My main desktop PC is going through a very protracted and long dreaded update to Windows 10, from my dearly beloved W7. In fact, it’s stuck at “Working on udpated 30%” for hours now. Dare I turn off the computer? No, I’ll hope it’s fixed by the morning, I’m an optimist.
So Sunday’s posts will be highly abbreviated, and mostly in the form of eye candy, like this divine Lancia Fulvia Sport, shot by J.C. Isn’t it delicious?
The closest we’ve done to a proper CC on the Fulvia is here, but it did not include the Sport, which as is rather obvious, is really a Zagato, designed and built by them for Lancia. As such, it’s the lightest and most desirable of the family, never mind the most expensive by far, as alloy-bodied cars have gone…GameStop.
Good luck Paul, I’m still holding out with W7. Beautiful car. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen one before.
Update failed. Back to W7. Maybe I’ll stay for a while longer. 🙂
Windows 7 to Windows 10?
Welcome to the reason my setup is all Apple nowadays, from my iPhone through my Mac Mini. I have one Windows 8.1 laptop sitting in the closet for the inevitable times that something I have to do demands Windows/Office.
Otherwise, I will not touch Microsoft anything anymore.
I ran OS/2 on my PC from 1992 to 2003. Then the computer started giving me hardware problems, and support for OS/2 had dried up, so I went Apple. I use Windows at work, but I have the help desk to take care of the nastiness.
That Fulvia is my automotive wet dream, the #1 car in my fantasy garage!
Fun facts to know and tell: the Fulvia Zagato’s hood isn’t exactly centered, so the front fenders aren’t mirror images of each other.
I love these cars…71-72 models, 2100 lbs with 115hp 1600cc narrow angle v4 motor. Potentially a very capable track car with just a few mods. Find 25 more hp and drop 200lbs of weight and you really got something.
I have one win7 box and one winXP box. Neither have been turned on for a long time. I’m saving them for the “just in case” events that dont seem to happen. I do everything on an iPad Pro nowdays. However, if i was trying to run/maintain a website i would’ve definitely had a win10 box long time ago.
God bless OpenOffice, open-source office suite formerly by Sun, now by Apache.
https://www.openoffice.org/
I haven’t used Microscrew Orifice in a decade.
I’m looking to begin experimentation with Pop!_OS on a System76 laptop and LineageOS on a galaxy tablet. I’d like to ditch all the big name tech companies and go purely open source.
Exactly the reason why the entire family of mine, including my brother’s children, has gone from Windows to Apple. Free operating system upgrades every year.
In 2008, my father told me that his Windows 7 was hacked depsite the antivirus software running in the background. It took me three days to identify what sort of malware and to find the solution. The malware had buried itself in the FAT, making itself “undetectable” to the antivirus software and replicating itself after each formatting. I was able to remove that offending malware.
Afterwards, I told my father that it would be the LAST TIME I would fix his computer. I suggested buying Apple and be done with it. He was so reluctant and thought Apple was too expensive and too different. I dragged him to the computer store to look at iMac. He actually looked underneath the counter and asked me, “where’s the tower or something?” I pointed out that iMac is all-inclusive in one package. He bought a 20″ and learnt quickly the difference between Windows and macOS.
My father loved his iMac very much and hadn’t asked me to fix his iMac ever since other than upgrading HDD to SSD, which improved the performance greatly. He even encouraged his friends to switch to Apple computers.
I still use the 10-year-old iMac 27″ and 11-year-old MacBook Pro 17″ to this day. The only upgrade was from HDD to SSD, which improved the performance greatly.
I updated our desktop to Windows 10 a few years ago. It took a while to update everything, but it works pretty well for us. My work laptop is Windows 10 as well and it’s fine, but I do miss my iMac desktop at work, and it looks like I’ll be working from home for a while yet. Nice Lancia.
Windows 10 is an acquired taste. My work laptop got upgraded back over the summer from Windows 7. While W10 works okay, I’m like Syke – all my personal computers are Apple based.
I’ve always considered the Zagato cars to be more about competition than concours d’elegance. The Fulvia isn’t bad looking, but I really prefer the factory coupe, and the factory coupe ended up with a good competition record !
To answer the question….YES!
Well, Stellantis, here is the challenge, produce a modern one of these. It might even sell twice as many as the original 🙂
An excellent color choice, too. I too have a strong hankering for a factory Coupe, however the Zagato would make a fine stablemate. Headroom looks better too.
I flat refuse to switch to windows 10. It is unuseable. Why did they change the look? Why does it look different? I have had almost 30 years to learn the few things I can manage to do with a computer . . . I can install a printer, get it to talk to the internet, find files, and do a few other things . . . why did they mess that up? I’m waiting for the next version of windows to go back to the way it used to be.
That’s a beautiful car. There were a few hybrids which had European bodywork and Chassis with American engines, but imagine this with a Japanese powertrain. Oooh, a Mazda rotary would have been fun!
In 1967, stationed in Naples, Italy, I VERY NEARLY ALMOST bought one of these (under 3 grand at the time).
Being a cautious person I ended up buying a Volvo station wagon.
I still like these and as a former owner of an Appia, Lancia, in its pre-Fiat marriage, remains one of my all-time automotive love affairs.
Lovely car. Just beautiful.
What a shame you had to mention W10 though!
Yes, this is not one of my favorite Lancias. The only small Zagatos I really like are the Giulietta Sprint Zs, one of which belonged to a member of our Alfa club in Nashville. He drove it to our annual Festa d’Ottobre one year, and placidly smiled as we took turns sitting in it making Vroom Vroom noises. What charmed me most about it was that its short tail had been made EXACTLY long enough to accommodate the spare! Which of course meant the owner was stuck with that exact wheel/tire size.
Where I work, we need Windows because we run software for which there’s no Apple version. About seven years ago, we bought half a dozen capable Windows 7 machines to replace several machines that were long past their prime. At the beginning of 2020, I updated most of them to Windows 10; it turned out to be not a difficult process at all. Then COVID hit and several of us moved to working at home. I finally have tackled a couple more computers, and as far as I can tell, nothing has been broken. I think there are possibly two machines left to update. At home, we’ve been using Windows 10 without much difficulty; even an 11-year-old desktop went uneventfully to Windows 10. I have no usability issues at all with Windows 10, either, and the other users at work have adapted to it.
I did have a bit of trouble updating one system from Home to Pro. It turned out that I had to unplug a couple of USB devices for the update to work. When it was done, I plugged them back in, and everything was fine.
Lord go to work for the next iOS update (11.Whatever) my Apple products go south almost immediately at the three year mark. The last update I did “seemed” fine but eliminated all photo and video. I reboot. Nope. This was when I learned the Cloud said bye about 2 years ago, which I don’t recall doing. Stressed doesn’t begin to describe…
I refuse to lease phones for multiple reasons and $1,200 a pop every three is getting real tiring, let alone a marginally used tablet…
I’ve never seen a Zagato Fulvia in the metal, so I can’t accurately asses the lines. Seems a very angle specific design. As much as I find these interesting, the in-house designed coupe is a masterpiece of clean linear lines, at the Zagato’s expense in my mind. The trick electric hatch vent is neat, alloy in the earlier cars a bespoke touch, yet too “Zagato” in ambition style wise for a car this class ($). They make me think expensive proto-CR-X.
I still have my Corgi Toys Lancia with opening hood/bonnet.
Zagato! Lancia! Hot sex!
Or maybe not.
The factory coupe is such a sweetie, a shy and willowy beauty for a certain taste. It looks like I couldn’t afford it, or don’t have the connections to buy it if I did.
But two of the most sublime names in automotive history when conjoined here failed to improve the breed. All the excitement without the release, so to speak.
The side view as displayed is very nice, but could also be a nice but common-enough French device of the era. The front, quell horreur, could be a French device of the lesser type, and has a close relationship with ugliness. It does have an extremely nice bum, and that is never to be underrated, I guess.
In fact, given the cramped confines within the Zagato vis a vis the standard one, it could even be said, “Nice bum, shame about the space.”
Windows, you say? If they’re bothering you, cover them with your wife’s Freudian slip, I say.
Personally, I don’t have ten windows through which to spy on my hot neighbor, and the Order says I can’t anyway.
Happy Lancia.
Be careful of “updates” to Windows 10. Last fall it updated to some new build number and within a day, i was getting a BSOD with a message about some file that I eventually found had something to do with the video. It was just suddenly stop and require a reboot, usually right in the middle of something important. Then it happened again. And again. With a message about a different file. I tried a clean reinstall of that build from a reformatted drive and had the same issues again.
I went back to Win 7. No more BSOD.
My next device will be a Chromebook, I’m done with Micro$oft.
My first Corgi diecast car was one of these in orange with a flat black hood. I still have it somewhere.