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  1. dencorso
    It'll keep on working! See: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3510500/microsoft-blinks-security-essentials-will-continue-to-receive-updates-after-jan-14.html
  2. dencorso
    The @LoneCrusader is a dear friend and it grieves me to be pushed into arguing publicly with him about this, but I was never given any choice about it, since he seems to be the main (and, ATM, only) voice oposing the (re-)branding of the browsers. That said... True enough. But, while not forgetting, moving on is sometimes required, and I think this is one such case. There is a time for appeasing, and one for open confilct. I hope we won't keep arguing uselessly until we are beyond all possible compromise. Most of those in this thread are for the (re-)branding. I think that PoV has already won by acclamation. ... and you are the only one doing quite a strong effort to derail any compromise, when most of us don't see the facts in the same light as you do.
  3. dencorso
    What does MCCES stand for? "Marine Corps Communications Electronics School"?
  4. dencorso
    No. We ain't. Of course one cannot be sure about anything, that's how things work in life. But when one offers to back his requests with his own hard work (and recognized expertise) , I reckon it's wise to accept. And I do agree there's no downside, whatsoever, to it. ======= Well, I do like most of the proposals. However, Serpent 52 might as well become Moonshine, which sure has a bite, as serpents do. And, if so, the brand might be an alembic. ======= Then again, to speed things up, the finished brandings might be sent to @roytam1 as pull requests to this current structures, so as to avoid having to decide on migrating build structures (or whatever that is called) at the same time the branding issue gets solved, at last.
  5. dencorso
    Update the BIOS to the latest available. You'll need a low end Sandy Bridge to do it, preferably an i3. Your issue is lack of BIOS support.
  6. dencorso
    I don't think being confrontative helps any, I'm sorry to say. I do think ignoring Matt's offer (as in hiding one's head in the sand) leads nowhere. And his offer *was* ignored, while very minor issues continued to be discussed. There's much to gain and nothing to lose in accepting it. My 2¢, of course,,, but this is one occasion I think keeping silent a real bad choice..
  7. dencorso
    I, for one, say: Yay! Great!
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  9. dencorso
    @roytam1: I tested and confirm v.2019.12.13 of Serpent 52 again works perfectly with Adobe Primetime. Thank you very much! You do rock!
  10. dencorso
    The so called 137 GB limit is due to the use of 28-bit LBA. With just 28 bits, the biggest number that can be represented is 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 = 268,435,455 so one can count from sector 0 to sector 268,435,455. Ala in all that gives a total of 268,435,456 x 512 bytes (512 being the lenght of one sector) = 137438953472 bytes~wich is ca. 137.4 GB or exactly 128 GiB. However, the system is interessed in addresses, so a partition starting right at the begining of the disk can have any of its sectors addressed using just 28 bits. But no sector beyond that point can be addressed at all. The solution is to patch the correct system file for it to use 48 bits, instead of 28, which is what both LLXX's and RLoew's patches actually do.
  11. dencorso
    Probably because you alway used a partition in the begining of the disk. Else (= a partition at the end of the disk), the 137 GB is required anyway, even if the partition is smaller than 137 GB... what counts is the number of bits necessary to represent the addresses correctly, not the size per se.
  12. dencorso
    If the disk is IDE, it'll always use ESDI_506.PDR. One can use any size of partition although I'm not sure whether IDE HDDs > 500 GB were ever produced. If the disk is SATA, and the mobo supports IDE compatibility mode, then both 137 GB and SATA patches must be applied. If the hdd is SATA and the controller uses AHCI mode, then RLoew's AHCI driver is required. A 137 GB FAT partition *at the begining* of an arbitrarily sized SATA disk with the rest of the rest of it in an NTFS partition will work until one gives 9x/ME an NTFS driver, then it'll be corrupts the 1st time 9x/ME tries to access the NTFS partition. If one never gives an NTFS driver to 9x/ME, there's no risk of corruption. But, in any case, without RLoew's AHCI driver, the ESDI_506.PDR will not be used in AHCI mode, so all access wil be in DOS 16-bit compatibility mode, slow as molasses. It can run, but it'll be like a 4-clinder car runing on one or two cylinders only: bad and sluggish. Moreover, if one puts the 137 GB partition at the end of the HDD, instead of the beginning of it, then corruption will occur in unpatched systems, even in DOS 16-bit compatibility mode.
  13. dencorso
    Well, that's an early beta... menaing some two or three notches above vaporware, but not useful yet. If it ever reaches release, then we may consider trying it, but no way before that.
  14. dencorso
    @roytam1: can you please kindly fix that?
  15. dencorso
    Caveat emptor! That is *not* true. It has been discussed so many times, that the dead horse became minced meat. One does need either BHDD31 (which is based on the LLXX patch) or RLoew's patch that is now free. More info at the link in my signature and all around the 9x/ME forum.
  16. dencorso
    Of course it does, if it happens only on patched systems (which is the case)!
  17. dencorso
    Hello, Petr! Good to see you around, alive and kicking! Please do visit us more, you do have been missed! All the best!
  18. dencorso
    This one also does: https://web.archive.org/web/20181223235109/https://www.quirksmode.org/html5/tests/video.html
  19. dencorso
    I don't use uMatrix (nor anything of that sort), nor disable JavaScript. However, I do run with media.ffvpx.enabled=false and use Adobe Primetime. This causes both cnn.com and twitter videos perfectly with excellent quality. However, it seems that @roytam1 has removed support for Adobe Primetime from basilisk52-g4.4.win32-git-20191123 onwards. If that's the case, please, Roy, do kindly put it back: it still works and produces better quality videos than the the ffvpx filters. TIA.
  20. dencorso
    After more than one month without updating Serpent 52, I decided it was time to do so... and, after installing the latest binaries (basilisk52-g4.4.win32-git-20191207-2529b2ede-xpmod) I found out CNN.com's videos weren't playing anymore. Then I went to the previous version and so on, until I got to basilisk52-g4.4.win32-git-20191116-3492ad652-xpmod, which works as expected. I'm astonished: hasn't anyone reported any issues till now? I'm reporting an issue which prevents both videos at cnn.com (try: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/07/asia/beijing-pets-cat-dogs-intl-hnk/index.html) as well as most videos on twitter, and I found it out less than one hour ago!
  21. dencorso
    The nvme/ahci drivers may be integtable, but the usb3 ones for intel are modded drivers still too experimental for integrating, at this point in time, IMO. Yet, development is progressing apace, so soon enough that should be safely doable.
  22. dencorso
    True. Thanks! And it works well on XP. However, it still remains derived from Chromium 69.0.3497.100. So, I've corrected the thread title accordingly.
  23. dencorso
    +1
  24. dencorso
    True enough! And here it's sure to get well tested truly fast, so any issue ought to show soon (in case there actually is any)! Keep on the great work!
  25. dencorso
    OK. Thanks! But... where's the pointer to the package? You rock!
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