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    innoextract did not work for me, nor did uniextract. I installed Sogou in a Win10 VM and I see no "language packs" of any kind, appears to me to be Chinese and Chinese only. This could prove to be extremely problematic (ie, if you look to see how Humming Owl removed default search engines, "Google" has to be replaced with "Ggle" (if memory serves, I don't keep Humming Owl versions on my computer)). Replacing dozens upon dozens of Chinese "six letters" with "four letters" because of having to keep address locations intact could make the end result extremely difficult to "decipher". Not familiar with Sogou but very limited reads on it seems to suggest that "most" (but not all) telemetry is disabled by simply not being on an IPv6 network.
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    These four links are dead.
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    LOOONG battle we (engineering) have with IT. Most of these issues were resolved when XP went EOL because most of our robot "arms" use Embedded XP. But we are also a multi-continent company and others (not our plant) use POSReady updates - BIG MISTAKE, *hours* of downtime! Our Local IT doesn't have the authority to vet updates and Global IT (I'll refrain from mentioning which country!) will shut down any computer, be it office or factory floor, that doesn't have *ALL* Windows Updates "critical" hotfixes. So Local IT has to "allow" Global IT to shut down the floor for *hours* and do station-specific "redirects" to make Global IT "think" the station has *ALL* "critical" hotfixes.
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joSiOBcUIqg
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    In a moment of boredom, I literally Googled for "blah blah blah" and found this AWESOME diddy -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mMt4hRoxEA
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    Totally agree! The first thing I always did back in the day was to edit and save chord.wav at HALF VOLUME. I kept it as the same "sound", but the original would scare the living sh#t out of me, I'd jump out of my chair and hit my knee or stub a toe each and every time that d#mn sound popped up!
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    Please do not copy-and-paste your post as a PM to members that have absolutely ZERO to do with "startisback".
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    I'm from a family of six kids. We all have a saying (sarcastically, of course) we will all throw out randomly and it fits here, "If everybody in the world were exactly like me, there would be no problems."
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    I ditto this. Browser's were never meant to be used this way. And neither was your own brain, as far as that goes. An exceprt from https://www.howtogeek.com/773721/listen-you-dont-need-that-many-browser-tabs-open/ People tend to think that they’re “good” at multitasking if they’re able to perform multiple tasks at once. However, that isn’t taking into account a very important part of it — are they performing those tasks well? Multitasking is a big reason why people keep so many tabs open, but it can have the opposite effect. Too many tabs can create information overload. The constant switching between tabs can lead to short attention spans. All of this trains your brain in a way that makes working efficiently more difficult in the future. Studies have backed this up as well. Some studies have found that heavy multitasking can cause you to perform worse on cognitive tests. One study ran MRI scans on the brains of multitaskers and found they had less brain density in areas that controlled empathy and emotions. That’s, uh, not good. Doing multiple tasks at once doesn’t make you more productive. You’re just splitting your attention and every time you switch tabs you lose concentration. Stick to one task at a time, complete the task, and then close the tabs and move on to the next thing. Your brain will thank you.
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    Totally Cool !!! I thought I was the only one! I don't have a landline or a cell phone! Haven't since 2001.
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    Speaking of "broadcasts" - I have a curiosity question. I don't watch football and refer to the Super Bowl as the "Tidy Bowl". And when the "wardrobe malfunction" was the talk-of-the-town several years back, it only took me mere seconds to see it was INTENTIONAL, that it was PLANNED. I mention it because that PLANNED incident altered broadcast television - all "live" broadcasts MUST be on a DELAY to give the broadcaster time to react to mishaps (planned or otherwise). I have even LESS interest in "Oscars" and "Grammys" type of useless-to-me-TV. But all of us that watch the news are well aware of Will Smith and Chris Rock "slapgate". My question is this - the "live" broadcast MUST, by FCC Regulation, be on a DELAY, so why did the broadcaster not use that mandated delay and "cut to commercial" ???
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    That's kind of the "mistake" that I have made. I have Netflix and Hulu but tend to binge-watch something on one for a full month and not touch the other, so I paid that month for it just to sit there! Then there's folks like my sister that has Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Disney, and Epix and those are just the one's that I know of. They probably have a few that they've forgotten about but yet still pay the monthly subscription.
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    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tab-Hoarder
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    Same here. My computer setup is five widescreen monitors and the tv is 90-degrees to my right. So not really to my back, but I have to turn 90-degrees to see it. It's generally just background noise unless I'm streaming because streaming is done on the big screen.
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    I requested an accounting of donations and was denied. I can not donate to ANY cause where there is no public accounting of funds.
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    FYI - this web site only allows 1.95 MB for attachments and I'm at 1.92 MB. I will be deleting all attachments in this thread this coming weekend to free up my allocated attachment space. So if anybody needs the content archived, please do so now, I will not be keeping attachments for anybody that comes along and asks for them "six months from now".
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    It's the swiss-army knife of web filtering. It's "too much" for most people. Most people are happy with NoScript versus actually being able to EDIT the scripts. Most people are happy with Stylus for editing css. Most people are happy with Greasmonkey to inject js/css. Most people are content with blocking cookies versus filtering the contents inside that cookie. Et cetera. And only a very tiny handful of folks want one app to do "all of the above". The cipher bit is over my head. The original Proxomitron was created by Scott Lemon in 1999. Proxomitron Reborn was created by "amy" a few years ago and it's still in its infancy. Cloudfare "capchas" cannot be handled by XP + Proxomitron. Not sure if that can be fixed by "amy" or not.
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    The digital converter box was a stop-gap measure intended for low-income residents. According to a Techwalla article, there were 33,962,692 of them handed out. The program ended in July 2009.
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    Yeah, not for everyone. I've been using Proxomitron since 2004 and it was first released in 1999. It used to have a following about 8x that of MSFN but "times have changed".
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    If you've used any other 360Chrome version, then I would suggest deleting their entries from the Windows Registry. Outside of that, all you need to do is download, extract, then launch via the 360Loader.exe file.
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    The "method" of removing more possible-but-unwitnessed telemetry changed right around rebuild 5. I should have kept better notes but didn't since there were only five or six of us even using 360Chrome at the time. We're probably still under 20 or so of us. v11 works great for me on one of my XP machines with only 2gb RAM but is stretched to its limit if I try to load too many tabs.
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    For now at least My current pass-the-time project has been comparing/contrasting/benchmarking Vista "extended kernel" with 7. The writing has been on the wall for roughly two years that XP isn't going to last "forever".
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    I didn't really keep logs between rebuilds. But can say that I do not do anything at all with the "core" / "browser engine" (neither does Humming Owl on his versions). v13 will use more RAM than v12. v12 will use more RAM than v11. I personally use v11 for everything except ONE web site (my water bill requires v13 ). But as far as one rebuild over the other, RAM consumption will be the same from one to the next.
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    I know, same here. I know I've had my days also, lol.
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