jaclaz

Why a joke? NOW is the perfect time to plan a Windows 8.1 deployment. I just did that, and after some serious planning and lots of considerations I took the decision to deploy it directly to the dustbin! jaclaz

Well, you can try, rest assured that if the things you name will be so mindboggingly complex as to become beyond our understanding capabilities, we will ask you to stop the listing before our little brains will risk to explode. jaclaz

Can I add a couple of attributes? (I take the responsibility of course ): Now it sounds more appropriate. jaclaz

That's an easy one , you need to hack a (several) ATM('s) in order to get the money to afford the boob job. jaclaz

@Cessilou Instead of being sorry for your English, you should be sorry - really sorry - for the font size you are (senselessly) using . Do check #11 here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules jaclaz

Well, with all respect to boob jobs (particularly those involving nice boobs ) I am failing to see the connection between boobs and diabetes, and particularly with such severe forms of diabetes to be requiring an insulin pump. Just to make sure I checked what is the idea in the UK (in case our US friends would be considered not objective): http://www.healthcentre.org.uk/cosmetic-surgery/breast-implants-faqs-diabetes.html But I am pretty sure that a number of morons are sure that "it was the diabetes thing" . jaclaz

Never said you said it. I said how it probably was not one of them. I will cite the already given link: http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/mystery.htm Possible? Yes . Good example from the good MS guys of the worst possible approach (including arrogance, stupidity and a number of other attributes I am too polite to express) to "stamp" something within an OS or software? Yes. Probable/likely to occur and cause havoc? No. The only issue is when you make a "dd-like" clone and BOTH original and clone are connected/mounted, and, to cite again: To sum up, IMHO something that everyone dealing with these activities should know about but not something that one wouldn't sleep about. Ooops , I gotta go , I am late for the daily check on my meteorite shielding device .... jaclaz

Welcome to the club: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/155290-windows-8-deeper-impressions/?p=1008822 BUT you omitted a small, trifling, detail, the thingy you paid US $ 1,500 for actually did last 10 years! jaclaz

Sure they are not (at the very least since 2004). A very good real life example of what can happen , though, still - of course IMHO - not "an everyday occurrence" to connect a SCSI Amiga disk to a Win9x . jaclaz

Thanks , but I need it not. Luck (if needed) is for the future. What I was talking about was experience (past). If you prefer I had in the past enough luck already to be able - with the exception of a few disk drive hardware failures (and even in those cases without actual data loss as I had valid backups) never lost (apparently) not even a single byte of data in any accident connected with LBA28, LBA48 or their good or bad/defective implementation in any BIOS of any machine I happened to own (or use or repair/set up). Everything can happen (always) but after some 20 years playing with PC's, when something never happens I feel authorized to say that it is a bit unlikely (as said if some common sense is used). In my simplicity I believe that anyone running today obsolete software (no offence whatever intended to the good Win9x/Me lovers) on obsolete hardware (and again no offence whatever intended for those peeps that - BTW like myself - have fun in using/re-using such things) should be aware (or made so) of the possible issues/limits and of the possible solutions/workarounds but - with all due respect - your posts about these issues sound a tidbit "catastrophical" to me. jaclaz

Can you provide any detail/reference/whatever about this behaviour? Are you talking of the "mistery bytes"? http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/mystery.htm From the above this can happen only if all six bytes at 0DAh-0DBh are 00's on the "non-standard MBR". jaclaz

In my experience when this happens, there is a THIRD ELEMENT that is missing, that is a sentient being between chair and keyboard. jaclaz

Yeah, and the Police is in it, of course : Of course also the Coroner / Legal MD examiners would be in it , but at least let's wait and see what they manage to detail invent in the autopsy report in order to cover this accidental mysterious death murder case. While we are at it, have you seen the actual building where the San Francisco Medical Examiner office is? (850 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA) There are a few pictures connected to google maps/street view. Look at the antenna on it's roof. It doesn't seem like an ordinary antenna. What could it be it's REAL use? jaclaz

Sure , but that conspiracy theory was a plausible one. Now, according to the originally referenced article there would be 6 (six) different possible "groups of people" that could have committed the (currently merely hypothetical) murder could exist: NSA an enemy country (together with a photo of a Chinese or however Eastern chap) a medical device company a wireless company a rival hacker "suicide or drugs" (which both, last time I checked, were NOT "a group of people" )They forgot another 6 (six) different "groups of people": a bank a ATM manufacturer (after all one of the most spectacular hacks Barnaby Jack made was about an ATM machine and ATM machines are used by banks) a consortium of people that had planned to kill their relatives by hacking an insulin pump that had to devise an alternate way after the hack was demonstrated a convicted prisoner escaped from an asylum a serial-hacker-killer (which the NSA and the FBI are attempting to profile since the suicide suspected murder of Aaron Swartz) an alien (Aztec descendant of the enemy alien race that ruled some countries of pre-columbian America)And another six: the Mafia an undetermined "Act of God" a disgruntled ex-partner of his actual partner a disgruntled ex-partner of himself a mutant werewolf (full moon was on the 22nd in San Francisco) the same people that killed JFK (if not already listed above)For NO apparent reason: jaclaz

And again, no real issues if one uses some common sense and does things "properly", and is not "obsessed" with using the entire space of the hard disk. If one has a LBA28 BIOS, that is a VERY OLD machine, manufactured around 2001 or before, most probably with a very limited amount of RAM, and most probably the ONLY OS that would run smoothly on it - apart Win9x would be NT 4.00, 2K already needs in my experience 128 Mb of Ram to "behave" (provided that one uses not a "modern" browser or a recent AV suite, otherwise the bare minimum becomes 256 Kb). And of course anything later than 2K (possibly included 2K) will be slow as molasses. BTW, since the "official" LBA48 is part of the ATA-6 standard ("officially" dated 2003 but adopted earlier by most manufacturers), a motherboard not supporting it would be at the most ATA-5, i.e. with UDMA/66 speed. jaclaz

These are "strange": map (fd0) (hd0) (hd1) (rd)map (rd) (hd1) (hd0) (fd0)Syntax is map from device to device. Only: map (fd0) (hd0)map (rd) (hd1)Will probably be in effect. jaclaz

You cannot recognize pure bull§hit ® when you see it? http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-hacker-death-idUSBRE96P0K120130726 Conspiracy Theory anyone? What will be next? He was not from New Zealand, and was not 35, he was an alien aged 1389 years. He was killed by ESP powers by an Aztec descendant of the enemy alien race that ruled some countries of pre-columbian America. .... Come on, let us all grieve for the loss of a brilliant mind and a so young man, but let's at least wait for some actual data before going astray with theories.... jaclaz

The concept of "detail" means what EXACT hardware you are on (possibly including Vid/PID/PCI ID's of the devices you are having an issue with drivers) AND the EXACT driver (including a link to it) that you attempted using unsuccessfully AND an EXACT description of WHAT happened when you made your attempt, like a driver not loaded error or a cannot start this device/service error AND the Code associated to the error (if any). A quick reference (standard litany): http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html Start with just the RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter. jaclaz

Sure , but come-on, this is not really a "limit". A "normal" Win9x System partition, even a very large one, and considering all the software you might want to install to it can be at the very most what? 10 GB? (at the times I had both Win95 and Win98 in multi-booting (with DOS 6.22 and Windows NT 4.00 and Windows 2000, JFYI) I used a 1 Gb partition for both DOS 622 and Win95 plus a 2 Gb for Win98, if I recall correctly). That allows to grow it 12x before "hitting" the 128 Gb LBA28 barrier. The LBA 48 upgrades came out for 2K with Service Pack 3 and for XP with Service Pack 1 which means August/September 2002, it's not like since 1995 users of Win9x had issues or particular problems, it's just a matter of using some common sense when creating partitions (and put not *everything* on "C:\" ) jaclaz

I guess that situation (on Law side) is much more complex than that. The document is however public: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt381/pdf/CRPT-112hrpt381.pdf I guess that the first point that makes the certification needed for those is that a "model" can ONLY be flown for hobby: and, later: jaclaz

Just to confirm that yes, the Volume Tracker besides being one of the silliest thing EVER implemented in a OS , it has caused more diskettes to die prematurely (beside making them not anymore an "exact copy") then you would think. For anyone wishing to read more on the stupidities done over the years with the OEM name, this is a good article: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/volume-boot-block-oem-name-field.html jaclaz

To me it is still the SAME issue already seen on the good ol' "merge and join" thread. In there I used for simplicity a pre (and post) processing with gsar for substituting characters that created issues in the batch processing. I don't see in which way this is different. In my perverted mind, if you can do without an external tool/app, that is very good , but in this specific case a small .exe like gsar is better (IMHO) than any complexity in batch code and once you have it anyway it is better to re-use it as much as you can (economy of scale , the cost - in bytes - of the tool is amortized faster). jaclaz

WHAT EXACTLY do you actually EXPECT that piece of batch to do? If you prefer what do you apply that batch to? And what you would want to have returned by the batch? jaclaz

Yeah, that's called "feature" or "progress" (BTW the headless peeps at IPB have not even managed to understand how this bug is there since three or maybe four releases, at least these same bugs affect reboot.pro since more than one year - when the board software was updated). ... and at least on reboot.pro the issue wit CODE tags is even worse .... Do some experiments with "numbered and bulleted lists", previewing a list often (but not always) inserts an empty item .... jaclaz

The OP specifically stated he would be performing the operation on Win7... Sure, but in the specific case, by "pure chance" Windows 7 is a suitable environment to copy those floppies, the fact that he stated what he would like to use is meaningless in itself (with all due respect), the mentioned thread gives some examples of formats used in the DOS era that CANNOT (please read as CANNOT) be copied under *any* NT based system, let alone 7. If you prefer, in the DOS era, floppies were copied for years and successfully, with DOS programs, they DO WORK (because they DID work at the time). On newer Operating Systems new ways to manage/interface the hardware may (or may not) make an old format be copyable or not. ... or more simply he is open to suggestions and not necessarily "immobilized" in a "windows 7 only" paradigm... Sure , and I know Gilles Vollant since what? 1995 or so, and I have utter respect for him and for his work. As well, I really do like Porsche 911's, still a Toyota Hilux (or a wheelbarrow) may be more suitable for a given use: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24502&st=12 and: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158990-switch-from-windows-xp-64-bit-edition-to-anything-else/?p=1017763 Just for your interest learn here: http://www.winimage.com/wimushlp/wini1a1y.htm http://www.serverelements.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=64 WHY exactly Winimage (and/or any tool running under a Windows NT based system, unless particular drivers are used) is ABSOLUTELY NOT suited for some particular format of floppy (namely for a high capacity version of the DMF format), and however how (on the contrary) Winimage may have issues with the plainer DMF 1.68 format (which was actually used by MS for their "distribution" floppies, but that was "after" Windows 3.1) under Win9x. Additionally, especially with "low cost/poor quality" floppy drives, forcing them beyond track #80 may mean (it has happened) breaking the actual disc drive. To sum up, each tool (and OS) have it's own merits, advantages and disadvantages, the only thing that matters is getting somewhere (possibly where you want to arrive ), the path which you use to get there is not important. jaclaz