Re: Microsoft Will NOT Support Windows 7 or 8 Installations on New Hardware

Posted on 2016-01-20, 11:13

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Well, in this case I think their poor communication, or more properly the way they communicate poorly, is at least very self serving and possibly deceptive. It would be more honest for them to be complete and fulsome about their support plans. What have Microsoft done that they said they would not …

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Re: Microsoft Will NOT Support Windows 7 or 8 Installations on New Hardware

Posted on 2016-01-20, 07:45

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I can't speak for TELVM, but I see no problem with calling Microsoft on their antics every time they leverage their market share to coerce customers into an upgrade purchase. That is just fine, as long as we're facts-based and objective about it. But language like "herd the cattle" is far from …

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Re: Microsoft Will NOT Support Windows 7 or 8 Installations on New Hardware

Posted on 2016-01-20, 06:55

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TELVM wrote: It's just FUD to scare and herd the cattle into the Win X corral ASAP. Do you enjoy being so bitter? Edit: To put it more nicely: Your talk on heat dissipation and power is great, I think you're a great contributor, but why the constant hyperbole and condescension on Microsoft topics?

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Re: When did you first get acces to the Internet and what sites did you visit at your first time ?

Posted on 2016-01-20, 06:05

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luckybob wrote: I like how I'm the only HONEST person with regards to Internet useage. I was a child, pretty sure I didn't know what porn was. (Or at least, I didn't know about the word "porn")

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Re: When did you first get acces to the Internet and what sites did you visit at your first time ?

Posted on 2016-01-19, 07:31

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We got an "OMG Internet WOW!" floppy disk with our 28.8k modem, which dad bought primarily to fax with. We signed up with OzEmail, for a bargain $5/hour. My first uses of it were always supervised, as I would have only been 8 or 9 at the time. I used it for dumb stuff like games cheats and Action …

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Re: Microsoft Will NOT Support Windows 7 or 8 Installations on New Hardware

Posted on 2016-01-19, 07:04

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Dropping legacy USB 2.0 support... what? There's still USB 2 peripherals and drives... Who the hell's designing this BS? Yeah sorry, that was badly worded. They are dropping USB 2.0-specific silicon, so the only USB host controllers on the board are USB 3.0 ones. Of course you can still use USB 2.0 …

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Re: Microsoft Will NOT Support Windows 7 or 8 Installations on New Hardware

Posted on 2016-01-19, 05:04

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What does Skylake introduce that will be fundamentally incompatible with Windows 7 and 8 that is similarly worthwhile? It's not the CPUs this time, it's the Z170 platform (and contemporaries). It drops legacy USB 2.0 support, and Windows 7 and 8 can't boot from a USB 3.0 port. That's the main …

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Re: Microsoft Will NOT Support Windows 7 or 8 Installations on New Hardware

Posted on 2016-01-19, 01:34

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There's a lot of vagueness around the term "support". This issue has nothing to do with ringing up for technical support, or Microsoft "killing off" the OS prematurely. Going forward, CPUs (or rather the platforms that support them) will stop being compatible with the bootloader and HAL that Windows …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2016-01-18, 11:51

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My pleasure, as always! 😀 I've cut over the site to the new server. Please let me know how you all get on for performance. Still read-only at this stage. We're also HTTPS enabled now! Try https://www.vogonsdrivers.com Also when FTP is available again, it'll be complete with SSL encryption.

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

Posted on 2016-01-18, 00:55

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HighTreason wrote: ~95% of my traffic is attempted admin logins from China. Same but from Russia.

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Re: EZ-Drive Dynamic Drive Overlay

Posted on 2016-01-18, 00:36

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However, that may not resolve the lack of INT 13H extensions support in the main BIOS. That's the whole point of an Option ROM BIOS, to provide those services. Even in an IBM 5150 (whose system BIOS contains no fixed disk services at all), you can use XTIDE Universal BIOS in a boot ROM socket to …

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

Posted on 2016-01-15, 07:05

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I agree completely. In my case it was more a reply for this bit : All we had to do was just use older small CF cards, like 64-512 MB, and just google their C/H/S parameters and then enter em in bios because searching for C/H/S information on Google is a bit tedious Sorry for the misunderstanding :) …

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

Posted on 2016-01-15, 04:26

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by SquallStrife

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Beegle wrote: PhilsComputerLab wrote: There is a little DOS tool that can tell you the drive parameters: http://kevparr.com/misc/whatide.php I was just about to suggest that nice piece of software. Thanks Phil. That doesn't help if you can't communicate with the interface card! 😉

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

Posted on 2016-01-14, 23:51

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That seems like an awful lot of effort for something unnecessary to me.... I worked with a friend at his house this past summer 2015 on something similar, getting CF-IDE adapters to work and boot in a 8086 and 286 systems. All we had to do was just use older small CF cards, like 64-512 MB, and just …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2016-01-14, 10:14

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I'm making the site read-only for a little while, as I move it to the new hosting location. When it comes back up, all your logins will be the same. If my calculations are correct, this should be pretty seamless. (Yes, I do have a local backup on my PC and on my NAS!)

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

Posted on 2016-01-13, 23:00

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Got my IBM 5150 booting from a CF card. Full write-up and video to come! From VCF: I used a 74LS04 inverter, and built the following "translation": ISA A0...A2 -> Card A0...A2 ISA A3 -> Invert -> Card A9 ISA A4 -> Invert -> Card A4 ISA A5 -> Invert -> Card A5 ISA A6 -> Invert -> Card A6 ISA A7 -> …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2016-01-13, 22:50

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Malvineous wrote: Would it be a bad idea to combine with the Vogonswiki hosting? How much data needs to be hosted? There's over 35GB. Doesn't matter though, I've found a host. Might take me a while to migrate us though.

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2016-01-13, 00:40

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Gentlemen! (And ladies! If there are any of you??) The time has come to change hosting providers. We're currently on plain old shared hosting. While it's been good, and fast, we're coming up against things like over-enthusiastic virus protection that we can't disable, a fairly rigid system for FTP …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2016-01-12, 05:23

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jesolo wrote: ST.jpg The car I owned before my falcon was the same one, but in red. (not my picture, mine had the factory alloys)

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Re: Am I the only one preferring Westwood RTS to Blizzard RTS?

Posted on 2016-01-09, 22:32

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Protip: There are 7 billion people on earth, you aren't the "only one" that does anything. 😜

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