Re: Yeah, so....
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 6:03 pm
I use a 2TB external hard drive connected by USB 3.0 to store my games and it works great.
Wicketklown001 wrote:
I've been using a 128GB for awhile now and it's doable. I have literally just the OS and a few basic programs on it. Games for the most part don't need an SSD (a few exceptions) so all of them go on my 2TB HDD instead.
In regards to the lack of Office, Office 365 is stackable. Also, while the Home Premium is $99.99, with 5 devices, the Personal version is $52.99 on Amazon.com.Fel wrote:Just a quick update...I haven't had time to write the last week or so because of work issues, but the bright side is that it should calm down in a week or so.
It's doubly annoying because I have this shiny new toy that I can't really play with because I'm too tired when I get home, lol.
The plan hasn't changed, however. I'll finish path chapter 6, then do one chapter in Fox and the Hawk, then a couple of chapters or so in Earth Bond. I have plotlines in both stories I'd like to do before moving back to Path.
And as an aside, so far, Windows 10 seems fairly decent. There are a few things I don't like, such as not being able to install my old Word XP and not having a viable word processing program on this thing by default, but overall, thus far, my experience has been positive. It's stable and seems to run efficiently.
Another reason to stick with Winders7. At least with 7 I could probably install my Office 97 CD if I REALLY wanted to.Fel wrote:
And as an aside, so far, Windows 10 seems fairly decent. There are a few things I don't like, such as not being able to install my old Word XP and not having a viable word processing program on this thing by default, but overall, thus far, my experience has been positive. It's stable and seems to run efficiently.
Thats not really a need. I also have Office XP, 2003,2007 and 2010. 2010 will probably be my last acquisition though. I'm not into paying for a yearly or monthly software 'subscription' that Office and Adobe products have turned into. What happens if I drop the subscription? Do I not have the ability of ever reinstalling the software that I did pay for? No thank you.arargh wrote:I never tried to install 97 on win 7 but it installs on XP(32bit) just fine.
You do pay monthly for rent, mobile phone, power, water, internet and so on and so forth, right? Although i wish i could pay for any one of those once and be done with it without loosing it, that will probably remain a dream. That whole monthly subscription is another try to move services onto the internet and thus into easy reach / control of the company. I'm using Windows 8 and it was damn hard to persuade the operating system that i really, absolute am sure that i do not have, never had and never will have any interest whatsoever to save my documents, program settings and who knows what else on that skydrive cloud service. I have a harddrive for a reason! I expect it to be used!Fawks wrote:I also have Office XP, 2003,2007 and 2010. 2010 will probably be my last acquisition though. I'm not into paying for a yearly or monthly software 'subscription' that Office and Adobe products have turned into. What happens if I drop the subscription? Do I not have the ability of ever reinstalling the software that I did pay for? No thank you.
Cause its dead. Last update was 4 years ago. Luckily it was forked and the currently active development is now called Libre Office - which was mentioned in earlier posts, BTW.slain wrote:Just a thought why not use open office as it is fully functional and free... legally even.
The user interface is reminiscent of pre-ribon MS office ie. pre office 2007 so it is really easy to use.
Hmmm, MartinK, please look again. https://www.openoffice.org/download/ Release: Milestone AOO411m6 | Build ID 9775 | SVN r1617669 | Released 2014-08-21MartinK wrote:Cause its dead. Last update was 4 years ago.
Oh, i based my post on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org. It seems that after the active developers left, Oracle gave the name to Apache. Well, i have no idea if it is any better than the last OpenOffice.org release before it became Apache Open Office in 2011. I will stay with LibreOffice. Here a quote from Apache Open Office wikipedia page:ilox wrote:Hmmm, MartinK, please look again. https://www.openoffice.org/download/ Release: Milestone AOO411m6 | Build ID 9775 | SVN r1617669 | Released 2014-08-21MartinK wrote:Cause its dead. Last update was 4 years ago.
That seems to be a little more recent than four years ago.
Since October 2014 the project has had no release manager,[3] and in January 2015 reported a lack of active developers and code contributions and that they were "still struggling in involving new volunteers who can independently work on big developments"
Just out of curiosity, what is LibreOffice missing for your online studies? I'm not really using Office programs all that much. For the easy stuff, notes and so on i'm using a simple text editor. For complicated texts i tend to use LaTeX. I have no doubt that LibreOffice is missing many of the little things that will stop 3rd party programs to work with the Office Suite same as if one would use MS Office. If necessary, i would probably look for a used license that came with a ready-built computer once for MS Office. Monthly costs is something i would avoid at all costs. But then, i only use one computer, dislike mobile computer since it's so much smaller and rather pay once and 'own' a piece of software for eternity rather than pay monthly for services that give others control over my computer. And giving anyone else access to my data via OneDrive is totally out of the question.I have been an avid Open Office user since it was called Star Office. I love it but my daughter is in High School and my wife and I are doing online studies so we needed access to the latest MS stuff.