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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Stopping Windows 10 Clients? Post 302983579 by ScottyPC on Thursday 13th of October 2016 09:30:41 AM
Old 10-13-2016
Zaxxon - thank you for your reply. I posted in the Unix Linux forum because this -to me -this is a server issue. 90+% of all web servers are Linux. Yes it is a serious question. Perhaps I did not explain it thoroughly.
Windows 10 is a data collecting mechanism that not all of us appreciate, in fact if most people had the facts about it they probably would not use it without great caution.
My point is this - use this forum as an example, but any forum would fit. A forum has users that at least to some degree expect "some" privacy or protection from the forum they subscribe to -obviously this is not guaranteed. However when a Windows 10 machine connects to that forum, or any website for that matter- any and or all of the data that passes thru that Windows 10 machine can be collected by Microsoft - basically for use as they see fit (Read the Windows 10 EULA). This practice now becomes everyones problem..."I" do not have Windows 10 -"I" did not agree to have them collect, store or do anything with my data -Yet they can to some degree via forums or web servers of any kind.
My question is not a small one that will likely be solved overnight but a very serious one. Nothing like what is happening now, has happened before. Left unchecked - this over reach will continue. I am in hopes to discuss a way to stop or at least greatly hinder this data collection over reach - to signal "NO" we do not accept this behavior on our networks and thus hopefully cause MS or any other entity to re-think their practices.
For what it's worth the only thing I can think of as a possible solution would be to block Windows 10 by its browser credentials at the server level - but that seems too easy to defeat.
Also - full disclosure - I was a MS fan boy for over 25 years.until Windows 8 When I switched everything I had to Linux. Understand that I am not anti-Microsoft - but I am against anyone or anything that assumes anothers property as their own.

Rbatte1 - Thank you for the reply, hopefully the above clarifies things a bit more. The problem is that the current way of server behavior is being taken advantage of, current standards are being taken advantage of, - its the servers that need to adjust, not the desktops because we can not control those. (except in house of course)

Hopefully the issue or my question is now a bit more clear.

Respectfully request to have this topic moved back to a forum where it may gain traction with Linux Unix server administrators. These are the folks who will likely be the key to all of this.

Last edited by ScottyPC; 10-13-2016 at 10:59 AM.. Reason: Added request
 

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os_type(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						  os_type(3alleg4)

NAME
os_type - Stores the detected type of the OS. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> extern int os_type; DESCRIPTION
Set by allegro_init() to one of the values: OSTYPE_UNKNOWN - unknown, or regular MSDOS OSTYPE_WIN3 - Windows 3.1 or earlier OSTYPE_WIN95 - Windows 95 OSTYPE_WIN98 - Windows 98 OSTYPE_WINME - Windows ME OSTYPE_WINNT - Windows NT OSTYPE_WIN2000 - Windows 2000 OSTYPE_WINXP - Windows XP OSTYPE_WIN2003 - Windows 2003 OSTYPE_WINVISTA - Windows Vista OSTYPE_OS2 - OS/2 OSTYPE_WARP - OS/2 Warp 3 OSTYPE_DOSEMU - Linux DOSEMU OSTYPE_OPENDOS - Caldera OpenDOS OSTYPE_LINUX - Linux OSTYPE_SUNOS - SunOS/Solaris OSTYPE_FREEBSD - FreeBSD OSTYPE_NETBSD - NetBSD OSTYPE_IRIX - IRIX OSTYPE_DARWIN - Darwin OSTYPE_QNX - QNX OSTYPE_UNIX - Unknown Unix variant OSTYPE_BEOS - BeOS OSTYPE_MACOS - MacOS OSTYPE_MACOSX - MacOS X SEE ALSO
allegro_init(3alleg4), os_version(3alleg4), os_multitasking(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 os_type(3alleg4)
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