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Yikes, not good. I wonder how old is the incident.

I don't think USB issues are exclusive to MiniBrowser. It happened with 360Chrome 13.5.2022.0 today when I plugged a new old (known) USB device, my phone, nothing happened, no LED lighting up, no beep in Windows, nothing. Then I wanted to safely-eject already plugged-in flash drive and the window with the Stop button just froze after I clicked Stop. Then I closed 360Chrome and all started to work normally, phone was picked up by the OS and the flash drive was ejected. Worst, doesn't happen all the time, unknown how to reproduce. Obviously, the browser hijacks some important object and doesn't let it go. Didn't even visit any web site utilizing Web USB. The sloppy nature of these backports I guess.

Current Chromium source suggests SSE3 is detected by running CPUID instruction with EAX register set to 0x00000001 and inspecting if bit 0 of ECX register is set to 1, I also remember seeing trying to execute one of SSE3 instruction directly in one part of the code yesterday to verify availability, but would have to find it again. Reading /proc/cpuinfo would obviously not work on Windows. My Phenom II says SSE3 is supported, along with MONITOR instruction, an odd instruction that is rarely, if ever used. Though executing the latter throws illegal instruction exception. I doubt SSE3/no SSE3 has much impact on Speedometer 2.0, which I find to be a rather meaningless metric in the grand scheme of things. Also UXP browsers are much slower at it, SSE or no SSE. My smartphone with Chromium 113 engine scores about 8 points on it, doesn't make it useless for web browsing. VMware allows specifying returned feature flags when the guest uses CPUID instruction in a configuration file if I remember correctly, although I presume executing SSE3 instructions would work regardless on supported CPUs, so the program that wants them wouldn't use them only if it checks the feature flags and is programmed to not use them if feature flags say no SSE3. This is something I would have to test to be sure. There are some programs out there emulating very old CPUs, I only remember messing with PCem. In absence of owning real SSE3less CPU, emulating is probably the only way to have the "real" CPU without SSE3.

I don't think you can compare full-fledged Ubuntu releases which come with brand new bundled software releases, kernel and drivers supporting newer hardware etc. with Microsoft's service packs. XP from 2017 still can't do windowed Direct3D rendering with optimal performance across multiple screens, can it? Or run with CMOS clock in UTC? Vista had both by SP2, released in 2009.

Actually VARTA. I guess they make some batteries for automotive assembly plants to be fitted to newly manufactured cars. The picture above may eventually disappear, along with the source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234924280418

Ozzy Osbourne - Hellraiser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilism

Well, the year is 2023 and Windows XP was released in 2001. Perhaps you are living in the wrong period? Though there is only one sure way through time and that is forward. Thinking back now, I think I exaggerated when I wrote that post here... ...the part about Mozart and DOOM. I guess generally more or less things from the person's own period is used. How much stuff from 1920 do you use? Additionally, and this is important, we're living in a time where these things develop rapidly, unlike when nothing changed in the person's entire lifetime. Anyway, is there a technical reason one should expect different results when Glarysoft's Quick Startup is running on XP that runs on bare hardware versus under a virtualizer?

Do XP users ever use Google Street View? It's a lag fest in UXP, 360Chrome, whatever.

Perhaps my words sound too frightening. Indeed they are. You just have to look past the meaningless distractions and see the meat grinder for what it is. https://teddit.net/r/MorbidReality/ Also, I'm sure @NotHereToPlayGames looks just fine the way he is and even if he does look to odd to someone, that's not a reason to attack him or anyone else for that matter. It just occured to me that I've heard several times now that also applies to country where I'm from that some people are afraid to go out in the night time while that wasn't the case 30+ years ago or so. Anyway, I'm tired and need the leave, which I'm taking very soon. School was much better in that regard, a week off every season and Christmas / new year period and 2 months off every summer. Now it's just work work work...what's the point? In any case, I remain a cynic.

In recent years, they write a new blog for a new release. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/ BTW, I made a jump from Chromium WebView 87 to 113 on my Android today. Whooping 26 versions difference, 20 MB bigger APK (65 MB -> 85 MB), only 4 MB left on the system partition, hanging at the bottom of the minimum system requirements list, 7 Android versions behind the latest already. Doesn't feel slower than the old one TBH, will see if the glitch with the blackness can still occur.

I don't know, it does exist on GitHub, but I'm not familiar with npm and whether compiling it would give an injectable version.

What I'm seeing and hearing out there is pretty scary. If it's paranoia, I think it's justified.

Does no one read the console errors anymore? Object.hasOwn() is required, implemented since Chrome 93.

It's not surprising at all. People are insufferable, scum everywhere you look, lying, deceiving, stepping over each other for monetary gain, psychological violence etc. It is my opinion if you take the gun and shoot some random people, it's highly likely you've done more good for the world than bad. Heck, that bullet in the head was probably too good for them. I believe it's better for one's mental health to avoid as much contact with other people as possible and reduce the chances of ending up in harm's way. Indeed that would be easier with sufficient wealth or at least if you manage to find a tolerable job that doesn't involve dealing with other people.

Oh, it just got confused because the clock went back by two hours in the middle of it, XP can't timekeep properly with RealTimeIsUniversal=1 setting. It got through in about 1,5h. At the end, it said it found bad sectors that may be repairable and offered to repair them, then after clicking Repair, it said it repaired them, but S.M.A.R.T. doesn't show any improvement. I imagine running full erase from that program won't help either, but I can try. No spare sectors/damaged spare sectors? Edit: Erasing disk also zeroed pending sector count, but didn't increase reallocated event count. Offline uncorrectable is at 25, some sources say this one never resets.

Testing. Nice times, eh?

There was another shooter in Serbia yesterday, this time, a 21 year old. How 'bout we all start shooting each other?

I think along the same lines. How many of you are just existing instead of living (whatever that means )?

Yes, that's what I meant, thanks for the hint. Having the program make the log while imagining was helpful, those sectors are logged there, but can also be extracted into a separate log file. When you're looking at the image you made, those sectors aren't offset by partition starting sector, so when you're looking at the log and want to navigate to particular sector, subtract the partition start sector from the logged bad sector to get to the same sector in the image as you would on partition on the disk. I got everything sorted now. Some files were read successfully during Robocopy, others during imaging. 2 out of 9 files that were problematic to read at one point couldn't be read successfully in either attempt. Now all that's left is to decide what to do with the disk.

Indeed a lot of troubled youngsters out there. Belgrade shooting: Teen made 'kill list' for Serbia school attack Serbia in shock after school shooting leaves eight children and a security guard dead

On the topic of this being a technical board etc., aren't the same old topics getting...old? #include <stdafx.h> void Windows_XP() { HongKong_Browsers_XP(); China_Browsers_XP(); AntiMalware_XP(); Misc_XP(); } int main() { while (1) { Windows_XP(); } return 666; }

Made an image with DMDE, always great to have to preserve all the details of the source file system. 5 sectors couldn't be read, I left the default pattern to be written for bad sectors, just changed the setting to try to read them up to 3 times. Even if you scan the entire file and get the offsets of those patterns in the image file, how do you know to which file they belong, if any, in case of NTFS file system? In my case, I can still compare the directory tree in the image to the directory tree made with robocopy, just not sure what to use. I used WinMerge in the past, but for much smaller files. Back then, the only detail about binary files I was interested in was whether they differ or not. I don't remember if there was a hex view to compare. I'd just like to know if any copy is better than the other, then make sure all good files end up in the file system image.

I wonder if anyone here happens to know where Event Viewer stores its settings, eg. what columns are selected, how wide they are, the height of the entire list view listing. First Windows supplied program I encountered in a while where it doesn't seem obvious just browsing the registry, besides Bags and BagMRU for folder view settings! Although this is run in the context of MMC, for which I only found the list of recent *.msc files at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Management Console\Recent File List. There's just an empty Settings key in Microsoft Management Console.

Something I've been wondering about, this car has EFB+ battery installed. There's not much written about the plus part, seems to be a Volkswagen thing, they only have written on one of their sites that it has surface-active carbon additives for more effective power consumption and charging capacity. But carbon additives are mentioned at other places for EFB (without plus)... The main part, the car keeps the battery charged at 80% max, supposedly to save fuel and reduce emissions, something about alternator not being run all the time by the usual means, but engaging when using engine for braking and using kinetic energy to run the alternator. I've noticed with the help of diagnostic interface that when the car is sitting for a day, battery discharges from 80% to 72%. That's a whooping 8%! The manual does mention something about shutting electronics down if it goes too low, but nothing specific, just that it can't prevent battery from going empty if you do something stupid like leaving the ignition on with the engine off. So about EFB's longevity, while it's designed to operate better at reduced state of charge, I wonder if it would still be beneficial long-term to charge it every once in a while, given that the car is mostly sitting in garage for weekends and a week at a time few times per year. Edit: Higher state-of-charge should still be the better state to be in. https://microtexindia.com/efb-battery/