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read this part again I wanted to point out that whenever company plays your friend or good guy they do not have your best interest in mind rather theirs. You should never ever worship brand into point where you blindly believe all they say and cannot question it at all. You are walking wallet for company so use that for your advantage. They want your money, but you do not have to give it to them if you think they do not deserve it. Back in the day there used to be this vote with your wallet way that is mocked these days as stupid by consumertards. I still do that. I do not buy goods that ethics I cant agree with UNLESS they are required for living. You need house, food, running water, electricity and if live in middle of nowhere and happen to be crippled need automobile of some sort and petrol or diesel, but you DO NOT NEED buy latest AAA titles or new smartphone yearly if disagree with company ethics. You need to find golden mean between bending over and lubing up all the way and living in the forest.

I would say that really does not matter, I lived long enough to know that no company actually cares for what they claim do. They only care from profit since that is only reason one will set up company in the first place. I am not saying you are not allowed make profit, rather for consumer take anything they say with grain of salt. Lets start off with duckduckgo. This one is easy. Using tracert that is standard on pretty much any operating system type tracert duckduckgo.com. Here is few interesting parts tracert showed me on 4 different systems. for me their end server ip is 40.114.177.156 which according to whois (https://www.whois.com/whois/40.114.177.156) is owned by Microsoft Corporation. Why would company that swears by privacy host their stuff on Microsoft servers as MS will get access on anything you do. No need believe me, do it yourself and find out yourself. Also ddg founder Gabriel Weinberg used to run highly controversial names database which he sold to classmatesdotcom which is far from ethical company either. One thing I learnt is that people never change after certain point. They just hit on privacy trend that growing up. As for startpage. Remember it was sold to system1 which all sudden was privacy one after it (https://www.startpage.com/privacy-please/startpage-articles/startpage-and-privacy-one-group) and lets look them up and look first text from their site (https://system1.com/what-we-do) does that sound private to you? For me not. And before someone say I am google or some other shill, I am not. I am just pointing out these facts. My rule with search engines is use one that can find information needed and use them as little as you need. At the end of the day search engine is just database of websites with ability to look up data. I have worked on enough companies to know that all they care in the end is profit, nothing else matters. No corporation is your friend and they will screw you over if it helps them make more profit.

For that site using eMatrix with Palememe/NewMoon all it seems all required is CSS and images to for the domain a-z-animals.com, nothing else needed for subdomains. It loads just fine. Sadly this method is getting more and more hard to do as developers implement more intrusive means of identifying users. Most websites wont even load anymore unless you enable javascript, even to show row or two worth of text. Even more to add insult to injury many sites automatically accuses you for being bot or even goes to harrash you if fail their collective hive mind test that is laughed by anyone who knows or worked with modern day rogue bots 100% hacker and scraper proof test or crash your customized browser setup (anubis and cloudflare loves to do that). Let just say this way that big kids told me that there may be slight change you may be able to spoof headless bot setup to look like regular setup. While currently yes it takes bit of extra cpu time, in long terms as prices per instruction comes down on processors it is only extremely short term solution. As for machine learning model scraping, I can admit that is problem and those do bombard sites a lot. But I doubt the big players are stopping it just because of it. They likely already got workarounds with methods that I may or may not know. In long term this will only make web more and more hostile to end user and forcefully limit freedom of browsers. Even some ecommerce sites I used say I am bot when try access them. Well I guess I can buy stuff from your competitor and hopefully make you go bankrupt! Would you be fine if when going to store guard would do cavity search for you and interrogate you and then turn you out from the store since you like wear different type of clothes than others? Well I used to say not likely, but way world is going I am sure 99% of people would bow into that and even love cavity search and being treated like scum in name of catching few thieves. But for those who would not why would you accept same treatment on web then? This all reminds me bad old days when needed Internet Exploder 4 to view site for no good reason. I guess history repeat itself again... At this point I quit using 98% of the Internet, I do research on paper books or sometimes using old digital offline dictionaries on my old workstation. Aside from this forum I mostly login into bank and visit few small personal websites and few message boards that have not gone totally mad yet. I hate to say it but going offline is way to go forward...

One you linked does not work since that site also treat anyone as bot by default. Link to main repo works: https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x/ . I love when site tells to get out and says you are bot by default, I generally put those sites to my hall of shame. Yes I know bot crawling is big problem but I hate when they break everything thinking they can outsmart developers. I am pretty sure scrapers are laughing at countermeasures like that. Enough rambling, that seems to be nice for getting some non networking unix utils to run under Windows 9x. That is daydream for anyone who fiddles with both systems daily. With Xserver could do lot of things. You can run standalone X server in Windows 95 and pass it to modern Linux/Unix box using ssh via putty win32old branch. That one I can personally confirm to work down to Windows 95 OSR2 just fine. Xserver I know to work under Windows 95 that I used long ago was MicroImages Xserver. That might be little outdated and there is likely better options for Windows 95 too just been long time since played with them.

Wonder how does that endure in cold? And by cold mean extreme temperatures at -40c that are common in harsh winters here where I live. There is very little type of battery chemistry that withstand abuse here for rapid temperature cycles. Now I am not too interested in EV:s aside from diesel electric and pantograph powered electric locomotives (love the sound of VR class SR1 and SR2 traction motors in the morning at station), but batteries failing at cold and short lifespan is extremely large issue here for startup battery and also for anything that requires to be powered by it's own power source for example lights, handheld radios, drills etc and while there is already specialized battery technologies they all got flaw or other. As far as I understood from article that also does not have issue or corroding trough battery and destroying equipment is connected on nor risk of catching fire. Another use case I would find that as extremely useful is on the UPS units at server rooms. Current battery technologies got their own safety flaws. That could provide much safer option for those. I seen swollen and near exploding and dangerously overheated UPS batteries over the years when done my job. While sometimes it is user error I seen original new OEM batteries do that as well. If you got some links to research for that temperature endurance with tofu brine I would be interested in reading about it. Always want search on new type of battery technologies. Specially interested in comparing that to with silver calcium, NI-MH and Lithium Ion under low temperatures.

It has worked for few day just fine for me. I got 160gb hard drive hooked up with 140gb worth of video files, mostly clips from finnish tv between 1988-2003 (how so that I got problem hoarding clips ) and so far have not encountered any issues. I used updated ESDI_506.PDR that ms released for OSR2 as base and patched it with sata and lba48 patches on first boot. That is good to know. I need try it someday to see how works. I am already using some files from Windows 98. Fdisk from the q263044 update (extracted and renamed fdisk.98s into fdisk) and scandisk from Windows 98 install cd. 95 one do not work well with volumes over 32gb but ones from 98SE works oobe. Also took msconfig from Windows 98 to get UI for adjusting things. Also additional themes, like my favorite space works with 95 Plus! Theme applet. At this point I have reached stage of "too easy" with Windows 98/ME on too many things so I will do 95 to get some challenge and break limits again. Back in the day I used Windows 95 for very little period as new system could not run it because of too fast processor. Even 450mhz processor was enough cause protection error. Back in day there was no cpu speed fix aside from AMD K6 fix (that was needed for any cpu over 350mhz) from ms that needed os to run to apply. Maybe floppy/cd based bootable fix I use these days did exist back then and I was just unaware of it. However that patch makes it much easier get speed related fixes without needing swap boards or cpu:s and makes 95 setup fast on fast machines. I am currently rocking Windows 95 on Compaq Presario 7479 with AMD K6-2 533mhz I got as broken, swapped out psu and it works. Using external control card to get more drive space which is why made this topic. It is running very well so far.

Quote from the manual part you mentioned: I am using drive that is under 400gb so it should work. As for that Windows 95 32gb hdd limit it is in my experience due scandisk and fdisk, I ran Windows 95 on i440LX board for few years with bigger hard drive with scandisk and fdisk from the Windows 98 without issues. As for what I meant was this from rloew manual: Version 5.1 onward also had Windows 95 (untested) support which I am testing here with compatible control card. I got drives hooked to PCI control card that uses it own boot bios that got support for large drives as seen in the product information page. I also verified it using instructions on manual and it shows "48-BIT Support Verified" for the secondary 160gb hard drive. Therefore it should work. I am still doing more testing with this. I mostly got media files on the drive and boot drive is 80gb. I have read the manual of the patch and what it does. This is to see how much Windows 95 is actually limited aside from the scandisk and fdisk limit. Interesting, it is also not tied to single vendor drives?

There was LBA48 patch IF CONTROLLER SUPPORTS LBA48 from rloew: https://www.rloewelectronics.com/distribute/PATCH137/ I have used that before on other systems where control card supports LBA48 to work around issues with hard drives since Windows 9x default driver does not work well with drives over 137gb. Some boards can do IAA, but not all. On manual it says BIOS support for hard drives >137GB (48-Bit LBA) as requirement which I got from controller and verified using 48BITLBA utility from that patch. Terabyte plus pack is not needed for 160gb hard drive I am using. Have not gone that mental yet and tried to use 1tb drives with Windows 9x. Is that patch bootloader based like OnTrack DDO, or does it work like Intel Application Accelerator on i810 or other non lba48 chipset where it enables software LBA48 without boot loader.

I love that implication on Enhanced protection how it admits will send browsing data to google and feed it to algorithm based machine learning. I do not like the "AI" buzzword. Too overused. IT IS MACHINE LEARNING. Bit off topic but I remember early 90s Korg M1 music workstation having "AI" synth advertised on it and in early 2000s Asus had their "AI" series motherboards which meant some overclocking/fan control thingy. It seems buzzword is back and fed everyone. I agree that machine learning has gotten much better in terms of doing things than it used to be and I have ran tests with it using local models with very impressive results, but I do not agree on hype and slapping "AI" sticker everywhere for the THIRD TIME IN 30 years.

I had to remove LayoutFile= entry from inf file because for some reason Windows 95 OSR 2.0/OSR 2.1 will not complete driver install wizard if that line exists. Finish button will not work no matter how many times click. I had same issue with other drivers. I cant explain why it has to be removed, I guess it is feature on 98 and up that 95 cannot do. However after I removed that line it worked perfectly. Driver installed and even DMA mode worked just fine. I no longer have warnings about 16bit hard drive access. Thank you very much for your help! I could have gone easy way and stick either with Windows 95 using buggy stock controller (thanks to compaq bios) and accept 32gb hdd limit or used controller with Windows 98SE, but where is the fun in that? Using that control card and Rloew LBA48 patch I can use bigger drives on this old Apollo MVP4/AMD K6-533 board.

Sorry here is the output file from the devtree. devtree.txt

I had Class Code (cc) in top one and I just added subsystem just in case you needed it too. I formed it way you instructed with class code being the last:

Sorry for mixup, I have not dealt too much with this part of Windows 9x. Anyway I got it via registry: Subsystem was: I looked it up and it is ATA/133 controller not raid like though as it worked fine with Windows 98 using Silicon Image ATA driver. My Windows 95 just happen to be crawling since 16bit disk access so took some time to get those.

H264 is generally hit and miss with Windows 9x and it does generally cause extra cpu load which makes it sub-optimal for my uses cases. It is not best solution but I had good luck with AVI files encoded with Xvid codec using ffmpeg. Even Pentium 2 333mhz can handle one at 640x480 with 25-30fps without issues. It does take bit extra space but it is worth it for me to be able run them down to NT 4.0/95 just fine.

Windows 9x lacks built in tool for testing it so I used UDK and here is result: Detected Chip Vendor - Silicon Image Inc (Was: CMD Technology Inc) * Detected Chip Device - SiI 0680 (Was: PCI-0680) Ultra ATA133 EIDE Controller Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_1095&DEV_0680\BUS_00&DEV_0B&FUNC_00

How do I confirm mode? Via hardware ID? I got sii0680-3400.zip IDE BIOS v 3.4.00 on it at the moment. On Windows 98 it works with Sil680 ide driver but it does not support Windows 95

Mine is running on IDE mode using IDE bios not raid mode. It can run on both ide and raid mode depending on the bios

Card chip says: Silicon Image SIL680AC. It is real PCI card hooked up to to one of the slots in my presario. It has also it own bios that inits during boot and shows same chip revision and it is booting Windows just fine, just lacking native 95 driver therefore it is falling back to 16bit compatibility. It would nice to have special INF for Silicon Image Controller if one exists to get it work properly. 16bit fallback mode makes whole system slow down to crawl. If can get DMA mode would be even nicer.

It is dual channel ide bus control card in pci slot i put on presario 7479 since I highly dislike the onboard via controller/or compaq bios hdd size limit bug. Using that external controller as boot device can use large drives no issues. I disabled onboard controller channels too so there is no too many devices. I did not not know that pci native mode is not supported by stock ESDI_506.PDR file.. There seems to be 95 version: https://www.rloewelectronics.com/distribute/SATA/95/ I need to try it tomorrow when got time. Controller does not by default advertise itself as PCI ata controller just pci device but it can be used for booting just fine and it own bios loads. There is driver for it but not for the Windows 95, just 98SE and above. If I want make it work then I should try install it as PCI ATA controller after applying the patch and see if works?

Sorry for delays, I had some real life things I had to deal with. Let just say fixing up broken joint on car is easier than fixing up broken one on human and I really have not had lot of time work on my 95 project because of it. I will get you information on those functions as soon as possible using dependency walker. There is quite lot of incompatibilities on calls with GTK libraries and Windows 95. This is more of trying to do the impossible thing for me as personal challenge.

I have been playing with old Silicon Image SI680 PCI ATA 133 controller (card bios flashed as ide not raid) on my Compaq Presario 7479 due Compaq wonderful auto configuration bios that causes issues with some IDE drives. It does load bios extension and works fine 98 and up, but there is no official driver for the Windows 95 OSR2. I have already tried installing 98 one but it just gives "device cannot start code 10, device files are not present". I also tried to install CMD 649 that is chip predecessor drivers but they just cause blue screen about 32bit driver having conflicting entries, I do not have anything driver related on config.sys or autoexec.bat so it is not that. Same happens if I try to use generic pci ide driver included with Windows 95. And after I got bsods I did remove HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS\NoIDE registry key to reset compatibility mode that bsod causes so that is not messing stuff. I also tried pretty much failsafe esdi/ide controller, it does not show error, but it does not detect either channel and hard drive is still stuck at 16bit transfer mode that is slow. I cannot get hard drives attached to controller to work on 32bit mode no matter what I try. Anyone here had experience with using unsupported IDE controllers with Windows 95B? Is there some more universal generic driver I could try to make it work?

I have been running that version for years without problems on both Windows server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 x64. It is much more strict for my taste than Windows default firewall. I like firewall that blocks all by default and only permits if i allow it. That is why I like it over Windows one. Maybe I have worked too long on enterprise environments when think that way...

Finally got more around banging head to wall with this. It seems it cant be simply made to work on 95. Was thinking could R. Loew dllhook used with Windows 98/SE version of kernel32.dll to work around some of the limitations, or is there other way to do it? If I try simple way just copying kernel32.dll from Windows 98 into Pidgin program folder and renaming it kernel98.dll, then using hex editor to change all references inside Pidgin file from kernel32 to kernel98.dll it results error in kernel32 that it was meant for newer version of windows. I have no idea how dll checks for kernel build version and how to spoof it.

Good starting point would be trying compile driver with Windows 98 DDK (not SE). There is seperate version for 98 FE that introduced WDM support for it. It also needed some additional programs like visual studio to function. You should not need Windows HLK as Windows 98 had no hardware signatures enforcing.

That is too bad. I got one nice Haswell system around, I guess I keep it on pre Haswell or AMD platform. Second system is also in my list of products interested as it seems to be much more compatible than any other kernel at the time plus having vista support is nice. One question that I got from second system is that is it globally forced on after install or can I make off by default and only enabled if needed? That came to my mind since you mentioned some programs needing it to be disabled from them. Having it on for all would cause too much headache with system having lot of programs. I do have debit card but it got pretty much zero funds and it I blocked it usage on online shops. I use it to fill up car on self service stations mostly. I don't know about Poland but here electric money transfers are performed on billing or wire transfers. What I usually get is weird look when I ask can those be used for paying. I prefer not have anything funded automatically as it makes disputing chargers way harder.