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[Floyd]

and on this good new computer I have been using, the on-board sound card seems to have disappeared, much like the on-board LAN did on my laptop.

cheap piece of shit, why cant they make computers without integrated peripherals anymore?

[Sam Brown]

Floyd, on 11 March 2012 - 12:03 PM, said:

No, I need to build my own operating system that is not garbage and take down Microsoft. they say linux is better it is not, macs are overpriced and under-preforming, OS/2 relies on porting shit from windows and Linux, (but native OS/2 programs are awesome!) Windows NT 3.51 really is the closest thing I have seen to a perfect operating system.

http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html ?

[Floyd]

Sam Brown, on 13 March 2012 - 11:25 AM, said:

http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html ?

I am aware of reactos, it is ok, but hardware compatibility sucks, it wont even run under MS Viurtual PC.

It looks like I can get the PCI version of the on-board sound card with a bunch more features for just $10.00, so I may do that, for the time being, I pulled the sound card out of one of my older computers and stuck it in there but it does not work with OS/2.

[Sam Brown]

Floyd, on 13 March 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:

I am aware of reactos, it is ok, but hardware compatibility sucks, it wont even run under MS Viurtual PC.

Then fix-it-fix-it-fix-it-fix-it-fix-it.

[Floyd]

I just hacked the registry so I could install avast free antivirus on Windows 2000 server.

woo hoo!

Windows 2000 server can run the latest versions of all this:
Firefox
Flash Player
Avast Antivirus

it can also run all of this
Microsoft Office 2003
iTunes 7
WMP 9

so yeah, Windows 2000 is pretty fucking awesome!

[Floyd]

and now, thanks to a Japanese website (translated, poorly) I am now running Windows Media Player 10 on Windows 2000:

the WMP toolbar even works

Microsoft would go broke if they didn't depend on planned obsolescence! Everything they have done since 1999 is pointless, the only real advances they have made are in the fields of making things shiny.

[Floyd]

Floyd, on 20 May 2012 - 10:42 AM, said:

the only real advances they have made are in the fields of making things shiny.

Oh wait, Windows 2000 can do that too!

[Floyd]

This computer has gotten to where it freezes a lot, at first I thought it was Windows 2000, but XP is doing it too. eComStation seems to be running great still, though. The weird part is that it ran fine all day and did not start fucking up until about 7:00. it has frozen part of the way through startup for a few weeks, though. I think it is on the verge of dieing.

[Floyd]

the random freezes have stoped, but now this happened:


Fuck you firefox, pawns in the pocket of Microsoft's planned obsolecence orgy.

[Floyd]

Right now, I am posting from Windows Preinstallation Environment, a scaled-back version of Windows Vista that boots from a CD and runs from a RAMdrive. It takes up 201 MEGABYTES on the CD and the RAMdrive is 9.37 Megabytes. I installed Firefox, for shits and giggles, and it worked (I had to install it to the hard drive, but it could be made to run from the CD or RAMdrive.

What I don't understand is why Microsoft won't let people use WinPE to build their own version of Windows that does only what they want it to. Well actually, I do understand why, it's so they can make more money.
anyway, as soon as I get a decent computer running again, I am going to do just that, have a version of WinPE that runs Firefox and Program Manager and Winfile from CD. IT WILL BE RAD.

[Floyd]

[Floyd]

The case for my new computer finally came, it's finished! I think the rotary telephone looks great on top of i

[Floyd]

and here's the inside, if anyone cares: