Getting back to running a weather station

That’s unfortunate. The Intel SSD in my Atom WD PC has been running 24x7 for 5 years now, it tells me it has 90% life left :smiley:

The Intel has a maintenance function that is scheduled to run each night. I have a couple of Samsung SSD’s too but how they handle their housekeeping is mystery :?

Wow, thats about 80% more than you :tongue3: :lol: :lol:

PS, whilst going through the smilies i noticed this one, is, perhaps appropriate for this day an age or perhaps a tad sore 8O :forcefeed:

Back on topic, i have a fairly fast machine here and windows has spent the last hour updating with 25% to go
Perhaps Linux for ya machine Chris :slight_smile:

Oh, don’t tempt me Bashy [-X

:salute: :cya: couldnt find a quick exit one lol :lol: :lol:

An hour and 15 minutes to install rubbish, namely, speech recognition, English typing (thats for you guys over the pond i beleive :x ) also 358mb of Englush (US) Retail Demo Content WTF?? more speech and handwriting stuff, about a gig’s worth so far and its still installing stuff even though its completed lol Why, just, why…

Seriosly Chris, stick with XP :wink:

Nope, W7 :wink:

Spose, i never had a problem with either :slight_smile:

Win 7 only has about 3 years to go before end of life so not good to be getting into now. No way I’m going Win 8 and Linux is barely OK if you only need to run Linux software. It’s good for servers but I find it difficult on the desktop (and I have a few Linux ‘desktop’ systems that I have to use from time to time so that opinion is based on experience and not prejudice).

It was mostly tongue in cheek be seriously, these updates that you dont really have a lot of control over in Win 10
can be a major rectal hurter (oo thats not a word lol) spent an hour updating/adding updates for cortana speech
and language etc, i dont use her, i am perfectly happy with Hi Galaxy :smiley:

Exactly! So much crap that’s of no use on a wx pc (or any other pc that I own), and in later versions they seem to have blocked the tricks that could shut most of it down :frowning:

I’m still running XP for WD cause win7 wont load cause of the video card I have. Microsoft is in cahoots with NVidia.

I have decided to stick with W7 because it works and I probably will after end of life as well as I never allow it to update. My WD PC runs only weather stuff 99% of the time and the other 1% it’s only me so I’m careful about what I do with it. Everything else I run PC wise is Linux and my weather PC would be the same but for the problem of getting WD to do what I need under Linux, each time I test the Linux version it seems problematic, plus running WXSim would have to be under Wine which again is problematic. This stuff is the only thing which stops me ditching Windows completely. I can understand in a business environment Linux can be problematic but mainly because so much software is Windows only but in a home environment I struggle to find anything I cannot do under Linux. My wife’s laptop runs a stable Linux and she does not notice I moved her off Windows some years ago #-o

Stuart

There is a problem with running obsolete versions of any software, even in a home environment. Even if you’re careful you can still get compromised and if your system is obsolete you’ll probably never know. If you are compromised then you may become part of a botnet which could cause you problems more generally with your ISP blocking your connection. The compromised system might also be used to act as a Trojan horse within your home network and might lead to other systems becoming compromised, or your internal network traffic being monitored, potentially with man-in-the-middle monitoring to see encrypted traffic.

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Whilst I agree with that for any PC being used generally I also think the chances of that happening on a PC with AV and two firewalls (one on the PC and one on the router and behind a NAT) is unlikely running just what I do on it. I would ideally like to move it to Linux which can be updated more easily and with far less interruptions. I might have been lucky but in donkeys years of using PCs since the very first IBM PC through all sorts I have only ever once got a virus and that was because I trusted someone I knew and accepted a file they sent me, not something I have ever repeated, also that was years ago before I moved everything else to Linux. Had I been on Linux the virus, even assuming the file was executable, could not have spread like it did or done the damage it did because the security provisions on Linux would have stopped it. For me the lesser of two evils is not to allow Windows 7 to update at all.

Stuart

I have had one or 2 viruses over the years, but thats due to stuff i download :roll: nothing i have not been able to fix though :smiley:

Viruses from downloaded files are old hat now. Drive by infections through a rogue advert on a website that you think is safe is more likely these days.

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On my 3 main computers (all W10), I do a ~weekly system backup onto ad hoc HDDs (and have start-up CDs). The HDDs are unplugged when not actually doing backups. This is my security against even ransomware which is rife here even attacking small shops and individuals. At the worst, I boot up with the CD and re-install from the HDD. In addition, I have Webroot Secure Anywhere, which is arguably the best and fastest cloud security system. However, on my weather computer (Win7), I’m less secure with Windows systems for backup and protection.

Hopefully, I’ll never need to use backup or security! (Waste of money until you need them!)

I have a backup of my backup and same with my server in the US, that backs up to my lappy and on my backup drive so have 2 most stuff
Important documents are backup up on google drive, if it happens, it happens, just a pain restoring everything but its can be done, thats the
main thing. Also. if WD could only run on say Win 95 (just an example lol) then thats what my weather PC would run, it wouldnt bother me none :slight_smile:

I do no surfing on the weather computer. If there is any software I need to install on it, I download it on another computer and move over on pen drive. I do run Malwarebytes on it once a month and keep it updated had never had a virus on it. I do run regular backups on it to an external drive. My set up is a bit different. The O/S is on the C:\ drive but all the weather software is installed on a second internal drive.

But surely that would be an issue of having up to date malware protection, not fundamental OS function? Not that I suggest doing any kind of web surfing on a WX PC.