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this pattern I have made with the program Genetica 4.0. they based of an png-picture in 1024 x 1024 x 300 and they are seamless - and you can use them for what you want or need - content: 1 PAT fileRelated content
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Those are very nice patterns! I have used one of them in my own profile page
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Β I try my best to make good ressources. and your profile page looks
pretty nice with this texture. "the awesome llexandro" I hear for the
first time here on DA - thank you very much for the honor.
best wishes, llexandro
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I'm glad it helps you feel honored and special
Your resources are great!
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I mean't this a little bit funny because I'm not something special.
I have got some talents and use them to make useful things for
other artists and when people like you find them great then I it
seems I have make a good job - therefore I'm always thankful
for feedback. the only difference to the most people is I use my
brain to much - I believe nothing, I read very much about science
history, policy, philosophy, psychology, technology, computers,
software, cybercrime and everything where I mean you should
know this as human in 2016. also I'm very engaged in computer
and internet security and how you can encrypt everything what
comes from your computer so nobody can track you, or know
what you write to your friends, crab login information from you
or create a profile about you by watching your daily computer
and internet usage.
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Aha, I see... Well, I'm also very interested in computers as well.
As for the tracking thing... why do I keep thinking that it refers a bit to the recent issue of Windows 10 and its tracking doubts and questions as well, in addition to the classic virus/malware things?
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yep, windows 10 (8 + 8.1 also) have with the new UEFI a backdoor what
can be used without your permission to access to your computer to mani-
pulate them without your knowledge. and this doubts about tracking you
with the new windows versions be no doubts - you can download small
tools which show you every connection in the background and there run
ning very much with win 10 and 8 - normally you can this versions only
use with no internet connection when you want be really secure. I stay
with my "old" windows 7 because this.
the virus/ malware thing is in this days the most common problem because
services like the FBI is today one of the biggest spreader from such
dangerous stuff only to breach in so much computer how they can and
spy people and their online traffic. here is a report I have found in the
web:
llexandro.deviantart.com/art/Hβ¦
there you become a small view about all the things which be happens
today - I have many more links to information like this.
you can today use programs to encrypt all your traffic and messages you
send and receive but then you be very quick a person off interest because
many countries do not like this when they can no longer watching you. in
some of them like USA you lose your status as US person and they can
handle you like a terrorist when you use the best software which today
is available and more and more countries forbidden the use from this
programs - France is one of them. welcome in the future ?!
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Yeah, I see, and I've also seen it happen more often and prominent than ever these days...
Even though I'm not sure how else I'd be able to hide my online info besides using things like VPNs, not going to suspicious sites, and changing some of my habits (aka getting another browser that doesn't spy on you, using another search engine, etc)... I still care about my data, and it's a reason why I have got into pretty harsh arguments with others. Trying to make them understand that Windows 10 is more of a bad than a good thing is impossible.. many are so brainwashed by MS's marketing tricks to use that thing. But oh well. As I'd say... their choice to get the "crap", they stay with the crap.
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ah, another browser you have only two options: you use TOR or like me,
setup a new firefox with some add ons which be made especially to hide
your data. I can send you a clean version if you be interested.
a VPN service is easy to use - I have HotSpot Shield and this one you
have only to start and start the connection to one of their servers,
that's all. one double click + one click. you need no knowledge or must
setup something.
windows 10 is much better only when you have a new computer which
support all features. but there be so much spying services include and
the great wide open UEFI backdoorΒ - and you can't close or disable this.
I have now a new computer but I stay with windows 7 even when w 10
would be much faster on this machine - mainly on games and 3D apps.
but a fast windows is not so important for me, I need a windows with
privacy features and without such a creepy backdoor.
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Well.. I'd prefer Windows 8/8.1 all the way to 10, when it comes to the pros... 10 has enough cons for me not to choose it. Plus, the PC I'm typing from right now had 8 preinstalled, but I have since removed it and installed 7 instead.Β
And yeah... you could send me all of those addons and such in a note, or somewhere in an app like Skype, perhaps?
As for speed... I still prefer Win8.1 on that thing. It's pretty fast and worked well for me.. it's another matter that I loved 7's interface and looks more.
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it's no matter if you use win 8 up to win 10 - the spying services
and the UEFI backdor is in all this version. and only win 7 you can
personalize very good. so windows 7 is the last version without this
spying stuff and the new UEFI - therefore I will so long as possible
use windows 7 and customize this extremely: here my last own
desktop design which I use now more than a year:
sta.sh/025qsa6m52uj
everything you see there is made by me and the 3 silver signs are
animated and rotating slowly. normally I make after some month a
new design but I like this dark design very much and it is made to
work with the Airlock skinpack which is also in such dark colors.
winappsfree.blogspot.com/2012/β¦
I think it is better when I send you a completely configurated firefox
because it is very expensive to configurate all this add ons. I have
stored one which I have only used for setting up this add ons - you
can later search the web for this add ons when you want to know
what exactly everyone do. all my mozilla browser be portable so you
have also no installation or whatever like this.
mega.nz/#!V0gzzKKS!rrWBbZF52Hqβ¦
simply extract the archive, open the folder and run the waterfox 48.exe
waterfox is the 64bit version from firefox and 48 is aktually the latest
release. and maybe on your computer you must apply new settings to
the "Ghostery" add on but this is very easy. for some of them I have
disabled the update option because the installed version works much
better as the new one.
when you have questions you can always ask me, that's no problem.
best wishes, llexandro
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As for the UEFI thing... I use UEFI already on Windows 7, but the same configuration of it would work well with 8.1 too. 10 is the one that started going the bad way, with secure boot being able to be enforced on PCs and no ability to be changed if manufacturers desire so (8 actually had the ability to disable it if you wanted), thus no earlier-than-Win8 version will run on those really. Although I agree with you 7 didn't have all that secure boot crap... 8.1 just made UEFI better utilized, as many things were improved in it. As for spying things... I remember 10 was the first one that had them, and MS brought some of them to Win8.1 and 7 through updates. I have a list of those updates, which I never installed and hid instead. I'm now always looking up each new update released to see if it includes some kind of "telemetry" or "spying" things too.. I just can't trust MS anymore.
I love Win7's customization on things, and it's one of the best existing for Windows OSes, along with XP. Although 8.1 will most likely never reach the same level.. it still has many things inherited from 7, and can be customized to look like 7 in the UI at least, if one misses the old feels, like I would. It's pretty stable, unlike 10, that is always in a "beta state", and will remain like this for the time being.
For desktop themes and such.. I haven't really bothered to get one that changes the whole interface in that level as yours does, as I still like the WinVista/7 UI, I just prefer Vista's looks and speed on Aero, for example.
Those are all I can say for now. If I have any questions, I'll definitely ask.
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there you have wrong information. since windows 8 there is a new UEFI with this great backdoor - and when you think: hey I simply disable this - this backdoor can again enabled from outside without you know this and without your permission - and this is to strange for me. also since win 8 Microsoft develop their different versions in cooperation with the NSA - this you can find on wikipedia under "Prism" and so is windows 7 the last solution.
and even when you install windows in normal mode without UEFI - the setup files for UEFI will be copied and so you can from outside install the UEFI annyway without your permission. the only really secure way is to remove all UEFI stuff from the windows setup and install windows normally - but then the UEFI setup is not present and nobody can install this later. yeah, we live in a wonderful world and at best you be a computer specialist so that's you know enough about all this security stuff and how you have to handle this. and the progress in this things is so fast that you must invest much time to have always the latest news about them.
windows 7 updates you can completely disable because they be not really needed - only all driver you must update manually. and then you must no longer look on every update what's include. when you install windows 7 it have 30Gb but after some years with updates the size grow easily up to 60Gb or more and this slow down your performance very much. when you want a newer version then look for the latest release of windows 7 - maybe a 2015 version - and then you have all patches integrated but it have again only 30Gb.
when you want a new design for your computer then go here: skinpacks.com - there you find many skinpacks which change the completey look from windows. but before you install one of them disable your internet - otherwise they offer some useless tools and apps and toolbars which nobody really need.
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I have already learned a few things about the Prism surveillance program, which is the one Microsoft participates already in.
As for the UEFI things... I seriously have no idea what to say. I just looked up the backdoor UEFI stuff, and it is seems like MS had a leak of those keys making people able to bypass Secure Boot and install other OSes, but nothing enforcing Secure Boot with that is said. I also very well know how to remove all the UEFI things from the setup, but consider that Windows Boot Manager, from its very early days, dating way back to 2006, was actually made specifically as it is to work with UEFI. It's another matter that MS couldn't implement support for it on Vista RTM, and did so on SP1 (2008) instead. And.. on that last one (about installs). All I really know in there is that once you get the hard drive or SSD installed with an OS on MBR or GPT, you cannot revert the change to the other one as long as you have OS data inside, without having to wipe the whole drive, even with tools like Parted Magic, that let you change the drive partitioning to the other way (aka from MBR to GPT, or vice versa) without deleting your data. So I think that the UEFI stuff, even if they may get in the PC after OS installation, won't be able to work when on a MBR drive, to somehow change it to GPT without the user's consent. Plus.. I can know by myself when my drive's formatted in MBR or GPT, through some tools like diskpart, and so on.Β
I won't disagree with you that the progress in this things is so fast that you have to invest a lot of time to keep up with the latest news; it's true, and I've seen it myself. But on this UEFI thing, I didn't feel like something is right. The backdoor thing is sure correct, I saw it happen. But Windows magically converting to GPT when the drive is MBR, without deleting all the data from it... sounds weird, let alone done.
For Windows 7 updates.. I already have what I need, so I slipstream the available updates in my disc and have an updated Windows 7 ISO to get in a USB stick and install later if needed. It's light enough right now, and the only things taking up most space in my drive are the files and apps I've installed, so that's not of any worry.
Skin packs concerned, I know that site actually 
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ahm, the windows 7 UEFI is not so expensive as the later versions and you can install windows normal or in UEFI mode - therefore you can delete this files from the setup but I have make this until now only with windows 7 and I have no problems.
and you really think, that's the programmer from windows do not know the MBR problems ? believe me they have found a solution for this, defenitely since windows 8.
the most space on your windows is used by the "hyberfile.sys" and the "pagefile" - this contains your virtual memory - on my biggest machine be this 100Gb - therefore I outtake this pagefile always on a second disk and this make your windows faster. to see this files you must change in the folder options > view the settings for system protected files to visible.
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Hmm.. why would Win7 UEFI be more expensive than 8's? There's literally no difference in how the BIOS will work with either OS. The difference lies within the OS itself. Plus.. I know I can delete the files, but I don't feel like bothering, or keeping an old format of disk formatting, dating back to the 1980's. I also acknowledge that they have tried solving MBR's problems, but GPT is the one that has done so mostly so far.Β
And... what made you think I don't know what uses the most space in the Windows drive? I know about hiberfil.sys and the pagefile, and their actions respectively. If I didn't want hibernation, I wouldn't use it, and I'd delete hiberfil.sys if desired. But my drive is like 931GB. I wouldn't mind having it in there at all. Though to be honest, I don't have any other hard drive, or money, to buy one, and install in my laptop. The speed will remain as it is for now. If I could, I would do it.. but I'm restricted on income and so on.
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sorry, you have misundertood me - the old win 7 UEFI is much
easier and do not have this creepy backdoor.
and why I thought you don't know this two big files ? you have
said, your installed stuff need the most space ? and should you
have the option of a second hard drive - today you can get a
simple HDD for 20 bucks (with 1Tb). a second drive is always
useful because you can clone/backup your completely windows
for the worst case. then you can disable your system restore
and delete all system restore points.
today this cloning tools working so perfect that's I have until
now never become any error in the cloned system - for this I
use XXClone which is very simple but very good.
I try always to keep my system small and fast - therefore I use
every useful solution. sorry, when I have nerved you with my
thoughts about this.
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tinystalker.deviantart.com/art⦠used, thank you
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