Recent content by Jim S.

Yeah I knew it was their official position, but it used to be as simple as just not connecting to the internet until everything was set up. I'll probably just set up an account, I'm not interested in having a hacked-up Windows installation, I had enough trouble with that back when I was...

But a Microsoft account is now required for an official install, isn't it?

I thought that WSL was mainly for running servers, I didn't think it offered a GUI. I also thought that it was only available in Pro or whatever they call it, not Home. (I may be conflating this last point with whatever they call their virtual machine system -- or does WSL2 [I think not the...

I haven't upgraded to 11 yet, was thinking about doing it this weekend. I was assuming that there would be the option at upgrade time to encrypt or not. But as WhiteBeard said, maybe it won't even be available if Secure Boot isn't selected? (I'm assuming I can do the upgrade without turning...

I agree. Windows 11, however, also supposedly defaults to full-disk encryption. I'll never enable that, because how the hell are you supposed to recover your disk if it gets corrupted, plus it'll be incompatible with Linux. But just last week I saw someone in the Microsoft forum on the...

Since it's financial software, they're probably just swallowing the corporatist dogma that anyone not running the latest patches is inevitably going to get compromised. Of course they never defend their assertion logically. Most people are running behind some sort of NAT box, even if it...

The first one has been going on for quite some time: even if I'm in a forum or subforum when clicking the Post Thread button, it asks me what forum I want to post in. Wouldn't it make more sense to assume I wanted to post in the forum I'm reading? The second one just happened tonight, and...

I got the last update to Windows 10 on Tuesday, but I see nothing about upgrading to Windows 11 despite the fact that my system is capable of doing so. I DON'T have Secure Boot turned on, but my BIOS supports it, which is all that it's SUPPOSED to require -- or is Microsoft incapable of using...

I'm thinking that those are probably T2MI transponders, but I don't know why it also says "T" on ones that aren't. Bug?

Well if the frequency table selection is only for cable, as your one picture hints, that might explain it. On cable, channel 14 immediately follows channel 13, instead of being hundreds of megahertz higher. It looks like, above the cable selections, there are OTA selections for specific DMAs...

You shouldn't scan it, the radio channels have already been entered with their names -- the channels won't even show up in a scan, this receiver isn't doing anything magic compared to any other receiver. Try enabling the satellite and then changing your channel list to radio channels. The...

Just did a scan again and got nothing from 91 or 93.

The ones I saw had a much lower symbol rate. I think it was 15500, which is kind of distinctive, maybe it'll mean something to someone. The Edision supposedly scans up to 60000. I wonder what's going on with the 63999 -- are they on the Bell satellite, or something else? I haven't scanned...

I scanned that location early this morning and I found three transponders, but no channels. Unless they're bleeding over from 95W. I haven't scanned that because it's supposed to be all DirecTV. I tried again just a little while ago and got nothing. So either they're not full-time, or...

I think my Mio (no "plus") is staying on 5.1 for a while. I've had no end of blind scan problems with 6.0. It misses transponders frequently, even using the No-T2MI driver (which is the one I'm also using on 5.1, due to the others having problems with dropping LNB power which I've mentioned...