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No. The Toshiba Satellite C55D-B5244 ($469.99 as tested) is a budget ... https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/toshiba-satellite-c55d-b5244

Is this a joke? Toshiba Satellite more like one grand in 2013, esp. if you're in Western Europe. https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/toshiba-satellite-u845t-s4165

PSU model? GPU model you want to try there, too. Mobo socket?

Hello and welcome, George from Australia! You've come to the right place! There are a lot windows 11 users at MSFN.

Hello @Dave-H! I tested again the website onlyfans.com. I found out that the problem to access this site via proxy doesn't seem related to ProxHTTPSProxy but rather to the 360Chrome browser. When accessing this site in the latest releases (I tested the last two ones) of New Moon 28, there is no problem. New Moon 28 works much better with this site than 360Chrome. onlyfans.com loads very quickly natively, and no problems via ProxHTTPSProxy in this browser, either. You no longer have to enter this website under [SSL Pass-Thru]. BTW, it doesn't matter whether you use the latest or the previous version of ProxHTTPSProxy. If you ever have time, you can try this out. Since I don't use this website and don't have an account, maybe you can also try a login via New Moon 28. In my system, the website runs great in New Moon 28, in 360 Chrome unfortunately terribly with long loading times on my old computer. And via ProxHTTPSProxy, it doesn't really run in 360Chrome, strangely enough. Something in the connection check is blocked then. Cheers, AstroSkipper

The discussion was not in regards to "needing" that UA, but rather in regards to reverse-engineering what Chase.com is sniffing for.

And why do you need that unique fingerprint at the end of your UA? This is how that particular UA should look like. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0 https://user-agents.net/string/mozilla-5-0-x11-linux-x86-64-rv-102-0-gecko-20100101-firefox-102-0

Sad news for everyone here at MSFN. One of our forum supervisors, Dencorso, passed away on October 24th, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. Apparently he was still upbeat and optimistic about the future a few weeks before he passed. My memories of Den go back quite a few years. He was incredibly helpful to me with technical problems, which is what this board is all about of course, initially mainly with Windows 98, and latterly with Windows XP. He was immensely supportive too when I first became a moderator here, something I will always be grateful for. He was definitely one of the good guys, and will be sorely missed here. Please add your memories here of working with Den. Thanks, Dave.

Actually, the Tycho platform on which NM27 was originally based on (modified MozillaESR 38) is dead, buried and exhumed; what is being developed is ArcticFox https://github.com/rmottola/Arctic-Fox the new "upstream" for NM27 (which also gets backports from other sources, e.g. UXP ) ... The current application platform supporting NM27 has significantly diverged from Tycho; I'm not following closely AF's development, but if the latest release's version (42.1) is anything to go by , I'd say AF is somewhere in the mid-40's Firefox versions, compat-wise ; this is still too low to address fully the beast the web has now become (and if you're a regular here , you'd have noticed already how even the UXP-based browsers struggle with it ) ... Answered above ; if you can, use another browser for bandcamp and other such, media rich/script rich, services ; long gone is the time , especially on our "legacy" H/W and OSes, when only one browser application would "fit all" ...

@NotHereToPlayGames I've missed your post about GFLOPs. I suppose it's true GPU is heavily involved in actual games, more than in a web browser, even if they became a bit like game engines under the hood. Another difference may be a typical game engine is optimized to do one thing well while web browsers became a sort of Swiss army knives. We haven't really seen how Chromium would perform in single-process mode on PC, if such mode existed. But there is a RAM saving trick on Android, if you opt to use a web browser using Chromium WebView instead of full-blown web browser, that will run in a single process or two at most in newer Androids if I recall correctly. Though WebView may have restrictions when it comes to certain functionality. In any case, hardware resources in this day and age are abundant, have you seen computers they sell these days? It's not hard to see why they'll tell you to get on with the times if you're complaining about your single-core single-monitor system from 20 years ago. The world has changed since then. https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2021/08/24/why-web-design-has-gotten-so-complicated/ Jeez, 'been looking at the computers a bit and compared one typical PC today sold in a store to mine - from AMD Phenom II X4 920 to AMD Ryzen 5 5500: 4 cores -> 6 cores 4 threads -> 12 threads single-core frequency: 2,8 GHz -> 3,6 GHz (with a 4,2 GHz boost!) TDP: 125 W -> 65 W RAM: 4 GB DDR2 800 MHz -> 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz Similar with GPU, put AMD Radeon HD 4890 from 2009 against a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti from 2023. Not fair at all! Well, have a bit newer GTX 750 Ti ATM, but that's besides the point. Back in high-school, I remember a class-mate saying 1 GB of VRAM is plenty and you hardly ever need it. RTX 4060 Ti has 16 GB of VRAM! Funny you mention consoles, there was a discussion at some point regarding consoles vs PC and there was an argument that you don't need to upgrade consoles, that was all in PS3/X360 era. Ha, 3 newer PlayStations were released since. Guess it's true in a way, you just buy a new one. But with computers, you're still pretty much replacing the heart as soon as you go into CPU upgrade, which tend to imply new motherboard and RAM, especially if there's such an age gap.

They suggest to run chrome exe in Vista compatibility, tick the checkbox for Run this program in compatibility mode for, select Windows Vista from the drop-down menu, and then click OK https://windowsreport.com/chrome-white-screen/

they have no difference between those builds.

this removes embedded manifest and patching MSVC*80 runtime to continue even if no manifest is found.

Is that on your "loved" St55 ? Because St52 (2023-07-31) (32-bit) has below SSUAO: general.useragent.override.chase.com;Mozilla/5.0 (%OS_SLICE% rv:112.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/112.0 I don't think it's a 52 v. 55 thing; it's just a matter of how obsessively you install @roytam1's weekly updates. The Aug. 18 version of St 55 spoofs FF 102, but surprisingly the July 28 version specified FF 112. Both work, but produce a warning, on the current Chase site. Edit: I see you discovered the same weirdness in St 52 almost a week ago. So far, so good; but I don't expect that situation to continue for long. From the linked PM article: Actually, from the examples the poster gave, I don't think that's the whole story, since she reported: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/6.2 Firefox/102.0 PaleMoo/32.2.0 did not work, while Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Goanna/6.2 Firefox/102.0 PaleMoo32.2.0 did work. The only difference was the slash between "PaleMoo" and "32.2.0," so it's not at all clear to me what Chase is doing.

That works in the browser? I noticed PM27 loads avcodec-lav-57.dll, avresample-lav-3.dll, avutil-lav-55.dll supplied by my installation of K-Lite Codec Pack 13.8.5, but no video engine load during AVC1 playback in the browser. I have LAV Video Decoder configured to use CUDA and it works if I set PotPlayer to use that instead of its own decoder, but PotPlayer loads LAVVideo.ax additionally and then LAV Video Decoder icon appears in the tray. It sure feels like it to me.

I guess many Windows 8.0 users wish to have IE11 and .NET Framework 4.8, and here is a way to easily install them on Windows 8.0 (PowerShell 5.1 still need the good old workaround), and it is: Just install those packages (I recommend you to do that on vanilla 8.0 without any updates, but you can install them on already fully updated copy of 8.0 (just you need to reinstall updates again or some apps will be broken such as Discord): https://gitlab.com/stdout12/adns/uploads/c7c9f583da309adfb5f7a621ff3cf218/W8_NetFx4_IE11_Prereqs.7z And then reboot, and import the reg file that I pinned to manually install .NET 4.8 like normal And proceed to install IE11 and .NET 4.8 like normal (as long as you have installed pre-requisites (and preferably updates till at least 2019) before doing that) And voila, you should have a fully working IE11 and .NET 4.8 (its security updates will install like normal too) patchwu.reg

upstream is still updating 3.4 branch, but I still have to recreate mingw environment to compile it standalone. https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/c7210207555effd194b60dee424fd5632bb388f4

Hey i already had updated above 4 ffmpeg even on old mypal, you may take it i think. https://github.com/httpsgithu/Mypal/commit/c2ad5af1936faef1eb258ac9d3aa852a7d9ae1f3 By the way has the playback of this fixed been on the x86 newmoon? https://tools.woolyss.com/html5-audio-video-tester/?u=woolyss.com/f/caminandes-1-llama-drama-av1-opus.webm

no wonder why they won't work, because date code is replaced with a wrong one! fixed in that post now.

No problem at all, only I like better the sound I can get with lavaudio, particularly when using lavvideo with cuvid. My personal comp is old, but still good enough, including two nvidia quadro. Back in 2018-9 I used NM27 just because of that. When I moved to ST52 (I think we had chat about it in previous versions of this thread), I continued to hardcopy my lav files into the basilisk folder, until you told me that was in vain. Until then, for a few months, I kept tweaking my settings, wondering why they didn't affect the rendering of ST52 :P I'm all for foss, when I can.

Windows NT4 Extended kernel Hello everyone, During my free time this summer, I made an effort to work on NT4 win32k.sys . Unfortunately, the development of user32.dll is currently on hold. I need to find a solution for integrating structs into win32k.sys. This task has been challenging, as I've been constantly dealing with BSOD errors. Despite the difficulties, I've gained valuable experience from this process. It has been both exhausting and beneficial. I've compiled the files I've developed into a small update, which you can access through the link below. However, before installing this update, make sure to have IE4 and then IE6 installed. SP6AI386 .exe installed on SP1 ISO is required IE4 LINK >> standard installation >> accept add active Desktop feature . IE6 LINK Small Stable NT4KernelEx >> Mega link If you prefer automatic login >> Mega link You can try Added API's : KERNEL32.DLL: Heap32ListFirst Heap32ListNext Heap32First Heap32Next Toolhelp32ReadProcessMemory Process32FirstW Process32First Process32NextW Process32Next Thread32First Thread32Next Module32FirstW Module32First Module32NextW Module32Next CreateToolhelp32Snapshot shell32.dll: SHGetFolderPathW SETUPAPI.DLL : SetupDiEnumDeviceInterfaces pSetupMalloc pSetupRealloc ADVAPI32.DLL : ConvertSidToStringSidW OLE32.DLL : CoWaitForMultipleHandles user32.dll: GetLayeredWindowAttributes GetMonitorInfoW MonitorFromPoint MonitorFromRect SetLayeredWindowAttributes EnumDisplayMonitors GetMonitorInfoA MonitorFromWindow

If the codecs aren't there it's probably using webm vp9. I've tried with a fresh profile and it's the same result, the audio is distorted. You can get the codecs on the first page of this thread, Roy's got several links depending on the browser. This is the link to the ones I've been using with 45.0: https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/lav.7z You put the three files on the root firefox folder where firefox.exe is. You would also need to make sure "media.ogg.enabled" and "media.webm.enabled" are false while "media.mp4.enabled" is true.

And 12TB and up are 4TB, it seems. I even remember cutting those pins to remove all artificial blocks. Don't do it, if you're not sure! The second chip is usually the culprit. (not always). https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/c46men/problem_with_wd_my_book_enclosure_snipping_pins_7/

I will keep you and everyone else informed. Cheers, AstroSkipper

Update notification! As already reported here, the Root Certificates have been updated and are now from 23-08-2023. Here is a screenshot: Therefore, my self-created, offline Root Certificate Updaters in the section 11.2.4. Downloads related to Root Certificate Updates (in the first post of this thread) will also be updated as soon as possible. Cheers, AstroSkipper

OT, good ol' joke about engineers and mathematicians (and physicists): jaclaz

is there any site to see stats about how many people really use Windows 10/11 Store/MetroUI in a PC or a laptop? Look at this: ALL Metro-ified components of Windows ever since Windows 8.0. https://winclassic.net/thread/1652/list-metro-ified-components-windows This is the major mistake since SP3. This can't be a replacement of an Old Win32 or whatever OS classic component. Metro needs to be a separated component, moving and replacing system parts to a metro based application is a mistake. Luckily you can get almost everything back with the help of winclassic forum, but a shell divided into classic and modern metro components it's not a user friendly interface. Anyway, programmed obsolescence will disappear, and MS will be forced to create new updates for 9x and NT5, why? there is no reason to get rid of old hardware on this warmed planet that is already saturated with tons of trash. you do not believe it? look what a (G)oldie OS means: Please Bill, come back. Come back... it was all cool back in the day. Even the grey taskbar without themes. What happened?

https://mega.nz/folder/68dj2YTY#As2w31IO4Smr7gy6p1ciSg ProxyMII_230813.7z. But i didn't know how to get ProxyMII to work with WebSockets. And, please, take look at Privoxy3.0.35_231208.7z - looks like it open onlyfans.com normally. @cmalex! Thank you very much for your quick reply and especially for your upload! I will test your package as soon as possible and report back here in my thread. And I will take a look at Privoxy 3.0.35_23120 for trying to access successfully again https://onlyfans.com/ with its help. I am very curious and excited. You are simply the best. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

I spent my vacation at a nice hotel located on a charmingly beautiful island Sint Maarten. The islands in the Dutch Caribbean, part of the colonies, now Constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Caribbean Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and as such the Monarch of the Netherlands is head of state, represented locally by a governor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Maarten I've been there several times before, and always liked it! So far, I visited many, but my ultimate goal would be to visit all islands in the Dutch Caribbean.

Fellas, tell where you spent your summer holidays?

Hi! Ever wondered Vista users might get offended? You are expected to be mature and polite on this forum. So, you gave no articles? Of course. Did you use it on XP era computer? Please tell the specs, I never encountered anything similar with RTM x86. Worth to mention, I switched off indexing and ready boost. In fact, SP are slower. It could also be your defective HDD. Example: boot duration increased with each SP added! https://news.softpedia.com/news/Vista-RTM-vs-Vista-SP2-99960.shtml

I have moved the conversation to this thread:

It would be a politically driven decission, like you wrote earlier.

Retrozilla displays the site forum.aviaskins.com fine here on my Windows 98 machine. Maybe there are some language packs missing on your Windows 95 installation. Well, I don't know the path on Windows 95, but on Windows 98, you can go to the Control Panel -> Software -> Windows Setup. There is a list of optional packages that come on the original Windows CD. I have a category there for foreign language support. Maybe installing that helps?

You could change the background of the whole page to black (Format -> Background), then change the font colour to white. Or if you don't want the whole page to be black, you could create a text box, double click the borders to get to the format settings, and set that colour to black.

@UCyborg: For Armagetron, it's different. The developers don't test it specifically on old computers. Armagetron is rather old in its codebase and is based on an old version of SDL. There is a plan to upgrade things, but hopefully the main developer will be as slow as ever! You probably have to tune down the graphics on a Pentium 3 to make it look fluent, but firstly: Armagetron has lots of options in the graphics menu and secondly: In such a low-poly game, there is not much lost. 100 FPS on the P3 is possible!

Most programs work in any way, regardless of having a Windows 98 First Edition, Second Edition or 98lite- or KernelEx-enhanced version. If OS version dependant problems occur for one chap running FE and the other running SE-KernelEx, it will be little effort to look for the actual version being in use. I felt the "vanilla" in the thread title had the nice taste of vanilla ice cream on the tongue. Although Win98 tastes either way well, the basic 1998 version and the patched "current" version. Anyways, this thread was good so far for bringing together the 10 people of around the world that use this obsolete technology and want to write/ask things about it. Surely the 10 could be split up into 4 98SE-vanillas, 2 FE-robusts, 2 98patch-Hightechies and 2 98-BETA-stoneagers... Cross-talk between these groups probably was helpful!

My hands are falling off only, when I have to do boring things on my computer. But else, I don't need any good keyboard and continue with old, scrappy keyboards, even a 10 hour programming session. Just the Ctrl key was annoyingly stuck and I've regreased it like a bicycle. Now the keystrokes flow again. With a Windows 98 machine, there is not much to complain about. It just works perfectly reliable. Well, except for the occasional hang-ups that Windows 98 has, but restarting always helps. At least since 22 years... I think the difference between 98 and 98SE is small. Most programs and hardware runs on both, if it supports one of the two. Here, I wanted to show you this: A currently working Windows 98 online game. Armagetron! (https://www.armagetronad.org/) Free Software. Competitive Snake. Very raw game. Left, right, brake, look around, that's all. Pure skill (and lag perception). To become good at this game against other human players, you probably need serious autism! Works on a Pentium 2. If you like to have a look at Armagetron, this video shows it well: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=x8HY0Wh_ZgE Quote Wunderbar98: " i resemble that (grumpy old dinosaur). Why not, there's lots to be grumpy about. Anyone who used good old hardware and software back in the day can see where things have led. " Ah, relatable attitude. Will go extinct, but at least we pointed the finger at bad changes and were right. Sigh, probably the old machines will be the best option to do computing stuff in the next years, too. If you play with me Armagetron, we'll form a group called the "Windows 98 Dinosaurs" and shock all these Discord kids with proper technology, haha!

This is awfully confusing. Although modem / router / switch are different things, their words are often used wrongly. Maybe check this site for more information: https://www.cables-solutions.com/switch-vs-router-vs-modem-difference.html So Hotwire is your internet provider? You have to ask them, if you are allowed to use your own router. It depends on the laws in your country. If your router is missing the option for Wifi, then you could connect a simple Access Point to your router. They are very cheap. Also, think about using a very long LAN cable.

Sorry, this was originally put into the 'announcements' section, where apparently it cannot be replied to. Please do add replies now. Thanks, Dave.

Sorry, but that does not make any sense at all. Moreover, all matter can be explained scientifically. I finished with this subject in my youth, when I did not even know this outstanding man: This is an excerpt of Stephen Hawking's book "Brief Answers to the Big Questions" published by the U.K.'s Sunday Times" from 2018, and I totally agree with his assessment. He had even provided proof for his statement. Source: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/10/15/stephen-hawking-warns-superhumans-ai-posthumous-book/1645963002/ Unfortunately, I will not be able to go into further detail on his statements in terms of god, as this would violate the forum rules. Cheers, AstroSkipper

It's not always peace, joy and happiness. People also have an opinion sometimes! And it should be possible to express it.

Not only lizards, I also wrote birds. Birds are also very important. "Crows, ravens, and blackbirds bring news of good passage and protection.Hawks represent clear-sightedness and vision. Owls are birds that bring messages of wisdom..." https://otherworldlyoracle.com/birds-omens-signs/

Thank you, I wrote before, I don't wanna argue. I've no idea why he wants me to like his dream, really.

But you are religious. Which comes hand in hand. You don't have to be a native American shaman or even an English druid to understand nuances or bad omens... Because I'm a nice, calm, kind, caring, loving, tender, educated, polite, friendly, chatty, helping, cheerful and having quite some good manners person. Gee, I got to put this into my dating profile ... oh wait , I don't have one.

Vokoscreen was a very good pick on Linux (on lightweight hardware), but a Windows version exists too. https://linuxecke.volkoh.de/vokoscreen/vokoscreen-download.html Free software. (Edit: However I just noticed it was the older Vokoscreen version 2.5.0, but that one was excellent on this small Linux notebook)

There are definetly smaller desktops missing in discounters, that sometimes offer computers. A small desktop, maybe even with passive cooling, would be more than enough what most people ever need. I remember very well these discussions in my last school year in 2011, that desktops will be the dinosaurs soon, they are too large, too complicated to set up, too many cables, not beautiful enough, impractical basically. Unfortuneatly some people have experienced the computer as frustrating, clicked on the wrong website once, next virus blows the system up. Too complicated, too many possible errors. A walled garden with these Appstores on the smartphones (on Linux too), that's more restrictive, "but at least I can't do anything wrong". That's what easy users prefer, so the desktop was on the decline on the mass-market. I know some people, who just use their devices for communicating via Whatsapp and Mail (short messages), videos are played over the smart TV. No PC required anymore. Writing surely is not as precise as on a keyboard, but for short messages, people seem to suffer past it. And the large keyboard (looking disastoursly complex, over 100 keys, only one short step away from the stoneage typewrites) can't rest on my lap while I'm doing yoga poses in front of my TV! And now the killer argument: I can't decide to turn on the computer! It feels like such a big task! Whereas the smartphone is always on. That's easier to check. Dammed, how lazy can people be, to be too lazy to turn on the computer! And if mobile games are enough (or gaming consoles)... well then, the PC truely lost its purpouse in some homes. Let's say, it happens, even for younger people here. Not everyone wants to build things with technology or to learn deeper things, we always have to consider that. The PC will be only dead, if an atomic bomb explodes and all electrics will be cut. Else, it's a device far too universal and useful to become extinct.

What about other "googles"? google.de, google.fr, etc. Do these load? Which version of Mypal are you using? Type "about:" in your browser, that should give us more informations.