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  1. dencorso
    Less than 2h. Without having previously downloaded and installed either the new IE8 Cumulative Upd, or the two Office 2007 Upds.
  2. dencorso
    'Nuff said!
  3. dencorso
    Then again, there's nothing more relaxing than playing ice hockey with a 2TB USB 3.0 sole backup external HDD...
  4. dencorso
    No probs there: but the hijacking posts would be reasonably on-topic in @sdfox7's thread about browser spoofing...
  5. dencorso
    Isn't this thread also derailed? Shouldn't it be split,already, in order to make better sense?
  6. dencorso

    R.I.P. Kan Yabumoto. You'll sure be missed.

  7. dencorso
    Kan Yabumoto, you mean? You sure?
  8. dencorso
    It's great to have you around again! Do drop in more often!
  9. dencorso
    Where - Wo - Ubi - Oú - Onde - Kie - Где? Ah, yes, this post.
  10. dencorso

    Non-SSE2 machines are a lost game, already.

    1. Tommy

      Tommy

      I'm not against progress, but I'm definitely against planned obsolescence. But I guess we can mostly thank the flashy fancy web for that. I'd rather have quality content on a white background than a 100MB per page website any day of the week.

    2. dencorso

      dencorso

      For the record, planned obsolescence, enforced by MS was actually the main problem here: MS VC++ 2012, was the 1st MS VS that enabled SSE2 by default (and all its successors do so, too). For MS VC++ 2012, it was possible to compile for non-SSE, by using the /arch:SSE and /Oi- compiler directives, but I don't  know whether later MS VS versions still offer such compiler directives or not. In any case, since the default became to compile for SSE2 from MS VC++ 2012 on, almost no author ever bothered to disable that, even if SSE2 instructions weren't actually needed or helpful for the software being compiled.

  11. dencorso
    Before anything else, one should always try the "Strategy of the Ostrich": do nothing, wait 24h, then try again. In case it gets working again, forget about it. If not, then let's troubleshoot it. Of course, this is just my 2¢.
  12. dencorso
    It's just another timezone update. Scince no KB info has apeared yet, I don't know which timezone it refers to, but if it's not for Transnistria, I bet it ought to be just for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
  13. dencorso
    Please, do it. I can think of varous members who could benefit from such a tutorial.
  14. dencorso
    Of course! What else? Remember the SHELL= directive in CONFIG.SYS?
  15. dencorso
    No. Let's not propagate this false myth unnecessarily! XP formatting tools are artificially limited to 32GiB, but XP works OK with up to 2TB FAT32 partitions, once a 3rd party formatter is used to create them. Ridgecrop's FAT32Format, both command-line and GUI versions is the standard tool for doing it, since way back when. This is so old news...
  16. dencorso
    That's already true for the Z68...
  17. dencorso
    Yes. By hand. No need. The only one one can set to sizes above 512 MiB, while keeping the system able to allow Win 9x/ME to run stably is RLoew's non-XMS Ramdisk.
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  19. dencorso
    Of course, he doesn't! Machine translation sucks! Moreover, those non-native speakers who acquire fluency above a certain threshhold (who also are a minority among the non-native speakers of any language) usually have a wider and more varied vocabulary than native speakers, particularly because such people tend to be able to speak more than two languages...
  20. dencorso
    It sure does!
  21. dencorso
    I never said, nor implied, that the patch cost the same as a single hamburger. I simply asked how much does it cost in the US. If someone had replied to my question, then I intended to calculate how many hamburgers are required to buy the RAM limitation patch. As it is, nobody ever replied to my question, so I let go.
  22. dencorso
    I've used Trumpet Winsock for ages!!! I remember using Mosaic. It was really painful having to wait for the pages to load fully, before one could do anything! That's why moving on to Netscape was so wonderful! Particularly because all Internet access from Brazil at the time rarely went over 9.6Kb!!! But those were great times, all the same!
  23. dencorso
    XMSDSK *is* Franck Uberto's ramdisk.
  24. dencorso
    Well, @xper is the owner and 1st member of MSFN, so that http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showuser=1 does provide the incept time, from his joining date. There was one big BBS in Brazil, called Mandix. But I got my 1st access when the University I studied in got BITNET, then I moved on to internet, when it arrived here (early 1991). I used PINE for a real long time, before moving on to web-mail, and I used to hang around various groups on the usenet. I heard about FidoNet and compuserve, but not about The Spot.
  25. dencorso
    Sure! MSFN's incept date is Aug 2001. I began networking on BITNET, back in '89. I've lurked about two years before joining MSFN.
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