jaclaz

You might , while I might point out that if at the very least the EXACT explorer.exe version is provided AND the EXACT language/locale is provided, this example could be possibly extended by other members to other versions/languages/locales, or at worst the - presumably few - users using that same particular version and language/locale may benefit from go98's findings. Now, an interesting point IMHO is why actually one should need to access Safe Mode more frequently than "a few times a year", and why exactly removing the warning popup is a good idea, even in that case. What about, after for several years no car crashed in a given place, the curve warning signs: http://techtransfer.berkeley.edu/newsletter/08-2/signs-for-curves-and-turns.php are removed (and re-used on new roads) ? It is evident to everyone how this practice will allow for consistent savings in the new road signs procurement budget and is overall more environment friendly. jaclaz

An historical reference: The Case of My Mom’s Broken Microsoft Security Essentials Installation http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2012/01/05/3473797.aspx jaclaz

OT, but not much, in order to be fair with the good MS, Google and Huawei guys, Sony is not much better, the leap between this patent: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7889073.html http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7889073.pdf and "custom TV broadcasting" is very, very small. The patent has anyway nice pictures jaclaz

Start a NEW thread detailing your current issue, your next step would be (if possible) to image the disk "as is" on another drive partition (NTFS) of suitable larger size or clone it to a disk of the same size, READ this: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170938-damaged-logical-structure-of-seagate-720011/ as an example to understand the tools needed/general approach. NO, NO, NO! READ AGAIN: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/ Point #15 AND READ this: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-121?p=932258#entry932258 The whole point is that you simply CANNOT go on and on (and on) asking questions about things that are ALREADY (hopefully clearly) written all over the place and that you were additionally ALREADY being pointed to and ALREADY told to READ attentively. jaclaz

Why? Please choose one: becuz LOLz I suffer from a rare condition and seeing the blue colour at length causes me fits, not entirely unlike epilepsy Other (please specify) However: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/112474-can-anyone-help-me-editing-setupldrbin-in-order-to-change-a-color/ jaclaz

You need to re-issue the Ctrl+Z to access the disk, you know, like: If the above doesn't work, start again the whole procedure since the beginning, and this time do not remove power and only change level to get to the F3 T> prompt. I assure you that my eyesight, as well as that of most members of the site, is good enough to read what is written in "normal" characters, NO need to post in large characters, which is BTW common netiquette and against the Board Rule #11: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules jaclaz

Will “Disposable Folded Cellulose-Substrate Micro-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” be the new frontier? http://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2012/papers/pap143.pdf They are (will be) "inherently stealth" when it comes to noise detection.... jaclaz

Maybe reading the part related to RIS install would be more appropriate, since you are talking of a RIS install : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/254078/en-us http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246184/en-us jaclaz

Or being less optimistic, look at what is in the cooking (recent patents, courtesy of Improbable Research): http://www.improbable.com/2013/12/04/inventions-to-detect-and-prevent-annoying-phone-calls-documents-or-people/ Your e-mails (or forum posts for that matter) will be tagged by the (connected to Google, just to be fair with the good MS guys which are not the only Evil) first patent as "annoying document", and the phone calls you will make to protest about this will be filtered by the second and third technology (this latter by the good guys at Huawei) and you will soon be registered as a VAP (Very Annoying Person) in a database. Once in it, you will be deprived of any possible way to communicate your ideas and opinions, short of shouting or send messages into bottles This latter approach working usually fine, but not in a timely fashion and sometimes not even working at all: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418557/Worlds-oldest-message-bottle-discovered-walker-Canada.html jaclaz

Like verifying the presence in that image of a suitable driver for the network card/adapter and if not there as not-so-covertly hinted by the error message (you know, like "The Operating System Image You Selected Does Not Contain the Necessary Drivers for Your Network Adapter" ) add it to the image? jaclaz

Hmmm. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/feb14/02-04mail2.aspx ...particularly the latter Quick reality check: http://www.angelfire.com/rings/ladypp/perseverance.html jaclaz

Yep , it is a nice resource . The good guy(s) at vernalex.com are known (or re-known) for their sysprepping helper tool spdrvscn: http://www.vernalex.com/tools/spdrvscn/index.shtml @tomasz86 OT but non much, and JFYI, Nirsoft has a very nice database of dll's, for XP, 7 and 8: http://xpdll.nirsoft.net/ http://www.win7dll.info/ http://www.nirsoft.net/dll_information/windows8/index.html The approach I used here: http://reboot.pro/topic/3717-xpsp1-with-full-commandline-and-ntfs-below-10-mb/?p=154017 may be of use for some of your Win2K tweaking/updating . jaclaz

The issue is IMHO far beyond the NCI, it is about level of abstraction. We are used to replicate in the virtual environment which is the desktop/PC a structure not unlike what we have in the real word: now, that kind of hierarchical way to store things is the same since the first need of storing information arose. You had a "real thing" (be it a scroll, a clay tablet or *whatever*) and you placed them in separate rooms ( following some logic) on some shelves (and again using some logic) in a given order and took note on where you put the items. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebla_tablets#Archaeological_context The evolution of the same approach was the modern "archive" with it's file cabinets, containing convenient (manilla) folders, containing documents (A4 or letter sized paper): The moment in which: you do not need to "index" the contents of a file cabinet i.e. store items in a logical order (because you use mega/meta/para/fanta search every time) you do not need to have the maximum amount of compactness (because you have senselessly large drives, i.e. the same as an infinite amount of rooms/cabinets) you do not actually need to produce some work, i.e. new documents containing meaningful things (because LOL and there is an app for that )the thousand years old approach loses most of it's sense. So instead of using the room/cabinet/folder/file real life paradigm for your virtual environment, you can use another thousands years old model (actually older than "order") which is chaos or randomness. And this allows the OS designer to get inspiration from another common model of storing items, which brings us back to the Fisher-Price looks: which is BTW very good for the children and kids (as it helps their growth, fantasy, and what not) but that traditionally tends to get the grown-ups mad at them . I will repeat that there is a difference between playing and working. Try a Ruzzle or Candy Crush round on a mouse+keyboard , but also try making an Excel spreadsheet or an Autocad drawing with just the touch screen .... jaclaz

Which part in the word "prototype" are you having difficulties with? http://www.thefreedictionary.com/prototype Or in the bolded parts below? jaclaz

Sure. jaclaz

Here: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3597 also on Make: http://makezine.com/magazine/building-an-open-source-laptop/ The accent here is not on cost or performance, but rather on "known" and "serviceable" hardware. jaclaz

For NO apparent reason jaclaz

Well, at least you have to start crying for the money that it will cost you recovering them (if possible) . Have you tried imaging backwards? (sometimes it helps) Not really. Seagate had a division, called i365, that did data recovery and AFAICU is now "incorporated" in Seagate: http://www.seagate.com/services-software/data-recovery-services/ http://www.seagate.com/services-software/data-recovery-services/consumers/in-lab-data-recovery/ The other "big name" is Kroll-Ontrack: http://www.krollontrack.com/ There are tens or hundreds of independent professional firms that do this kind of business. A few words of advice are needed. It is extremely difficult to understand if any of these companies is made of actual professionals (or however people that know where their towel is). The risk with a not-known company is that the guy that is going to actually open the hard disk will be using under-standard tools and actually know very little on how to deal with a serious disk issues (but on the other hand "independent" data recovery companies happened to recover disks that "mainstream" ones gave for dead). The risk with a "very large company" is that your disk will go in the hands of an underpaid "trained monkey", using the best tools of the world but lacking the dirve (if you pardon me the pun) to actually solve the issue of customer #12345678 if it is anything outside common standard procedures. You will need to make contacts with a few of them and follow your instinct , there are companies that will make - upon free examination of the disk drive - a detailed diagnosis and quote for the specific recovery attempt, other that will charge you anyway a flat examination fee, and some that will provide you with a flat rate for the recovery attempt without even having a look at the disk. It is not unlikely that you will find people quoting anything between US$ 300.00 and US$ 3,000.00 and unfortunately you have no way to know if the first number is a good deal and the second is a rip-off or if the first is nonsense and the second is adequate. A good way to know which kind of people they are is the presence of a "clean room" in their advertisement/site, then physically go to their firm and ask to see it (from the outside is OK). AFAICT most "not major" firms do not have a clean room and use instead a laminar flow bench (which BTW is fine in itself), when a firm advertises the use of a "clean room" and all it has is instead a laminar flow hood, it should tell you something about their reliability. jaclaz

JFYI, someone possibly misunderstood the sense of your post and started worrying about the death of Vista in 2017 : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/170959-use-vista-after-2017/ jaclaz

Unfortunately, you are right. The idea of "compacting" or "optimizing" anything is something that does not even cross the mind of developers today, partially because of the tools/compilers that are in use nowadays, and partially because they leverage on their own (usually "top level") hardware and on the (unfortunately correct) expectation that any user will have a comparably similar in "power" hardware (usually forced by the one or the other tool that the user needs). If you want another example (still in the "extremely small" range) check : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/145209-the-smallest-possible-size-of-bootsdi/ And, to corroborate your feeling , check the size growth graph of MS Office and Office-like suites: http://www.oooninja.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-microsoft-office-moores.html Please understand that such a suite has fundamentally the same possible uses and what they are used for (i.e. the actual things you can obtain from those) are exactly the same since around 20 years, sure the available (not used if not to make some banners or supposedly fun prints for office jokes/pranks and the like) cliparts and similar were greatly extended, but what else? jaclaz

Oww, come on XKCD to the rescue: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1282:_Monty_Hall and, JFYI : http://xkcd.com/1134/ jaclaz

Hmmm, usually it's liquid nitrogen, not helium, that is commonly used to keep cool crystal balls (you must have one of those cheap, made in China ones that overheat ) jaclaz.

I don't think that the built in Vista Windows Mail (which I believe is what you are wanting to use) has the features that Outlook 2003 has. AFAIK the Windows Mail is the "evolution" of Outlook Express, i.e. a "consumer version" of a "professional tool" (Outlook). You may want to try Zimbra desktop: http://www.zimbra.com/products/zimbra-desktop/index.html but importing contacts, Rules, etc. will likely, if possible at all, be a nightmare . emclient: http://www.emclient.com/features is said to be a "direct competitor" to Outlook, and seemingly has some facilities for migrating, but I have never actually tested it (I use Opera M2 and see no real reason to change it for anything else, given my limited - or primitive if you prefer - needs for e-mail). jaclaz

Maybe the "false" info is about IE 5 and greater combined with the OS. IE6 should be supported fine, actually up to IE7 Beta1: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5079/Mouse-Gestures-for-Internet-Explorer maybe it is the combination of Win98 and IE6 that causes the issue. jaclaz

Can you rate (in a 0 to 10 scale) what is the actual relevance (if any) and/or practical use of such piece of info? If you find any relevance in it. (or practical use) for the info, i.e. you assigned more than 0 to the question, what is the particular aspect that you feel important? I mean, when the *whatever* will come out will actually come out, it will be called in the *whatever* way the good MS guys will see fit, but what's in a name? It can be: Pessimistic: the usual abomination, called 8.2 the usual abomination, called 9 the usual abomination, called "Curtains 1.0"Optimistic: a good OS, called 8.2 a good OS, called 9 a good OS, called "New Panorama"The relevant point seems to me whether it will be a good release or not. , and we might get to know that once it will be available. jaclaz