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14 Nov 2023, 18:35
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Post your favorite cars/car brads.
Replies: 5
Views: 5547
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Post your favorite cars/car brads.

The most reliable car must be the Volvo 240. It bounces across the potholes and despite its age can be found quite often here and there. In East Germany, the Lada Niva is still very popular. Looks like all car manufacturers bloat their cars with unnecessary stuff nowadays, even Lada does. So no favo...
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14 Nov 2023, 18:07
Forum: Windows XP & Server 2003
Topic: Windows XP guide
Replies: 3
Views: 4619
Germany

Windows XP guide

Ah, you found an key activation program as well.

I was about to write about trying out the search terms "Windows Activation Scripts". This leads to a developer being called Massgravel. His scripts has been online for quite a while and Microsoft doesn't seem to bother to remove them.
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14 Nov 2023, 17:55
Forum: Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2
Topic: Windows 7 In 2023-Beyond : State Of Windows Thread
Replies: 4
Views: 6388
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state of windows 7 in 2023-beyond?

In a similar way to Windows XP, Windows 7 will need some configuration to be useable in the future. Windows 7 is quite chatty by default, so I did cut all Microsoft-related traffic off my network, including updates. So no problems with nagging screens here. It's not suitable for online banking anywa...
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12 Sep 2023, 08:58
Forum: Windows XP & Server 2003
Topic: Windows XP guide
Replies: 3
Views: 4619
Germany

Windows XP guide

On the low-spec end of the scale, I think Windows XP is useful on eveything above 1 GHz. Still, running it on a 400 MHz Celeron is worth a try, but that machine would perform better with Windows 98. Maybe someone who finds a trashy machine from the year 2000 wonders about it. My favourite piece of s...
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14 Jul 2021, 08:04
Forum: Windows 11
Topic: My theory as to why Microsoft is attempting to force TPM 2.0 as a requirement for Windows 11
Replies: 36
Views: 24990
Germany

My theory as to why Microsoft is attempting to force TPM 2.0 as a requirement for Windows 11

What about hardware builders who don't care about Windows 11? Will small niche computers like the Raspberry Pi be an option then? It depends of course, how much CPU power is needed. But seeing many of these small computers appear, it can't be that hard for them to make reasonable numbers of proper b...
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21 Jun 2021, 12:21
Forum: General Software & Hardware
Topic: Would like someone to help me create a Discord alternative
Replies: 25
Views: 6363
Germany

Would like someone to help me create a Discord alternative

The ability to voice-chat isn't enough, right? This old Teamspeak 2 is such a good piece of software, running on everything between Windows 98 and Windows 10, also in a Virtual Machine on Linux. Unfortuneatly it's closed-source and the existing code can't be modified.
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13 Jun 2021, 05:15
Forum: Concepts
Topic: emulator thingy??
Replies: 5
Views: 3461
Germany

emulator thingy??

Virtual Machines? Of course they aren't 100% perfect and they need more cpu power than a real computer. Lately, I tested Teamspeak 2 (the voice-chat program that runs on everything between Win98 and Win10) on Linux. And it worked within a WinXP virtual machine, that can connect to the internet. The ...
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18 Apr 2021, 20:01
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is it worth keeping an old 1280 by 1024 monitor that I have or should I buy an new monitor?
Replies: 16
Views: 3000
Germany

Is it worth keeping an old 1280 by 1024 monitor that I have or should I buy an new monitor?

Remote access of other PCs is another task, where you could need a large monitor. Else, your customers surprise you with their "current" resolutions. Using Windows 98 with a 16:9 monitor was a bad desicion I can recall, because with some games, the screen got confused and chose the wrong s...
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23 Mar 2021, 07:27
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What happened today?
Replies: 23
Views: 4718
Germany

What happened today?

Telemetry is like a buzzword for us, rejecting the current Windows path. I think it was rather used for Formula One cars sending data over to their engineers instead of computers sending data to their manufacturer (from my perspective as a non-native english speaker of course). Maybe the sign-up pro...
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22 Mar 2021, 11:22
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What happened today?
Replies: 23
Views: 4718
Germany

What happened today?

The current sign-up process is somewhat funny but it sets the bar quite high. I think it would improve if it allows one mistake though. Let's say, there are people around here that only know current Windows 10 from its interface, that disgusts them. And they have never used it actually, nor are they...
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19 Mar 2021, 09:26
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What happened today?
Replies: 23
Views: 4718
Germany

What happened today?

@Plokzig: I hope you find some time to go out to the park and feed the ducks! The people out there aren't all that bad. Most chaps and gals don't even have a clue, what an Incel is, nor do they know someone who changed their gender. Except in Berlin maybe! But you're correct, the internet definetly ...