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    Windows 11?

    in Windows 11

    Posted

    43 minutes ago, Windows 2000 said:

    And now, there officially has leaked an early dev build of Windows 11, with curved corners, new design, new icons and sounds!

     

     

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    I like the rounded corners, but in general the UI looks like KDE/MacOS

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    We need to take Climate Change seriously

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    7 hours ago, InterLinked said:

    Exactly, I'd say these are all excellent points.

    I know retrocomputers comprise a good portion of this forum, and as such they/we are all doing our part insofar as electronics go.

    Today, nothing is built to last, all kinds of rare earth minerals are endlessly purged and wasted - look at sour companies like Apple. They are the epitome of planned obsolescence. Proprietary hardware, exclusive software, planned obsolescence, hardware and software incompatibility, and mobile first. As an environmentalist, it disgusts me. As a technology enthusiast, it disgusts me even more.

    I'm also a bit of a telephone collector, sort of. My main phones are all vintage Bell System / Western Electric 500 rotary or 2500 TouchTone sets. Those things were built to last. I've plugged in 80 year old phones and those just work! Personally, I don't use anything older than the 500, which started in 1949. The F-style handsets before '49 are too uncomfortable. The G-style handsets on modern rotary and on 2500-type and Princess phones are the best. They're still widely used today - on pretty much all payphones and 2554 courtesy phones you often see in hotels, hospitals, convention centers, etc.

    I don't have a mobile (cell "phone") of any kind. Absolutely no interest in dropped calls, crappy call quality, brain cancer, wasting energy, or having a useless "computer" the size of a fingernail. Or something that needs to be charged over and over. It's so nice not having to charge ANYTHING on a regular basis. And MUCH better for the environment. Also, did I mention cell phone audio quality sucks? It really does.

    This kind of lifestyle is a complete rejection of e-waste, fads, frivolity, etc. I believe in things that work well that work well for a long time that are quality, durable, environmentally friendly, and top notch.

    So, environmentalist technologist types, here we are:

    - Using older operating systems and reusing or refurbishing older hardware

    - Using timeless telephones built to last. No cheap/expendable electronics here. Probably I'll die before any of my phones do. Half of them are already older than my parents. If anything ever breaks (doubt it), easy, just open up the phone and fix it. They were made for that. (SIDE NOTE: remember when you could actually go to a REAL phone story and buy a phone? Now, the only phone store is eBay, maybe flea markets. You try finding one these days, all you find is junk, maybe a couple real modern electronic phones in Office Depot if you're lucky...)

    - Using wired technologies. Ethernet cables are a superior species to radio waves. Seriously, who wants a high-latency low-quality connection? Ditch the Wi-Fi and cordless phones, and even more, ditch the 3G/4G/5G/etc.

    - Not subscribing to the whole continuous never-ending "upgrade" culture. As Windows 7 -> Windows 10 has shown (or pick your favorite good OS -> bad OS transition), the wow doesn't always start now, sometimes it already started and it's OK to hop off the train for a while, maybe forever.

    P.S. Vista is a good OS, I mean that in a different way.

    Technology today is responsible for about as much CO2 as the entire airline industry today - about 2%. So, technologists have a responsibility to the environment. Anyways, I'll be here, all Ethernet wired up, using Windows 7, Office 2010, Adobe Reader 11, and my classic top-notch telephones, no wireless or cordless products in sight!

    It's more than most people in developed Western countries are doing, at least 95% or maybe 99% of folks, so a good start I'd say!

    I definitely agree with you, older electronics were built to last, that's why I love using them over new ones for sure! Even Soviet electronics, that were told to be avoided, still last for me to this day without any major repairs. :)

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    I succeeded USB tethering on Windows 2000 extended kernel

    in Windows 2000/2003/NT4

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    On 7/16/2020 at 8:41 AM, Ximonite said:

    I found some drivers that might be the ones that you're looking for:

    Apple Mobile Device Ethernet Driver

    Apple Mobile Device USB Driver

    Acer RNDIS Driver

    Hi,

    When connecting my Redmi 6a phone (also enabling USB tethering) I got two question marks in device manager and when using the Acer RNDIS driver it says "Windows was unable to locate a driver for this device"..

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    Wireless stops working after installing extended kernel

    in Windows 2000/2003/NT4

    Posted · Edited by Nojus2001

    On 7/13/2020 at 3:41 PM, FantasyAcquiesce said:

    I recall having this issue a month or two ago. I would recall boingo would work, but would immediately disconnect if connecting to the web with a web browser. I believe I fixed this by using odyssey client instead??? I can't quite remember...

    Odyssey client gives up connecting to my network at all, now about boingo is that it takes some time to connect to my network (including hung ups and time outs)

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    Wireless stops working after installing extended kernel

    in Windows 2000/2003/NT4

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Tommy said:

    I'd go with Boingo as well. For whatever reason...there's an issue with the Intel Wireless Manager and the only way I ever got it to work again is reinstalling it...and not restarting it, since the driver itself wasn't changed. But anytime you shut it down or restarted, you'd have to do it again. It got very irritating. Boingo works great and I'd recommend using it.

    I tried Boingo and yes it works, but sometimes when connecting it likes to hung up :dubbio:

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    SATA drivers and Dell Optiplex GX620

    in Windows XP 64 Bit Edition

    Posted · Edited by Nojus2001

    Greetings,

    I'm currently in process of installing Windows XP x64 Edtion on this Dell Optiplex GX620, but when pressing any key to boot from CD, black screen appears for a few seconds and then says the following:

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    TXTSetup.sif is corrupt or missing.,Status 256.

    Could it be so that using the universal SATA driver from win-raid [LINK] could have been the cause or even better selecting every controller in the list, since I'm wasn't sure kind of controller is in the machine.:)

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