jaclaz

It seems UTTERLY inappropriate to me (here), hopefully if of the same opionion a Mod/Admin will split your post to a new thread, no need to delete this and re-post it. jaclaz

Meanwhile in (or around) Cupertino: 1. They found out that an "Orthodox File Manager": http://softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml]http://softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml may work nicely (better than an "Explorer" or a "Finder") to move/copy/organize files: http://mac.eltima.com/file-manager.html 2. They are definitely going to allow blocking ads on iOS (though for the "wrong" reasons, i.e. to re-centralize their iAds platform or their "News App"): http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/08/24/ios-9-content-blocking-will-transform-the-mobile-web-ive-tried-it/ and there is already some bickering about the impossibility of doing proper A/B tests: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/08/27/content-blocking-in-ios-9-is-going-to-screw-up-way-more-than-just-ads/which of course are (mostly) meaningless as this A/A test report highlights: http://kadavy.net/blog/posts/aa-testing/ jaclaz

As a side-side note, the screenshot shows how old I am , I recently criticized the use of name/paths like: <drive letter>\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\6To_60S7K_FU06yjEhjh5dpFw96549UU\scout.exe http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174083-seems-legit/ as being a clear giveaway that the thingy was a malware/spyware and now the good MS guys use on an official OS release a similar one? Hmmm, no, wait, Cortana/searchui.exe actually is a form of malware/spyware, I was right after all. jaclaz

Let's say that it has some diffusion on the net: https://www.google.com/search?sa=G&hl=en&q=scared+cat&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSigEahwELEKjU2AQaAggEDAsQsIynCBpgCl4IAxIojQSPBOsL7AuOBIMFzwvyCtALgQWjLbsksCK8JIMqoC2iLeszoS2aIxow8R-IlhDpIoV-_1rHw3rX1XzJNuuk9IGTN_17CDYXCli55RlcswuaLhuQnMs1VupYt_1DAsQjq7-CBoKCggIARIE-9-ESww&ved=0CBsQ2A4oAWoVChMImuLU34bOxwIViPJyCh3-OQJ4&biw=1680&bih=916 Though the cat originally had BOTH ears , one was most probably photoshopped away to provide some dramatization) : https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1680&bih=916&q=marketing+cat&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSJgnCBBWHk7rNkRoSCxCwjKcIGgAMCxCOrv4IGgAMIQesm3z-eYR0&sa=X&ved=0CBsQ2A4oAWoVChMIiPnHuofOxwIVB_ByCh2HlQyn jaclaz

Yep, Windows 98 on 32 Mb is definitely "border line" (while Windows 95 would be more than happy about it). Most probably you can get away with a "mixed mode" 95/98 install. What I would suggest you though (as I believe you are more into experimenting/having fun than anything else) would be to try on it also an unconventional OS at the time it was the fastest thing on earth on low RAM machines: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815060709/http://www.be.com/products/freebeos/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000815094229/http://www.be.com/support/guides/beosreadylist_intel.html Working download link (around 45 Mb): http://tecnologia.tiscali.it/download/scheda.php?id=94952 jaclaz

Yep . I would add that once upon the time the Alpha and Beta software was given to (and tested on the field by) knowledgeable users (as opposed to the large mass of people), i.e. the feedback was provided based on quality (though with smaller, more manageable quantity) whilst now everything revolves around quantity. Oligarchy vs. democracy, the one or the other being valid approaches (of course debatable) in politics but hardly so in computing. jaclaz

To be fair the 90 IQ is the combined one of the product managers/marketers, the engineers are more or less as intelligent as they were before, only they are asked to produce nonsensical and predatory programs. jaclaz

Good , and now I will actually surprise you by telling you that that title is editable by you in your user panel, i.e. if you want to have in there (say) "MSFN uncategorized", you can do it. jaclaz

Yep , before you were just a simple "friend of MSFN" http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:E9hjn0QEH28J:http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174179-nostalgia-this-was-a-bargain-in-1979/%2Bhttp://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174179-nostalgia-this-was-a-bargain-in-1979/&client=opera&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&gws_rd=cr,ssl&hl=it&&ct=clnk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xLPFT8GL6eEJ:http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174340-german-millennial-lives-on-a-train-rather-than-pay-rent/%2B1,000+posts+monroe+site:msfn.org&client=opera&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&gws_rd=cr,ssl&hl=it&&ct=clnk jaclaz

Naah, by the end of the 60's they were already smaller than that (though not really-really "tiny") but hardly they could have had 80 Mb of capacity. The most iconic photo is that of an IBM 305 being loaded on a plane, but that dates back to the fifties: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/18/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/ At the time the "choice" for "civil" use was between IBM, Memorex and Control Data, and I believe the latter was the first one to get to 80 Mb in a "reasonable" size with the CDC 9762: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#1950s.E2.80.931970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Module_Device http://www.chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/ while the IBM 3340 is the first one using the new "arm landing" technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_3340 but still it was in "cartridges": http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev_en/ibm4331/ibm3340.html Since aerospace tends to be a little ahead of "normal" industry it cannot have been that big in the '70's. jaclaz

Again maybe useful, maybe not: https://archive.org/details/tucows_329441_Phoenix_EDID_Designer http://peteprlm.hubpages.com/hub/how-to-reflash-a-monitors-corrupted-edid jaclaz

Maybe of use/interest http://www.hakspek.com/security/windows-script-to-remove-all-windows-10-telemetry-updates/ jaclaz

Though the article is not really "news" (to us here) the picture is nice: http://wccftech.com/windows-10-privacy/ jaclaz

Sure, and that is what happens on most sites nowadays. jaclaz

Just in case: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/registered_dll_view.html jaclaz

Now, you are being excessively diplomatic. SCOOP! I have an actual picture of a programmers'meeting : jaclaz

And does it make sense to you now? Or you need additional info? Don't worry , actually expert members know that the "expert" is an automatic qualification once you reach a certain number of posts, should be more like "been around here since a lot of time and posted over n times" (most probably with n=1000 ), but "expert" fits better in the available space. jaclaz

Well, I would guess that anyone member of MSFN would have opted out from viglink: http://www.viglink.com/opt-out/ though it has occurred to me a few times that (evidently because of some "rogue" site/script, I don't think MSFN is involved in this) the preference was "reset" to "opt-in", never really attempted to troubleshoot, I simply check the status and re-opt-out if needed. I just checked and the link is fine, it must be monroe's (and/or yours) settings (and additionally a viglink hiccup of some kind). jaclaz

I see , that will probably apply only to a newly created user profile. jaclaz

The link is to a Microsoft KB, it is unusual that you cannot reach it. However, let's see if a simple explanation can be given. A filesystem is not particularly different (simplified) from a book or a magazine. There is an index (which is the FAT tables on FAT and the $MFT in NTFS) that gives you a reference to the page where a given content is. Of course there is a difference (page size) between - say - a magazine and a pocket paperbook, i.e. each page (given that a same sized font is used on both) will be able to contain a bigger or smaller amount of characters. A cluster is nothing (in this simplified example) but the size of the paper page, the NTFS uses by default (in the 7Mb up to 16 Tb filesystem size, i.e. "always") an A4 size (4Kb clusters), the FAT32 (in the size range between 8 and 16 Gb) defaults to A3 (8Kb clusters). Now, if you print a book of aphorisms and decide to have one page for each aphorism, the result will look a lot like a single sentence at the top of a vastly blank page in the A4 version and in the same single sentence at the top of a much huger empty space on A3. Your average file size (not that calculating averages is always a good idea, mind you) is 108 bytes, which is "normal" as a "favorite" is just a link, and is rare to have links exceeding - say - 200 characters or so. But each link has it's own "name" and thus goes on a different "page" or cluster, in both cases a single cluster per favorite will be used, but a link on 4Kb cluster will use 4 kb, a link on a 8Kb cluster will use 8Kb. I would suggest you to use secinspect.exe: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19470 particularly if used to make a "report" like when used with SIRUN.BAT: http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/BootToolsRefs.htm#SecInsp which may be useful for a number of other things. You want to look at the "Sectors Per Cluster" value, multiplying it by the "ButesPerSector" one, example: this means that 8*512=4,096 the filesystem is using a 4 Kb cluster. jaclaz

Hmmm. Which size are clusters of the one (and of the other) filesystem? Points of note: 2,256,896 x 2 = 4,513,792 And: 59,596/551=108.15987 Curiously: 2,256,896/551=4,096 But: 4,513,792/551=8,192 I can see in my crystal ball that the volume on your hard disk is NTFS and that the USB stick is FAT32 formatted, but it's a bit foggy in it today, in case: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/140365 jaclaz

Well, it seems like %systemdrive% is not resolved correctly, in case: http://forums.iis.net/t/1180288.aspx?Powershell+environment+variables+issue http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/scriptfanatic/2011/01/02/expanding-strings-and-environment-variables-in-powershell/ but it should anyway throw an error as well if the "C:\" doesn't work of course it could be one of the n (stupid BTW) changes in Windows 10, after all it was undocumented for 8/8.1. Maybe it is only a "permission" (like UAC or similar) issue or maybe they removed the possibility altogether. I would however also try having the .bin or .xml on another drive (just in case there is some "conflict" when having same source and destination drive) jaclaz

As a side note (and though actually "fun" it is a very serious and sad issue ), Brad Frost put together an extremely nice site to highlight the difference between contents and all the fluff (including the now mandatory "like us on Facebook" ) around it: http://tinyurl.com/o3qaxpp such as: generically grouped under the term bull§hit. On the mentioned site you can turn it on and off . jaclaz

Actually the server core has not that crap: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh846323(v=vs.85).aspx unless you install it: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2012/09/20/windows-server-2012-shell-game.aspx http://blog.ittoby.com/2013/01/add-gui-to-server-core-2012-and.html and even the "minimal server interface" is not that bad: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server_core/archive/2012/05/09/configuring-the-minimal-server-interface.aspx jaclaz

But have you tried in Windows 10 if the Import-StartLayout: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn283403(v=wps.630).aspx actually works on the running windows? (it did in previous versions): http://stealthpuppy.com/customizing-the-windows-8-1-start-screen-dont-follow-microsofts-guidance/ POWERSHELL -NonInteractive -Command Import-StartLayout -LayoutPath .\CustomStartScreenLayout.bin -MountPath %SystemDrive%\jaclaz