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@FranceBB I wonder what is the use of the post-it with KL4665 on it jaclaz

Never tried it for so long, but surely 1 full week. I changed the battery last year because it started to last "only" three days. The original battery is BL-5CB , that goes in a few other models (that has less capacity than the more common BL-5C): https://pinoutguide.com/CellularPhones-A-N/nokia_bl-4c_battery_pinout.shtml jaclaz

You are welcome. Yes, very early ones were like that, later ones were "light" like the other common brands ones. Actually almost all of them, a series of power supplies came with the "large" round pin and an adapter to "small" round pin, and was almost universal. BTW, in their simplicity, round pins can still be rotated 360° (as opposed to USB Micro-B which 0° and the - much enhanced - USB C 180°) it was practically impossible to make torsion wrinkles on cables. jaclaz

There are a few still available here in Italy (JFYI): https://www.cellulareaccessori.com/cover-nokia-3100-cover-blu-blister-originale-p-28.html https://www.cellulareaccessori.com/tastiera-nokia-3100-tastiera-originale-p-431.html I doubt that they send stuff abroad, but if you are interested I could act as proxi. And yes, good ol' Nokias are still good ol' Nokias, mine is still going strong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1280 jaclaz

In case of need http://www.marriedtothesea.com/030306/gracious.jpg jaclaz

Unless you have (or need) huge amounts of memory 32 bit would do nicely, XP64 - from what I read, never used it for enough time to have an own opinion - seems like a "hit and miss" game, on some hardware it works fine on some other has lots of issues that - though probably solvable - are more difficult than 32 bit because 64 bit is much less popular. jaclaz

You probably want both coa2 and registrar lite. Coa2: https://www.pcmag.com/archive/change-your-address-4491 http://digilander.libero.it/rareware/coa2.zip Registrar Lite (version 2.x) is hard to find as the good guys at resplendence have excluded their pages from being archived on Wayback Machine, very likely the "current" Registrar Registry Manager 9.20 would do anyway: https://www.resplendence.com/downloads Just in case latest-latest doesn't work, good ol' one can still be found here: ftp://tasha.eecs.umich.edu/95/reglite.exe jaclaz

Didn't you find the memo? It has been sent to the workshop for periodical inspection and tuning, should be back in two to twenty two weeks (the crystal ball used to forecast tuning time is currently foggy and will be next one to be checked). jaclaz

Yeah, sure, wireless USB. Solving the problem of 0's jamming (only for the record): https://msfn.org/board/topic/154863-the-meta-sata-pataphysics-of-usb-transfer/ jaclaz

You know, that article begins with "Under Polish law, a licence ..." So all you have to do is to prove in a Court (where?) that Polish Law applies to a user (say) from Honk Kong about a software developed by a programmer in the Czech Republic. Good luck with that. Only for your interest, legalese is written legalese: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/legalese legalease could hypothetically be a legal agreement for a long term form of rent. , but it is actually a sort of insurance for legal assistance: https://www.legaleaseplan.com/ And now, for NO apparent reason, a reliable source for the expression "the rest of this stuff it's English to me" , https://www.texasbar.com/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Say_What_&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=35605 i.e. the symmetrical for "That's Greek to me" or "It's Double Dutch": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_to_me jaclaz

Anyway (for someone that likes tea) it is literally tantalizing. though - most probably - that teapot is not any better than the Nutri-matic machine Douglas Adams described: jaclaz

Sure, the issue is that once a whole cup is poured, the level of the tea in the cup diminishes until it is empty (the cup must have a hole of a crack) jaclaz

Not so easy, you need to program the whole HTCPCP protocol and stack, if you want to do it properly ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol The google implementation is still online, however: https://www.google.com/teapot jaclaz

Yep . If we draw a line in or around 2002-2005, I would say that *any* machine around that time is: 1) still compatible with win9x/me and DOS (including drivers and what not) 2) runs waaay faster than *any* machine that actually used to run DOS/9x/Me Now, how much does it cost such a machine? I would say with anything between 0 and 50 bucks you can find one, let's double the higher estimate to 100 so that you can possibly replace some parts.(let's say the PSU and the disk). Is this money worth it? IMHO (and as many MSFN members know, I am, besides old and grumpy also cheap ) yes, it is fully worth it[1]. I can understand (and actually extensively use) VM's and similar for the convenience of running another (oldish) OS in a window in the "main" machine for quick tests, experiments and what not, but unless you have a very powerful machine, and an OS and virtualization/emulation software capable of managing it, the experience - particularly with sound and games - won't be the same as the "native" one. Running on DOS (or Win9x/Me) a VM or emulator to run a DOS (or Win9x/Me) game makes very little sense. I am not at all familiar with Dosbox or Dosbox-X but as a rough estimate I would say that a VM/emulator will be some 30% slower than the corresponding "native", possibly with the exception of disk throughput, as you can use a ramdisk in the VM (depending on the "outer" OS, i.e. if it can manage large amount of memory - which is not hte case for Dos/9x/Me). jaclaz [1] for *some reasons* I am particularly fond of old VIA mini-itx motheboard that with a C3@600 Mhz can also be fanless and - last time I checked - worked just fine with Dos/9x/Me with a decent enough speed, surely not gaming machines, but powerful enough for classic games, as well, there are a number of suitable "thin clients" around that can be made into nice Dos/9x/Me retro game machines, example: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=49092

May I ask why? Are you surprised that virtualizing an OS is slower than native? jaclaz

Making a separate post to not further add to P.S. above. I just tried the compress.exe (version 2.00) from here: http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/DOS/msdos.htm to compress a file, and it creates a SZDD header archive file that 7-zip opens just fine and identifies as MsLZ. Now, which (among the various versions of compress.exe, should the mscompress not work) tool might recreate the same type of compression as the file(s) you have is to be found out. Some more related info: https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=386809#p386809 jaclaz

Yes, but No. Meaning that the Universal Extractor is not a decompression tool and the Author(s) never actually wrote even a single line of decompressing code/algorithms in it. The tool is a "repository" of existing decompressing/decoding tools nicely integrated and with a nice "detection" engine that attempts to recognize the compression format used in the file and "pipes" the file to the most suitable decompressing tool in the repository (passing to it besides the file also the right parameters and what not). If you prefer it is a meta-decompression tool. To find which (if any) compressing tool can create that specific format there are mainly three ways to get more data for searching it: 1) identify the exact compression format by using the suggested TrID or similar software 2) analyze the behaviour of Universal Extractor and find out which specific decompression tool is used (and possibly with which parameters), from the post by Nitro322 you referenced the used tool is 7-zip, so any post-2010 version of it[1] should be able to decompress the files directly, as it does for a huge number of other formats 3) check the file signature (usually - but not always - the first or last few bytes, i.e. unique header or footer), if you have two of these compressed files a hex compare between the two may be enough to find out which is the "fixed" part, possibly even FC would do Or, if the file(s) are not huge (and can be shared), upload it(them) on a free file hosting site and post a link, and I'll have a look if I can find some more info. jaclaz [1] https://www.7-zip.org/history.txt P.S.: Have you tried the mscompress? http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/mscompress.htm AND check these: https://www.cabextract.org.uk/libmspack/doc/szdd_kwaj_format.html https://mark0.net/forum/index.php?topic=672.0 It seems that what 7-zip calls MSLZ is compress.exe made files, probably the SZDD kind, or - possibly - KWAJ option 2 or option 3.

Well, jaclaz knows a lot about very few things and a little about lots of things. Compression is not one of the fields I know a lot about, but from the little I know the mslz format does not actually exist . It probably is one of the many LZ (Lempel Ziv) based compression formats used by MS, as such likely it can be made using compress, makecab, diamond or a similar oldish MS compressor. Try analyzing it with TriD: https://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html maybe it finds a "better" name for the format. jaclaz .

You can try here: https://driverpack.io/en/hwids/USB\VID_0930%26PID_021D?os=windows-7-x86 but it seems like the Vista version is missing, you may want to try however the "Toshiba Bluetooth Stack" https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Remote-Utils/Toshiba-Bluetooth-Stack.shtml jaclaz

Only as anecdata, this thingy here worked for me in the past (but not necessarily will in your setup/with Explorer 360): https://sourceforge.net/projects/stayawake/ jaclaz

Poor little thing, I feel for your pain and sufferings. But still you are not talking of the software (which is what is explicitly allowed) nor of the effects (or lack thereof) of the software (which may be allowed), you are talking about decisions by this (or that) government and the effects they had on your holidays plans. jaclaz

Here you are. https://gir.st/blog/greenpass.html It contains a number of (partly personal/sensible) data. I would not be preoccupied by the privacy aspect, there is nothing seemingly more than the barely needed info, but name, surname and date of birth are exposed (like on *any* other piece of ID), I would not share an image of a real one like I wouldn't post an image of my driving licence. jaclaz

Good. This green pass is actually EU, the site is: https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response/safe-covid-19-vaccines-europeans/eu-digital-covid-certificate_en in theory the situation should be the same in all EU (all countries are green), the pass is similar, it is always national language + English. By clicking on the countries on the map you can get to each country official national site. In Italy those that need to verify the pass (airport security, police, etc.) do have to use an app , called VerificaC19: https://www.dgc.gov.it/web/app.html each one of the states has - I believe - their own app with various degrees of amount of data showed to the operator (due to privacy laws or better their interpretation in the various countries). jaclaz

Well, partitions/volumes/file systems (and the way Windows mounts and accesses them) are complex. The fact that (when mounted externally) you cannot access those two partitions may mean both "the disk drive is beyond any possible recovery" or "a minor issue happened and a one or a few bytes were corrupted". The "standard" procedure remains the same: 1) make an image or a clone (personally I prefer if possible the image) 2) attempt to repair the original 3) if things go worse image back the disk from the image or clone (on the original or on a new disk) and try something else You can try in Windows 10 to access the disk (externally) and open Disk Manager. A screenshot of the situation in Disk Manager may be already telling what kind of issue it could be. The next thing I usually suggest is to get DMDE: https://dmde.com/ and use it to open the physicaldrive and let it scan/find volumes, as well a screenshot of DMDE "Partitions" view is needed to understand what could it be. BTW DMDE has also the possibility to make an image of the disk. Besides and beyond the recovery (if possible) of the filesystem, you can also attempt recovery of the files (if any) that DMDE still "sees". Though the tool can also be used to recover "RAW" data (i.e. carve the file system for recognizable files, similar to what Photorec can do) for the moment it is IMHO better to see what can be recovered, hopefully the full filesystem, if not, the files on it (or as many as you can find), because when you need to switch to RAW, even if you might recover the actual file contents most metadata (filename, dates/times, position in the file system) will be lost. jaclaz

You can close it. The Italian green pass is basically a piece of paper with a QR code that you can either print or have stored on your smartphone (if any), you can get it via a couple different apps or by accessing (with particular electronic credentials) a couple of sites, for the electronically/technically handicapped, you can get a paper print (maybe) from your doctor or from some "services to the citizens" spots, including - possibly some pharmacy/chemists and associations of voluntary assistance. This is a facsimile: jaclaz