On Fri, 5 May 2017 05:12:49 -0500, philo wrote:

On 05/04/2017 07:40 PM, Diesel wrote:
philo news May 2017 20:38:50 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

Never once had a BSOD and when I'd import XP drivers into Win2k
never a BSOD their either, but occasionally I'd have one that did
not work either

Alas, our experience differs by a wide margin too. You seem to be a
bit of a hobbyist. When you've serviced thousands of 'modern'
machines, get back to me.

Even though my own machines are ancient, the ones I work on for friends
are typically new.
Some of the people I deal with are gamers and have to have the latest
and greatest.

I've looked at some of those games, and other than visual effects,
graphics and sound, seem to be little different from those old DOS
games. LOL


Until Win10 came out, most of my more recent jobs were on Win8 machines
and confused owners. Once I put on Classic Shell, the folks stopped
crying. (One woman literally came over in tears because she could not
use her new computer.)

I have probably repaired more machines that you have...I don't know...
but I literally have repaired or built thousands of machines.
I've been doing this for about 17 years and at one time had two or three
machines on the the bench at a time.

FWIW: Thanks to getting surplus equipment from work, I have all on one
of several UPS...industrial grade.

Here are the batteries from my main UPS

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p7n6ywpqi6...ttery.jpg?dl=0

Now for a UPS battery bank that is JUST PLAIN SCARY. Get some proper
connection cables on that thing!!! And ballance you banks, for crying
out loud!! Your series-parallel connections with an odd number of
mismatched batteries is ridiculous.

What are you charging it with? and what kind of UPS is it? How long
does it take to recover after a power outage? It appears to be a 24
volt system - my small one is 48 volts and the big one is 60 volts.
(Powerware Prestige EXT) Both are dual conversion.

The little one on my wife's system is a 24, and the one backing up my
internet modem and VOIP is a 12. Each of my TV cable boxes/pvrs are on
their own UPS as well.

They are all good for about half an hour, but for long-term outages
the natural gas option on my generator provides for virtually
unlimited run-time.

More than 24 hours of backup.

BTW, as long as I have my Dropbox folder open, here is HALF the battery
room from one of my customers


https://www.dropbox.com/s/gn195f6etq..._room.JPG?dl=0


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As I have stated on other posts my main OS is Linux.

Why might that be?

I like Linux and it sure performs better than Windows on my very modest H/W.



The main reason I was using Windows at all was to support the film
scanning function of my scanner. The utility provided by Epson
works absolutely great and the Linux drivers for the film scanning
function have more limitations.

I see...So why aren't you a Windows fanboy?


No. I use Windows mainly so I can gain familiarity and therefore
intelligently help others.

I keep a number of versions of Windows in Virtual machines so I can give
people step by step instructions over the phone.

Win8 for example, I have not bare hardware installation.

I could have purchased View Scan I suppose, but why spent money ?

Depends on your needs, I suppose.

One of the rare cases where using Windows was less expensive than
Linux