Jump to content

DanR20

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    416

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    7

  • Donations

    0.00 USD 

  • Country

    United States

 Content Type 

Everything posted by DanR20

  1. DanR20
    What's annoying to me is the fact that those who rail endlessly against XP almost never mention that it is being updated and it's not a secret since people have been taking advantage of the PosReady 2009 hack for years. In the last four months I've downloaded and installed at least 22 security patches alone for this older system. Not only that but you can still get the latest virus programs, flash player, and thanks to this project an updated browser. It is an old OS and probably has holes nonetheless but it's not like it isn't getting support. I'm usually on something newer but millions use XP regularly for whatever reason and it works fine, always has. It's almost funny how some of these anti-XP internet freaks go on a rampage, as if they have something to lose. No matter what forum their heads act like they're about to explode at the mere mention of XP. The end of support for PosReady is next April so it will require extra locking down but I wonder how many malware/virus trolls even bother with it anymore, they probably moved on to Windows 10.
  2. DanR20
    @roytam, I know you're already doing a lot with basilisk but is anyone in this project doing anything with Thunderbird 52? I was just curious if it would be possible to apply whatever security patches that 52 basilisk might be getting to that Thunderbird version?
  3. DanR20
    Twitter is just a pain in the a** for playing their videos. Setting general.useragent.override.twitter.com with a custom agent in about:config works good for fixing the distortion with basilisk 52 but the videos still run horribly because this box doesn't handle the forced higher resolution well. Unlike with XP 60esr and Firefox 52 in Windows 7 do but they're using the built in codecs and that seems to work better since it uses hardware acceleration. Twitter has no option to adjust resolution the way youtube does that I can see so they're downloaded with downloadhelper 6.3.1, which typically offers three different resolution videos, proving they are on Twitter's server but you can only stream what they serve up.
  4. DanR20
    Was anything changed with Basilisk recently? The twitter videos on XP are now choppy and unwatchable. It could be something with twitter but I did check with Firefox 52.9 and they seem the same.
  5. DanR20
    To read Mozilla employees on the forums they figure ending support for 52 will increase users since they will move to 60esr forcibly. We'll see but even if that doesn't happen and user share continues to fall they will defend their decision to abandon legacy addons to the bitter end.
  6. DanR20
    @Mathwiz, yeah there are addons that will do the same thing, I've got Custom UserAgent String installed in firefox 60 that lets you custom sites to a specific user string and in fact I've done that with youtube and a few others. Or I might try general.useragent.override.www.youtube.com, that's sounds like a good idea. Eventually I'll get around to it in basilisk but I have a feeling google will probably remove their old layout soon anyway, they seem determined to change things around every year with something new and worse.
  7. DanR20
    Normally I use Win 7 in the user string (6.1) for everything. IE11 isn't a supported browser anymore for a lot of sites, couldn't even post on this one, had to switch to waterfox. I just want it mainly for youtube and with user agent switcher it's easy to go back and forth but sometimes I forget and leave it on IE11 until some site goes haywire.
  8. DanR20
    What I found is if the user agent string is set to IE11 (I do that to get the old youtube layout) then twitter audio will be distorted. Changing the user agent to Waterfox 56.0 fixes it. Strange how that works but Firefox 52.9 doesn't have that problem.
  9. DanR20
    After some digging it turns out the firewall was blocking it. For some reason this build requires a few extra outbound connections but it appears to be good now.
  10. DanR20
    With Saturday's basilisk for xp build I can't load comments on some websites. Here's an example: http://thehill.com/ As far as I know the previous build didn't have this problem and I've made no setting changes. Since reading or posting comments rely on javascript I disabled noscript but the behavior was the same.
  11. DanR20
    Thanks for fixing the permissions.sqlite with basilisk, it's working good now. This is what Mozilla firefox 52 should have been. Its very quick and the videos run smooth, few dropped frames with streaming mp4.
  12. DanR20
    From that other link provided you can find blackwingcat's posted IE updates. Click on the Legacy Windows Catalog link to find the year and month. The last one as I recall was in 2014 or 2015 and that is good enough to install the kernelex. You may have to use IE to download anything since I've had trouble with 52esr Firefox. A few days ago there were posts (now apparently deleted) that said there's an even more recent IE update but I don't know where that is and in any case it isn't needed to install kernelex. Update: the last IE6 cumulative patch for W2k was in April of 2013, kb2817183. That can still be downloaded from the link above and should be good enough to install kernelex.
  13. DanR20
    You can get blackwingcat's updates by month here: http://w2k.flxsrv.org/wlu/wlu.htm And the latest kernelex versions: http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/1299806.html Where people are seeing new IE6 updates I don't know, the last one I recall was in 2014 or 2015 but then that browser lost its usefulness 10 years ago. Still, if there is a more recent update please post a link if anyone has it.
  14. DanR20
    Dibya, any luck on getting the nightlies to work in w2k without crashing? I see a problem with some of the newer webextensions not being compatible since they require a host node.exe that will not install on w2k. So even if it is possible to make the nightly work properly there will still be some limitations. Sandboxing is another one.
  15. DanR20
    Hi blackwingcat, glad to see this project is still alive with the release of v2.9bG. It's not that important since Firefox 57 is a pos that I probably won't be using if the latest nightly ends up as release (I'll be sticking with 52esr) but I'm getting this error now with the 2.9bG: "The procedure entry point SleepConditionVariableCS could not be located in the dynamic link library Kernel32dll." Another call function in Vista or higher. Is it already supported or something else that would need to be added?
  16. DanR20
    BWC, thanks for the new direct link on your blog to Windows Update. I could not find anything on Google about the change in the URL and for posready 2009 I was getting a redirect to "your browser is not supported" message. Be nice if Microsoft would provide some info regarding this OS, or maybe they have and I just couldn't find it.
  17. DanR20
    That's good, I'll wait until he releases the English version.
  18. DanR20
    hi blackwingcat, is the CoGetApartmentType issue fixed with the latest Japanese version v2.8j so that newer Firefox nightlies will work again with w2k?
  19. DanR20
    What I did was to install your latest KernelEx (I had a slightly older one) and it was installed with the default options except for condition variable that was unchecked. The only entry I checked was DirectX 10 stub, although I'm not sure exactly what that does yet. My video card does support DX10. The "K32GetMappedFileNameW" error is gone but now I'm getting this instead: The procedure entry point CoGetApartmentType could not be located in the dynamic library ole32.dll. CoGetApartmentType is for Windows 7 and later, is that call function available in ole32 and are you able to open the very latest 54 nightly inbound without this error??
  20. DanR20
    Got a new problem with the 54 nightlies, now getting this error: The procedure entry point K32GetMappedFileNameW could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll I've tried replacing and removing "K32GetMappedFileNameW" from xul.dll but in both cases I then get a "Can't lead XPCOM" error. Anybody else experiencing this? This is something they just added in the last few days as "K32GetMappedFileNameW" was not there prior.
  21. DanR20
    It looks like there is a new version of Java 6: 141 b31. Might as well forget the v131 then, if you are able to get a hold of this latest one blackwingcat I'd appreciate it. I'll be glad when Java is gone but it's still going to be around awhile yet.
  22. DanR20
    Hello blackwingcat, if you're referring to the November 2016 JRE 6 update 131v2 I did re-download that a few days ago and re-installed it but there was no difference. It still located to a separate Jre6_131 directory with no ability to uninstall through Add/Remove. It automatically installs the Java files through a dos window, it doesn't have the typical old interface with the prompts. Is this something new that Sun came out with the 6 versions and is intentional?
  23. DanR20
    Hello, I can't find the link to download the updated version, it's not on the page where you normally have your downloads, would you have a direct link?
  24. DanR20
    Hi blackwingcat, had some major problems with the latest java. It installed it into a new folder called Jre6_131 instead of overwriting the previous version Jre6. It doesn't work either, I'm just getting a blank white screen. But even worse there was no way to uninstall it in order to use the older version. Fortunately I had a older registry backup so I'm on Java 121 again. Please let me know if you're experiencing any of this.
  25. DanR20
    Hi, do you have a link where we can get the extended xp? I've searched and can't find anything recent.
×
×
  • Create New...