jaclaz

And WHEN this will happen, IF it will happen, we might be able to talk about it. What we could discuss at length - right now - is which adjective among hypothetical, speculative and conjectural: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/24417/what-is-the-difference-between-speculative-hypothetical-and-conjectural is more suitable on this nth thread about the (unknown) future of XP updates (or complete lack of them). JFYI, I am personally tagging these threads under otiose http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/otiose jaclaz

I believe there are several reasons why you get an ID 1004 So you did exactly and only what is listed here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775148(v=ws.10).aspx with no success/change in the error you get? And you already double-checked these: http://blogs.technet.com/b/terminalserverlicensing/archive/2008/09/02/common-issues-with-terminal-server-licensing-in-w2k-w2k3.aspx Right? What I personally would do as a test would be to setup a machine with a "plain" Windows 2000 (i.e. a client corresponding to the server), in a lan subset with just the Windows 2000 Terminal server in it and see if the issue remains, if yes, it is likely to be a mis-configuration of the server, if not the issue might be on the clients side. jaclaz

A symlink or a hardlink? I presume you want to make a hardlink to the dosbox.exe inside one of the paths already inside the PATH variable? But this would be possible (as well as symbolic links) only on a NTFS volume. See: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/ln/ln.html But you can use a "normal" .lnk file on *any* filesystem, if I recall correctly. jaclaz

My understanding is very similar to yours, though I suspect that the OP is slipping (and indirectly bringing down you with him ) on a chocolate-covered banana , just in case: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/put-down-the-chocolate-covered-banana.html I may be (rare, but it can happen ), but I did not actually state anything, I simply reported a source "as is". Just for the record here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/3209f9b8-842e-43a8-a36a-575226b6e8ed there is this text: which may also be "wrong", but it is possibly a hint that the referenced page is actually "right" And, JFYI: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2011/03/13/ot-windows-activation-en-masse.aspx jaclaz

In Windows (and DOS) we have a variable called PATH: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable) http://www.robvanderwoude.com/path.php jaclaz

To expand on Yzöwl's question, according to this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394520(v=vs.85).aspx the win32_WindowsProductActivation class is non-existing on non-XP/2003. jaclaz

The EU Court (ECJ) has ruled that communication data retention is a severe form of menace to privacy and is not fully justified by security reasons. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26935096 and that related directives need to be amended. See: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2014-04/cp140054en.pdf I don't want to cite the whole text f the press release to no make the post too long, but do read the whole .pdf. A little step, but seemingly in the right direction. jaclaz

No, we will need to agree to disagree . Meritocracy is based on merit. <- it has a positive connotation, merit is intended as a positive attribute, it means that you have outstanding capabilities, knowledge, intelligence, will, etc., and that you used them for the benefit of the community which in turn gives you this status or recognition. Merit cannot be bought, you either manage to do the positive things that lead to gain it or you don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy Something based on money cannot be "merit", it is a corrupted form of democracy, and usually leads to what is called oligarchy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy or, even worse, to a plutocracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy The apparent "model" of the voting system as represented on the Indiegogo page is a mixed status, where something is "pushed" through either a high number of "free" (free in the sense of gratis) votes (and as such is a form of democracy with an accent on populism) or through buying these votes (which is clearly derived from plutocracy). The "free" votes (again free in the sense of gratis) that people with merit may cast have not any greater weight than that of the common citizen, thus merit is not measured, nor evaluated. In my perverted mind the priorities and planning (let alone the management) of any project should be done through a form of aristocracy (in the original sense): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy where one reaches the aristocrat status through merits (not by birth or wealth). On the other hand, ReactOS has always been fully Open Source, and there is nothing in the fund raising campaign hinting that this status will change. jaclaz

Generally speaking, there must be a "reason" for using compression. To me it may have made sense in times where the unit cost of storage was higher or in some particular (rare) case where you have "too much" processing power and "too slow" I/O storage subsystem (USB 2.x may be one of these cases). But, for obvious reasons, if the scope is "backup" having non compressed and contiguous files is IMHO an advantage (for recovery purposes), it makes much more sense to use a file compressor (like zip, 7-zip or the like) possibly one capable of making "solid" archives and with parity/recovery records. Also, you did not specify which kind of files are those "largish" files, if they are (say) audio or video, the compression would not even produce very sensible size reduction (as the data is already compressed). The issue with fragmentation with NTFS compression is known: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#File_compression the 64/60 effect can create "havoc" Just for the record, and since you talked of extremely small files, the real limit (usually stated vaguely as "around 900 bytes" or "1500 bytes or smaller") for files to be stored in the $MFT has been analyzed here: http://www.forensicfocus.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=10403/ jaclaz

Well, a good practice is a "good practice". In the case of deciding to have not a PXE server (not a WinAoE, nor a iScsi one) in the network it becomes "only possible practice". jaclaz

If I may (as this is actually my professional field ) the relevant point is a bit different. Common building codes require a given ratio between area of a room and area of windowed openings in it (to allow the sun light to enter and to favour changing the air in it). Usually (but of course not everywhere) the ratios are between 1:12 to 1:8, that is if you have a room of 20 sqm (roughly 216 sqf) there must be windows totaling at least 1.67 to 2.5 sqm (roughly 18 to 27 sqf). Additionally modern codes tend to allow only units where natural "cross-ventilation" is possible (i.e. at least two windows exist on two different sides of the building) or otherwise prescribe an adequate ventilation provision. The above are, more than anything else, "common sense" rules to have the place where you live "salubrious". jaclaz

Yep , but all the "combined" reports (including the failure to perform a "Long" test) lead to believe that the disk is having issues, I personally would not EVEN THINK of using it as "System" drive, further use is suggested possibly ONLY as a secondary or tertiary backup. jaclaz

Typo? Standard cluster size in NTFS is 4 Kb. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365/en-us jaclaz

I am not sure to understand. The screenshot on the left is seemingly about the "Short" test (and this was passed, good ). What about the "Long" test (which is BTW evidently more complete/thorough)? jaclaz

Part of that assumption is that anyone eligible to vote can cast a vote that has the same weight of anyone else's vote. The moment someone (by paying money) can cast a vote that counts 5x that of anyone else, it is anyway not "democracy" (or "community") anymore. And the whole concept of "popularity" is somehow derived from the worst deviations of it, like the "likes" on Facebook or the "views" on Youtube. Also, if you think a bit abut it, the whole idea of "Open Source" and "Collaborative programming" is that people contributes with their time and knowledge to the development or the testing of the software. We could make a poll to see how many of our members on MSFN would be willing to pay a US$ 300 entry ticket for the privilege of being allowed to spend an enormous amount of their time in the Beta testing. What makes IMHO a lot of sense (among the proposed offers) is the one about the "dedicated" embedded/POS system: But there are (still IMHO) two big show-stoppers: there is no actual record/proof/anything about the capabilities of existing ReactOS, let alone about it being in any way "secure" the US$ 100,000 are maybe a tadbit too much for a little new (let's call it start-up) company entering the field of POS/Embedded systems[1]jaclaz [1] Any already "established" company will use an already established industry standard, right or wrong as this approach might be

Booting Linux to boot a BartPE from the network makes no sense, you can boot the BartPE locally instead of the Linux (though you can use the Linux to download *something* from the network, store it in a RAM area and then boot the *whatever* is in this RAM area). We were talking of installing a NT based OS. As said, the procedure in this case would be to make (which is BTW "good" practice) a "local" copy of the install files (still if we are talking of NT/2K/XP/2003, later systems may differ). A minimal PE can access a "network drive" just fine, and a tool like WINNTSETUP: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/149612-winntsetup-v33-v34-beta-1/ should work fine using as "source" a network drive. jaclaz

The word I meant to say was "democracy". Democracy is a good thing, but it is based on TWO assumptions: everyone has the right to vote everyone voting knows enough on the whatever is subject to voteIn this case #1 does not apply as - as said - you have to pay for getting the privilege of voting and the more you pay the more "weight" your vote is. But, unfortunately, also #2 does not apply, IF the audience is a casual enough sample of the internet, what will be added to ReactOS first will be Facebook, Twitter and Angry Birds. On the other hand, IF the audience is a narrow enough target of "geeks", we will have new drivers for the Commodore Vic20 Tape recorder, a midi driver for Yamaha keyboards and for a I/O interface for stepper motors. jaclaz

For NO apparent reason : jaclaz

See if this answers the OP: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170810-ok-ok-well-support-it-lol/?p=1067031 this part: can be easily extended to Windows 9x/Me user and be valid for it, as well as it does for NT 4.00/Windows 2000 and - from today - XP/2003 use. jaclaz

Oh my ... ! A "democratic" OS based on "popularity" (though a queer form of democracy where you pay $ to have the privilege of voting ) Let's hope that this new funding campaign works better than the last one : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170988-news-reactos-0316-released/ jaclaz

I can hardly confirm that, and in any case this specific topic has been already discussed at length, like here (examples): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170810-ok-ok-well-support-it-lol/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163539-are-ms-updates-for-xp-really-necessary/ jaclaz

Yep , but what i find senseless is talking over and over about this, some starting months (or years) before this deadline, now on the day of the deadline and possibly for many weeks/months/years after today. I mean, I personally went through both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 EOL's/End of support, and I continue to use a few machines with them fine, like many other members do, and like as well many members running 9x/Me's systems do, but there was not all this chatting about "what if","what are will you do when" "what will happen" "do you plan to", etc., etc.. And the world did not end on any of those occasions. People that wanted (or could) upgrade (now in the case of Vista or 8 one could use more properly the verb downgrade instead ) to the new version of the MS OS, did that. People that did not want (or could not) upgrade continued using the "previous" OS and learned to either solve or workaround the issues caused by new hardware and new software incompatibilities and/or learned to live with the few (or many) inconveniences that this caused. A third category entered (like myself) a "mixed mode" running whatever OS he/she sees fit, depending on machines, use and what not. But there wasn't all this talking, AFAICR. jaclaz

It is very possible that the Explorer copy/paste is not sequential or not strictly sequential (like multithreading or something like that), which may cause higher fragmentation in the target. In any case with that such large amount of free space defragmentation should not be a problem. Can you try running on that single 1200 extents file Wincontig (and report what happens)?: http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/ jaclaz

Planning to go on holiday next week doesn't actually mean that I will actually be away next week. For NO apparent reason: though of course: jaclaz

Though when it comes to design reliable disk drives the good engineers at Seagate do suck a bit and the way this particular model issues were mis-managed by the technical support sucks BIG, but they actually know what is inside their hard disks (I mean, they designed and manufactured them, they anyway know more - and very, very often won't tell - than anyone else on the specific topic). The Seatools are for Seagate a "key" app, if either the short or long test fails, it will produce a code that will entitle you (if the disk drive is still under warranty) to have a replacement unit. Though it is of course possible that because of the above the tool is maliciously tuned to make drives appear more healthy than they really are , I doubt that this is the case, as a matter of fact the common experience on this thread shows that disks that did not pass the test were anyway largely accessible and functional. HD sentinel is a third party "generic" tool that uses the monitoring of the SMART attributes of the disk to "predict" failure. While the approach: http://www.hdsentinel.com/smart/index.php is seemingly more "sound" than the "plain" check for SMART thresholds, but it is anyway a "theoretical model", seemingly nice, but only assertedly and theoretically more accurate than "plain" check. The SMART in itself is not accurate at all, and to all practical effects it has not any relevant increase in accuracy than flippism, see: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170237-which-drive-sould-i-get/ http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/153191-does-copying-several-giga-bytes-on-a-daily-base-screw-the-hard-drive/ There is not any evidence (AFAIK) that the HDsentinel method is accurate or "more accurate" than anything else, the only thing that you can say for sure of the results is that it is "more conservative", .i.e. it will start crying (sometimes crying Wolf! ) much earlier than a "plain" SMART monitoring tool, in their own words (same source as above): jaclaz