Technology PITAs......
Posted: Thu Nov 07 2019 7:01pm
I still use Win 7 - in fact I still use Win 7 with an XP skin, because I have been less than impressed by Microsoft's subsequent offerings (and even less so when it means some of my software doesn't work). To make this worse, SWMBO the technophobe also "uses" Win 7 (because that's what I set up on her laptop) and so any changes really need to be minimal.
So the End of Life for Win 7 in January is a massive PITA .... and I still haven't decided what to do. Linux (Mint maybe...) seemed an option, but I have no experience of it and it doesn't feel like something to jump into in a hurry. Then I've read about using Windows emulators within some Linux shells, or even leaving a Win 7 partition for offline use only - but again.... the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I really don't fancy battling through such issues in a rush.
Then, just as I'm starting to panic about the approaching end-date, I get a nice little email from TalkTalk today, telling me of "Important changes to your TalkTalk email service". Now I run three separate accounts, but the backstop (sorry ) is an old lineone account from when it was one of the first "free" email accounts - run by BT when I got it back in the days of the dinosaur. Then it moved on to AOL, then Tiscali and finally to TalkTalk. So there's a lot of history there.
What's TalkTalk's big news?...... oh, just to say that as of January you'll have to pay £50 a year to keep access.....
So, today has been spent re-establishing Thunderbird in order to "back up" all the existing emails and changing the defaults on a lot of sites...... but then there are all the other people/companies who have that old ID logged, but use it rarely - even all the cards I've handed out in Portugal over the last few years.
Aaaaaargh! bloody technology companies and their bloody monetizing!!
....and breathe
So the End of Life for Win 7 in January is a massive PITA .... and I still haven't decided what to do. Linux (Mint maybe...) seemed an option, but I have no experience of it and it doesn't feel like something to jump into in a hurry. Then I've read about using Windows emulators within some Linux shells, or even leaving a Win 7 partition for offline use only - but again.... the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I really don't fancy battling through such issues in a rush.
Then, just as I'm starting to panic about the approaching end-date, I get a nice little email from TalkTalk today, telling me of "Important changes to your TalkTalk email service". Now I run three separate accounts, but the backstop (sorry ) is an old lineone account from when it was one of the first "free" email accounts - run by BT when I got it back in the days of the dinosaur. Then it moved on to AOL, then Tiscali and finally to TalkTalk. So there's a lot of history there.
What's TalkTalk's big news?...... oh, just to say that as of January you'll have to pay £50 a year to keep access.....
So, today has been spent re-establishing Thunderbird in order to "back up" all the existing emails and changing the defaults on a lot of sites...... but then there are all the other people/companies who have that old ID logged, but use it rarely - even all the cards I've handed out in Portugal over the last few years.
Aaaaaargh! bloody technology companies and their bloody monetizing!!
....and breathe