[GTALUG] Video of Evan's talk from the last meeting

2021-04-15 Thread Alex Volkov via talk
Hello everyone, The recording of the talk -- I've ditched my Linux desktops for Windows sorta with Evan Leibovitch Is available here -- https://youtu.be/HfranDwTZOU Alex. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listi

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-15 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 12:05, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > There was a limited time where you could update pre Win 10 systems to Win > 10 without buying a new license. If you did that, Microsoft recorded this > fact in their central system. > > That period is over. > > No, it's not. Wi

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson via talk wrote: > My current maching, a Dell laptop, does not have that file. > > It had Windows on it when I bought it (though not running; I booted > with an install CD in the store before buying it and never ran > Windows). Well I kn

Re: [GTALUG] You may already have a Windows licence and not know it …

2021-04-15 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: Stewart Russell via talk [I started this message days ago. I delayed, hoping to do some more research. I'm just too busy so I'm sending it without completing it] | If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to root), | there's probably a key embedded in there yo