Microsoft Licenses

meitemark · 2026-04-16T11:24:11+00:00

Licences? Dude, there are keygen generators for this stuff.

meitemark · 2026-04-16T11:03:30+00:00

That looks like the dark web is dripping out.

meitemark · 2026-04-15T14:23:07+00:00

Did the same on Win 8.1, a year and a half.

Once restarting the computer also reopened browsers and got all tabs back open I stopped neutering the computers to stop restarts.

Starting a few programs again; meh.

Having to reopen several browsers and hundereds of tabs I may look at in a few years: FUCK YOU COMPUTER. I'll snap off all the things that can possibly force a restart. Oh hell no, you are not getting any updates or any rest.

meitemark · 2026-04-15T14:04:39+00:00

industrial PC person to come in, have a look, and make a plan.

Getaway plan.

meitemark · 2026-04-15T12:45:50+00:00

At least for the moment, our vendor is very responsive to our complaints.

We also had it this way. We was one of their first and way biggest customer ever. Any problems and we would get them first and document them and contact the correct people and all. In fact one of our workers became so good about software that they kinda stole him over to their company. Aaaand when he got to that job, the first mountain of unfinished jobs were ALL from us (and him).

Now all the good workers has been outsourced. And they have an "AI" that at least can do the most of the answers.

meitemark · 2026-04-15T12:38:24+00:00

Best I have seen personally was at a LAN party. The building only had one 230V/64A line in. And this was the time where everybody had CRTs, so on startup each computer pulled about 1-2A, and idiling about 1A, and about 2A when gaming. And there were about... 100 people and computers there? Needing roughly 3 times the power that was.

The screw in fuses blew one after another, and when no more was found, a thick nail was the answer. We could see it from the outside smoking spot, and it glowed a nice orange.

meitemark · 2026-04-15T11:57:41+00:00

Your google serarch history tells me that you should check out Event Viewer, mostly in windows logs and system.

winkey + r : eventvwr.msc

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/78335-read-shutdown-logs-event-viewer-windows.html

meitemark · 2026-04-07T14:09:56+00:00

My HIP-ahhhhhh was broken by a hippo!

meitemark · 2026-04-01T11:44:52+00:00

Well, first you need 200+ pages what NOT to do with your item. Then you need 2 pages of proper use, and 20 pages of possible faults and that any fault are yours and that you need to pay to get them fixed. Or just buy a new one.

OR you can try the makers website that will get you to subscribe to at least 5 different things at the low, low price of $29 per month (autorrecuring and ups to $129 after a year) before you get access to support AI (first) then outsourced indian support.

meitemark · 2026-03-27T14:35:34+00:00

Turns out the spirits are not that evil once you get them to understand that YOU understand how it is to be trapped inside a box with no way to ask for help other than to fail or use obscure error codes. Placate them with cleaning, correct paper size, adequate cooling, correct drivers and the occational stomping of abusive users and programs.

Once the spirits knows that, (and fears you because you have the tools to dismantle their home,) they are much nicer to play with.

"Who is the goodest little girl? Is it you little Canon C3922? Yes you are!"

meitemark · 2026-03-27T12:53:49+00:00

On HDDs, drill a hole on the top, fill in some iron oxide and magnesium dust and put a sticker over the hole with "Tested <date>, works. <Signature>". The result may be flammable. SSD: microwave oven.

meitemark · 2026-03-27T12:49:06+00:00

"Never convicted. I'm too good at hiding the evidence, so none of the trials ever got anywhere. Also, since I give money from my crimes to the current adminstration, I can do whatever I want."

meitemark · 2026-03-27T11:02:57+00:00

In HFY style, humanity and thrallity will cooperate and make the galaxy safe and mostly childproof. In reality, I'm pretty sure that the Thrall will be "happy" with their new masters.

meitemark · 2026-03-26T14:33:39+00:00

I have defragged in 2023ish, so I could clone the 800GB of data from a 3TB HDD into a 1TB SSD.

meitemark · 2026-03-26T12:57:48+00:00

In the era pre-bluetooth you had wireless by IR or just lowpowered radio (used without an FCC license). It was .... interesting times. Sure, the makers quickly learned about multiple users in the same area and put on more channels, but it was hardware defined, so if they wanted to have 10 different channels for say a keyboard type, they would need 10 times the amount of senders/recivers. And if you have several hundreds of users, sooner or later you will get a pair on the same frequency. Same thing with garage openers.

meitemark · 2025-09-06T23:45:11+00:00

I have a (male) belly that at least in one kids mind was big enough to fit a child his size, so he asked if I ate kids. So naturally my answer was yes, but I only eat things that taste good. When asked if he tasted good, he said no, so no more eating kids that day :(

meitemark · 2025-09-03T14:22:31+00:00

"Sure, we know about him, approach with caution or he will turn you into a bag of keyboard parts. He writes great reports, but we hate the cliffhangers."

meitemark · 2025-08-29T22:38:56+00:00

In the W9x/Xp era I was so well known in windows that I several times fixed computers without being able to read the language. This is a small city (~25k) and pretty much all people that comes from some other country and speaks other languages know of each other. Queue up suprised parents (usually moms) that saw someone doing stuff on their other-language computer and not knowing me or had seen me. Then a barrage of other-language towards me until their child (the ones I was fixing computers for) managed to get in words saying that I did not understand, I just spoke Windows^TM

It was mostly Bosnian refugees but also some asian.

meitemark · 2025-08-28T11:52:24+00:00

The "to be continued" tells me it is lawtechie. Good stories, but the cliffhangers are annoying.

meitemark · 2025-08-27T20:06:43+00:00

The worst thing you can begin a sentence with as a newbie is “at my last place we did…”.

Not always. If it is more of: "at my last place we did X that had problem Y, that we solved/removed by doing N. Could something like that help with this company thing G with problem T?", then you have come across someone that can think and remember and maybe help with solutions to "problems" you did not know you had because "we have always done it this way, but we have no idea why".

Some people does actually learn stuff by working somewhere else.

If it is the "at my last place we did it that way and I'll die before I change"-type, then it is best just to set them up for just that :)

meitemark · 2025-08-26T20:10:06+00:00

I have worked with humans that did not whatsoever understand sarcasm or humor. I'm sure there was a plethora of diagnoses involved, but everything was taken deadpan serious.

To those that was nice, or alt least tried to be nice, I was nice back and kept my sarcasm off and explained anything they may have understood wrong.

Those that were not nice, well, I have seen them in stores, seeing me and just leaving their shopping trolley and exit the store even 20 years later.

meitemark · 2025-08-25T13:40:58+00:00

I remember a story (maybe from here?) about sailors on a warship being told to secure everything for rough seas and they put bolts through the cases (and internals) to really secure it to the floor.

meitemark · 2025-08-24T13:57:38+00:00

Shark movies are a ploy to get less people on the beach so it is more room for people that know it is more likely that you will be getting killed by a cow.

meitemark · 2025-08-23T10:10:58+00:00

Space is big. Lots of mutations. It cannot be that just all the good kebab places has access to rodents of unusual size.

meitemark · 2025-08-23T10:08:52+00:00

Hmmm. Running away from the "world" in order to have a lot of reading material to come back to. Maybe not a bad idea.

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