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j7n

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  1. My bank has an old website that works in these Firefox, and it mostly works in Opera 12. Recently they've began offering a "modern" version as an option in parallel. But it doesn't need to be used. However, they required that I update my personal data such as phone number, address, and expected turnover, or I get booted out if I do not do it. Turns out that interface requires Chromium or maybe Quantum. In New Moon and Serpent it showed a white page. Turns out the only changes needed were a country code for the phone number. I'd be royally screwed if I didn't have Windows NT 6 and Opera (Opium).
  2. Maybe we can draw some conclusions from the collective experience of several members, if more than one reports similar findings.
  3. People often say that lab-grown meat can be more efficient by not growing parts of the animal that we don't eat like skin and bones. But I don't see how it could become sustainable. The producers still have to replicate most other parts of the real animal: The digestion and waste removal systems and an equivalent for blood vessels that would reach all portions of the growth vessel. The tank must also be kept completely sterile because there is no immune system. An animal takes in raw plant material, often what we would regard as too low greade to eat. But now we must chemically break it down to produce nutrients that the meat cells can accept directly. They must be refined to an extremely high degree, more so than any protein powder, and kept free of microorganisms.
  4. Yes, once sectors start to be reallocated, the drive will likely fail even if the sectors later seem fixed. Ultra DMA errors can be caused by a bad connection, and can also be generated in software. An old verson of HDAT2 would try to access the disk in DMA mode that didn't work and rapidly generated errors. High Fly Writes seem to be slowly accumulating on my VX000 drive without notable events, currenly at 1104 and the manufacturer's rating of 1%, really bad. The drive works. This parameter is present on VN000 where it is at 50, and VX007 where it remains at 0.
  5. If I need to produce a single file, I use MkvToolNix, which can accept all common file formats without transcoding. I used this after every download before I switched to a new version of HPC-HC. Loading the 66 MB binary alone already causes a pause. I suspect they have one or two modern codecs in there consuming most space. I'm not a fan of this all in one solution. MkvToolNix also crazy large today and it has zero codecs, but I use an old version.
  6. For me Youtube-DL that is several months old still works. Occasionally it complains about a signature, but most of the time it is fast. I don't use Ffmpeg with it, because I found I out that MPC-HC can combine the video and audio into one during playback with a bit slower seeking. Why has Ffmpeg grown to be 66 MB? I remember they were proud to share core functions across related codecs and of elegant code.
  7. Yes, disks is fast now as they should be. I wonder why Microsoft would return to a more conservative caching method after XP, in a server system in particular, which has to be fast and expected to powered on all the time. I don't have an UPS. It cooked last summer. I didn't realize how hot the device gets inside as the battery ages.
  8. Drinking anything because the government or big corporations told you to is not a good idea. People in America seem to religously follow authorities when it comes to food choices: eat margarine, don't eat margarine, eat eggs, don't eat eggs, throw out your food, be scared botulism... Now Johnny Harris comes back from a Fantastic Odyssey with a revelation and everyone is supposed to rebound and follow him. The race card is also sometimes played when they that asians or africans don't drink milk. It's the choice of these people to have it or not. We've been having dairy products for hundreds of years before these lies had been told. Immitation milks concentrate on recreating the appearance of liquid milk. But the function of milk and cream in food is to mellow sharp, bitter tastes of grain products, roasted beverages, occasionally meat when you add sour cream. I never drink milk straight to wash down my food or to quench thirst on a hot day.
  9. Unchecking "Enable write caching on the device" didn't change the speed appreciably. I expect the speed to be even slower. Checking "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device" sped the disk up dramatically! There is a strong warning under the option. Is there an additional risk of data loss on top of Windows XP, which doesn't have a comparable option?
  10. The OS doesn't read from the disk excessively during times when I'm using it. The system disk is separate and an SSD and the data disks are separate. The disk cache seems to be less effective. The disks are the same under both operating systems.
  11. Has anybody noticed that Windows NT 6.1 (2008 R2 x64) has a slower hard disk access compared to Windows 2003 (XP)? I have a dual boot configuration on the same computer and I notice a curious difference. When I open an image in IrfanView for the first time there is a short pause. But there is an even bigger pause when updating tags of FLAC files in Foobar2000. FLAC files contain a reserved space and only one or two disk clusters need to be written to update a tag. But if I queue an update to a hundred files, it takes around 2 seconds. On Windows 2003 the operation completes almost instantly. The difference reminds me when back in DOS SmartDrv wasn't loaded. Not as dramatic, but significant. Does Windows 2003 (XP) do the disk writes in the background after returning immediately, and Windows 2008 does not do it for some safety reason? The settings in Device Manager are default: Removal policy: Better performance (default) Enable write caching on the device: Yes. Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on this device: No (this is new)
  12. 1024*768. I can't find a different context menu on the corners. The menu on my Serpent looks different. It's plain grey with big Forward, Back, Refresh and Star items. Until recently the "View Background Image" worked. This pulls image that is linked as a fill via CSS. When I want to open in a new tab, I want the image directly. A middle-click on a thumbnail spawns a copy of the current page.
  13. Do you know what Discogs has done that makes it impossible to right-click on images in New Moon to open them in a new tab or save? https://www.discogs.com/release/2872133-London-Starlight-Orchestra-Once-Upon-A-Time-In-The-West Click on the cover artwork, a slow overlay image browser appears, it's not possible to view them on a small screen in 100%.
  14. Fakes have a higher chance of being accepted because we are accustomed to seeing pictures and voice reading significantly affected by digital processing. We have pop music that sounds like robots. Speech is often denoised or sped up and sounds similar to a speech synthesizer where pauses are skipped. Pictures on social mediums are usually posted in poor resolution.
  15. Do you mean Serpent by sp52? There are two configuration setting for moving the disk cache in Serpent. I would still want the rest of my profile to be on disk. browser.cache.disk.parent_directory browser.cache.offline.parent_directory I think 360Chrome accepts a command-line parameter for this. But I don't use 360Chome. --disk-cache-dir
  16. How can you be certain that the swap file is working if most of your tools show that there is no swap file and it only appears in some unsual situations? The file has to be on the ramdisk. The quickest way of filling memory with normal programs is by creating a large 1.5G image in IrfanView. Do you get a larger commit charge limit in normal task manager? For me a swap file works with Gavotte ramdisk if I use the automatic disk size without a mini image. It appears everywhere it should. But the disk seems slow, and there is a constant activity of copying to and from the swap file when minimizing large games. The memory "whistles" and sometimes I get a pause, which looks like two operations trying to access the ram disk and waiting for each other. If you don't have a Creative Labs sound card, then normal PAE memory in Server 2003 works better.
  17. Are you talkin about formatting a Flash drive? Yes, writing to it will wear it over time. If you are doing a quick format that completes in a minute or two then it is not so bad. Do only games that play sound close? Usually it's mandatory to configure each game with the IRQ/DMA parameters of the real or emulated sound card. Try disabling the sound and see if they work. You only need to use nLite for drivers that the installation process itself depends on: RAID disk controller, ACPI patch. Maybe network could be helpful. Sound can be installed later. I've already commented to you that the experience of DOS games under WinXP won't be smooth. You won't get high resolution VESA modes under XP, so the resolution will be limited to 320*240 or 640*350. It's preferable to use DOSBox for smaller games that are light on the CPU or Windows native ports.
  18. You can only ever use 32-bit drivers on a 32-bit system. Why would you want to copy x64 drivers to the ISO? If you want to make changes, you should start from a set of extracted files and build a fresh ISO instead of deleting something from one you've already made. You should only try to integrate sound drivers if it would save you time installing on a hundred computers with similar hardware. Drivers that come with a setup program can be complicated. To make sure you have the right driver, you should install it from an INF file manually without using setup program and verify that everything works.
  19. I've never heard that WinXP was particularly prone to memory leaks. Unless the author takes the word "program" liberally and includes installed drivers, programs are actually unloaded when they are closed. I have noticed that browsing the file systems gets slow after weeks of uptime. I don't believe entries in system.ini have an effect on WinXP. They are for Win98. Does it work? The time when 256 MB was a lot of memory...
  20. There are differences at 2910, 21370, 3137C, 28362. The source of the program code is held by Intel. You can use PE Tools by NEOx to update PE checksum. The checksum is the sum of all 16-bit words of the sys file excluding the checksum in a 16-bit unsigned integer, and the file size.
  21. So which one does it download now if I request 140 with a previously configured command line?
  22. I guess that the instructions may apply only to digital output. With VGA, custom resolutions work, and the scaling options do not show regardless of the currently selected resolution.
  23. Of course it is a blessing. People play down the value of immortality because it is out of their reach. One purpose of death and regrowth is to drive evolution forward. We don't subject ourselves to natural selection anymore by helping weak or sick people make children with invasive medicine and social support. The population is already declining overall because raising children is too expensive and painful. One could still commit sucide if he was immortal. It doesn't mean complete indestructibility because that would violate the laws of physics. Look at it from another perspective. If your loved ones were immortal, they wouldn't suffer from degenerative diseases.
  24. Thank you for your work. The current works again.
  25. Google has entered trolling mode at 31 kB/s. I'd still rather watch a video the next day than view advertisements every 5 minutes with 100% CPU usage. The last version lasted several months, now a fix is needed already after a week.
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