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I'm starting to get an error "WARNING: [youtube] xxx: nsig extraction failed: Some formats may be miss ing" It then fetches only the video and no sound, which is not obvious from the start. Sometimes it only finds a giant VP9 video that I can't play and no sound. It seems that in this fallback [hlsnative] mode (after nsig error), it wants to put the audio on the same MP4 file extension, which didn't happen before. It would give either m4a or webm. This is the command-line I use to get h.264 video that is possible to play with a GPU.
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My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
The last version works better! Now it shows the dialog about an unresponsive script and I can close the CloudFlare tab. -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
What gang? The one that presses the Like button for one another, and the gang that throws out old computers & aluminum cables? Not really. New Moon crashes on a CloudFlare captcha when memory usage reaches 1.7 GB and commit of 2.6 GB. I use 32-bit on purpose to keep the memory in check because it shouldn't be allowed to use more than this. -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Yes, that is one way of solving the problem. https://imgur.com/a/OeXueXD Supermium and Opera (Opium) work, but I have to click the checkbox every time. I am on their blacklist. -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Now on Cloudflare I get 100% cpu usage when I click on the captcha and must unalive New Moon in the task manager. -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
It no longer crashes after updating. Now I see the Feedback again. I am always afraid that something will fall after updating. -
My Browser Builds (Part 5)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
CloudFlare captcha now crashes in mozjs.dll in New Moon. It showed a send feedback last week. I just didn't visit those sites. I reset my fun user agent to default. Would updating New Moon make a difference? -
PNG is exclusively a raster format. The compression for continuous tone data like photographs is worse. It would only make sense to use PNG if for some reason the limit was not enforced for it. Sometimes web servers apply more compression to JPEG and worsen its quality, which can be bypassed with PNG. You might be thinking of Macromedia Fireworks, which I think created PNG files with a private extension for its data. But it was only understood by this software.
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Windows XP SP3 will not install HP Printer Driver Invalid Digital Signature
j7n replied to Yoshi11's topic in Windows XP
But on Windows XP digital signatures are not mandatory unless you have a restrictive group policy enabled. You can install through the device manager, it will warn that the driver is not signed and you may continue. The certificates are in a CAT file, which can be examined to find the root certificate and its date. If the CAT file is removed, then the driver is considered unsigned and on XP you can install anyway. -
I had misremembered how the disk was connected. I am on the computer now. It is actually connected to a JMicron JMB363 SATA Controller, which was common on motherboards that had more than 4 ports and gives PATA bus for compatibility. The disk is a Skyhawk ST4000VX007. I think the driver doesn't know anything about GPT. It gives you a block device, which can be accessed via WinHex or whatever. The GUID partition table support is in the Server 2003 OS. https://imgur.com/a/uwGrMKd
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PAE doesn't have direct impact on the disk size. It limits the amount of RAM. Of course PAE might limit in the sense that the driver may be incompatible and couldn't be used at all. But those drivers are good and used professionally. What about the manufacturer's driver for your disk controller? I have a 4 TB disk working with Intel IaStor 11.2. They added big disk support somewhere at version 9. It would be odd to see GUID Partition Table support in Windows 2003, but the native disk controller driver limiting the size, making GPT pointless.
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Wasn't there an issue of earlier versions of XP/2003 not booting on partition starting at 1 MB? I seem to recall needing to do some dance, because my Server didn't receive that update that made the system compatible. But it has been a while. I think it's best not to use Extended partitions at all. 4 primary is enough for most needs. Recovering lost extended partitions can be tedious because the extended information is located on distant sectors. There are enough sectors at the start of the disk that a more sane partitioning method could have been devised. Primaries are also easier to clone to a new disk later. You can clone the first one or two, say, and then extend the last partition to the end of the disk. There is another way of aligning FAT32 volumes starting on sector 63 using an odd count of reserved sectors, to make the body of data on them aligned.
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They keep inventing new codecs as if computing power was free. The network is getting faster and cheaper though. I can't even watch the VP codec. Sometimes I don't notice that it was pulled.
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Well, I have already switched to R2 for several reasons on my main PC. It is possible that the patch has a pre-requisite. But it is fairly old. The kernel32 inside is from 2011. The total stuff that I have installed include these MSUs (renamed for organization purposes): WinNT61_Secure_Dll_Loading_KB2533623-x64.msu WinNT61_Server_R2_Update_Cleanup_KB2852386-v2-x64.msu WinNT61_Server_R2_WinHelp32_KB917607-x64.msu WinNT61_Seven_SP1_Update_Cleanup_KB2852386-x64.msu WinNT61_Seven_WinHelp32_KB917607-x64.msu WinNT61_SP1_Enterprise_Hotfix_Rollup_KB2775511-v2-x64.msu WinNT61_SP1_Platform_Update_KB2670838-x64.msu WinNT61_SP1_Platform_Update_STOP_050_KB2834140-v2-x64.msu WinNT61_SP1_TCP_Syn_Retransmissions_b22190_KB2786464-v2-x64.msu WinNT61_Update_for_Universal_C_Runtime-KB3118401-x64.msu WinNT61-2019_Servicing_Stack-KB4490628-x64.msu WinNT61-2019-09_Security-KB4474419-v3-x64.msu WinNT61-IPv6_readiness_b22124-KB2750841-x64.msu WinNT61-MME_Wave_Linear_Interpolation-KB2653312-x64.msu WinNT61-Security_March2017_WannaCry-KB4012212-x64.msu WinNT61-SP1-2015-Servicing_stack_update-KB3020369-x64.msu WinNT61-Srv_sys_b22608-KB2831013-v3-x64.msu WinNT61-TCP_Configurations-v3_b21645-KB2472264-x64.msu WinNT61-TCP_DoS_b22648-KB2957189-x64.msu WinNT61-TCP_Ipsec_nonpaged_leak_b22590-KB2918550-x64.msu WinNT61-TLS_WinHTTP_KB3140245-x64.msu
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The BIOS limit doesn't come into play except for a boot disk. And you don't need a 2 TB boot disk even for the latest Windows that has expanded to fill its container. Yes on older computers with 8..32 GB limits it did. Under Windows the disk is accessed via a driver and programming the I/O that way. A 4 TB (decimal) disk works fine under Server 2003 x86 and the Intel driver. I think the built in driver might work, but I don't remember as I installed the Intel driver early. Why the aversion to Server which doens't have all this problems with memory and disk size? I think if you could coax an MBR disk to work past the 32-bit boundary, there could be data loss in some situations as the numbers wrapped around.