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I'll add that my only real "direct" experience with New Orleans is that here in the Midwest where I live, we had several high-rent districts evolve into government-subsidized housing that took in several families from New Orleans. I can tell you firsthand that these areas are no longer high-rent districts and most of us cross our fingers that our children do not select these apartment complexes when they find a place of their own and start their families. The non-fools moved away from those communities, even though they were the "best in town" when we moved their in the first place. We have the same thing happening again here in the Midwest due to covid-pandemic, a very large number of folks migrating from the Chicago area to our area. And some very well-respected areas of town no longer regarded as well-respected. "Things change..."

Where is the line drawn, shall we discuss the Nile next? I don't really see the connection between New Orleans in 1718-1725 and whether or not people should have still been living in some of the area post-1940. Gold Mine towns popped up left and right during the Gold Rush - and departed when no more gold was to be found. Same for Coal Mine towns. But as far as sea port towns, New Orleans made terrible mistakes, mistakes that New York, Houston, Corpus Christi, Baltimore, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Tamba Bay, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Louisville, Brunswick, Sandusky, etc did not make.

The best parallel that comes to mind as far as "fools" building along the river and the plan of those "fools" working in that we are still here is NEW ORLEANS. Then Hurricane Katrina flooding New Orleans in August 2005. Look at the history of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina hit. Public schools were some of the worst in the country; the murder rate was among the highest in the USA; there was deep-seated economic disparity between races; and the city's population had been on a steep decline for nearly a half-century. It all "worked" as far as us being here thousands of years later because the non-fools FLED and the "fools" stayed behind. And those that do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Do you think that Katrina was the "first"? Heck no, we had Betsy in '65, Camille in '69, Andrew in '92. But the "fools" did not heed warning and stayed behind.

No surprise. I was a moderator on a Proxomitron forum many years ago and that's how things were there also.

I ran into this also, several months back. I was unaware that when I attached a picture to a post, that it is saved as part of my profile. I had to go into my profile and delete pictures in order to be able to post new pictures. But then I ended up with old posts that had a picture but now no longer do. I now upload pic to Dropbox then embed links instead.

This is my 3rd or 4th account here that I can think of, spanning 10-15 years, don't really recall. The first one or two was because I landed here from a Google Search and simply needed to download somebody's attachment. I did not think I'd return after getting the attachment that brought me here in the first place (slipstreaming XP is what originally brought me here, I think). Then months pass and another Google Search landed me here, no clue of the previous account so I registered again. Then more months pass, account forgotten, don't even have the email address I registered under anymore, so I registered again. It wasn't untl XP hit end-of-life, tried the POS updates, apps were broken, reinstalled WITHOUT the POS, then needed a browser for XP that I landed here "permanently".

Bingo! Which here in the States generally means OWN YOUR OWN HOME versus renting-and-saving. I'm not too concerned with Social Security (our poorly-planned state assistence for the old) being here or not when I get old. I do think that it will still be here. But it is poorly-planned and Baby Boomers (those that are retired now or retiring soon) are currently getting, on average, $18,170 a year. This is when the average household income is $87,864. So the average Social Security income is only 21% of the average household income. I plan my retirement assuming this number WILL be LOWER when my generation draws Social Security because it is POORLY-PLANNED. But bear in mind also that this compares retirement income to household income. If your kids are still living off the dole during your retirement years, this will effect you negatively. If you took out a 30yr mortgage 50yrs ago and you are still making mortgage payments, this will effect you negatively. If you took out a 6yr car loan 2yrs before you retired, this will effect you negatively.

When I reinstall XP, my network doesn't show in that list either. But if I go to Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Network Connections -> Wireless Network Connection -> right-click -> select Properties -> select Wireless Networks tab -->> then I can ADD the network under Preferred networks

I have been using 360 since mid to late 2020 and I have been very impressed with it. There are some guides in other threads on how to fully convert to English and also how to prevent telemetry. Very small learning curve but well worth it for those of us on XP. There's even some Vista and Win7 users that use 360 but I don't think they have the same vested interest as those of us on XP.

Renting versus owning has pros and cons on both sides. I'm not well-traveled so I can only speak based on "numbers". Home-ownership in US is 65.3%. Germany is 51.5%, Finland is 71.1%, Ireland is 70.3%. EU average is 70%.

Have you tried renaming to .zip or .7z and then extracting it? Or trying Universal Extractor or UniExtract2?

If you know it to be video, I would try any video converter and see if it will convert it. Or rename it as .avi or .mp4 and see if a "universal" video player will then play it.

Wages in Germany have also increased more than wages in US, at least for 1991 through present. Higher wages generally go hand-in-hand with higher home prices.

The Germany data I can find on home-ownership rate doesn't seem to be updated as frequently as the US data. Germany home-ownership (ie, owned by the people that live in the home, not by corporations renting that property out) is definitly on a decline. But so was the US and the US was on an increase until this "pandemic" caused a large drop. But it should also be pointed out that the left scale (US) full-scale range is only 62 to 70 percent for as far back as 1965 for the above chart. An 8% fluctuation doesn't seem too much of a concern to me. The scale on the right (Germany) only has a full-scale range of 51 to 53.5. So Germany home-ownership has only dropped LESS THAN 2.5% for the range shown above.

Not sure if possible through the Win7 bootup. For the XP, have you tried to access the main administrator account instead of the actual user accounts? XP has an administrator account that only later versions of Windows disabled by default and it should be present on a default install of XP. On the username/password screen, don't select any user accounts but enter Administrator for the username. Keep the password blank for the first attempt, if that doesn't work try Administrator as the password for the Administrator username. If that gets you in, go to the Control Panel -> User Account -> Change Account and change the password for the user accounts you need to regain access to.

Latest download doesn't work in XP x64. Previous version/download does not work in XP x64 either, I likely only tried in XP x86 the first time around.

Doesn't really matter so don't get worked up over it. "Chinese" is an ADJECTIVE here in the States. "Hongkongers" is NOT. So it really all boils down to "vernacular".

The original MiniBrowser I tried was an 83.4 MB download and now the download is 73.8 MB so I will have to try this browser again and compare to 360Chrome. The last time I tried it, I preferred my inoculated 360Chrome but the story may change this time around.

I was never able to find a "homepage" for it. @user57 originally posted the links and I copied them over to this thread -> https://msfn.org/board/topic/182304-extreme-explorer-360-chromium-78-86-general-discussion/?do=findComment&comment=1198952

You could also try something called "Odyssey Client". Google for it, it's not free but has a 30-day trial to at least see if it will get you connected. I did not search for alternatives but they may exist.

Upon further reading on my end, WPA and WPA2 is very difficult on 98/98SE. I could probably get it to work if it were my equipment. But guiding this process online is going to be far too time-consuming given the complexity level of the articles found via a Google-search on the topic. The "easiest" I could find is this -> https://cloakedthargoid.wordpress.com/win9x-wpa2/ But you already bought the AR5004G. If I were you, I would return the AR5004G and get an adapter based on Ralink RT61 chipset and follow the link posted above. That's probably about the best I can get you. WPA and WPA2 is very difficult on 98/98SE and the learning curve is too steep for a forum back-and-forth.

Win98? Or Win98SE? Wi-fi on 98 is very iffy. Wi-fi on 98SE "might" be possible.

Also, what computer/laptop is this on? You may have already mentioned but I'm not about to read through 8 pages of this thread and the many circles I've already seen it take.