Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-16, 00:14

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I'm just reinstalling Windows 2000 Professional from scratch with VMWare, and applying all the updates I can. And I want it to stay vanilla, so no kernel extenders for now. Next on my list is to find a decent browser - I believe my best candidate is Pale Moon 26.5... Then I will install all my old …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-15, 23:07

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I'm just reinstalling Windows 2000 Professional from scratch with VMWare, and applying all the updates I can. And I want it to stay vanilla, so no kernel extenders for now. Next on my list is to find a decent browser - I believe my best candidate is Pale Moon 26.5... Then I will install all my old …

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Re: WebOne - proxy for old browsers to make them Web 2.0-capable

Posted on 2019-11-15, 22:39

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Just for clarification, If I had installed Windows 2000, would WebOne run on it? And Windows 98? https://github.com/atauenis/webone The proxy should be ran on a modern PC with .NET Framework 4.6 (or newer). Compiled stable build for Windows 7 SP1+ is in the EXE folder of this repository. .NET 4.6 …

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Re: WebOne - proxy for old browsers to make them Web 2.0-capable

Posted on 2019-11-15, 17:36

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Just for clarification, If I had installed Windows 2000, would WebOne run on it? And Windows 98?

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-13, 14:01

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I am actually trying to hold my happiness back after seeing how powerful the all new 16 inch macbook pro is. I need to save money for this!!! https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-16/

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 19:35

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What will we do when the UEFI becomes targeted by malware? I suppose the logic would suggest considering it obsolete, changing it with a new one, then repeat. :neutral: I've tried some early modern bios based mainboards that in their web support manufacturer pages have only the v1.0 released bios …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 12:59

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@Scali: Well, I may be wrong then. That's fine. BTW, I never liked Secure Boot. I had to turn it off every time I wanted to build a Hackintosh, for example.

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 11:30

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I know very little about Secure Boot so I don’t comment on it. But I know that calling someone a demagogue isn’t exactly an insult, it has more to say about what you talk about than what you are. Well, at least it’s what I think.

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-12, 04:26

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It sounds like Oracle doesn't care about a lot of their products. They do if it turns your money into another yacht for Larry. Of course, they've also discovered a certain level of brokenness is further business opportunity in disguise. In this way, they're a lot like SAP. https://encrypted-tbn0. …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-11, 20:56

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Why go to 95 when we can go to 3.11 ? :lol: 3.11 is not an OS. It is just DOSSHELL where someone did a global string search-and-replace from "DOSSHELL" to "WINDOWS" and someone else redrew the icons. :cool: LOL. It's a different way to look at the things, but I can understand. I've always preferred …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-11, 19:50

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oeuvre wrote: no one in this thread is making any sense until everyone switches to windows 95 permanently Why go to 95 when we can go to 3.11 ? 🤣

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Re: Edge based on Chromium

Posted on 2019-11-11, 13:40

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IE won't die for a long time in Enterprise since alot of applications still need it and it's still included with Windows 10. Microsoft Edge is currently supported on Windows 7+ https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download/ Yup I believe MS game plan is to support Edge on Windows 7+ to kill …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-11, 02:04

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I've been testing some virtual machines. Virtualbox is quite terrible although it's free. Oracle doesn't care about it, by the looks of it. Parallels Desktop 15 is the most exciting and complete solution, has Metal support, however it is subscription based, meaning it's a no-no for me. VMWare ( …

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Re: Edge based on Chromium

Posted on 2019-11-10, 22:04

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The final release of the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium is scheduled for January 15, 2020. Ironically, 1 day after the end of support for Windows 7 (January 14, 2020). Since IE11 is still the main browser for W7, I believe its support will end there too, finally marking the death of this son …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-10, 17:27

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EDIT: No dice. It still forces me to install Windows 10. I was going to try the BootCamp info.plist hack, I did it once for an unsupported iMac years ago, but starting with macOS Catalina, this $#*$#(! is read-only file system, even with SIP Disabled. Catalina has a new way of protecting system …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-10, 02:55

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Since the subject here is Windows 7, is there a way to install it through bootcamp on current macOS? Because bootcamp actually only allows me to install the annoying Windows 10. By "Boot Camp", you mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software) If so, according to the article, you …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 20:34

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Since the subject here is Windows 7, is there a way to install it through bootcamp on current macOS? Because bootcamp actually only allows me to install the annoying Windows 10.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-08, 21:06

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oeuvre wrote: https://i.imgur.com/Eo08P26l.jpg […] Show full quote Did y'all know Compaq/HP essentially reused the same case for nearly 20 years? "If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It"

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-08, 00:29

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Jesus, how a discussion about Windows 7 became a discussion about the pitfalls of Secure Boot?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-11-05, 18:21

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So now I'm in the process of transferring some games over to it via Windows file sharing over the network. So we're talking 10Mbps and the slow disk read/write speeds of a 486. 2.3GB is gonna take a couple of hours. :lol: :lol: I took 18 hours to convert 263 high quality songs to MP3 320kbps at 1x …

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