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Actually it's a reference to Garfield, a kid's cartoon of the 70s and 80s. Despite... lighten up, it's the internet, if you need a group hug session, please refer to your local psychiatrist.

I don't know what generated your webpage but it should be dragged out to the street and shot, you have a font tag within EVERY SINGLE TABLE CELL. When all you had to do was create a little css, like table td { font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: bold; } then get rid of that god awfull times new roman, and bold so it looks more like... table td { font-family: arial, Times New Roman,Times,serif; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8px; }

Considering the difference is 0.729% slower, you need to take some prozac You can't even see a difference until you start to hit the 10% area and most people won't notice a difference unless it's 20%. I'd rather have the fix, even if it's minor.

Win98 finally hitting it's end of life is pretty fair at this point, it's been 8 years, and there's been 3 OSs released since then (4 if you count Win 2003) and Vista is right around the corner. To be honest, MS was being very forgiving with their Win98 support already, generally speaking their rule of thumb is "support the current and the previous OS" and Win98 support reached 2 extra levels back. Demanding any more support is absurd at this point. No I don't want to make "why I want/need to run 98" war. Heck, Win98SE + uSP2 is a great and efficient OS and I always run it when I come across a low end box. Despite, MS has done a great job embracing 98. If you want to complain, then fight about the one last flaw in 98 relating to file shares or whatever, that was known in June but MS said they weren't going to release a patch for it in 98. I forget the details.

Just right click the installer .EXE and choose Properties and then Compatibility and then checkbox to run the EXE in a different compatibility mode and choose XP. When I use to run Win2k3 as a desktop OS I had to do it sometimes. Blame installer writers for being ignorant, if the app truly requires 2000 or newer, they need to check to see that you're NOT running 95/95/ME instead of checking if you have 2000 or XP, as obviously the installer breaks when the next OS comes out.

Didn't your mother ever ask you "If all of your friends jump off of a bridge would you follow?" There is/was a real reason why things are labelled 'alpha','beta' and 'final' (aka non beta). Anybody that thinks beta means 'new', 'hot' & 'must use' have totally missed the concept and I guess we can blame Google for starting this mindset. Final (aka non beta) absolutely does not mean done, it merely means all the features in the current software are finished, tested and reliable.Anybody who versions their software in a perpetual beta is using it as a crutch so they have an excuse why something may not work.

It seems cool, I've been playing with it.

Youc second copy, because it is on the same PC (or not in use in storage) is technically a backup and doesn't violate your license agreement. Of course if you truly wanted a solid backup solution, you would do a nightly ghost of your drive and save your Ghost image to another drive.

Well he shaved 30k off the installer but my biggest complaint about 7Zip (and I bug the author from time to time) is that he never releases 7Zip as a "final" build, we're always in a perpectual beta. I'd like to point out that home users don't care, but companies wishing to deploy an app are not fond of deploying a "beta" build. Hopefully v4.20 will be a "final" build.

I have my account set to Admin rights but MS has many articles on why this is bad for security. Vista will have improved support for running as an admin but keeping your PC more secure via low privelages mode. Of course if you are admin I highly insist you follow my guide to keep your pc secure. I wouldn't dare use XP as admin without doing it.

You're both right, techinally Win95/98 is just a really fancy program that runs on top of DOS. But it is a great OS if you install the USB support and uSP1. The XP vs 98SE chatter is mindless, it's been posted a hundred times on here. I prefer a well tuned XP box but if my hardware was weaker, I'd be satisfied with 98SE /w uSP2. Of course keep in mind guys that eventually as new hardware comes out, you won't have compatible drivers that will work in 98.

Technically NO, it's NOT legal to sell an OEM copy of any software. The OEM license requires you to sell the item with hardware, the license probably states you can only sell the Windows OEM if you have a complete case (HD, cpu, video card, ram, mobo). Yes if you look hard enough you can purchase OEM software but you can purchase crack if you look hard enough (in your neighborhood) too. Just a FYI, MS has 2 fulltime employees that look around the Internet and especially eBay looking for illegal software sales. All they will do is cancel your auction but MS has pressed charges against many career criminals on eBay and other sites. Although one college student did sell his "Academic Only, Not for Resale" software unopened and MS sued him and lost only because technically if you don't open the packaging, you haven't agreed to any license (yet). But like I said, you won't get sued for selling this but don't expect it to last on ebay, especially if you use the word "OEM"

I've never ran Dosbox on Win98 (I'm an XP guy) but on XP it's godsent. I would recommend Dosbox because it will emulate most any sound card, mouse, cdrom, etc so you don't have to worry about loading DOS drivers which gives you more avaible base ram. Because of these reasons, and the fact you don't have to hunt down DOS compatible drivers with your hardware (it's becomming harder every year) and the fact you don't have to reboot your PC makes Dosbox better than a bootdisk. How about you just download, install and try Dosbox instead of asking here

This Office 2007 look (with the curved edges and round logo in the top left corner) is not new, MS showed off this concept back in early 2004 with the first Longhorn beta.. I know as I used it. So the question is, did Netscape have this look back in early 2004?

The problems were greatly exaggerated, nevermind this bs. When SP2 came out, it fixed EVERY known flaw in Windows, there have been some newer flaws found but thats what "patches" are for. I Don't believe SP2 upgrades your WMP to a newer version. If you want the newest WMP you need to manually install it. As you said, SP2 is almost 2yrs old, you'll have to download the newest WMP edition as WMP 10 came out only a year ago.Summary: you're crazy not to install SP2, I can't believe the number of mindless myths surrounding SP2 and that people actually believe it's bad or crappy. XP SP2 is the best SP ms has ever made for any OS. I have been running SP2 the very day it came out, not a single problem.

A beta product running beta drivers crashes on YOUR hardware and Microsoft is embarrassed? Congratulations, you have just won troll of the year! Actually if your malicious app caused a system halt this is a prelude to a good thing as it means the Vista kernel is intercepting your attack and prevented it (by halting). When Vista becomes more mature then MS will take the take to actually prevent the attack gracefully. Are you the kind of guy to take a 2008 car, crash it into a telephone pole and call Ford embarrassed because no air bags deployed... oh wait look, the car is not done yet & they haven't installed the air bags.

Grr, I saw the topic and jumped to the conclusion that Opera 9 went final today

You are a funny man. Did you seriously think you could download Windows for free? Just because you don't see a big clock on your screen ticking down doesn't change a thing.PS: 2003 is a great OS and I use to run it on my developer laptop at my last job. The only catch is that sometimes you have to enabled compatibility on some driver/applications installs because the coders explicity checked for "2000 or XP" which was sloppy.

Don't believe the hype!! The reason KGB needs so much CPU & RAM is because it's using a large dictionary and word size by default. If you want to achieve the same compression (and CPU & RAM requirements) simply set your Word Size and Dictionary Size larger in your 7-Zip settings.

I prefer Purrrint http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~tsr22/apps/#purrint It's a tiny runtime app that uses 200k for memory and when you hit the printscreen key you get a window that lets you choose to "Copy to clipboard", "Print" or "Save to Disk (as JPG, GIF or PNG)".

Software is still too immature for a 64bit desktop, plus you won't see any speed benefit. You only benefit from 64bit when using apps on a large scale (ex: SQL Server 2005) and not even things like Photoshop would benefit much unless you were to edit excessively large 8gig images. Not to mention people complain about driver support in 64bit and game compatibility issues. Look at it this way... what does a desktop gain from 64bit in today's software: nothing So if you gain nothing but can have game & driver issues, it's a BAD upgrade

MS Access is the best single user database on the market, especially if you grab a newer version like 2002 (aka XP) or 2003. The built in form wizards will make it a breeze for non DB guys to create their own DB. MySQL is a horrible choice for this example.

Well you could buy one of those $20-$40 antennas at Radio Shack but you're biggest boost in signal will come from using an taller antenna (I'm talking on your roof, not 1 or 2 feet). As far as the radio antenna, just hang it from something and let it droop down.

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You can add support for multiple users (1 remote desktop while a local person uses the PC) but I'm pretty sure you violate your license (even if you're running XP pro) so beware... http://sig9.com/articles/concurrent-remote-desktop Please note the termserv.dll you need to get is NOT hacked, it's the version that was included in SP2 beta back when MS was considering SP2 to let a multiuser enviroment.