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Best to just be nice to everyone here to be safe. The forum rules are for direct talking but Vistapocalypse didn't use it that way. The word dude has some different types of meaning to different people. In general in the US it is just used towards everyone and no one cares about it. How it can be used in other countries and which of the historical "definitions" or connotations it is associated with I don't know. Such as if the word became known in x country to relate to one of the old meanings such as "person from city/out of their element" and then that country did not go through the word progression that happened in the US, then many TV and movies from US use the term, there may be a different understanding in that country. But in general "dude" is casual speak and can work everywhere but in a professional or corporate environment. As such, there are some people who take offense to the word dude, typically professionals and those in corporate environments, doctors or government people. But no issue for anyone to call anyone dude on the forum.

To be clear, what you are looking for are likely NKRO (No Keyboard Roll Over) keyboards, although likely a 6KRO would be enough. The issue is that this was a feature that isn't documented and it seems the only reason why there is a list of known KRO keyboard capabilities is because people have been testing various models themselves. https://member.keymusician.com/Help/KeyboardsSupportingMultipleKeys.html Also according to a post on stackexchange, the IBM Model M is 2KRO as opposed to the IBM Model F which is NKRO. https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/6669/how-do-i-remove-the-limit-on-pc-keyboard-button-presses

It looks like I will finally get started to make some Windows 11 images after getting a few more things from Microsoft. Apparently the Windows 10 National Academic version has reached EOL (End of License) so it cannot be purchased, and if someone wants the NA product they need to get the Windows 11 version.

Floaters are normal. When asked by eye doctor in the past if I had them, the answer of yes that relates to the two quotes you put are not of a concern. Now there is a concern if they are impairing your vision or you can seem them all of the time. That is how it is explained to me the difference. I had first noticed them when I was a kid when I was sick a lot, laying on the couch or bed and staring at random things. You can have flashing of lights for various reasons also but again it is only a problem if it is happening constantly or for extended periods of time. But an eye doctor can tell what the dark spot is, something like that should not stay for more than 10 minutes or so. You could have a burn, the same thing that can happen if you look at the sun.

Posts in Funny Farm section does not increase post count. PS: I'm a member of a forum that uses badges and they had badges for "posts in a day" such as 10, 100, 250, 500 and 1000. I think on that forum no one got to 1000 posts in a day but I did manage to get 500 posts in a day. But since multiple members attempted the 500 posts in a day badge on the same day, the Admin decided that giving a badge for 500 (or 1000) posts in a day was a bad idea.

We can't all be everywhere and we all have our own favorite sections or threads to read. If you mean Xper, he can be summoned when there is a big problem to solve and he would fall into the category of "web site admin" as you put it. But he is not active in the forum as you can tell and also he is not active in being a hobbyist anymore either. So there may be little reason for him to decide to put in the time and effort to make a change for an older OS or "obscure" browser version.

Done

@Win10-Hater The forum is not a blog so your post was merged here. The only other place you can post something like this is in your intro thread (if you have one) or as a status update on your profile.

The (relative) Extensions I have on this are: - DDG Privacy Essentials - HTTPS Everywhere - NoScript - UBO

Love these tests. My results. Iron 77.0.4000.0 x64: 24/38 red Iron with UBO installed: 23/38 red Firefox 69.0.3 x64: test doesn't run with js disabled (my default state) Firefox (same) with js enabled for xsinator.com only: 3/38 red (with 10 gray/loading state)

Log4j might be another issue entirely. One in which the vulnerability was known years ago, but the fixes seem to have been to fix the particular attack vectors that have been published. It seems that the 3 people who work on that particular portion only really lept into action once the exploit was made (in)famous on Minecraft especially server instances. It seems all of these are relevant to the current CVE as they are all about doing the same thing but using different vectors. But who knew you could just paste a string into the Minecraft console and get it to work. https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Munoz-A-Journey-From-JNDI-LDAP-Manipulation-To-RCE.pdf https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5645 https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2019-17531/ But auto updates is always a bad thing, especially those programs that update to incompatible versions. In regards to modern Windows where disabling updates is more of a pain, I've recently been experimenting with blocking all Microsoft IPs/domains on a firewall and it seems to work alright. The obvious issue is that some websites can no longer be used, but I am doing this for 10 interfaces.

Just to play old flash content. There are some CDs that use Flash so archivists would still need it, or people who are just going through old CDs.

One would think that a good art thief or forger would be one that doesn't get caught immediately. The art thief analogy would be closer to one where the thief goes up to the painting, at the busy time of the museum's day, with no concern for hiding themselves from security or other people, just walks up and tries to take it from the wall.

The topic title is incorrect. As far as I can tell, they just removed the amount of dislikes that a video has received. The dislike button is still present and usable and presumably the uploader can still see how many dislikes there are.

Typically when seeing the individual files being loaded, the ones last shown on the list before a crash or freeze are the ones that loaded properly, and it is the following ones that are causing the problem. You should do the step-by-step confirmation boot to hopefully find out which item is actually causing the problem. Also your hardware may not be correct for Windows 2000, can you post your specs?

We already know Valentina doesn't have good taste, since their first post on this forum was to post a spam link.

Vista was the transitional stage. Recovery media was a requirement from before that, but Vista was the first that had a Microsoft provided hard-disk based recovery solution. Prior to that, OEMs were using custom third-party solutions such as SoftThinks among others. Large OEMs were the first to ditch providing a DVD and it likely comes down to cost reasons. Since there are minimum order requirements at a replicator, an OEM that sells a large amount of systems like Dell or HP could move more towards the minimum order instead of having to ensure they purchased enough DVDs to match systems. For smaller companies where their forcasted sales figures were at or below this minimum order requirement, those OEMs would just ship a DVD anyways because they had enough stock to do so. And these minimums still exist to this day, so you could potentially find recovery DVDs from small OEMs for Windows 10 and maybe even Windows 11. There has been options for years to use USB recovery but it is more expensive and I have no knowledge of any OEM using that method.

Just yesterday, suddenly there is a stock price indicator on the taskbar. It is for Amazon and for the life of me I can't figure out how to change what stock symbol shows on there. Even worse, sometimes it is shown, sometimes it shows some other symbol (Apple) or goes away completely. I don't mind that a stock symbol sometimes appears next to the tray, but it would be nice if I could control how it looks.

Confirmed the (moon) button does "something" but it doesn't change the theme on the forum.

I find it interesting that I haven't done any work with Windows 11 since installing it two times before GA, and that it appears to be the case that there is no interest in this OS. I am aware of one instance of something asking about availability of editions and that seems to be it.

Pressed discs are rare to show up as blank in a PC CD drive but there are reasons for it. Primary is any CD that has a "rot" issue, such as some damage to the reflective layer in just the right spot may lead to a disc being unreadable. Another possibility is that if the disc is "Enhanced CD" but the data portion is not compatible in some way. Since on a PC, it will try to read the data content before audio content in Explorer. Then there are discs that are just bad altogether, it is rare and I'd say you're more likely to run into this than incompatible Enhanced CD discs. I also just looked up Wii discs, it seems concensus is that they are based on DVD format, not CD and the filesystem used isn't something Windows can recognize. There have been some advancement as now there are PC emulators for Wii so someone must have come up with a way for a standard DVD drive to read that kind of disc. In the early days of Wii, you apparently needed some specific LG/Hitachi DVD drive in your computer to read them normally... or say like how you can see what is on a PlayStation disc anyways. For the Wii discs if you are going to move those, just note that they are untested. There is even a market for defective game discs (on any system) for some reason, but "untested" games is common to see.

It is done, but now your avatar is an N instead of an A!

There are certainly some instances where a small company may have made a run of discs themselves and used CD-R and then put a label on it, I have seen it before. There are also times where a contracted company may have used CD-Rs in order to send media to companies, contractors for large companies who could afford pressed discs like Sony. The main issue with CD-R is that they do not stand the test of time as the organic dyes will degrade after many years, so it is not uncommon to find 20 year old CD-R not readable in a drive. But also consider that CD-R from that long ago used to have issues with how they were "mastered" or created that could effect how they could be read. The primary example was that sometimes CD-R could not be read in a CD player outside of a computer, but I do recall some other instances where some CD-R could not be read on a computer that didn't have (for example) Adaptec EZ CD Creator installed. I have never tried a Wii disc in a computer.

I'm not certain. In the panel it says "change display name" You may want to PM a person who got a name change in this thread that is an active user and ask them how it changes logon.