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If it's a router, then it should allocate a range of addresses to choose from for the internal network. You wouldn't use a low power Win98 PC as the sole computer connected to a modem, or accept a random address that makes locating the computer for file transfer or other services difficult. You could always add a good router behind the Chinese device.

I found that the reason BBC World Service wouldn't play was because I had disabled media.autoplay.enabled to prevent an assault of advertisements. Does Roytam do any development on New Moon, adding useful functions, or only transplants patches that others have made?

Does this audio stream work for you in New Moon? I see it getting chunks of MOV files for a while, but nothing is played. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service

I installed the system ok. The original C: drive didn't get a letter, but luckily the registry still uses the familiar format of DosDevices, so I could add it. For some reason, the BCD boot data wasn't created: it gave a cryptic error that I failed to print-screen. I also found that a boot.ini from an entirely different disk got copied to the boot drive. The BCD command-line utilities that I installed were from Windows 7. The "ADK" that gets downloaded automatically has utilities incompatible with WinXP. If I already have new Windows running that can run the new "ADK", I'd be less likely to need to setup another copy of new Windows. The requirements of a tool like this should be minimal. I understand you want to dance around licenses with the ADK download...

I could format it, but the format was always "Quick". I needed to blank the entire disk to create the tiny image. After boot it contained some data.

I have two keyboard layouts that allow me to enter great many useful characters using dead keys, such as superscript, fractions, euro sign, micro sign, common diacritics and to type Russian using a conventional QWERTY layout. I discovered that on Windows 2008 R2, I need the layout as a 64-bit DLL. The layouts I have are in NT5 DLL and Win98 KBD formats, and the Tilde Keyboard Editor software supports only these formats. They apparently have never updated it for new Windows and don't offer it anymore at all. What is a good, small program without bloated frameworks that can convert these layouts to 64-bit for winNT 6.1 with minimal effort? Why is a keyboard layout a DLL in the first place instead of a data table that could be used across different OS architectures? So much stuff does not work on 64-bit. Every program with a driver inside. Jesus.

They are old system, temp, swap and backup partitions. Even though I don't use some of them for the original purpose, I can't easily remove them.

No other ramdisks would work, as they rely on PAE being enabled. I resolved this problem by enabling PAE and setting a memory limit at 3 GB with /MAXMEM=3072. Gavotte automatically created a 5 GB disk disregarding the size I asked for. It seems to work well so far. I followed the steps in the readme for creating a mini-image in the registry, and had to dismount the volume with chkdsk.exe T: /X L:2048 or the disk would become corrupted after reboot. Windows doesn't feel that this is a fully featured disk. It can't be opened as a physical disk and examined by most tools. FORMAT returns instantly, and something else such as WinHex is needed to zero fill it. Disk check from properties doesn't work. What is the explanation why random reads from "random access memory" still slow down dramatically? I looked at some benchmarks online and this is happens to similar degrees.

Where does "drive letter preassignment" for Vista/7/2008 take the letters from? The current system? Currently I have boot drive C with NT5 on it, and B as the potential installation drive for NT6. I would like for the new system to see them swapped for better compatibility (the system should be C, and the boot should be B). I expect the boot code to reside on current C, and retain the ability to boot into NT5. Can I achieve this with WinNTSetup?

You can see servers in Tools > Web Developer > Network. In Opera there was a Dragonfly component with similar functionality. To avoid connecting to localhost where there might be a webserver running, I use an address from future use range 240.0.0.0/4 which is set to 'Prohibit' in my router. Presumably, the styles of a forum can be adjusted to anything. These particular sites prefer retro and colorful look because of the subjects they discuss.

AcmImBoard/Kuribo64 appears to mostly work even in Opera 8 and perfect in Opera 12. Except that users can add any styles to their post and name that could be incompatible. I'm also not a fan of reading a thread where every post has different colors and background, making it hard to tell what is a quotebox. But maybe it fits the overall theme of drawn Japanese avatars. Last big traditional forum is Doom9. Recently they discussed updating due to spam, but nothing came out of it. Some websites in older browsers appear totally blank without any content, even in New Moon 28. And there is a forum engine that shows the user names column, but the posts have no text in them.

Internet sites have consolidated into fewer platforms. Moderation on those feels like law enforcement without individual staff members being responsible for their decisions. Hidden bans are common, making it seem that the whole social medium community suddenly started hating me. With smaller forums one could more easily leave if they didn't like how the server was run. Actual regulations from governments and enforcement of copyright are ever increasing. Too many newbie users who feel the need to be policed. Failbook is too slow to spend much time on it without a computer from space. Surprisingly to me, it is the most accessible way of interacting with serious businesses who almost never run a discussion board anymore. This is the reason why I visit it. RSS was good. Opera presented this data as e-mail like messages. One could bypass the web design and user engagement research. Of course companies don't like that. I used RSS to skim over new threads at forums without the overhead of going to the site and refreshing it. Who do you think owns communications lines if not corporations? MSFN is not great anymore. It's been updated multiple times recently.

I installed 8 GB of RAM on my system with Server 2003 SP2. Unfortunately I discovered that playing sound on E-MU 0404 (Creative) sound card makes the system crash and cause errors on hard disks. Curiously, playing a video with sound works. CPU-Z wouldn't work. It is really dangerous if drivers can get loaded with small system info or task manager tools. PAE is now disabled using /fastdetect /execute /NOPAE. Disappointingly, only 3 G of memory is available. To make use of the memory I installed Gavotte RAMDisk 1.0.4096.30, and configured to use 1 G in PAE memory (DiskSizeM=1024, UsePAE=1). A FAT32 volume was created after reboot. However, the Task Manager shows that Commit Charge has increased by 1 G. It seems that it has allocated normal memory. What is wrong? I do not dare to increase the size of the ramdisk.

The Treacherous Platform Module is the most disturbing aspect. Corporations have been slowly stepping up security to take ownership away, and people accept it like the proverbial frog getting boiled, and even feel comforted by these innovations. SSL, signed drivers, certificates everywhere. Incompatible computers can of course continue running a suitable unsupported OS. But "Wintel" would rather send those computers to a landfill, while preaching about power savings or other green peace.

I have experienced all my comments being immediately deleted for about a month, after I wasted time writing them. Before that replies were much delayed, as if they were in a spam box. But I thought it was because an army of fans reported me for coronavirus comments or something. I wrote an angry message to the feedback that was also critical of some interface conventions. Now I genuinely feel better! I tried multiple accounts, but didn't think of changing the browser. My agent version is Firefox from the future with some slogans appended. I don't like the non-transparent mechanism of moderation on that site. Somehow traditional forums were able to handle the workload of semi-manual review. On my new installation of Windows, SMPlayer is somehow able to pick up YouTube-DL. Although every once in a while the speed gets stuck at inadequate 70 KB/s.

If a system boots in less time, doesn't mean it works practically works any faster. If the computer is rarely shut down at all, the boot time is a small fraction of its operating hours. I only turn off my PC because of the current heat wave in the afternoon. Also any new system will feel somewhat faster due to low fragmentation and small registry, depending on how much the previous system was used. 3x would break Nathan Myhrvold's and Wirth's laws of physics.

These hard drives are still working but are relatively new. 320 AAJ was used in a plastic Gigapod enclosure in the past, and therefore has a temperature reading of 61 °C. HDD VN is "new" but shows very low power cycle and load/unload cycle count. I used HDAT2 to lock the DCO where it accidentally saved the power management setting that prevents it from parking the heads. Apparently Crystal knows how to access smart over a RAID controller where other software fails.

How did you quantify the phenomenal 3x speed increase? Windows keeps growing in size, and yet every new version is reported as being faster. It is always some tricks, like delayed start of services (that still have to start) or suspend memory to disk, which was possible in older systems as well.

I researched this problem some more and found a SOLUTION. It has to do with sector addresses in CHS that exist alongside LBA. The workaround is to set the end sector of the system partition to the highest possible value FE FF FF. For LBA 8388608 I had h,s,c: 42,32,522. I am not sure if the sector value was correct, or if it should have been 33. I used BootIce, which is able to commit edits to bootsectors. The speed of the flash memory has much improved. https://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php?topic=8585.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scenario 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Error ------- - BIOS is set to AHCI native SATA Mode BIOS > Integrated Peripherals > SATA AHCI Mode = AHCI SATA Port0-1 Native Mode = Enabled - HDD is connected - the primary partition start offset is 2048 sectors, which is equal to 1.048.576 bytes (1 * 1024 * 1024), this is an alignment value normally used for SSDs to improve read / write speed - Windows 2003 Server x86 with integrated SP2 is used to install the HDD - you press F6 to choose an AHCI driver floppy disk during setup - we use the already present partition and do only a quick NTFS format or we choose "Leave the current file system intact (no changes)" if available - the OS installs and on the 1st reboot directly after the AHCI Controller device scan you read one of the following error messages: - A disk read error occurred - Unable to load operating system - Error loading operating system Solution ---------- - turn computer off - connect the HDD which caused the problem and a 2nd HDD for launching XP - turn computer on - set BIOS to IDE Legacy Mode for XP to start - in XP use a hex editor and open the PhysicalDrive of the HDD that you installed Windows Server 2003 on - in the MBR set the 3 bytes starting at offset 0x1C3 to FE FF FF and save the changes to the PhysicalDrive - turn computer off - disconnect XP HDD - turn on computer - switch BIOS to native AHCI Mode - now Windows 2003 Server / Windows XP Setup will boot and continue - you will now have a properly aligned partition starting at sector 2048

I experience an invalidation of my previous login made on the same day when I log onto the board from a second computer on the same IP address. Can this be avoided?

If the system needs more than 4 GB of RAM, new processor instructions and a new motherboard with UEFI and a Treacherous Module, 64-bit makes the most sense. For compact installations or legacy hardware the newest OS is never the best choice.

This is strange. I tried writing a boot sector with bootsect.exe /nt52 C: /mbr. No go. Then tried installing Windows while connected to ICH8. It would not boot from either port after this, until I ran an installation another time now connected to JM. I don't believe there is data in the bootsector about the connection method. But the second installation made some change that allowed booting. The error loading operating system definitely comes from the disk. mbr-xray.bin pbr-xray.bin

I never reinstall, and accumulate many helper utilities and registry tweaks when I discover them. Most 3rd party software require tweaking, such as web browsers, where most settings are heavily obfuscated. I feel quite uncomfortable on a fresh, naked installation of Windows. The system disk and registry do get slower over time, but can be defragmented by copying over to a new disk or files. To reduce fragmentation, I move temp, browser caches and swap to a separate partition. Programs and System should separate. This allows to wipe the system, but keep programs. I avoid installing large programs that write to the registry, except for ones that I don't have an alternative for. If I see Windows Installer or .Net Framework, I steer clear of those. No updates, except when they extend functionality. The last time I reinstalled, I copied most off %appdata% and most of registry Software branch for both machine and user, except Microsoft values, to the new OS, and all file associations from the registry HKCR. This preserved most settings, and reduced the stress of the transition. Even if some big programs needed to be refreshed by reinstalling, their settings generally carried over. This is for old Windows though. WinNT 10 makes this approach difficult.

In Windows 2003 SP2 I cannot make an association to an executable file without specifying its full path. I have programs in "d:\apps", which has been added to the PATH variable. Some of them are referred to in associations. It is also not possible to run executables with *.sfx extension (WinRAR modules) to preview how they look, or save a module's name in a WinRAR preset without a path. Possibly other programs are affected in a similar way. When I call up a right-click menu that worked before on WinXP, the Open With dialog pops up instead. FileMon shows that the program (such as flac.exe) is searched only in C:\WINNT\system32 and C:\WINNT . This change smells very much like the "Safe DLL Loading" enforcement for NT6. However, that only changes the priority of directories, and both path and current directory are still searched. Can this feature be disabled? %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;d:\apps;d:\plugins;d:\apps\sox;d:\apps\fhgaac;d:\apps\qaac;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AGL

The drivers work. However I am not able to boot from ICH8 after installing on JMicron. I wanted to avoid disturbing the existing disks. I get the error ""Error loading operating system"". I believe this message comes from the "disk" itself. But it does not parse the boot.ini. It fails to boot on any port, and with BIOS boot order set to prefer this disk. I haven't experienced this before when moving disks. How to fix without reinstall? The partition layout is unusual 3 primary NTFS partitions aligned to 2048s: 4G(system), 24G, 91G. My old installation of XP SP1 was picked up, but of course didn't go past the logo without a hdc driver. The JMicron JMB363 driver is useless. Speed is the same SATA I at 120 MB/s. No SMART unlike in IDE mode. Apparently no NCQ. And the disk is considered removable, and shows in the system tray. Any way to hide it from there? The Intel driver with a HDD also doesn't bring any benefit. Random 4K reads with HDD rose from 0.8 to 1.4 MB/s. I've not a chance to measure XRayDisk flash memory yet, except the sequential speed of 240 MB/s on Intel.