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slow service. Took near week to get my coffee. I want my money back (what money?)

I may need give that a shot. but..but big companies said it is so I cant question them. Life taught me that most of modern tech is done too complex and poorly designed making it horrible for purpose it was designed for. Take modern TV example. It got homecall features that cant be disabled and it lacks many features my old tv got.

I agree with this. Office programs only gotten more heavy over time and added useless features. Office 97 was first MS office that did not suck but it issue with crashing was since it drew dialog menus using it own graphics not windows native menus that could result to low resources and crashing. I tried office softwares on my netbook too and starting libreoffice with ssd took 2 minutes.

I did not include links since codecs may or may not be allowed here since some of them are in grey zone since "they are stealing" at least in DMCA law that wont apply here. Codecs are hosted in Finnish sites and none of them has not been taken down. You can search those with duckduckgo and will find multiple clean download links for them. Feels stupid that I would have to pay to be able play some type of video or DVD I got. I can understand paying for player device but not for software. I used to call Maxtor drives Maxturds for reliability issues. I had one 40gb Maxtor that had only half usable even after wiping drive. Older ones were fine I guess. Second horrible was Quantum drives especially LCT series. I have 15gb one and it had plenty of bad blocks and know one of those drives that had controller glowing red. Both of companies were sold to Seagate later I think. Older Seagates before they bought Maxtor and Quantum were pretty good. I got bunch of 20gb drives from them as spares. Those were everywhere here. Compaq, HP, Pohjanmaan mikro and most custom computers from era had one.

I supposed post some of my latest testing earlier, but it has been delayed since I had bit of accident with my trusty old headphones. I stepped into wire while moved up from seat and well guess what happened. I have been looking spare for while and finally did find good one with 40mm audio elements. I need larger headphone cups for comfort since got big head. Seems finding non wireless headphones today is hard and most of them are studio or TV headphones that are wired. Also got spare headphone until new one arrives so could finish my testing. Ok now to test results. I was experimenting with codecs on older windows versions. Two test systems were my custom Pomi-pc 800 with Pentium 3 EB 800mhz, Nvidia TNT2 M64 32mb, 512mb ram, Windows 98 Second Edition with Micro shell as OS and Compaq Presario 5000 with Intel Celeron 850mhz, TNT Riva 16mb, 256mb ram and Windows Millennium edition (it is close enough to windows 98SE with few minor tweaks and drivers and programs under the hood so mention it here). I installed following codecs for both Combined-Community-Codec-Pack-2007-02-22.exe and ffdshow_rev2322_20081114_clsid.exe I wont link files here since codecs are sorta grey zone in legality and not sure if violation of board rules but if someone from moderators confirms it is ok I will link them here. Personally I say if I download free codec packs from internet and it will result for someone to run out of business it is their fault for not having proper business plan and relying all into that stupid codec. Codec packs been around since forever and they wont go anywhere in future. I tested codecs with MP4 files under Media player 6.4 on Windows 98SE with 98micro shell and under Media player 7.1 on Windows Millennium edition. On both platforms playback was smooth and only issue occured on some 1 hour MP4 file but shorter ones played just fine. I need re-encode that file for more efficient settings and try again. Here screenshots from players. I could not include video since windows does not support capturing video to screenshot but you can see MP4 playing on them. Pomi with Windows 98 and Media player 6.4 and since early 2000 pc must play early 2000 music video. compaq with slightly faster cpu (800 vs 850mhz) and media player 7.1. This is vanilla non lited Windows ME install that can see from Evie the Evil "e" logo on quick launch. Video runs smoothly too. Also for last thing protip to make 16:9 videos play forcefully on 4:3 aspect ratio (not always good idea) since most likely uses CRT or other 4:3 monitor with Windows 98. Go to ffdshow video decoder configuration on start menu, then go to Resize&aspect and toggle resize checkbox and click specify aspect ratio and set it 4:3. After that select no aspect ratio correction on aspect ratio menu below it and click apply. I attach picture from what it should be since it is easier tell from picture. That seems work decently on videos and solves black border on top and bottom. Be aware that also will make some things look strange so your mileage may ware

start by installing 98LITE free version from litepc.net it will allow all expect micro config. Then choose shell swap and pick either sleek (windows 95 shell) or chubby (win98 shell with IE bloat disables). You can do it on a fly and revert back to default is regret without reinstall. That will already make it more snappy I am running 98lite pro with Micro shell on my 800mhz Pentium 3 and it flies. that is not issue until wallpaper needs to be redrawn. Lets imagine you have window filling whole screen and you minimise it. Windows 95/98 redraws desktop wallpaper. I mostly see it on pentium class machines.

I had same issue on my lab setup also running ryzen. Microsoft did release patch but when I installed it same issue still. I experienced high cpu usage and slowdowns that did not exist win10. It was known issue according MS and maybe there is patch but for me going to buggy beta software is not worth it. At the end what super impressive to end user MS has brought after win7? For me only recisting more freedom and control over my OS (That actually started on windows 98)

time from power button to desktop is not whole loading time always. Operating system might be still loading modules on background. Also boot time is not only thing measured in performance. Response time on desktop is more important to me. Some high end servers i worked with takes 10 minutes to boot and my old digital laptop from 1994 takes around 30 seconds so does this mean that laptop is faster? No.

you need return to past. Here is link from wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20201231215821/http://www.rayer.g6.cz/1tmp/7772mod.vxd

I have no idea but at end or year I have crt monitor, new stereo system, load of nokia and siemens phones, new laptops and desktops and other stuff I got for free. Good year hardware wise. Now time to decorate my house again for season. lets hope you will be ok. Sad to hear that you have issues with health. Well nothing cant stop from trying enjoy life as long as it lasts. Nobody knows when it ends so better enjoy and not worry too much. P.S Where is my coffee?

that was pretty much Windows Really Trash was good at. I sorta wished they would have had done similar port to windows NT 4 on PPC and MIPS that would not have been locked down

Bit offtopic that symbian part made me cringe out like crazy. Most of stuff highly depent on manufacture implementation of it. Also big bugs causing constant crashes mostly existed on early devices like Nokia 7650 early firmware revisions and were later patched. My 6600 have not had single crash expect when I tried dump part of ROM with fexplorer that forced me to pull battery. Also I browsed WAP pages with it back in day (it did cost money due datalimit) and never had those strange render issues unless had bad network coverage also Android 11 did same as symbian did when did when going from s60 2nd edition to s60 3rd edition due new security model that broke many apps. Also early days of android were buggy so why android is not on list? Oh yeah it is because symbian bad android/ios good. Also one major reason why symbian is kept bad was after Eflop left Micro$oft to be Nokia CEO and there was accidental "leak" from internal document where he said symbian sucks and quickly after it surprise Nokia next mobile os was Windoze mobile and Eflop went back to Microsoft and everyone were and still are happy to ignore and change of that being done on purpose by Microsoft. And if symbian is so bad why there is still community around it? My purpose is not say Android is bad, it has it potential rather show how many seems built their knowledge based on quick internet research and not testing it themself. Same people say that Windows vista is bad, windows ME is bad, Windows XP x64 is bad despite most never used any of those. Fully update any of those and test with proper software and drivers and result is way different

Mozilla VPN is same as Mullvald VPN expect sold with "good" mozilla and collects plenty of data on process to big G. Mullvald VPN works with Openvpn. Always buy VPN from actual provider and not someone who rebrands it

Atleast netscape 4.5 included Palmsync addon for contacts and same was availabe as plugin to seamonkey/thunderbird

I was more into symbian PDA devices since well Nokia and never had PalmOS or Windows CE PDA. My current toys are https://nokiamuseuminfo.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/nokia-e90/ that I hacked to support SHA-2 certs and loaded Nokia Maps offline. I know it is phone but I use that as my PDA since it is battery hungry compared 6110. Second from that lineup I got is https://nokiamuseuminfo.wordpress.com/2004/09/08/nokia-9300/. Those are more like Palmtop instead of tradiotional PDA and combined with offline Nokia maps, frogfind and SHA2 hack I can get lot out of them. Why did consept of palmtops and deciated PDA overall die away? I prefer have phone and PDA as seperate devices since in my opinion device you may need to use in emergency to call should not serve in things like web browsing or email or maps or calendar since they will drain your battery. Also flipping one of those open will turn people heads since rarely see any device with that design Well even if those handsets would be 100% unusable online they will provide lot of fun in offline use.

This seems interesting soluction for places I need to use firefox. Does that allow on a fly patching so wont need go trough dialog everytime. If that works wins arkenfox js. I hope you did not use proxy on any part because new firefox bypasses proxy for "important" functions if fails to reach server.

I use EMatrix on UXP based browsers that works great and gives me per domain or subdomain control over cookies, css, images, script, xhr, frame. I call it lack of privacy policy. They only exist to protect developer/company from being liable from stealing data. Best security is end user and that I why I prefer things like noscript, ematrix and others as they add actual security layer.

dangers of open information and communication platform were quickly realised. It gave people a change to look things from other perspective than one they had been told.

give me a big coffee and donut . Benefit of being is to have apartment/house without anyone else around after rough day or when feel annoyed. Can just lock in and wont need to see anyone face. I will be fine however it ends. At the end I can get unemployment support money and I got plenty of training from servers and others already so finding new job should not be too hard. Fear is what keeps people on consuming it. Something is always going to cause us all die or something else. What happened to good news? Media has taken deep dive here since early 2000 and now try imitate US news channels like CNN, NBC etc. instead of their original classic style. I still miss classic MTV3 news studio from 1997-2005. But well it is all must imitate american instead of having their own culture. Sad to see world taking deep dive in that. Well atleast we still go teletext and YLE news window even though last one is ugly compared YLE24 News window. And yes I feel nostalgic about TV what is used to be

for me it seems you have not been cheated in your life or been lucky to find one that actually care from you. I am not egoist and I rather use my time people around me that actually care and is greatful for my doings. I cant understand why it would not be ok to be single and focus things on life that actually matter and been there longer than any relationship. Relationship should be more than just status symbol or something that happens on bed but nobody seems to care to want that.

I'm feeling worried. My current work contract will end on this week and nobody in nobody has not said anything from renewing it. I will see my boss at later this week and was told to bring my laptop and phone there so I assume it is over. Just when had rooted into work and got into environment used and everyone started to know me it will end. Why it is always IT department that suffers when got finanical issues and not some useless department? Well usually lack of technicians is noticed rather quickly.

I wont bother looking for another one again. All I had were first interesting then found out more or they did not like way I was. Time for you to start living again and give time for yourself and hobbies. I have started think they are not worth my time and should not waste my life them. I noticed your notifications since had mentions like crazy and was thinking why but this explains a lot.

i think you meant already went. Tell me is there any real alternative that would not have any depencies on big corpos? Many times it all comes back to library or render engine or other from big corpos. I cannot see use of articles on this one yet until is offical. Lets hope lack of those wont bother you too much

I meant it disables some more precise fingerprinting and prevents stealing clipboard and getting your mac address. And I know it is not only way. I have been able extract user window resolution from latest tor browser while js was off. And I wont mean fake reso it uses rather what is monitor actual resolution. And bigger issue with javascript is that it is unauthorised code executed on cpu and it can be anything

for me dealbreakers are lack of expansion, I mean ISA or PCI slot would be cool, lack of 3d accerlation, lack of beeper, sd card as only storage option, but idea and fact it is made from new parts is cool. Though there is something cool about having big old noisy white tower too.