The End is Nigh for Windows 7

I'm not really sure what Microsoft is trying to tell me. Whatever it is the message seems to be changing every month.

November 2019

December 2019

I think they're trying to tell me to switch to Linux, fast!

MARCH 2020 UPDATE

Windows Defender seems to be updating through its GUI again. And to my surprise, the Windows Update service even gave me a new Malicious Software Removal Tool.

Raspberry Pi Pictures

I recently found a stash of Pi pics on my 3 TB backup drive and thought I'd share a few. Of all the little PCs I built, I think the Palm Pi-lot is probably my favorite. Even though the Pi 3 and 4 are 64-bit and much more powerful, I think I'll always remember that initial excitement when the Pi 2 came out most of all. It's really what motivated me to start compiling my own kernels.

https://www.critophilippatos.com/pictures

I'm also trying to attract the Google bot which still hasn't indexed my main site. Blogger seems to know the trick.

Samsung DeX for Windows 10

All the articles online still say you need a Note 10 but I can say for sure that it now works with the lowly "economy" (US$750) version I own, the S10e. You'll need Android security patch level November 1, 2019 or later.

https://www.samsung.com/global/download/SamsungDeXWin

Works much better than my Android emulator for video streaming like with PlutoTV.  MEmu lets you have multiple accounts though.

https://www.memuplay.com/

Welcome to Crito Philippatos' Blog

I'm a technology consultant and enthusiast with over 30 years of experience.

My first PC was a TRS-80 Color Computer with CompuServe cartridge (ID 70314,47) and 300/150 baud full/half duplex modem with acoustic coupler. I moved on to the Zilog-80 based Model III a year later. My first IBM compatible computer was a Gateway 2000 386 running Windows/386 2.11. I ran a Wildcat! BBS on that computer with a (at the time) monstrous 650 MB Maxtor ESDI drive. When Windows for Workgroups 3.11 came out I became a full blown Windows developer and shareware author with a wildly popular program called MemPro that appeared in the book "Maximizing Windows" by Jim Boyce. By the time Windows NT was released in the early 90's I had become a database administrator and would later become a certified DBA on SQL Server 2000. I worked on several multi-million dollar projects as a SQL developer/DBA, most notably the Southern Star Pipeline gas trading platform. For the last 10 years my focus has been on Linux and in 2017 I created my own Ubuntu-based distribution for the Raspberry Pi 3 called PELinux64. It was the first 64-bit Ubuntu-based OS for the Pi.

I'm constantly annoying my friends with technology news. I can't help it. Cross-compiling an ARM64 kernel on my Gentoo laptop excites me. Now instead of spamming them at work with emails they can just come here to catch up on what's new with me. 😉

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