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Yes, absolutely fine, I also did that BIOS mod by reflashing to 3700. There was (still is?) a ready made BIOS file from the original Quadro card circulating the internet.

On behalf of xper, an explanation for MSFN being offline for the last few days. An ingress of water at the location of the server caused damage, fortunately not to the server itself, but to the room's UPS system batteries, which necessitated the removal of power and a physical move of the server to another location. This obviously took some time to do. Hopefully there will now be no further issues relating to this.

For Linux to take over, there would have to be new retail computers that come with it preinstalled. Most people just use whatever comes with their laptop (or desktop) and don't bother with installing anything custom. + Installing & finding hardware drivers is usually the most difficult thing when setting up a Linux system. Laptops with Linux preinstalled do in fact exist and they are called Chromebooks. So if Linux somehow takes over, it's gonna be Chrome OS or some other distro managed by a by a big corporation which won't be any better and likely more locked-down than Windows 11. Still, I don't see this happening in the near future and especially not in businesses.

actualy it could, if people stopped making gizillion distributions and just focus on 3 or 4 and naturaly lin foundation should change their crappy policy

On the other hand, FX 1700 is a direct copy of a very common 8600GS. I personally reflashed it in 2007. GT version should have a different VRAM though. So maybe a good BIOS for 1800 exists. If flashed properly, not drivers editing would be needed. I'm still afraid the 9 series is too new. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-8600-gs.c1767

I'm afraid - no. Both have have two different chips. GPU Variant G94 GL-U https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro-fx-1800.c1323 GPU Variant G94-300-A1 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-9600-gt.c206

Do you know how to fight a smartphone that turns on by itself? Added: Most frequently when it's on charge.

On some driver bundles it's simply not detected correctly by GPU-Z. But if the programme folder is present in the right location, the software will work. ProgramFiles/NVIDIA Corporation/Physx (for 32 bit OS). ProgramFiles (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/Physx (for 64 bit OS).

I'm not surprised. It means you got a re-issued 555 disguised as 710. I once bought a card that was named "GTS250", in fact it turned out to be a bit overclocked older model 9800GTX. Nothing to worry about. Those are of similar performance level.

Businesses will continue to use Windows, consumers will continue to use smartphones, and MSFN members will continue to use old hardware as long as possible.

Bad Omen: Windows Millennium is missing.

One of my favourite actors!

@Random Person, they had it coming.

Don't replace 'em, don't even think of it! I did, and it was a waste of time/money. Bluray is "remastered" by id*ots. It's too bright and acid, it loses all the original charm.

@Anbima! Two posts above I provided a solution how to move the tab bar below the bookmarks bar, more or less only for you. What about that? Do you think it is much fun to post solutions without any feedback? Instead of responding to such solutions in any way, I can only read one of your next questions. Maybe, you should just rethink about it! Cheers, AstroSkipper

@Anbima! Here is the answer to your request about the position of the tab bar: Greetings, AstroSkipper

Never heard of it. Though they have clearly been around for a while. Had to look it up, I've visited California but still have never heard of it.

AGREED!

I agree - there are far too many distributions and I wish the focus could be on the main reliable ones.

I've used over three dozen different Linux versions over the past two decades. NONE of them will EVER dethrone Microsoft. It's a pipe dream to think otherwise. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pipe_dream

cauldronfire is a cancer contaminates whole web. To suggest give up your data in chase for "secooorety" is either ignorance or being vermin with them. Everybody please take time to read the novel and understand where leads the inspired obsession with "secooorety" https://i.4pcdn.org/tg/1467947329951.pdf or https://archive.org/details/epdf.pub_jack-williamson-with-folded-hands1d05f1195c81076f66d774b4012a34e585195 by the way https://github.com/Feodor2/Mypal68/issues/261

Hi @Dave-H unfortunately, for the past few days I have been experiencing problems with corrupted files and unreadable folders even on my GPT disks connected to the asmedia card in XP. After reading about the problems you reported in your posts I did a check and realized that for example some video files were no longer playable in both XP and Win10. The strange thing is that in both operating systems, checking with chkdsk via command prompt never detected any anomalies. Since discovering such issues, I have done some tests to try to figure out what they might depend on and at the moment I can say that probably in XP the problem is exceeding the "classic" 2.2TB limit. Today, in a 4TB disk, after verifying that all files occupying a space of 2,198,497,806,087 bytes were without problems, I copied others to it until 2,473,491,444,978 bytes were reached: no problems detected in copying and no problems for both old and new files but only until the next reboot of XP when some old files previously working were now corrupted. I will have to do more tests to be sure of the above and also to be able to figure out whether the anomalies found may depend on the asmedia card and its driver or firmware versions or the disk.sys and partmgr.sys drivers that cannot work in XP as they do in Win2003 (where I did not detect any problem even exceeding the 2.2TB limit) or other reasons that at the moment I cannot imagine what they may be. I will report the news as soon as I have definite information about it. First, I will have to find time to make a new backup of the files that then became corrupt

Delete the file then create a hidden folder in its place. Optionally create in that folder a file with a comment.

New build of Serpent/UXP for XP! Test binary: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240323-3219d2d-uxp-d8ac621203-xpmod.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win64-git-20240323-3219d2d-uxp-d8ac621203-xpmod.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/custom IA32 Win32 https://o.rthost.win/basilisk/basilisk52-g4.8.win32-git-20240323-3219d2d-uxp-d8ac621203-xpmod-ia32.7z source code that is comparable to my current working tree is available here: https://github.com/roytam1/UXP/commits/ia32 NM28XP build: Win32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240323-d849524bd-uxp-d8ac621203-xpmod.7z Win32 IA32 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240323-d849524bd-uxp-d8ac621203-xpmod-ia32.7z Win32 SSE https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win32-git-20240323-d849524bd-uxp-d8ac621203-xpmod-sse.7z Win64 https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/palemoon-28.10.7a1.win64-git-20240323-d849524bd-uxp-d8ac621203-xpmod.7z Official UXP changes picked since my last build: - Eliminated exceptions in event handlers that happen when "this.view" does not exists (empty tree) (17182d8b63) - Colump picker should work even if there are no rows in the tree (f5edbe658c) - Minor performance improvement by elimination of an unnecessary intermediate array (0dd6a089f6) - [parser] Specialize AddAttributes for <html>/<body>. (c230e21d23) - [MFBT] Make move assignment of RefPtr have the same behavior as nsCOMPtr (e6e8224040) No official Pale-Moon changes picked since my last build. No official Basilisk changes picked since my last build. Update Notice: - You may delete file named icudt*.dat inside program folder when updating from old releases. * Notice: From now on, UXP rev will point to `custom` branch of my UXP repo instead of MCP UXP repo, while "official UXP changes" shows only `tracking` branch changes.

It's not a software/programmes related topic.

We'd like to see it.

Anyone already watched Madame Web ? In Cinemas since 14 February, 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Web_(film)

Wonka film review is rather good, but "Timothée Chalamet is a bit miscast". I'm not surprised, I felt the same. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/wonka-review-timothee-chalamet-b2457979.html Independent is a credible source with good critics, I don't want to argue with anyone, just accept this fact. Those who don't agree, I'm sorry, you aren't critics from Independent, but you of course have the right to your individual view on this.

Guess it reflects the state of modern crazy society.

Except when it still works....

... I launched my Kafan MiniBrowser (KMB) copy (Chromium 87 based) on my Vista SP2 x86 OS with below command-line argument: --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" Then I navigated to: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en Guess what? Yes, the previous banner: no longer displayed, but ONLY to be replaced by a new banner, stating: WT... ?

@VistaLover, somehow missed your post from 2/15/2024. if i did i would not have posted. ment no disrespect.

@rereser : I only posted my newer screenshot (of "new" CWS) above as an indication that Google's wording has changed in the interim since my previous screenshot of Feb 15th, 2024, when they offered a (non-working ) alternative choice: "... visit the legacy store" ... As for your posted mitigation in the shape of a userscript, I've already talked about it (and its shortcomings ) in my post of Feb 15th: Kind regards ...

However, clicking on the "Visit legacy store" area (JS-controlled button) will only start a vicious circle , resulting in that same "new CWS" page ... Well, it's March 1st in my timezone already , and the "in-page info banner" no longer offers the alternative of "visiting the legacy store" :

Update of uBlock Origin Legacy to version 1.16.4.33 I have again updated my special mod uBlock Origin Legacy from version 1.16.4.32 to version 1.16.4.33. I fixed the loading errors of the filter list "Online Malicious URL Blocklist (AdGuard)" which only occur from time to time. Furthermore, I found some further strings which I edited according to the extension's name change performed in version 1.16.4.32. And I added new filter lists to different groups. The "StevenBlack/hosts" filter lists are very strong and restrictive. So in some cases, you have to set exclusions when using them. Here is a screenshot taken from the dashboard tab "Filter lists" of uBlock Origin 1.16.4.33 in New Moon 28: The filter lists outlined in green are the ones I have added in this release. A detailed changelog and the download link of uBlock Origin Legacy 1.16.4.33 can be found in my main article uBlock Origin Legacy - A special mod by @AstroSkipper. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

I agree.

Try older versions of wxWidgets - 2.9.5/3.0.5. Also look here: https://glizda.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/compiling-programs-for-windows-95-and-pentium-in-2021/ (though this is mostly relevant for Win95 support specifically, Win98/SE/ME gives you more options) For proper Win9x development, sooner or later you won't be able to escape Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0/Visual Studio 2005.

OT: I know DMDE, and it is a great piece of software. And Recuva, Easeus and Wondershare are rather crap. End of OT.

Of course, online scanners are on my internal list and will be listed here. TBH, there is already a lot on my internal list. Nevertheless, thanks for the tip!

I understand the worries, how about Kontron S&T AG then ? A very German company, they don't look like communists to me. I once had their motherboard. "The corporate group is headquartered in Augsburg and consists of the Kontron Europe GmbH and Austria-based S&T Group." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontron Kontron motherboards look very cool. And they have my favourite PS/2, this one is with SLI support. https://www.kontron.com/en/products/d3642-b-uatx/p157721 Benefits of Kontron motherboards )from their page): Highest quality through German engineering and production Strict lifecycle management and reliable product maintenance Comprehensive feature and tool set Excellent technical support Beneficial total-cost-of-ownership Not a word about Taiwan ! Looks like there's a free HDD repair tool from an author from your country ! Description of program : "HDAT2 is program for ... ATA/ATAPI/SATA, NVMe, SSD and SCSI/USB devices. This program cannot be run in DOS mode under Windows, only under real DOS system." Be warned, I never tried it . I never repair hard disks with errors, only put them to the garbage. https://www.hdat2.com/

That is, of course, a nice touch from you.

I would backup all accessable data and perform then a low level format. Then you can check whether the pending sectors have been remapped or not. Exactly that I did successfully in the past using a low level format tool from WD (I don't know its name at the moment) and Spinrite 6.0.

If "Made in Germany" or another imprint suggesting German production is found on electronic components, this does not mean that the part was produced entirely in Germany. The production costs in Germany are far too high. Therefore, most of it is produced abroad and perhaps finished here. Purely German, electronic components are certainly rather rare. You shouldn't fool yourself about that. The end consumer is just getting screwed anyway.

I have to disagree. Plenty of computers are still produced in Western Germany. Take me as example, I don't have any asian-made mobos, I don't even have asian adapters. Even my HDMI cables are Philips made in Belgium . Gold plated with armoured coating and protection from being chewed up. I don't know about your local shops, but Ebay and Amazon are definitely communists, some might not like it. I'm typing this from a Fujitsu Siemens, Made in Germany and looking at a German Fujitsu monitor. Even the mouse and my KB are Siemens. OT. I'm a bit tired of computers. I'm currently building a very realistic layout of a bombed German city from Pola items (made in W. Germany). I'm trying to reproduce the terrible sufferings of poor Germans. All figures are ready made by Preiser. EDIT: Forgot to say, I'll also have various SDKFZ, made by the Austrian Roco and hand-painted by our local pro-painter.

OT: Unfortunately not! I know this shop but I have never ordered anything there. BTW, that a shop is a German one says nothing about the quality of offered hardware, which in most cases is of Asian origin anyway nowadays. For old, already used hardware, I prefer eBay or eBay Kleinazeigen, and for new hardware, Amazon and some real shops in my surrounding.

VLC, Videolan and FFmpeg communities worked on and created a reference optimized decoder for AV1, it is dav1d. Mozilla has enabled the new decoder in Firefox 67 on Windows. Firefox. and therefore Mypal 68, too, now uses dav1d for decoding AV1 videos. This decoder can be enabled by setting the preference media.av1.use-dav1d to true. If you watch such videos in Mypal 68, it should presumably be set to the boolean value of true. Try it! It's always trial and error. And the other setting, I would leave at true.

Mypal 68 on low performance systems with an amount less than 2 GB of RAM My Windows XP computer is equipped with an old Pentium 4 single core CPU and only 1.5 GB of RAM. And, it's just SD-RAM. If you want to use the browser Mypal 68 on such old, low performance systems with less than 2 GB of RAM, then I have some tips for you. Let Mypal 68 run in single process mode only! Here are the settings to do that: set browser.tabs.remote.autostart from true to false -> single process mode set dom.ipc.processCount to value 3 -> single process mode set dom.ipc.processCount.webLargeAllocation to value 3 -> single process mode (additionally) set dom.noopener.newprocess.enabled from true to false -> single process mode (additionally) Modify the following preference settings via about:config to reduce the RAM usage of Mypal 68 and improve its functionality: set dom.moduleScripts.enabled to true -> uBlock Origin 1.44.4 needs this setting to work in Mypal 68.12.5b set layout.css.resizeobserver.enabled from false to true -> DevianArt, GitHub Gifs set layers.acceleration.disabled from false to true -> reduce RAM usage set layers.max-active from -1 to 1 -> reduce RAM usage set dom.ipc.processPrelaunch.enabled from true to false -> reduce RAM usage set javascript.options.discardSystemSource from false to true -> reduce RAM usage set extensions.webextensions.remote from true to false -> Don't run a separate process for addons set extensions.webextensions.protocol.remote from true to false -> Don't run a separate process for addons set dom.ipc.plugins.flash.subprocess.crashreporter.enabled from true to false -> Don't run a separate process for Flash crash reporting set dom.vr.process.enabled from true to false -> Don't run a separate process for Virtual Reality components set layers.gpu-process.enabled from true to false -> Don't run a separate process for GPU rendering set media.gpu-process-decoder from true to false -> Don't run a separate process for video decoding set toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled from true to false -> Disable Unnecessary Animations set browser.download.saveLinkAsFilenameTimeout from 4000 to 2000 -> Increasing or decreasing "Save Link As" Timeout Value set browser.sessionhistory.max_entries from 50 to 10 -> Reduce Firefox Session History Note: Setting dom.moduleScripts.enabled from true to false to get VirusTotal's new interface working again has become obsolete. VirusTotal doesn't work anymore in Mypal 68.12.5b. Setting dom.moduleScripts.enabled back to its default value of true is required to use the more recent versions of uBlock Origin in Mypal 68.12.5b. Use an ad blocker like uBlock Origin. Link: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183657-mypal-68-in-windows-xp-custom-buttons-and-extensions/?do=findComment&comment=1227008 Use additionally a script blocker like uMatrix. Link: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183657-mypal-68-in-windows-xp-custom-buttons-and-extensions/?do=findComment&comment=1225663 During a browser session, clean up occupied RAM, which is no longer used by Mypal 68, by using the custom button memoryMinimizationButton from time to time or if necessary. Link: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183657-mypal-68-in-windows-xp-custom-buttons-and-extensions/?do=findComment&comment=1220511 Stop unwanted animations in the browser by using the extension SuperStop. Link: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183657-mypal-68-in-windows-xp-custom-buttons-and-extensions/?do=findComment&comment=1221177 Clear the browser cache from time to time. If you want to do this easily, use the extension Forget Button - Clean your Browser which can clean in Mypal 68 much more than only the cache. Link: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183657-mypal-68-in-windows-xp-custom-buttons-and-extensions/?do=findComment&comment=1220337 Run the tool Firemin Portable 6.3.1.5105 in the background. You have to condigure it to let it reduce the RAM usage of mypal.exe. Download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/34exiyav9zcoxkp/Firemin_5105.zip/file All these measures have helped me to run Mypal 68 more smoothly and in a more resource-efficient way on my system. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

Oh, thank you for this extension! You're welcome!

Compress v 1.02 and 1.11 will create KWAJ files. These date from 1990 (the WLO10.ZIP file for OS/2 is compressed in these). It's used in DOS 6, and Windows 3.11, it's hard to find. Vers 1.11 is the go, because the default rename is to edlin.ex_ rather than edlin.ex$. I got 1.02 from the fox pro 2.6 redistribution, and 1.11 in the msdos 6 source code package. Compress v2.0 is available in the Windows 3.1 SDK and many other things, that produce SZDD files. The compress in the Windows NT 3.10 reskit produces this file. Compress v2.5 in the resource kits, etc, by default, produce MSCF files (MSZIP), with varying degrees of compression. Look for CABPACK v 1.1 for a DOS version of this. Expand 2.1 (windows 3.11), expands both KWAJ and SZDD, but not MSCF. Other expand utilities work with some subset of SZDD, KWAJ and MSCF. The DIAMOND utility even in the earliest packages, are Win32. You could look for cabpack 1.1 for a DOS version. Needs to have the Runtime 200 fix applied, though.

How odd that an 16-bit EBD.CAB (read as DOS) is "extracted" to RAMDRIVE when run from AUTOEXEC.BAT. Are you saying you need to run DIAMOND.EXE under DOS??? Won't happen... DOS never used DIAMOND.EXE/EXTRACT but rather used COMPRESS/EXPAND for Installs. I have "obtained" Version (32) 1.00.0520 (12/16/94) of DIAMOND and EXTRACT and see no relevance to your request. A CAB is a CAB and there are TWO Extracts (16-bit to EXTRACT under 16-bit DOS and 32-bit EXTRACT under 32-Bit Windows). The MAIN thing of that version you have is the LZX compression, which was apparently "yanked" in later versions. A little background here and here as well. Some info about Cab SDK Software here. I also find this in the documentation (not much help, though...) From CabPack v1.4 So, you see I believe it has nothing to do with 16-bit other than perhaps LFN.You are chasing a ghost.