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Well, a "new" idea would be to have android apps run on the stupid Windows 10 mobile http://www.pcworld.com/article/3011934/windows-phone-os/steve-ballmer-thinks-the-future-of-windows-phone-is-androidand-he-may-be-right.html I still believe that if I want to run any crappy, freemium or ad-bombarding app written by a kid, with no plan nor support whatsoever, I can run directly Android ... jaclaz

And here is the usual OT ... ... meanwhile in China ... ... since seemingly making a desktop OS go on phones and tablets makes little sense, they are making a phone and tablet OS to go on desktops .... ... strangely enough using a "Start menu", "System Tray", multiple windows, etc. JFYI: http://www.jide.com/en/remixos http://www.jide.com/en/remixos-for-pc Besides the fact that it doesn't (yet) exist it has to be seen how it will actually work it is some sort of derivation from the (very nice BTW): http://www.android-x86.org/ (but that last time I tested it was still far from being really-really "ready" for everyday use or actually *any* use apart experimenting). Judging from the time the good guys have spent around the design concept, logo and background http://www.jide.com/remixos/design it seems not like there is that much of "substance" , but we will see .... jaclaz

"Gibberish" is usually derived from improper GROUNDing of ALL devices involved. Please re-read the Read-me-first point #7 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/ AND (just in case) a few posts starting from here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-153#entry968299 Do review your setup, EVERY device involved needs to be grounded together. As a side note, It is EXTREMELY rare that a USB to TTL needs an external power source, all the USB converters I ever saw (with the exception possibly of one or two "phone cables") took power from the USB bus. jaclaz

Is this what you see in Explorer, right? What do you see when you open a command prompt and run DIR in it? How EXACTLY did you create the folder name? That is probably the "prettify" settings. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.08.windowsconfidential.aspx About the monitor, you need to change the power settings in the Registry and then re-load them AFAICR, see: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=365381 jaclaz

@josef What specific file (.inf) are you trying to selfsign? If we temporarily assume that the errors make sense and are truthful, the last three seem like "only warnings", the first ones are instead errors, I quickly checked a usb.inf I have (an dXP one), it is likely that part of the issue is related to: but at least in this usb.inf there is no [sourcedisksfiles] section, nor a "usbccgp.sys=2,,32384,,,,2_,4,1,3" value, where is it gathered from? Layout.inf? Reading between the lines , it seems like the inf2cat tool is made for "self-standing" (and "third party") .inf's, whilst the usb.inf is part of the "integrated" Windows setup. What does chkinf show (if anything)? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff543464(v=vs.85).aspx See also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12898244/inf2cat-22-9-10-error jaclaz

Naaah, no emerald pill , but there is an Emerald Tablet (actually not that kind of tablet ), which has a lot to do with both knowledge and archeology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet jaclaz

A quite nice shade of green, of course. More seriously, it's just some jargon, it is interesting how it is coming from someone recommending to watch terminology, but don't worry, those in the knows use a lot of these codenames, original source is probably Paul Thurrot: http://winsupersite.com/windows-xp/microsoft-remote-keyboard-windows-xp-media-center-edition-review and this should tell you something.... As a side note, I have the feeling that the OP *somehow* managed to solve the problem in the almost 4 (four years) that passed before Dibya posted his advice. jaclaz

AFAIK/AFAICR the Optiplex GX110 has an Intel i810 chipset and as such it is limited to 512 Mb of RAM: https://web.archive.org/web/20080206143632/http://developer.intel.com/design/chipsets/mature/index.htm?iid=ipp_810chpst+hghlt_chart& jaclaz

And what happened when you started Firefox? BTW which exact version of Firefox? Well, most probably you asked in the wrong place. Sure it is possible. Well, that depends entirely on you. The (unofficial) Service Pack 4 is a (nice) collection of all post SP3 updates + a few extras (including the "PosReady Registry hack") including (but possibly it can be avoided ) the (IMHO) mother of all evil, i.e. .Net, and it is not entirely (or perfectly) "user friendly", in the sense that you need anyway to be very careful in following install instructions, nothing terrible, still one must operate with caution, and I ma pretty sure that you will get assistance from the members of MSFN or RyanVM.net should you need it. jaclaz

Well it is a bit more complex than simply copying a few files. The default (or "failover") EFI boot files are: \efi\boot\bootia32.efi <- for 32 bit UEFI \efi\boot\bootx64.efi <- for 64 bit UEFI For windows you will need to get from the install .wim the file \source\bootmgrfw.efi (but then there are all the "localized" files or get it and all the other files from the installed system, usually C:\Windows\Boot\EFI\) and rename it to either bootia32.efi or bootx64.efi, BUT a normally installed windows will have that file as: \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi then you will need to have (actually create) a (proper) BCD as \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD, *like*: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn336950.aspx or: http://www.hasper.info/repair-a-destroyed-windows-7-uefi-boot-sector/ And then you will need to add the boot entry to the NVRAM. How? But that's where the BCDboot tool comes handy: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744347(v=ws.10).aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824874.aspx jaclaz

Well, it is not that GPT partitions don't have a boot flag, it is the whole mechanism of UEFI booting that works differently. If you are booting in UEFI a GPT style disk, on it there must be a FAT (FAT32 usually but FAT12/16 will normally do as well) partition containing the Windows EFI boot files. The UEFI loads a file from a FAT partition, a few motherboards UEFI implementation do include a UEFI NTFS driver but it is rare. Unless you are willing to modify your UEFI, this is not negotiable, there are workarounds, but usually they are not worth it, and in any case a small FAT partition is needed. jaclaz

The new word for today is "agnotology". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology It helps to believe how ignorance is not our own fault but of the "system", which leads us to "agnoiology" (and that makes two new words for today), from an article by Keith Lehrer cited here: http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/11/agnotology-agnoiology-and-cognitronics/ jaclaz

Had to happen before or later. http://phys.org/news/2016-01-chinese-drone-maker-unveils-human-carrying.html A no-emergency-commands flying thing that can be remotely controlled. Wait for the best part: .What could possibly go wrong? jaclaz

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As a side note, in the good ol' times I had (I actually still have it and it still works fine, or at lest did last time I happened to use it) a very clever device (made by Archos) which doubled as CD player (with earplugs) and as CD Data reader sporting a short cable and a PCMCIA card (that could be inserted when not in use in a recess of the player itself) powered by a few rechargeable batteries. The drivers for the PCMCIA were on floppy and could be installed to DOS/Win3.x/Windows easily. Finding today PCMCIA cards might be difficult though, and you should make VERY sure that what you have is actually PCMCIA and NOT CardBus (and anyway check the exact version/voltage) there is a lot of confusion on those cards, JFYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141776-modifying-a-really-old-dell-laptop/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141776-modifying-a-really-old-dell-laptop/#entry907932 jaclaz

About USB support you might want to try the drivers in this floppy disk: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141875-how-to-install-dos-usb-drivers/ Thanks to the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150508185242/http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/usbdrv.html jaclaz

Of course not , it was just a failed attempt by the PR to minimize the issue by making it a common issue to all systems, by putting the blame on the generic technology instead of the (flawed) specific implementation. For NO apparent reason : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Così_fan_tutte jaclaz

Well I have had NT4, 2K's and even XP systems that were (some still are) only rebooted once a year or so (or in case of some hardware or power failure). It greatly depends of what is run on them of course. jaclaz

...though Dilbert is a (nice and fun ) comics strip, while the Authors of the quoted sentence (and of the rest of the article) are presumably serious at it. jaclaz

And while I am at it, today it is Comcast/Xfinity: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/xfinitys-security-system-flaws-open-homes-to-thieves/ And much worse than that: jaclaz

Well, (according to this survey): https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/heightened-security-concerns-and-falling-smartphone-demand-stymie-consumer-technology-market-growth-accenture-survey-reveals.htm we can maybe still have some hope in humanity ... ... though the suggested cure seems to me worse than the illness jaclaz

Well, somewhere a \boot\BCD (that is a file called "BCD" inside a folder "boot") *must* exist. Normally (on a NON-previously-partitioned disk) a Windows 7 installs the BOOTMGR and \boot\BCD in a "special" partition that gets no drive letter, but when it installs on a pre-partitioned disk it creates those two files on the "system" partition, aka C:. If you have NTLDR on C: you should have on it also NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI on the same drive. Do another thing. Open a command prompt (elevated) when booted in Windows 7. Type in it (issue ENTER line by line): diskpartselect disk 0detail diskPost the output. Type EXIT to exit from diskpart. Then run the following commands: attrib C:\bootmgrattrib C:\boot\BCDattrib C:\ntldrattrib C:\ntdetect.comattrib C:\boot.iniPost the output. jaclaz

Good ol' Letter Assigner: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080619125702/http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/ http://web.archive.org/web/20080401085803/http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/LetAssig.zip jaclaz

You'd better IMNSHO: 1) start a new, dedicated thread to these comments 2) Remove IMMEDIATELY from your site this crappy flickering .gif: as it could easily induce epilepsy to a number of people (to me it has the effect of becoming very, very angry at the web designer ).

With all due respect , this makes NO sense whatsoever (as a reply to the OP question). Carpenter's comparison: Q: My walls are dirty, can I re-paint them? A: You can, but it is better to completely demolish your house and rebuild it from the ground up, this time in masonry instead of timber... jaclaz