jaclaz

It seems our worst fears are becoming reality. Isn't no news better than bad news? Ignorance is bliss. jaclaz

How silly, you cannot have mixtapes or custom made playlists without having friends and if you go in the woods it's unlikely you will make friends there, while spotify allows you to have mixtapes without having friends: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2488058,00.asp https://press.spotify.com/us/2015/07/20/introducing-discover-weekly-your-ultimate-personalised-playlist/ Of course, if you happen to be tagged for loving (say) Country music, you may get each monday some two hours of more Country music, depending on what other Country music was listened to in the previous week by similarly tagged users and the more Country music people tagged as loving Country music will listen to, the more you (and they) will receive. All in all, Spotify is good for those wandering in the woods that love Country music , and should someone become lost there, they would know where to send search squads. jaclaz

Well, of course they are doing for your own good : http://uk.businessinsider.com/spotify-wants-to-search-through-your-photo-roll-and-access-your-sensor-information-too-2015-8?op=1?r=US&IR=T You surely don't want to come out as someone preventing innovation and evolution, or the enhancing the users experience, or the helping to "enjoy, discover and share more music than ever before" don't you? As a side note, in my days, no one would be "sorry" unless he/she felt responsible for something not appropriate: https://news.spotify.com/us/2015/08/21/sorry-2/ jaclaz

Hmmm , actually what I perceived was some whining Would these make you happier? http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/156521-unofficial-sp-52-for-microsoft-windows-2000/?p=1104545 Download archive: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bw_nt4aAJIoPWWNBay13dTlXOWs#list https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bw_nt4aAJIoPeG1kY0tIakhMeGc&tid=0Bw_nt4aAJIoPWWNBay13dTlXOWs#list jaclaz

Maybe you should have only some patience, I believe a lot of things are in the works: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/156521-unofficial-sp-52-for-microsoft-windows-2000/page-32 Or maybe it's just what was expected : https://web.archive.org/web/20121113211942/http://www.windows2000.tk/ jaclaz

... meanwhile in (or around) Cupertino : http://www.macworld.com/article/2971085/macbooks/the-increasingly-long-lives-of-old-macs.html No comment. jaclaz

Woody Leonhard cleverly making an U-turn: Before: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2954263/microsoft-windows/10-reasons-you-should-upgrade-to-windows-10.html After: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2972298/microsoft-windows/10-reasons-you-shouldnt-upgrade-to-windows-10.html What appears as "news" (at least to me) is reason #4: jaclaz

..meanwhile in Sweden (actually everywhere) : http://www.wired.com/2015/08/cant-squat-spotifys-eerie-new-privacy-policy/ It's nice to see "loose ends" come together : http://seedscientific.com/ jaclaz

Not a drone . http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/162812-diminutive-device-to-detect-drones-hovering-overhead/?p=1040051 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/162812-diminutive-device-to-detect-drones-hovering-overhead/?p=1040113 On other news, this nice thingy (the best incarnation I have seen of the flying submarine tanks of Bacteria ) has not reached the desired sum: http://www.bgobeyond.co.uk/ http://www.bgobeyond.co.uk/about/#tab_1 on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2017062404/b-unstoppable (but I don't think it will be an issue, as nowadays it seems like Kickstarter is just an advertising media for technical projects) jaclaz

Yep , and to be fair, XP 64 bit doesn't really exist Check (attentively) the version number of XP 64 bit files and compare it with those of Server 2003 64 bit .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Edition XP 64 is nothing but a "homefied", "renamed" version of Server 2003 (not that there were such big differences in earlier versions of the 32 bit, i.e. between NT Workstation and Server editions and Windows 2000 Professional and Server edition), slightly OT, but JFYI, blast from the past, a time when Mark Russinovich was a naughty kid : http://www.cyberdelix.net/adminz/3a2e3896_5832_10bf550.html jaclaz

I will try again. Reallly? I guess that until 64 bit systems came out the world servers must have been very short of memory. HInts (supported RAM in 32 bit Windows 2000): Windows 2000 Advanced Server 8 GB of physical RAM Windows 2000 Datacenter Server 32 GB of physical RAM jaclaz

Well, you have to consider that a number of people that actually replies to questions asked on some "technical" boards were actually born around 1995 or after that, their first chance to use a computer and use it was already something in the i686/several Gb RAM class of PC's, manufactured 2005-2008 or later. They call those prehistoric, of course and believe that anything short of a quad core with 8 Gb of RAM (and a senseless 64 bit OS) cannot be defined a "computer". Why, in my day ... https://tinyapps.org/blog/misc/200702250700_why_in_my_day.html and we LIKED it! And about amount of bytes (senselessly) transferred over the internet I like to use this new unit of measure , the DOOM : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174175-not-a-site-issue-but-maybe-worth-some-thought/ jaclaz

An interesting non-answer. jaclaz

Sure , and count additionally a stupid real-time antivirus in it (if you use one), the point I was trying to make was about the 3 to 3.5 Gb of Ram that the OP will have available on a 4 Gb machine, that amount is tough to fill on 2K (and even on XP, for that matters), it is actually uncommon to go over 2 or 2.5 Gb of used memory (of course occasionally it may happen, but is a rather rare case IMNSHO). jaclaz

Well, you should also use gold coated cables for your loudspeakers (or coat hangers, whatever you have more handy) when you are not using headsets. jaclaz

Not without reason... jaclaz

To provide some context, a typical 2K desktop machine (new, in the short time time the OS was mainstream) had 128 or maybe 256 Mb of RAM (and was typically set with a 512 Mb pagefile), typically with 512 Mb of RAM it was very, very fast, and I doubt that nowadays you can actually (in normal use, not "intentionally" in a benchmark or similar) fill up the 3 Gb of RAM, the exact amount available depends on specific motherboard/chipset/etc.: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/07/21/3092070.aspx jaclaz

Well, it's not Word or Excel (say) this application at its core should be a bunch of Registry Entries and a few commands (or little more). jaclaz

Sure, this is where that is currently discussed: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174120-another-reason-why-the-iot-may-not-be-that-good-an-idea/ @monroe Now for NO apparent reason, and JFYI, drone rescue[1]: jaclaz [1] Or first practical use of a drone (to solve a problem that was actually originally caused by playing with drones)

Small news : http://bgr.com/2015/08/18/drone-for-sale-worlds-smallest-aerius/ jaclaz

... meanwhile in the UK , JFYI: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3200291/Farmer-sick-poor-internet-signal-built-DIY-mast.html jaclaz

Yep, now it sounds "normal", the newest is right now 1.5.248 and is on github, including the source code (should anyone be interested in it), now only 152 Kb: https://github.com/Nummer/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying/releases/tag/1.5.248 @NoelC Come on , (10800000-152000)/60000 = 177 "icon deltas", it would be a rather complete icon collection .... jaclaz

Reallly? I guess that until 64 bit systems came out the world servers must have been very short of memory. jaclaz

And - just to prove that there is nothing really "new" under the sun - have a look at this: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jeremyepstein/decertifying-the-worst-voting-machine-in-the-us/ the worst fears of anyone if not actually caring about at least attentive to minimum levels of security are (were) seemingly reality. jaclaz

Well that and previous Patents (also from other firms) in a more "correct" and "formal" language the general idea is still revolving around the (partially rejected) thesis by Samsung that "there are not so many different ways to design a rectangle with rounded corners", and though it may seem obvious to me and you that a loudspeaker/earpiece would go on the top, the rectangular screen would go in the center and button(s) (if any) would likely go in the mid-bottom (and making a button a circular shape is not patentable as it has been done since buttons were invented) and as well a microphone would go on the bottom, till now this has been not "legally" obvious. jaclaz