{"id":27483,"date":"2016-04-09T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T23:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=27483"},"modified":"2016-04-09T16:54:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T23:54:05","slug":"adventures-with-windows-10-and-many-other-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/adventures-with-windows-10-and-many-other-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures with Windows 10, and many other matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chaos Manor View, Saturday, April 9, 2016 <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most transparent administration in history.\u201d <\/p>\n

Barrack Obama <\/p>\n

Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western Civilization as it commits suicide. <\/p>\n

Under Capitalism, the rich become powerful. Under Socialism, the powerful become rich. <\/p>\n

Under Socialism, government employees become powerful. <\/p>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> <\/p>\n

I still don\u2019t have Outlook running on the Surface Pro 3, but I have learned a few things; as usual they are both to the credit and detriment of Microsoft. With Apple, everything is either very simple or impossible; with Microsoft many things are very simple, but many more are very complicated; most are possible, but you never know. And good luck finding out how to do them. <\/p>\n

First, thanks to all the readers who have told me how to find the box that lets you view hidden files in Windows 10. There are two ways, neither of which was hinted at when I Binged \u201cshow hidden files Windows 10\u201d. The first is windows key + e gets you Explorer; the View tab on that will have boxes for Show Hidden Files and Show Extensions. These are off by default; checking them does the trick. As it happens I had long since done that, but didn\u2019t remember it. I suppose to Microsoft this is so obvious they do not need to tell you when you Bing hidden files? In any event it works. <\/p>\n

A better way is to Start > Control Panel > File Explorer Options. Many fewer readers told me about this one, and I have never seen any reference to it in a Microsoft help file, but then I have pretty low expectations when it comes to Microsoft Help. All their Help employees seem to be graduates of that condemnable school that teaches how to document things so that you can prove to your supervisor that you have done so, but can be found and comprehended only by those who already knew how to do it. Clear only if previously known. Microsoft does not have a monopoly on that, of course, and given our wretched school system that evolved after we nationalized control of schools with Federal Aid to Education fewer and fewer people including programmers know how to write comprehensible English anyway. <\/p>\n

Of course Microsoft tells me to do Start > Control Panel > Appearances and Personalization, but that category does not exist on any of the Windows 10 machines I have. Oddly enough I have a few readers who tell me they have it on theirs, but I haven\u2019t undertaken the task of finding out just what edition or build or mark number of Windows 10 they have; most of you don\u2019t have Appearances in you Control panel. <\/p>\n

I have also discovered that Control Panel appears on the Start Menu on one of my Windows 10 machines, but not on two others. Usually I have to do Start and then type c into the \u201cAsk me anything\u201d window on the lower left of the screen, at which point a little window pops up letting me open Control Panel. After I open it, right clicking on the icon offers me the opportunity to pin Control Panel to the Task Bar, but I don\u2019t use it that often; I\u2019ll remember that Start > type c will get me control panel; although you might think that \u201cAll apps\u201d ought to include an option to open Control Panel? But the ways of Microsoft Product Managers are arcane and comprehensible only to an enlightened few; users aren\u2019t expected to make sense of them. <\/p>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> \n

I still do not have Outlook running on the Surface Pro 3. One reader suggested I do a Repair installation of Office, and I am doing that now; it is taking forever. I have been running the program for an hour, and the progress bar is about a quarter way over, and appears not to be moving at all. Task Manager shows 0% of CPU time is devoted to running \u201cMicrosoft Office Click to Run\u201d, the only open app other than Task Manager, but if I stare at it long enough I am rewarded with a momentary kick up to 0.2% before it goes back to its by now traditional 0%. I will let it run all day and see what happens. Wish me luck. <\/p>\n

I do these silly things so you don\u2019t have to. I think, though, that it would have been faster simply to uninstall Office and start over; I don\u2019t recall the initial installation taking an hour or more. We\u2019ll just have to see how this plays out. It\u2019s lunch time and I\u2019ll just let it run\u2026 <\/p>\n

Well. I went up to correct the first paragraphs of this, before I go to lunch, and Lo! the progress bar has moved past the 1\/3 area, not yet to halfway, but it has definitely moved. Hope springs eternal. And now for lunch\u2026 <\/p>\n

Sigh. It\u2019s an hour later and I don\u2019t think that progress bar has moved a millimeter. We\u2019ll just wait\u2026 <\/p>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> \n

Still no progress on repair installation of office on the Surface Pro. However, I did learn one thing about Control Panel. <\/p>\n

Start > type C >Click on Control panel <\/p>\n

It opens as Control Panel > All Control Panel items. Now go up to the path line and click Control Panel in the path it shows up there. Lo! There appears a control panel, only this time there are many fewer items, one of which is Appearance and Personalization. Click that, and it will offer you File Explorer Options. That offers you View. View does let you control things like Hide File Extensions and such. See, it\u2019s all very clear, provided you understand how to do it. If you didn\u2019t already know, it\u2019s pretty hard to figure it out, but after all, that\u2019s part of the fun, isn\u2019t it. <\/p>\n

Beedee, beedee, beedee\u2026 . <\/p>\n

While I was doing that, the Surface suddenly went mad and finished the Repair Installation of Office. Now when I click Outlook 16, a blue Window appears. It seems to say Starting, but vanishes quickly, to be replaced by another blue window. Moving Dots indicate trundling. It says Processing. It does this endlessly. I think I am back where I started. Always something interesting to do with Microsoft. <\/p>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> \n

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outlook repair <\/p>\n

Dr. Pournelle, <\/p>\n

For app launch issues with the latest version of office, MS seems to be recommending a repair installation. Don’t uninstall first, just do a repair installation. <\/p>\n

https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-us\/article\/Repair-an-Office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b<\/a> <\/p>\n

Sean Long<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thanks. Alas, I tried it, with results detailed above. No Joy. I now have office 2016, One Note and Word seem to work fine, but Outlook won\u2019t open. I\u2019m giving it an hour to try, but I have no realistic hopes. <\/p>\n

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windoze10 <\/p>\n

Thank you for sharing your experience with windoze10. You’ve convinced me not to ‘upgrade’ from win7. If it ain’t broke, then why try to fix it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I do want to emphasize that I am living with Windows 10, and as I discover how to do things I find them reasonable, and the system useful for getting work done; but they have changed the interface a lot, and I don\u2019t find a lot of the improvements and actual improvement at all. If you\u2019re just learning it I suppose you are better off; you won\u2019t so often try the wrong thing. Windows 10 works well to get my work done. All I must do is forget how Windows used to work. <\/p>\n

Eventually I will learn the Windows 10 arcana, after which no doubt Microsoft will improve beyond recognition yet another time. <\/p>\n

I do not think windoze is an appropriate cognomen. It\u2019s not slow, it\u2019s merely incomprehensible unless you already know its secrets. <\/p>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> \n

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Big ransomware roundup <\/p>\n

http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2016\/04\/ok-panic-newly-evolved-ransomware-is-bad-news-for-everyone\/<\/a> <\/p>\n

                We\u2019ve gotten the crime part of the cyber-punk future without the fun parts. <\/p>\n

Eric<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> \n

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A-10 with busted wing <\/p>\n

An Israeli F-15 once landed safely, after a midair collision, with dam\u2019 near nothing left of the right wing.  It was GONE from just outboard of the engine intake\/nacelle. <\/p>\n

http:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2014\/09\/15\/f-15-lands-with-one-wing\/<\/a> <\/p>\n

–John R. Strohm<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course the survivability of the Warthog is not what makes it so valuable for the kind of assaults we need on ISIS, It can also be far more precise in target selections, vastly reducing collateral damages. <\/p>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> \n

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indicting sec state, nuclear Asia, and power point
Dr Pournelle,
You wrote that you would “not predict that the Obama Administration would allow an indictment of Hillary Clinton.”
Good bet! As Secretary of State, Dame (Damn?) Hillary was operating as a classification authority, and had the responsibility, derived from the President’s, to classify, declassify, and release classified information at any level. Even if she’d deliberately sent classified information via unclassified channels to an uncleared recipient, she was operating within her authority to do so. The worst possible punishment would have been if the President had disagreed with her information decision and had asked her to resign. Having resigned the position, she’s legally untouchable.
Remember when President Carter announced to the world the world the development of radar stealth aircraft? Remember then junior Senator Joe Biden walking out of a classified-content briefing by the intelligence agencies and blabbing about national technical means to the reporters waiting outside? Like that.
As far as the personal e-mail account is concerned, Cabinet officials and directors of federal agencies grant or deny their subordinates the use of personal accounts. It was within her authority to except herself from any State Department policy requiring the use of government e-mail accounts.
Mrs. Clinton is immune from legal prosecution on either issue. This political investigation is only about the question of the public appearance of competence and chasing down any of her political cronies who can be indicted, at length, in a persistent effort to keep her politically embarrassed and ineffective.
The real effect will be to make Bernie Sanders the democratic party candidate, or if she is nominated after all, to so disable the remaining dregs of the Clinton reputation as to make so her unacceptable to many voters in her own party that they either don’t vote, or are driven into the arms of her opponents.
The real proof of incompetence is Benghazi, as you say, but she’s immune from impeachment on that score, as well.
On the other subject, neither South Korea nor Japan is really interested in having or hosting Nuclear Weapons. In particular, the government of Japan could not politically stand the development of a nuclear weapons industry, given its voters’ opposition to any nuclear technology. IMO, both countries are interested in keeping the U.S. as a guarantor of their nuclear security, and\/or to get more representation in Chinese control over North Korea. They may also be setting themselves up in a position to purchase or be admitted as guardians of any weapons seized from North Korea after a long anticipated coup or revolution.
Taiwan especially does not need a native nuclear weapons capability. Having nukes would force China to have to do something about Taiwanese independence and it would likely not be pretty.
I wish you well in your presentation of _Survival_With_Style_ and hope that your technical team can help you to overcome your laptop issues. I wish that I could attend and see it. Have you given thought to publishing your presentation after the conference?
Wishing you and yours continued recovery and good health,
-d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Actually, it is legal to impeach anyone even if they do hot hold an office; the sentence would be to be forever barred from holding public office. It is not likely, of course, so I mention it only as an interesting fact. <\/p>\n

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“Guccifer” extradited to US <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/04\/08\/source-no-coincidence-romanian-hacker-guccifer-extradited-amid-clinton-probe.html?intcmp=hpbt1<\/a> <\/p>\n

The suggested implication is that the FBI will be able to use Guccifer to prove foreign access to Clinton\u2019s server without having to invoke or prove in court any hacking by foreign governments, and thereby avoid a need for intelligence sources and methods to prove their case.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> \n

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ISIS Chem Bio Terrorism Capability <\/p>\n

The attached is a European Parliament brief on the ISIS CBR terrorism risk, downloaded from <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/RegData\/etudes\/BRIE\/2015\/572806\/EPRS_BRI%282015%29572806_EN.pdf<\/a>. <\/p>\n

There are also reports today in two British tabloids \u2013 not confirmed in any more reputable news sources yet \u2013 that one of the Brussels bombing suspects recently arrested was found with decaying animal organs and sanitary sewage in a bag in his backpack, and citing another recent case where ISIS sympathizers were arrested with similar material in jars with nails, presumably to facilitate infection in a bio-IED attack. Supposedly authorities claim that such weapons would not work, but they apparently (willfully, or in an attempt to pacify the public) forget that these were the first weapons of mass destruction and have been used in warfare for millennia. (I will admit that the scale is smaller than dropping dead cows on a city under siege by catapult, but that is at least partially compensated by the crude engineering afforded by modern knowledge, even without refinements such as processing and separation of infectious microorganisms.) <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/isis-feared-planning-crude-biological-7715046<\/a> <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3529865\/Brussels-terror-suspect-shot-police-tram-stop-rucksack-containing-animal-testicles-faeces-prompting-fears-ISIS-planning-crude-biological-attack-food-supplies.html<\/a> <\/p>\n

Respectfully <\/p>\n

Jim<\/b> <\/p>\n

JK Woosley PhD<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"bubbles\"<\/p> \n

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Sweden: A Beggar on Every Corner<\/b> <\/p>\n

by Ingrid Carlqvist<\/a>
April 9, 2016 at 5:00 am<\/b> <\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/7782\/sweden-roma-beggars<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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