jaclaz

Guys, go and sign the petition (if you haven't already): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/105936-last-versions-of-software-for-windows-98se/?p=1067020 https://www.change.org/petitions/opera-software-open-sources-of-presto-engine jaclaz

Well, no . One should ignore him every other day . jaclaz

That switch, just for the record, is documented here (for Windows 95): http://www.tiplord.com/ http://www.tiplord.com/customizing/MSDOSSYS.HTM (which has a few nice tips/docs/whatevr about 9x) And (about hex editing to do other things): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/118073-disable-f8-win98-boot-disk-startup-menu/ http://reboot.pro/topic/4754-disable-the-f8-startup-menu-on-win98-boot-disk/ jaclaz

ddrescue is likely already there, or if not, read here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery Sometimes the good Linux guys have a peculiar way to make things more complex by misnaning or confusing things by giving to different things the same name, etc. or - some other times - by giving so many options to do something that it makes reaching the goal more difficult. The above page has a link to another page where 5 or 6 different methods to install ddrescue (which is astutely called gddrescue as package, whilst the ddrescue package actually delivers dd_rescue ) but the easiest would be to use apt-get as in: http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue#Debian_and_Ubuntu sudo apt-get install gddrescuejaclaz

Ubuntu is one (among many) available Linux distributions. Unlike what happens in the MS world, Linux is Open Source and (largely free as in free beer, besides being free as in freedom). Basically everyone can "assemble" a Linux distribution (or "distro") which may be "universal" or "very specific" (either in the sense of running only on a given hardware or of being "focused" on a specific subset of computing tasks). In practice there are only a couple handfuls of "main" distro's, and Ubuntu is one of them. There are more "flavours" or "spin-offs" or "remixes" of Ubuntu as stars in the sky (plus the infinite number of other distro's), it is very confusing for a new user. Ubuntu is a "fully featured distro" (please read, though I will be soon flamed for this , as "a nice but senselessly huge amount of of bloatware, a large part of which being bells and whistle") for your uses smaller/simpler distro's will probably be more suited. You want a "Live CD" distro, i.e. something that is not installed anywhere but that runs directly from a CD or USB stick. Possible candidates: http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage (still largish) http://puppylinux.org/ (as small as it can be) http://trinityhome.org/ (what I would probably use if I were you) This article should be of use: http://techmuck.blogspot.it/2012/03/data-recovery-with-gnu-ddrescue.html as well as this thread: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=71026 I think you will need anyway some assistance from a friend a bit more familiar than you with the Linux environment, as a few "naming" conventions" and commands are different from DOS or more generally Windows command prompt. There is nothing overly complex in the use of such tools, but there is a concrete risks for the newbie (no offence whatever intended ) to "confuse" disks/drives/devices, with consequent potentially catastrophic resuts. In any case ideally you should first try the procedure with another (working) possibly smallish hard disk (or a USB stick), just to get the hang of it. The mentioned: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/linux-live-usb-creator/#more-3034 should do if you wish to use a USB stick (instead of "burned" CD), check if the distro you choose is supported by the tool, most are. About temperatures, the rule of the thumb is that if it's "warm" i.e. you can hold your hand touching it's cover more than a few seconds and feel it "warm" (i.e. it is around 40° Celsius or less) it is fine, if you feel it "like hot" (i.e. it is around 50° Celsius) is still within the norm, if it feels "very hot", it is "very hot" and probably needs some added ventilation/cooling. The general idea is to copy as much data as possible to a new disk (or disk image). If you make an image of a perfectly working disk (or a "clone" of the disk on another one) the result will be identical to the source. When a "failing" or "partially failed" disk is the source the result will be "similar", i.e. it will be identical for corresponding "good sectors" and will have "holes" for the bad ones (actually sectors containing 00's). The image (or clone) being on a fully working hard disk allows to performa actions that would be impossible to do on the failing/partially failed disk, such as filesystem reconstruction and/or file recovery. In theory, one should make a second image (from the first one) and attempt recovery on this last one, as this allows to attempt different techniques (including some that while recovering something make something else unrecoverable) as a "way back" is available any time. But it depends on the amount of data that the ddrescue actually manages to copy and from a number of other factors (if only a small part of the disk is imaged without errors or if anyway "key parts" of the filesystem are still missing there is no sense in attempting filesystem recovery and all you can do is attempt file based recovery which is read only, so this second image is not needed). jaclaz

Oh, my. READ (now for the 6th or 7th time, I lost the count) point #5 of the READ-ME-FIRST: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/143880-seagate-barracuda-720011-read-me-first/ and/or see if these slightly differently worded posts (to the same effects) are clearer: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-119#entry930329 http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158397-invalid-partition-table-on-my-500gb-hdd/?p=1012499 Compare with flippism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipism and with "is it safe"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/quotes?item=qt0247572 jaclaz

Logical error detected. IF it was a "new frontier", you could not ask how it can be done, as noone would have already done it. As a matter of fact WINNT.EXE (which is the installer from DOS) is one of the least used file for installation of Windows XP, while it was common enough in the (good ol') NT 4.00 days, I would dare to say that noone ever used it since year 2001 (initial release of XP) if not in very particular occasions, like: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=16713 and even then, more than 7 (seven) years ago, those who used it can be counted on fingers without taking one's shoes off, as soon "better" methods were developed: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ Definitely you are barking up the wrong tree hexediting the wrong file. Cannot say if it helps you, but I would guess that the *overall* colouring choice of the text mode setup is not entirely different from the way BSOD's are coloured: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2010/12/14/3374820.aspx jaclaz

How? I thought that Fonts to be available in CMD console need to have a given set of attributes : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/141893-fonts-in-console-window/ jaclaz

The xolution to that broblem may require you to READ AGAIN (for the fourth or fifth time, unless I am mistaken) the given resources. 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