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Yeah, I can increase stability by blocking everything also. But I also think it's not the route for the "average user". You and I are not "average"

Didn't you find the memo? It has been sent to the workshop for periodical inspection and tuning, should be back in two to twenty two weeks (the crystal ball used to forecast tuning time is currently foggy and will be next one to be checked). jaclaz

Say, does one actually becomes unfriendly through programming? I mean you're giving commands to your computer constantly. Like a king giving commands consistently to his people. Everything must be rationally planned, not much room for feelings or empathy. There is only 0 or 1. Works or doesn't work. True or false. Friend or foe. Does that make a programmer incompatible for talking to the users? I think the Pale Moon developers should smoke some calming substances and chill more or better get a receptionist to deal with the stupid customer's questions. Far too radical behaviour on their message board. At least old browsers will run as long as we want... 98% of the websites are working fine with older versions of Pale Moon.

My main one is a Sony Ericsson W200i. Heavy usage since it was new like 13 years ago. This phone slipped out of my pocket and dropped into a toilet once. Right into the flusing water! What a relief it didn't go down the drain. A Nokia 3310 was found at a privately-owned scrapyard. Removing the SIM-lock was easy. And new batteries could be found on the internet. A friend uses it now. If your company is a good one, it buys you a Smartphone, if they think it's a necessary goodie to work. I snaked around the problem so far. There was always someone who had an old smartphone in stock. What a shock to see, what the people have to endure daily... like a badly-educated, hyperactive dog begging for your attention. The split from work and private life is very important, I feel. The work phone stays at work. The private phone stays at home. I wish best luck and success to the Finnish people at Jolla to stay afloat on the stormy ocean of the Smartphone market!

I moved to this city in 2001. I got my first cell phone in 2001 in order to keep in touch with friends now 3 hrs away. 3hrs is a long commute so I eventually drifted apart from the friends in my previous city. In 2004, I called up the cell phone provider and told Customer Service that I wish to cancel my cell phone plan. She didn't want to lose a good-paying customer and tapped away on her keyboard, "What if we put you in a different plan? I have a plan about a third of what you are paying now." I requested she pull up her data and tell me how many MINUTES that I have been on the phone in the past YEAR. More tapping away on her keyboard. She comes back, "Wow! Sir, it says here you have only used FOUR MINUTES in the last YEAR." I replied, "Now do you understand why I wish to cancel?" "Yes, right away sir, we have you cancelled."

It seems we have quite a few things in common, after all ! Even though I have plenty of phones , doesn't mean I use them (they are almost always off, see the above) . BTW , my dad is around 80 y.o. , he is in a pretty good shape , it's quite common for a Dutchman , nothing out of the ordinary , lol . So he can't live without his phone , he needs to be in touch 24/7. He is always furious about me ignoring all this 'phone' life and asks me (almost every day) why am I not answering my phone ?!?!??! And he is a huge fella , much taller than me .... it's very dangerous to drive him angry , lol. P.S. Regarding spam on landlines , no , we don't have much of it here in contrast to the states. But I usually just pick up the phone ans say nothing , I wait for them to talk first.

I haven't owned a phone since 2004. No land line. No cell phone. A very stress-free lifestyle

@ArcticFoxie , well it took me a while to figure out how to delete them ! Here goes . The current activated US IP , including the port , is shown on the right 192.-xxxxx . I opened every video from the front US page (12 items) and pressed play , so now twelve videos (plus the front page) title are currently playing (13). You can see each title's name at the upper part of the image. I could open much more , but then you'll start saying you can't see the favicons. Videos are UN-muted . EDIT : No , I shall not name the programme I used , sorry folks.

HI LibreOffice no longer works on X86 XP SP2 for several years with version 4.4.3.2 and 5.4.7.2 for XP 3. I updated "Apache Open-Office" version 2021- 4.1.10 that always works on X86 XP SP2 . In comparisons between the two "Office" they do not indicate that Apache Open-Office is always compatible with XP SP2, unlike "LibreOffice" which in its latest versions requests the minimum Windows 7. https://comparisons.financesonline.com/apache-openoffice-vs-libreoffice

You site that MSFN shows up as "insecure" but did you comapare to ANY other browser? Did BOTH browsers say "insecure" or did only ONE? I will try to expand on my view of this issue - I am not always the best at communication "skills" but we all have our days, lol. I seem to be in the minority but that does not make me "wrong", please allow me to explain because SSL has become a GIGANTIC topic of late here at MSFN. So your browser is claiming to be "insecure" on MSFN and the solution isn't some form of "I can not log in because I can not trust MSFN" but rather "What modifications can I make to my operating system or browser for MSFN to 'appear' "secure" "? To the point of users creating "cert-packs" and moderators yanking them for MSFN Rule Violations -- seriously, ponder that for a second. Isn't this the EXACT OPPOSITE of "secure" -- to blindly trust an MSFN forum member that created their own "solution" then publicly distrubuted it for others to install onto their computers? My official XP x86 SP3 and my official XP x64 SP2 both show MSFN as "secure". So if another user on a different XP says "insecure", that basically tells me that the user broke something - installed some "cert-pack" that I did not, installed POS updates that I did not, hacked their kernel that I did not, et cetera. They may have had the best of intentions, but the end result was that they broke something when they inteded to try to fix something. But you still cannot deny that my XP says "secure" and the hacked-with-best-of-intentions version of XP says "insecure". Maybe the hack was to get YouTube to show as secure and the hack fixed that - but broke MSFN. So is that hack to be trusted or not (I'm on the not-side). Your profile cites Vista Business x64 -- can you install a brand spanking new VirtualBox VM and see if it shows MSFN as "secure"? That would reveal that something is "broken" in your host Vista. Generally speaking, to me at least, when a web browser says "insecure", it is NOT the web browser that is "insecure", it is the OPERATING SYSTEM. That is, unless I can show a DIFFERENT web browser on the SAME computer to show "secure" - which I'm not 100%, but I don't think I've ever witnessed that scenario. Hope that helps.

This is a compiled list of tips, tricks & tweaks for Windows Vista, using this 3 year-old thread started by Martin L as a base. For each entry copied, the original poster has been credited. Where possible, the tips have been verified as accurate on Windows Vista x86 SP2 (running under Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 R2). Some of the original entries were only applicable during early betas and so have not been included. Each entry is tagged as [verified] if I managed to implement it can confirm the desired effect. Where external references were broken due to age, they have been removed. Tips fall into 3 categories: - through the UI with user interaction - through group/local policy editing - through registry editing The UI methods are often just a friendly front-end for editing the registry, and group or local policy is just a set of dynamic changes to the registry without "tattooing" it (so they are reverted back to their original settings if you return to "not configured") - so there may be multiple ways to achieve the same goal. At the end is a discussion on a few common "performance tweaks", with citations from the original thread where available, along with my personal views & reasons for not using any of them. The section is thus named "tips of contention" - I can guarantee there will be people that disagree with me and will claim first-hand experience to the contrary. To add to these posts, please PM me the addition or a pointer to an existing post to copy/paste from. To keep the thread clean it has been locked, questions can be made in separate posts if needed.