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Grumbles...
Jul. 2nd, 2015 10:47 pmI bought an inexpensive netbook/tablet for Galina, but she didn't like it much, so I'm converting it for potential use on the road. And I've noticed yet another step on the road to perdition.
The hardware of my current work machine is configured to not boot from any unauthorized (by Microsoft) device, although strictly speaking, the prohibition is on booting from any medium that doesn't carry a digital signature, so some non-Microsoft OSes are okay (such as Ubuntu). The same was technically true for my Linux laptop, except I completely wiped Windows from it when I installed Ubuntu.
And the same is true for the Nextbook (the name of the new machine). And what's absolutely hilarious is that after deciding to turn the machine into "my" machine, I find it's not really possible to change the name of the user directory from c:\users\galina to c:\users\alex. By "really possible," I mean I found some pages on the Web that explained, in intricate and exhausting detail, a sequence of registry-editing moves that would give a copyist monk the shakes.
(That said, I now wonder if I could have recovered the operating system to its initial state. If that's a possibility, then I could have made the machine "mine" that way, without forever after using c:\users\galina as my user directory. As it stands now, after all of the configuration I've done so far, I'm not going to explore that option.)
The next step, of course, will be to figure out if the lashup actually works (or is workable, since my normal work "surface" consists of four monitors).
Cheers...
The hardware of my current work machine is configured to not boot from any unauthorized (by Microsoft) device, although strictly speaking, the prohibition is on booting from any medium that doesn't carry a digital signature, so some non-Microsoft OSes are okay (such as Ubuntu). The same was technically true for my Linux laptop, except I completely wiped Windows from it when I installed Ubuntu.
And the same is true for the Nextbook (the name of the new machine). And what's absolutely hilarious is that after deciding to turn the machine into "my" machine, I find it's not really possible to change the name of the user directory from c:\users\galina to c:\users\alex. By "really possible," I mean I found some pages on the Web that explained, in intricate and exhausting detail, a sequence of registry-editing moves that would give a copyist monk the shakes.
(That said, I now wonder if I could have recovered the operating system to its initial state. If that's a possibility, then I could have made the machine "mine" that way, without forever after using c:\users\galina as my user directory. As it stands now, after all of the configuration I've done so far, I'm not going to explore that option.)
The next step, of course, will be to figure out if the lashup actually works (or is workable, since my normal work "surface" consists of four monitors).
Cheers...
