02-15-2021, 04:01 AM
fauch wrote:
There has to be a way to "fool it" by giving it the info it thinks it wants. No one has figured this out yet?
I need Commander Data, to connect to the MS Collective via their subspace channel and put them to 'sleep'.
We just watched the two Star Trek Next Generation episodes in which the Borg arrive at Earth after destroying the Federation armada, but Riker has retrieved Locutus of Borg (Captain Picard), and the 'primitive artificial organism' (as the Borg called him) Data defeats them.
I thought I had a way of fooling the MS Collective, because I have a nightly SuperDuper! clone of my iMac internal drive. So I thought to Change Startup Drive to the clone, which surely would run the existing copy of Office. If that worked, then I could create a new 'sandbox' clone that I could leave at OS 12, and run my old applications when I needed.
But, when I tried it on the existing clone and attempted to open a .doc file, after a long, long wait (the USB 2.0 clone is excruciatingly slow), instead of opening the file I was presented with. . . the Activation window.
Somehow the insidious collective mind of MS knew that the clone was not the same as the internal drive, even though it had identical files and OS, and was running on the same computer! The Collective must be communicating with all its appendages wherever they are.
This is beyond me, so having no Data, I guess I'll just proceed with my system update to 10.13, and just see what works. Most of my text files over the last few years are just .rtf documents, anyway, which anything can read. And Open Office can read Excel files. So what the heck; I never liked MS Word ever since version 5.1 for Mac, back in the System 7 days. Good riddance!
/Mr Lynn