jaclaz

Two more: Unless I am mistaken (and please consider this as "to be confirmed" ) there is not anymore a "visible" or "highlighted" or "obvious" notification of PM received. Once you have read a PM, if you click on "View New Content" the board decides on it's own will that I am interested to "new content" in section "Members".This should be easily repeatable: Click on "View new Content when on *any* page of the ForumMake sure that you have checked "Forums " in "by content type" and "past 24 hours" in "by time period"Click again on "View new content"Click on the "envelope like" icon top left (which BTW senselessly provides a help tip of "messenger"* - see note below) and click on (say) "View all messages"Click again on "View new Content"The result is you that you have the list of "Members" and actually those that are "New since my last visit"Note (OT but not much): I do know how picky I am, and sometimes I also overdo it, but the old board (in the old version) had something that made sense, i.e. things were named with their proper names, a PM was a PM there were an Inbox and Sent Items folder, etc. Now the two have been migrated/merged into one only (since a few releases) called "my conversations". So we have something that is called "messenger" that does not contain "messages" but rather conversations" (but you still "Search messages" and have a "messenger quota" containing "messages"). When you filter them (to have something like it was before) you filter messages as "All conversations", "Conversations I started" or as "Conversations other started". I don't know if anyone can understand the kind of difficulties a new user not particularly familiar with English might find in the above. BTW a conversation - by definition - is oral or through spoken words: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conversation

--JorgeA With all due respect to Mr. Jimmy Thang : jaclaz

Anyway, here is the "main" reference: http://web.archive.org/web/20100121020816/http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12326 Later, a Winimize project was made, ideas/tips/tricks/news/references, etc. are likely to be found here: http://reboot.pro/topic/18728-winimize-site-restored/ http://reboot.pro/forum/53-winimize/ And here: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/140391-windows-98-live-cd-project-update/ Here is a video tutorial (base - might not work if too much RAM or too fast processor is in the machine, see the stickies for solutions): jaclaz

Actually, it has been (was) a nightmare to find a way to boot a 2K or XP from a USB pendrive (you seem to forget that until Dietmar's findings in 2006 noone ever made it). Comparatively, running a USB with Windows 9x is relatively simple and there were solutions for it since some time. Right now the 911CD forum is (for whatever reason) down, I'll see if I can find some relevant links through Wayback Machine. BUT the OP (or his post) is confused/confusing. Using the SATA patch (if needed) or configuring the BIOS as IDE compatibility mode I remember not any problem with SATA disks , the real thing is (I know that I will be flamed for this ) on modern hardware it makes a lot of sense to run Win9X/ME inside a VM as it is much easier than getting all the various patches for new hardware, have it work, etc., etc. A Win9x/Me inside a VM is - say - normally running at 1/3 to 1/2 the speed it would run "natively" on the host machine, but this would be anyway as fast or faster than what an original "top level" machine would have run it in the years it was "mainstream". jaclaz

But the cloud as "de-localized" backup or "redundant copy" seems to me a very good idea . (and the risks are limited) The foolishness represented is that of the cloud in this "modern" concept of having "everything" (as opposed to a copy or backup) *somewhere* in the hands of *someone* (and senselessly moving back and forth bytes at an anyway much slower than "local lan" speed). jaclaz

Well, yes and no. That would be comparable to a "glitch in the matrix", a temporary hiccup, not unlike a dead phone/dsl line or a Server hard disk failing abruptly. Something that can be restored/fixed within a few hours or at the very most one-two days. It's when you don't know WHERE exactly your DATA is and WHO EXACTLY is responsible for it that the problem may come out. You cannot use the Big ones (because of the seen problems with privacy/government snooping/etc.). You cannot use the Middle sized ones (because they will have costs so high that they will most probably sub-franchise to smaller operators, John Doe's like, that will have your data placed in a single location - i.e subject to any kind of physical damage - and/or might go out of business over the night ) You cannot use the Small sized ones (because they are ALREADY John Doe ). You cannot anyway actually trust anyone of them, so you will need to have a replicating service (possibly with hosts surely in another country and/or location), provided that you actually know where the actual "main" cloud provider physical hard disks are located (and then again your data will be more subject to snooping by either the government or the guys of the replicating service. Also, let's say that a cloud provider (good, solid company, in perfect good faith) has your data together with those of a parallel (say) web activity like file hosting. Let's say that the "file hosting" branch (right or wrong) is implied/connected with hosting/providing download of Copyright protected files (or any other crime connected activity). What would happen when the US DOJ notices it and the FBI (or whomever) shuts down the service? Or if the Police seizes the whole server farm "as is"? I would guess that among the people using Megaupload (to make a known example) there were also good guys making a perfectly legitimate use of the file hosting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload#Other_reactions jaclaz

NO. Drive letter assignment is ONLY linked to: Disk Signature Offset of the volume on the diskand NOTHING else (no matter the bus/connection). If you do not change those two pieces of data, Windows won't change drive letter assignment. And in any case, with the exception of the volume from which windows is booted from you can manually assign/reassign drive letters alright. The drive letter assignment is through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices . There will be two keys in it, one with the Volume GUID and one with the drive letter, BOTH containing the SAME data (in the case of an internal hard disk). These data is detailed here (through Wayback Machine as right now the 911CD Forum is down ): http://web.archive.org/web/20130530045307/http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 Nothing has changed since 2K. A Volume GUID: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365248(v=vs.85).aspx though not really "unique" has a very low chance of collision and AFAIK it's generation is time/machine dependent (and not bus/interface). jaclaz

In other words you are expecting to have complete, articulated answers in reply to vague/undocumented/taken out of context questions (which normally can - at the most - provoke Yes/No answers). And you are doing this without really wanting to learn about the topic, you just want a nice, clean, clear, summing up in order to back an argument on another forum, possibly citing it with the same vague "Some say that....". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stig#Introductions Hmmm, yes it looks a lot like it. jaclaz

Well, no. You can't use the words "Ms word" and "fast search" in a same sentence. You cannot even have "Ms Word" and just "fast", obviously. jaclaz

No. All this time you should have provided better cooling to the system components. The "alarm" is there for a reason, and it is set to "75" for a reason , and unless it is triggered by a defect at a much lower temperature, it should stay ON and the components should be kept cooler than the set threshold. The whole concept of safeties is that they should NEVER be removed/turned off, and when an alarm starts bugging you, you should remove the cause of the alarm, and not switch the alarm off, if not temporarily while trouble shooting (or if you really know where your towel is). jaclaz

Trip, you need to make up your mind. A clone is EITHER a clone or is it not. If it is a clone, it is - by definition - NOT distinguishable from the original. A clone (unless it is connected/mounted at the same time as the original and the Mount Manager rewrites the Disk Signature to avoid conflicts) will NOT have drive letters changed. jaclaz

Guess which is the "theme" of a forum section called "Install Windows from USB"? http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ jaclaz EDIT: I see that you already use/used WinsetupFromUSB: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/?p=1044825 Any reason why you did not read the FIRST post on the thread? http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/120444-how-to-install-windows-from-usb-winsetupfromusb-with-gui/ The limit of the tool is about Multiple Vista / 7 / 2008 on the same partition. You can have multiple XP and a Single Vista / 7 / 2008 on a single partition alright.

Look, I don't want to seem more grumpy that usual , but a few fundamental Laws of Thermodynamics, discovered and verified by some 150 years or more say that it is possible with room temperature at 32° C (the same as your 90° F) to have anything contained in it at a temperature as low as 32°, by adequate means of heat transmission/exchange. With the room at 32° or anyway well below 40° a well suited cooling system should have no issues in keeping the hard disk around 45° (and BTW your two WDC drives are a practical example that this can be and is achieved). The other two (Maxtor) drives are (you choose) either overheating or poorly cooled. jaclaz

15 K RPM (SAS or not) tend to generate a lot more heat. As said 45° is the "good" value that I find acceptable for standard hard disks. The (now becoming obsolete) but still "only meaningful" research published by google did find a relationship between too high (and too low) hard disk temperature and failure rate. The VERY MAX temperature acceptable for disk drives is either 55° or 60°: http://www.ghacks.net/2011/12/02/hard-drive-temperature-thresholds-what-you-need-to-know/ http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/193771en?language=en_US As an example a Seagate Cheetah 15K may work up to 68° BUT with a SERIOUS increase of AFR or decrease of MTBF (or if you prefer decrease of life). Sometimes RTFM actually helps in deciding whether it is convenient to add a couple 5 US$ each fans.... http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/docs/manual/enterprise/cheetah/15K.7/SAS/100516226e.pdf The actual "trip" switch (see point 6.2.5) is set to MAX 68°, which represents the VERY LIMIT and should never be reached or neared, let alone for sustained amounts of time. We (highly specialized technicians ) use some highly technical jargon to describe the situation you just represented: "asking for troubles". jaclaz

A "normal" temperature (as I see it) is around 45°. Anything higher (still IMHO) represents a risk. A PC with the case opened (generally speaking and provided that the case cooling was designed properly) will have MUCH WORSE cooling of the internal components compared with it with the case closed. jaclaz

IMHO those hard disk temps are well within the "red alarm" zone Particularly, that old Maxtor L080L4 is "preoccupying", besides the exceptionally high value you have, that seems like an old 80 Gb model that AFAICR used NOT to get "hot". jaclaz

Still, those articles are pure bull§hit, that VERY nice thingy : from the MIT guys has nothing to do with Prism (or similar NSA controls/accesses) and, JFYI, provides completely meaningless data (when it comes to "investigation"). You see, the number of e-mails you get and send is a completely meaningless piece of data, we could exchange - say - 6 mails a day for several years, and then (IF you are Dr.Evil in disguise )you could send a single e-mail to a "disposable" e-mail address commanding the next 9/11 attack , and this would have in one of those graphic no highlight/relevance whatsoever. The (as said very nice) graphics created with the data is mostly eye-candy, just imagine the NSA analyst clicking his/her way through a zillion baloons! And then there is the not-so-trifling issue of the six (or maybe seven) degrees of separation theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation Rest assured that *whatever* the NSA has is both "much better" and "very different" from the thingy that those articles FALSELY represented as an example of what they have. jaclaz

Let's call things with their names . That is PURE bull§hit. Should read: On the tool page: https://immersion.media.mit.edu/ I would expect that the NSA would be interested in contents. jaclaz

The syntax for linking to a specific post has been since the very early days that of: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=137119&st=20http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php? <- base addressshowtopic=137119 <- topic/thread number&st=20 <- offset to post #This syntax does not work properly anymore. ALREADY POSTED LINKS in that form (that has always been valid) even at the time of the previous Board update (for which at the time I wrote temporarily the converter, which obviously now doesn't work anymore because of the newish "page" syntax): http://www.msfn.org/...or-forum-issue/ are now "botched". This link: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163450&st=49 should lead to post #50 (i.e. 49+1) in the "closed thread": http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/?p=1044604 BUT, instead leads to: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/page-3 i.e.: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/?p=1044606 EXACTLY like this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163450&st=50 (which CASUALLY lands correctly) . If you increase the offset of 1 you get to NEXT PAGE (instead of the immediately following post)! http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163450&st=51 leads to: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/page-4 i.e.: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/?p=1044696 I hope the issue is clear. jaclaz

Point is that Ballmer's head is SO d@mn tough that the pool will be seriously damaged. Though the cracked concrete crater: can be repaired, the pool won't ever be the same as before.... jaclaz

The point was NOT about putting any kind of pressure on Xper , it was about providing him with a clear, synthetic list of bugs (separated from wishes) and of wishes (separated from bugs) so that when he will be able/willing to fix the one or the other he will have a useful checklist. The thread as is now seems to me a mishmash, including oT (on Topic) comments AND OT (OFF Topic) ones, i.e. something completely different from what Xper asked originally for: jaclaz

@dencorso Since you are around here, maybe you could contribute to help Xper in setting the board properly. The present thread has IMHO become a senseless "Post anything that crosses your mind about the new board change", whilst what Xper would probably appreciate would be TWO threads: IPB Update July 2013 - BUGS IPB Update July 2013 - WISHESWhere of course the first one should contain ONLY BUGS and ONLY a single bug per post, and the second one wishes, i.e. things that THOUGH NOT being a BUG, do represent something that can be bettered. This way I guess it would be easier to give priority to solving the bugs and later get to the wishes/betterings. You could close this thread with a post with pointers to the two new threads and people that already posted here may re-post on the appropriate thread in as short as possible form the whatever they already posted here, this way Xper would have a nice shortlist of the issues. Just an idea of course. jaclaz

+1 jaclaz said it best here: Jaclaz - at the time (and just for the record and besides and after the light blue ribbon campaign for FREE skin) - also fought a partially successful battle to have §@ç#ing READABLE text on reboot.pro, see here: http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/ And still fights them : http://reboot.pro/topic/18215-site-skin-in-progress-metro/ Particularly, these considerations: http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/?p=108196 http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/?p=108208 http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/?p=109199 http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/?p=109564 represent "universal" concepts on readability: Colours (foreground text/background) Fonts ContrastDO MATTER, and the choices to produce something readable are limited. The eyes and the brain work in a given way and the "mindless" can do *whatever*, but ignoring several tens years of research and experience in readability is simply foolish. BTW IMHO the current MSFN theme is not at all that bad , the only really senseless setting is the "quoted" text having been dimmed/faded into the background to such an extent that is HARDLY readable (if readable at all). It really hurts my eyes. jaclaz

The senseless acronym for the senseless name of Rich Text Editor. (which is not an editor since it doesn't work and it is not rich at all, only "text" is correct). A more appropriate name would be SPTGE (Senselessly Poor Text Garbling Editor). But it's by design (and the guys at IPB board - besides not being able to understand bug reports - are stubbornly convinced that this non-working approach is much better than the old one ), see: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/356448-rich-text-editor/ jaclaz

ONLY seemingly OT, and JFYI : http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/russian-intelligence-seeks-typewriters-for-secret-documents-a-910677.html http://www.policymic.com/articles/54437/the-kremlin-is-going-back-to-typewriters-and-you-should-too Remember that those are the same guys that invented the AK-47, a legendary gun that has outclassed in usability, ease of use, reliability and manufacturing costs each and every assault rifle ever made (and it still does after some 66 years). jaclaz