes on a go-slow of kb/sec reading. No problem whatever with the storage space - just can't talk to it. Intel just replaces the drives no questions asked, but with a similar unit  Fortunately I've been able (so far) to recover all data during the "good" moments. B |
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| ryanm Senior Member Joined: 25/09/2015 Location: AustraliaPosts: 203 |
Interesting on the Intel drives. Never had that many of them, more of a Samsung guy really so I must have got lucky. Haven't had any trouble yet on the Crucial MX500s either and they've got quite good bang/buck performance. Only started using recently though... |
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MicroBlocks Guru Joined: 12/05/2012 Location: ThailandPosts: 2209 |
The program is called 'Event viewer' :) Available since windows XP i think. Microblocks. Build with logic. |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Intel drives have served me well when I have used them, but then there are so many more manufacturers of SSD's then there are HDD's. I think you are REASONABLY safe buying any respectable brand-name drive. I would avoid the cheap SSD's on eBay etc like the plague. @ MB - thanks.  Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5091 |
Hi Grogster, Puppy Linux Slacko 6.3.2 is not very well maintained anymore (01Micko is only assisting in the background), and might as well use older security libraries. That may impact it's accessibility through the network. W10 will simply refuse to talk to it. You could post on the forum (murgalinux.com) If Puppy Linux offers no solution, simple put Lubuntu on it. The 1804 is still LXDE (lightweight) and rock stable. Volhout There may be some more modern Puppy versions available PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Hey there. Windoze now sees the Puppy box and it's volumes fine. It took a couple of days of my just simply ignoring the fact that W10 could not see them, then they all appeared in the network again. I guess Bill was doing some background network sniffing during that time. I can access the Puppy box any time I want now, no problems. Thanks for the comments on Slacko. I will check out Lubuntu - never heard of it. I like Slacko cos it has GUI utilities for networking and SAMBA setup, and I don't have to research and learn a whole lot of terminal commands. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 5091 |
I have been using Puppy Linux for at lease 10 years now, started with the 2.14 series, had the 5.28 as my daily workhorse for my company for about 3 years (running the administration). Puppy Linux always was a compact, quite complete, linux distro. A bit of everything, but nothing complete. The main pro was that it had a very active community. But the founder (Barry Kauler) stopped leading the project, and the most senior developpers have not been able to fill that gap. There are a lot of enthousiastic programmers running nice projects in Puppy Linux, but I see no one really coordinating stuff so this energy also leads to a release that can be used as windows replacement. If you find a puppy that works : fine, use it, enjoy it, you will get help from the community, but there is absolutely no guarantee that it will be maintained. There is still a lot of good work going on there, but for a large amount it is "hobby projects" and "new kernel for XXXX puppy" changes. As I see it Puppy Community will have trouble following the mainstream linux development (GTK3 / Wayland / QT5 / systemd). That is another thing that is a drawback for puppy. It used to be small (100meg), but with the current HW platforms, you need a lot of "firmware" to support all these chips (i.e. WIFI chips). The firmware librabries contribute to the size, as does systemd. So current puppies have similar functionality, but are 300 Mbytes in size. I am running Puppy Slacko 5.7.0 on one of my laptops (simply because it has good driver match), Puppy Lucid 5.2.8 on my old desktop (SIG graphics card not supported in newer kernels), but both these cannot even access google drive anymore (old security libraries). For web access I installed Lubuntu (Lightweight Ubuntu) on the PC's. Lubuntu is constantly updated with security fixes. You will have to install Samba though, it is not available in the install iso. Enjoy, Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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| Grogster Admin Group Joined: 31/12/2012 Location: New ZealandPosts: 9610 |
Howdy. Nice info, thanks. I was kinda wanting to use Woof or Woof-CE to build a new version of Puppy that only has a bare minimum GUI, and all the networking tools. Nothing else. I am researching this now, but many links seem to be broken.  I do like Slacko. It is simple, easy to use, and easy to configure SAMBA for sharing on a Windoze network. It also seems to be very stable when used like this. I can run Slacko-64 for MONTHS on end, and never have any issues at all. Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops! |
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