Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-30, 21:58

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to some of you other members excuse my going of the deep end but as a moderator and admin on other forums I would not tolerate the trolling behavior try spending numerous hours cleaning out 500 to 600 spam posts per day on forums and then having to council members on trolling behavior even with the …

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-29, 22:36

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Naughty words filtered

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Re: vulnerabilities windows xp and how to cope with it?

Posted on 2014-03-28, 22:39

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The problem is the windows kernel at heart. and the simple fact of one large partition and 1 single format (exploitable as hell) a linux set up uses at minimum 3 partitions unless you choose to make it all one. the average good set up root, swap, home, usr, temp, and var add to this that linux has …

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Re: vulnerabilities windows xp and how to cope with it?

Posted on 2014-03-28, 22:26

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Take a leap of faith and try a linux distro with Wine if you like older games. I am having plenty of success running many, many older games. If you use Office, look for alternatives. I haven't had Windows as my main OS for nearly 8 years now and enjoying every minute of it some programs may not run …

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Re: After a storm hit... reviving a dead CRT.

Posted on 2014-03-28, 22:15

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yeah I did a lot of tv repair a while ago those issues i posted were what i saw most often as well as poor solder joints and the like i cant remember how but my boss at the time made a few small jacobs ladders out of the flybacks scared the crap out of most of our customers 🤣

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Re: After a storm hit... reviving a dead CRT.

Posted on 2014-03-28, 20:37

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I would drop it off for recycling. No point risking your life playing around with the inside. :blush: exactly generally the things that fail the most on a crt are as follows filament in crt tube (blackscreen) horizontal output transformer (vertical line or dot) sync sweep (horizontal line) and …

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Re: What computer related book are you reading now?

Posted on 2014-03-28, 02:34

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Well ‘Commodore: A company on the edge’ was worth the effort but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who isn't specifically interested in Commodore - its non sequential stream of consciousness style could be hard work at times. I've since read 'Replay: The History of Video Games' which was great for …

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Re: What computer related book are you reading now?

Posted on 2014-03-28, 02:25

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coco3book2.jpg I was just flipping through and reading parts of my color computer 3 Extended BASIC manual the other day mostly for nostalgia reasons...lol....I can't believe how many lines of code I used to write just to make the computer do the most mundane things like play sounds and change …

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Re: vista 64 not so bad?

Posted on 2014-03-28, 02:19

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I used Vista from Beta 1 onwards through mid 2010. From RC (build 5700 iirc), I had very few problems. I do acknowledge I was an outlier, but the truth is that Vista was never all that bad. Most of the early problems were related to two factors: 1) bad drivers - the driver model changed …

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-28, 01:23

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BigBodZod wrote: gnuuser wrote: i have no problem with microsoft only the lawyers who run it would you rather i have an avatar of a lawyer being burned at the stake? I like the new one with the glass of beer 😁 i could have used this one

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-28, 00:13

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i have no problem with microsoft only the lawyers who run it would you rather i have an avatar of a lawyer being burned at the stake?

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-27, 19:11

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I am not a gamer Which make it odd that you are posting here. actually i registered because of my skills with hardware and software tricks I do have a kind of love for restoring old hardware. like I said in an earlier post i started off on the wrong foot as i was tired and irritated and i shouldn't …

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Re: Help identifying VIA ISA/VLB 486 mobo

Posted on 2014-03-27, 19:06

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I missed it on the earlier post my off duty hobby is refurbishing old pc's and donating them to handicapped and children so i generally have a lot of parts, (memory,various cards, and cables around) boy the stuff piles up quickly though!

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Re: Help identifying VIA ISA/VLB 486 mobo

Posted on 2014-03-27, 14:52

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on close inspection of the image it may be a jetway board heres a link to the site http://www.motherboard.cz/driver/jetway.htm

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Re: Help identifying VIA ISA/VLB 486 mobo

Posted on 2014-03-27, 14:43

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that sounds like an early dx board hewlett packard made a few of them and the never put any info out on the jumper settings there is a number on the board you should be able to search with your browser that may take you to the website where you can get the specs for it for example kbs-la (hp 3300 …

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2014-03-27, 13:31

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im sure its on here somewhere but if I remember correctly there is a specific order in which the commands in the autoexec .bat and config.sys should be that makes a lot of difference in how fast the system will boot up and run. Ill look through my old files and see if i can find it.

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-27, 13:23

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again I apologize for the remark but understand where it came from and why I had just finished a 36 hour stint of rebuilding a server farm because one of the twits decided to store some porn on it that caused the feds to confiscate every computer. including all the backup tapes, drives, and optical …

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-26, 05:38

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i said our management I did not say anyone not using linux If you mis understood what i said I apologize for the comment I am not a gamer I am a hardware and software specialist and it was my mistaken thought that i might be of some help on this forum. I program in java, python, ruby, perl, qbasic, …

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-26, 05:13

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you know what this got off to a bad start either that or ive fallen into a trolls nest. that was my first post and ive been attacked for it. you call me elitist and condescending listen to yourselves so far ive had a very poor welcome to the forum

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Re: All your Windows 7 are belong to us.

Posted on 2014-03-26, 04:50

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too stupid to use linux ^ and thaaaaat's exactly the condescending elitist attitude that keeps people away from linux. on the contrary I am also a linux instructor and i have offered training to them free including custom setups to make things easier but some of the turds i work with are more …

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