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Volatus

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  1. Alright, yeah, that totally didn't even scratch my question. If you notice my profile, I use nLite and vLite on every Windows installation ever since I found them. In all the time I've used nLite and vLite, I've never even heard of WAIK. So therein lies my question. What is all this uproar about WAIK about, when neither nLite nor vLite use it (whatever "it" is)?
  2. It's tough keeping track of various threads I've posted in when they're spread around different forums, so I'm starting to make use of the "track topic" feature. Small problem with that though - it adds to my already excessive clutter of email garbage. Isn't there an addon to make notification via PM possible? I browse the forum a lot, so I don't need to be notified by email... I just need a notification at all, and a PM would work just as well. Lighten the load on the server, keep my inbox clean, everyone's happy.
  3. I don't get it. What is all this trash talk about "WAIK"? I haven't even heard of WAIK outside of this forum, haven't needed it with vLite, haven't used it, and I certainly haven't downloaded it. What has people in such an uproar about this WAIK nonsense?
  4. It _is_ supported, and it has (basic) drivers. Problem is, unlike most drivers, the USB controller drivers always pop up that god forsaken "found new hardware" wizard that you have to push enter, enter, enter, enter, to get past. Even after finally getting the USB controllers to successfully install, the USB Human Interface Devices have those goddamn wizard popups too. I hate Windows 98. I managed to get the USB controller to install by hitting "enter" in advance of the dialog being completed, so that when the driver initializes and kills the keyboard, it'd've already had "enter" pressed and would continue. That part worked. But then that other wizard came up and I **** near nuked the computer. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate Windows 98. I was only trying this out of curiosity as to what was on that drive... now I'm not even curious anymore. I'm just going to erase it and put XP on it like all computers should have... *shakes fist*
  5. Yeah, because evidently "pfsense" is there just for looks and all... and me talking about moving was just fancy letters on a page or something. As promised (and just to show you...), I updated the map once again... Clicky, clicky, clicky. *edit* The router in the picture (the Netgear that comes off the gigabit switch) isn't double routing, it's disabled and only running as an access point.
  6. Pretty much dead now... no longer have an Eee (gave it back to its owner, who was having me tweak/mod/etc. it), and didn't really find that FBWF was all that great anyway. Also don't seem to be getting any tips on what language or development tools to use (anything MS is waaaaay too bloated) so I still don't even have that installed, let alone the basic program layout, let even further alone a working test version. =( I'm not starting from scratch though, I've got a pretty good knowledge of procedural PHP (screw that OO junk), and I'd really like to keep it similar, like C. Anyone got any suggestions?
  7. Excellent! I looked down and noticed that there weren't a hundred "funny farm" topics and checked back here. Fixed now!
  8. So I Googled around a lot for this problem first, and found: http://www.msfn.org/board/Enabling-AUTORUN...VED-t80583.html But it wasn't solved, or at least, it didn't fix my problem. Plus, the signal to noise ratio was HORRIBLE - way too much noise about "waaaah, you said CUSTOMER"... you know, nLite would be much more useful if people were allowed to use it at least on a small scale commercial operation... or at least have some kind of agreement regarding commercial usage, but "private use only" is killing it... I can put in an audio CD and Explorer will open the CD drive window with the CDA files in it. It detects that a CD was inserted, but doesn't seem to care that it's an audio CD (although the title says "Audio CD (D:)"). Very strange. In the registry, I found that the "AudioCD" class didn't even exist. For some reason (something I removed?), it wasn't created. I need this to work, because the system is a headless PC that simply acts as a print/radio/camera server. I want to be able to put in a CD and have it start playing without having to VNC to it and turn it on. It has a keyboard to control play/pause/volume/track/etc., but no button to "play CD". For VNC, the address is falconsys.no-ip.com:5901 and there is no password. It's set up to share, so feel free to share the love. Thanks! edit: Oops, forgot to apply the port forwarding changes! =o
  9. From what I figure, if Windows doesn't detect that mouse, it presents that dialog as a way to "redetect" a serial mouse if you plug one in. So it'll only do this redetect if it didn't detect a mouse. Meaning, if there is a mouse, it won't make anything faster... but if you're looking for XP-like functionality (where it just Doesn't Give A Crap™), that line sure won't hurt edit: As far as that computer went, the line got around the dialog box, but the endless boxing match with the USB controller has left me completely frustrated and out of ideas. VNC won't start the server. VNC is in the tasks list, but it isn't acting as a server for some reason (can't connect, but can ping the computer...). If I let it boot to the desktop (which it finally does!), the keyboard stops responding as if something else killed the bios USB keyboard hook. Since it's not Windows 2K-based, I can't kill Explorer and use Task Manager either. It's like an unsolvable catch-22. And I absolutely loathe Windows 98. At least ME has native USB support! Why do people direct all the hate at WinME?!!
  10. I don't even burn DVDs with Nero. I burn audio and data CDs with Nero and that's pretty much it. There is no way in hell I'm paying 30 bucks for a single freaking HD disc... o_O
  11. Good god, I thought there was information about everything on the internet. Platform: Windows 98 SE Problem: Computer with no PS/2 or serial ports (Abit AT7 motherboard) is having another computer's hard drive boot onto it, and learn its hardware (something only Win9x seems to be capable of, easily). But the input devices (KB/mouse) are USB. When USB is only half installed, the mouse/keyboard are removed from BIOS control, but Windows hasn't yet installed the drivers. No control over the computer at all. Solution: Install LAN driver in safe mode (at least that device was half-detected), install VNC, and VNC the computer to finish installation of USB components. Problem with that: The "Windows did not detect a mouse" dialog box prevents the VNC server service from starting, and... still, no control over the computer. Solution to THAT problem: apply a registry tweak in Safe Mode that equates to the "do not show this dialog box again" checkbox, since safe mode doesn't try initializing the USB controller, and doesn't remove keyboard control from the BIOS. Problem with THAT: WHAT IS THE REGISTRY KEY FOR THAT?! I put the hard drive in yet ANOTHER computer, left the mouse unplugged, exported the current registry in Safe Mode, booted into normal mode, checking the "do not show" checkbox, crashed it back into safe mode again (had to kill the power since Windows wouldn't shut down without installing a bunch of additional drivers for THAT board), exported the registry to a second file, then do a text compare against the two files. Funny. There was nothing in the registry about the mouse. I forgot! This is Windows 98! It was hidden in win.ini! Add this to the [windows] section: SkipMouseRedetect=0 I don't understand why it's "=0", but win.ini was modified at the right time, and that's worded properly... strange. So now, anyone that has the same problem as I do, can finally have this irritating catch-22 solved. Let's see if I can get VNC started now...
  12. Coupla points to counter: First, people use old versions for a reason - they work, and they do their job better than the new version most of the time. How come Nero 6 suddenly stopped working with Vista, but it would work with everything else? I think it should be added, because there are a lot of people that use Nero 6 because there's nothing better... Second, I haven't touched "compatibility mode" in, well, ever... it's pretty much never fixed anything until Vista came along and broke everything. So I don't think that just because it runs in "compatibility mode" that it's just automatically considered "compatible". You had to "hack" it to get it to work... otherwise, no, it just doesn't work. =P edit: Ah, an edit. That fixes #2. edit edit: According to TightVNC's site, that incompatibility applies to any variation of VNC (RealVNC, etc), not just TightVNC. Source: http://www.tightvnc.com/faq.html#vista
  13. So far, off the top of my head, I've encountered no less than three completely incompatible pieces of day-to-day software that I've used on XP: - Nero 6. I will not use anything after Nero 6 because it's utter bullcrap. But Nero 6 just locks up when it tries to access the burner, although you can get it back by waiting a while for the access to time out and hammer "cancel" repeatedly. - TightVNC. It won't operate in service mode because of the way Vista restructured the service/user interface interactions; it can no longer access the user-mode desktop and therefore can only be used in "application" mode. - HDTach. It plain refuses to start, probably because it relies on a driver that's not Vista compatible. Fud? edit: I have UAC disabled and removed, so everything is already running with administrator privileges anyway.
  14. Yes, I am cross-posting, because I've been waiting for over 3 days for a single reply now, and nobody's said a dang word, even to tell me what "WPD" is. Maybe the Windows Vista forum will know more. It would be nice to select more than one forum that a topic may apply to... http://www.msfn.org/board/Windows-Mobile-D...ta-t119408.html Copypasta: Yeah, the Vista killer is using Vista on his main PC now, at least for a well deserved second chance. So far I've actually found that, after removing 4.5gb of unnecessary crap from the OS using vLite, I may actually be able to use this stupid thing... If only it weren't so unnecessarily revamped. SO MUCH STUFF has changed, and coming from a world of XP, this crap makes no sense. I'm half relying on "dummy mode" in Vista now, to get hints on where all this stuff has moved to... So I tried installing "Windows Mobile Device Center" for my WM6 PPC. It doesn't even give a half attempt at installing, it just crashes with an error about "windows mobile device center could not be installed because at least one required Windows component is missing". How nice of it to tell me what is missing. I thought Windows Installer was supposed to fix that problem... Anyway, I dig through the log file and I find several lines referencing "CheckIfWpdPresent" and failing because it comes back "0" instead of 1, so it intentionally halts. What the heck is WPD? I don't recognize that acronym from anything I've seen. And is it restorable? I'm not exactly hot on the idea of reinstalling Vista again... although it only took 15 minutes off a USB stick
  15. BUMP For the fact that this hasn't even been replied to (by an/the admin), let alone addressed...
  16. This thread scares the living jesus out of me by just the sheer fact that there are people this stupid in the world... Unintelligible writing (with COLOR, even!)... Worthless replies: And a flock of "similar topics" that are all, well, naturally, "funny farm". Please do us all a favor and go back to the funny farm yourself.
  17. Wuhr? 24 hours and no reply at all? Wow, that's a new low for Vista... =|
  18. Yeah, the Vista killer is using Vista on his main PC now, at least for a well deserved second chance. So far I've actually found that, after removing 4.5gb of unnecessary crap from the OS using vLite, I may actually be able to use this stupid thing... If only it weren't so unnecessarily revamped. SO MUCH STUFF has changed, and coming from a world of XP, this crap makes no sense. I'm half relying on "dummy mode" in Vista now, to get hints on where all this stuff has moved to... So I tried installing "Windows Mobile Device Center" for my WM6 PPC. It doesn't even give a half attempt at installing, it just crashes with an error about "windows mobile device center could not be installed because at least one required Windows component is missing". How nice of it to tell me what is missing. I thought Windows Installer was supposed to fix that problem... Anyway, I dig through the log file and I find several lines referencing "CheckIfWpdPresent" and failing because it comes back "0" instead of 1, so it intentionally halts. What the heck is WPD? I don't recognize that acronym from anything I've seen. And is it restorable? I'm not exactly hot on the idea of reinstalling Vista again... although it only took 15 minutes off a USB stick
  19. Aha, cool. Strangely, I've seen people banned and topics locked just for even remotely hinting at the possibility of their post being considered as talking about illegally using software... it's kinda crazy around here. Tread lightly when using the term "where can I get"
  20. (To protect you...) I assume you mean where to buy it, right?
  21. So I'm bored out of my mind at my new job (I get paid to sit around and watch for people - I'm a security guard!). I have an Asus Eee to keep me company. An ongoing problem with the Eee is that it's Flash based. That means two things: disk writes take forever, and disk writes are murder. Despite the idiotic and braindead ramblings of people on the EeeUser forums and Wiki, a write filter of some kind is absolutely necessary to ensure that the Flash lasts as long as the rest of the computer. When a cell dies, the whole array tends to die... So I was originally using EWF (Enhanced Write Filter) from XP Embedded on this computer. Now I'm using FBWF (File Based Write Filter), which uses memory much more efficiently and tends to do a better job at managing files. It also doesn't require me to reboot each time I commit changes, in order to re-enable the filter. It can commit one file at a time! Sounds like a neat idea until you find that FBWF is the polar opposite of EWF in terms of 'committing'. The command line tool provided with FBWF doesn't allow people to commit the whole drive's changes! It can only be done one file at a time. GUH! Enter the FBWF API. The API can tell FBWF what to do, as far as committing a file or getting the file list. What's that mean? A program can be written to retrieve all changed files, then commit them one by one automatically! I have found at least two (maybe three) FBWF GUIs that have been created, but none of them do the very basic function that they should have been written to perform - retrieve the file listing and commit it. Ugh. So that's where I come in. I want to actually get myself into desktop programming (since I already do PHP/HTML/MySQL web programming) with this as my excuse. Whatever I do, I tend to do well, so I want to make this the end-all, be-all FBWF manager to help people interested in making it work! Where you (may) come in is in one of the following ways: - Encouragement. It hurts me to no end to see one of my topics fall off the face of the planet, and I just give up on it. Reply to this thread, even if just to say "what's FBWF and why?". That's how everyone can help - A good place to start. Linking me to a forum probably won't help, because I don't have a particular problem to solve (or search for), I need advice and there's generally not a readily apparent thread that provides that. Maybe you can link me to a "how to get started" post. - A good IDE. I'm installing MS Visual C++ 2008 Express right now on the Eee. I hope it doesn't require that .NET Framework crap in order to run. I want this program to be actually usable, and not dependent on a massive 300+MB runtime to be installed. It's almost as bad as Java - at least every incremental update doesn't end up with a full new installation along side the old one! And since I'm the only person working on it, I would really like something not bloated up with "collaboration" options like project management and versioning. Just straightforward text (and form?) editing is what I need. - Maybe in the near future, beta testers. Since I hate developers that withhold their golden product from people under the guise of "I don't feel comfortable releasing it yet", I'm going to post each little improvement here for people to try, and try to correct some of the common errors that developers make in releasing that p*** me off (making it hard to find the latest version, hard to find the download, using a crappy host, etc). It should be a simple enough project, right?
  22. A dual or quad core system is only as useful as the applications that run on it, nothing to do with the OS other than the ability to actually use multiple CPUs. If you run an encoder (one of the few applications that can benefit from a multi core system) on a multi core system, you can sometimes notice precisely a 2x increase in processing speed. If the encoder itself isn't even optimized for multi-core systems, then the least you can benefit from is that you'll be able to do two (or more) things at once, like browse the web while encoding, or do a second (third, fourth) encoding at the same time. Windows 9x can't even manage a single core properly. It frequently locks up the whole system when a single application gets stuck in a processing or wait loop, requiring a complete reboot. The only time XP needs a reboot is when a hardware device or driver starts misbehaving. How can you call that "Better"?
  23. Wow, epic, but worthwhile bump. Found this topic in another one of those annoying "related posts" entries... boy am I impressed! If this is possible, hope may be out there after all for the new PC market and the Vista epidemic. If I can find a single decent specced PC with XP still installed on it, that's all I need. But if it comes with Vistrash preinstalled and I had no option to the contrary, I'm going to suggest that people request a refund! I had totally forgotten about that clause of the EULA. That's pretty awesome. I guess Vista doesn't have to trash the PC industry after all. We can just ask for our money back, then take it and go buy XP.
  24. Well, if you're so happy with 98, then would you care to donate your quad core CPU to someone who can actually put it to some worthwhile use? I'd gladly trade you a single core CPU for it... since that's all you know how to use anyway What a horrendous waste. By the way, Linux is not an acronym. It should not be capitalized.
  25. What is wrong "wif" your PC? I can understand someone saying "with" as "wif", but never in my wildest dreams had I imagined someone TYPING it like that... o_O (And what's with the sarcastic smiley after "thanks"? Don't want anyone helping you?) Anyway, there's a program from Microsoft, dumpchk.exe, that seems to do that job. I found that by Googling for your topic title. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263 edit: Add "juz" to that list... huh?!
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