Camarade_Tux

Could you attach your lastsession.ini ?

What do you exactly mean with thumbnail view ? The one where icons are replaced with thumbnail, or the one with a list of thumbnails at the bottom and a bigger preview on the top ?

Spring is back ... ... for the Southern part of Earth of course. Hope your desktops will be warm and friendly (it's getting really cold in France right now). I'll be able to make a contest this month so do your best.

I wanted to create a universal file parsing library in ocaml. VHD files should be good tests for it.

Sorry.

I made some tests : 7-zip is only 10% slower than native. I'd say this is caused by the memory, not the cpu. Also, enabling amd virtualization support prevented both windows XP and slax from booting correctly.

I guess they're using NSIS installer and NSIS installer moved to LZMA compression whichs means a smaller size. Size once installed is what is relevant here.

Wow ! I had vmware server and never really cared about the difference. However I recently formatted and didn't feel like downloading a 110MB installer which takes tens of minutes to proceed. I installed windows without problems from a CD I and then set up shared folders with more ease then under vmware. Finally I installed ocaml : mingw, msys and a big compilation which took the same time than outside the virtual machine !

I don't want to start a flame war but isn't .net 2 a big requirement for win2k ?

Start -> Run -> setuperr.log It probably has some of errors. Otherwise, does it apply to all shortcuts ? And how many times do you have rebooted ?

Try links then maybe. It all depends on what you need. Btw links can also display pictures if compiled with the correct options. I may try a mingw build for you this weekend but not before as I am very busy. @Nearly all, web has been developped before graphical interfaces were common-place which it is possible to surf without a gui.

I haven't got any bad thing in the past 14 months (at least) though I'm usong maxthon which means IE and have no antivirus. It's not really a matter of what you use, the only thing you should do is have proper _local_ security policies just like everywhere.

MPlayer+MPUI/RulesPlayer, VLC, ffdshow and Media Player Classic are all you need to play media under windows.

In fact, there is probably one and this has already been discussed here at msfn. http://www.msfn.org/board/Disk_read_error_...92k_t62546.html

You know, you can also post a screenshot of your solaris desktop.

JurgenDoe and thebigbluecan, please, no full-size images : use thumbnails in your posts. Your two images weight 800KB and even if it doesn't take ages (at least for me), the page takes longer to display and the display is broken.

Hmmm, AutoHotkey and AutoIt.

Hum, I don't know. This picture was part of the collection I use to back up my points of view, I've used it and then I realized it was 1280x800 so perfect for my screen. That's it. You may subscribe to Hustler and go through all their photo shoots.

Just a new website. Don't take the version 2 : it is huge and is a shareware. I've uploaded a 7z file of mine : http://msfn.yaxm.org/apps/uTool.7z edit : of course it is version 1.

One of the reasons I slim my installs is to get rid of windows media player which is as intrusive as an adware. My computer does what I ask it to do, no more, no less and even my mother doesn't have problems (except when she tries to paste a text copied from excel on her usb stick just like a file as she did this morning...). And another is I want to use my ram for _my_ things, not some of windows I don't care about. Of course 100MB out of my 2GB is not really noticeable but I've already run two virtual machines and other heavy apps. It's just that if you start accepting your ram to be wasted (it is wasted because not available for your own use) at 2MB per app, you quickly lose hundreds of megs. Btw, I've run Vista. I can run 3 or 4 virtual machines with lots of ram under XP. I couldn't under Vista. There's the same thing with programming langages : cpu cycles are unexpensive so let's not bother with them. OK but then you use a scripting langage which casts all over the place : not only int <-> float like in C (this is very expensive btw), but also lists to tables and other structures which is even more unsafe and then even dangerous as you can easily run out of memory. And one last thing : never ever agree on having less rights or more intrusions in private life because then you will slowly lose everything. In french we say of some people that when you give them your hand, they eat all your arm. Just don't start and refuse to have the hardware you paid for used by apps you don't want and that in fact also costs you money.

I have 2GB of memory and can easily use 400MB in maxthon with tons of things opened. I don't need swap. However windows will move data from ram to hd because it is designed that way. In my case it is bad because such swapping is absolutely unnecessary. On the other hand linux and *bsd (won't say all unix do that) keep as much as possible in ram. Under linux my hard drive can stop itself (laptop) but it is impossible under windows because it doesn't want to use its cache (and see laptop-tools IIRC). Unreal Tournament takes several seconds to load the first time, then if I run the game again, it starts within two seconds because a lot of data is in cache. It would be the same under XP but not to the same point and I would wait 3 or 4 seconds instead of 2 (it's not a matter of seconds, it's a matter of +50% or +100%). That's not because of how the memory is managed that nix or XP are bloater. XP is (nearly) bloated and OEM XP are certainly. On the linux side, OpenSuSe is very heavy (how the hell can I avoid having all the mono stuff ?) but nor Slackware nor most BSD are. 7 years ago, computers had 256MB of RAM at most and usually 128MB. XP doesn't run that well or maybe but only XP : you can't load anything (yes, I have such a machine which my father uses for his work and which is as clean as when I installed an retail XP SP2 on it and disabled as many things as possible to be a bit further from the 6MB of available memory). Use slackware upon which is slax based. I guess you know slax and you know on which hardware it boots. 256MB of memory is not a problem for it with kde and several other apps including a compiler (ocaml), emacs... And you should compile your own kernel : it's not hard and you have enough background (you know enough hardware models). Oh and slackware is modern. It may be the oldest still around, for me it is the one which works best : it recognizes my hardware better than any ubuntu thing.

Regular expressions are great to convert such scripts.

Crap I don't have Vista nor time to install it. Anyway, I hope Vize will get the same success than XPize.

A screenshot of my desktop, it's Litestep+Avedesk+CD Art Display+Console*. Just take a look inside... *not Console2 because I can't place it column-per-column or line-per-line, not with pixel-precision.

Btw, about .dmg extraction, I've found a replacement to dmg2iso/dmg2img. It's called DMGExtractor. However it is written in Java. It could be included in UniExtract and only launched if a jvm is found otherwise a message could be displayed. It is 73KB so it won't cost much. I've asked DMGExtractor's author to help me compiling his work with gcj. Right now it seems not to work well with gcj, the executable produced taking several tens of MBs.