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Jody Thornton

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  1. Jody Thornton
    Simmer down. No need to be offended. I did say that Vista redeemed itself with service packs. You'll also notice that I had several upvotes from seasoned forum members, which tell you that many fully agree with my assessment. The original notebooks I setup were DuoCores with 4 GB of RAM. That's what Vista was sold on, and it ran terribly. By the way, I use Vista Home Basic on a 2 GB of RAM Dell Notebook today, and it runs swimmingly. So the original RTM version showed its warts. So no, I don't think Vista users should get offended by performance assessments. I'd be embarrassed to admit such a thing, and I'm a sensitive person to most that know me personally.
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    Well as of the RTM release, Vista really, REALLY was a s--t pile. It really was. Slow I/O, badly written display drivers, you name it .... However, SP1 and (especially) SP2 cleared away most of those warts, and by the end, I would agree it performed pretty much identically as well as Windows 7. What was never resolved was management and cleanup of the component store. It became huge. However that doesn't bug me any more. I'm perfectly OK now with an OS taking up 15 to 20 GB of disk space now, where I wasn't before. Why? Because I now understand what the component store does, and why it provides sound stability benefits to Windows. As for Windows 8, funnily enough, I can still update using Server 2012 updates without any "tricks". I was hoping the same for my Windows 8.1 brethren, but no such "exact" luck. But Windows 8 has been exceptionally stable, and a VERY GOOD performer.
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    I saw that yesterday. Thanks for the response.
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    As of late I have not received automated updated definitions. Here's what I posted on here and Reddit: Hey Folks. I'm on Windows 8, using Antimalware Client 4.8.207.0. Over the past two weeks, it has not updated automatically, or when I press the "Update" button in Windows Defender. In the latter case, It says "Searching", and shows a small amount of the percentage bar; then quits. There is no error message. It just goes back to displaying the time and date of the last time Defender was update (as if there was no update available). I can download the latest definitions and install them myself however. That works. So there's indeed a way to remain updated. Has anyone else experienced this? ... and then in a secondary comment: Upon further investigation, I notice the Event Log there's an Schannel Fatal Alert 40. It only happens when I press the update button in Windows Defender. At the same time in the Windows Defender "Operational" Logs, there's an error under Event ID 2001 at the same time.
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    Good to know. Upon further investigation, I notice the Event Log there's an Schannel Fatal Alert 40. It only happens when I press the update button in Windows Defender. At the same time in the Windows Defender "Operational" Logs, there's an error under Event ID 2001 at the same time. I still can update manually though. I wonder what changed.
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    Has anyone not been able to update Windows Defender on Windows 8 for the past week or two?
  7. Jody Thornton
    That's all I was asking about originally. I wasn't looking for a temporary MSFN replacement. I didn't think this thread had to go to the extent of "people with opinions" or bashing sites. Anyway. If someone were to update Facebook reliably on the MSFN page, that would suit me more than fine.
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    So what did happen this past weekend?
  9. Jody Thornton
    Ryan VM's Site is no longer (from what I can see), which was formerly a great place to find out about MSFN status. Is there anywhere we can go when MSFN is down to get reliable updates on its status?
  10. Jody Thornton
    Exactly, but I would want an x64 build for that purpose. This is what I've always wanted in a browser otherwise.
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    Fair enough
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    I don't suppose there's anyway you can build an x64 version of MailNews, is there? I'm waiting on an update for Interlink, and next month will mark a year since the last one. Even if a single updated build for x64 could be made, that would hold me for a bit. Just wanted to ask. Cheers Roytam!
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    iOS 10 is unsigned for your device, so no - there's NO downgrade path. I actually prefer iOS 12, but still, I'm in a similar situation to you. I have an iPhone 6s that had iOS 12.4.1 still on it. Because I need to use a payroll time clock app, I HAD to upgrade iOS 15. Now that I'm leaving that positin, and no longer needing it, I still CANNOT downgrade to iOS 12.
  14. Jody Thornton
    Not at all. We'll both have to see what happens this time around.
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    But back then on XP/Vista, when you upgraded from Release 51.x, you were forced to upgrade to ESR 52.0. You could NOT install Release 52.0 (even though they were the same initial base release)
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    And all in an answer to my question. So think about it, if I never pestered, we'd still be waiting for this news.
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    Not so fast - ESR 52 ran on XP and Vista - but NOT the release version.
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    But at least they made a decision. I had to ask to even get that. As for release versions though, who really knows. I suppose this is also good news for Vista Extended Kernel users.
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    And now there's another, confirming that at least ESR 115 will run on Windows 7 and 8x https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594270
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    Well yoltboy01 gets the prize! After months of radio silence on the issue, Mozilla finally wrote back to my question on Bugzilla, that they WILL allow Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to run Firefox ESR 115. This was up in the air as to when support was going to get yanked. For awhile, it seemed that maybe ESR 102 spelled the end of the line for these versions of Windows. I cannot speak for "release" versions of Firefox though. Anyway, here's our correspondence (at the bottom of the page) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594270
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    I was reading througn (including the introductory post), and I wasn[t able to readily gather what the primary differences were between Builds 7 and 8. I understand that Build 7 is more efficient on RAM conscious systems (I have only 2 GB on this old Vista x86 notebook I keep at my girlfriend's, so that bode's well for Build 7). But am I missing anything with Build 8?
  22. Jody Thornton
    Wow! I have to hand it to you for dealing with it. But this overall attitude and arrogance has been an ongoing issue with the Pale Moon forum from the top down. Sure, I spew A LOT of negative press about the Moon Team on here, Ghacks and Reddit (almost with career-like dedication I'll proudly admit), but THEY were the genesis of that toxic behaviour. I'm glad to see there are exceptional people there like you and Athenian (sp?) Now to answer your question over at the Apollo 13 site :p , at the time Basilisk 55 was deprecated, there were sites that rendered better than on Basilisk 52. That was the reason for porting it to a Serpent release, at least in part. Personally, I use Basilisk on Windows 8 for a very specialized work case, where I customize a work site into a web app basically using Classic Theme Restorer. I need WebRTC to record audio into it, and this way, the jobs run in a separate memory space COMPLETELY than my Firefox tabs. So I like the browser. I have my mom and dad on the newly-revived x86 version, so they can run some old Flash games, so if the improved WebComponents support hits Basilisk soon, that will benefit them certainly. Thanks for chiming in.
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    I saw you there. I was surprised that you survived it ...lol
  24. Jody Thornton
    Holy Crap! Look at this Basilisk thread, where I guess someone from here went to the Pale Moon Forum and dared to mistakenly ask about Serpent. It's not about the right or wrong I'm concerned with: it's the snotty nature that Moonbat conducts himself with. Just a p***-poor way to talk about people: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=28657&start=40#p237935
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    Unless he has a good GPU. In such a case, the heavy lifting is shifted to the GPU, and not the CPU. I was using Vista x64 Ultimate on an HP xw8200 (a dual Xeon system, based on Netburst P4), I had 7 GB of DDR2 RAM in it, and my PCI-e slot was knackered, so I put in a nicely accelerated PCI dadapter. Aero sang sweetly on that, and I had no issues with Vista. This was especcailly the case with SP2 built in and the Platform update. On an XP-era computer? Sure disabe Aero.
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