Windows XP End of Life Approaching

[ratdude747]

Re: Windows XP End of Life Approaching

good idea, whats the difference besides XP has a 10 user limit.

Some 2003 x32 versions allow 8GB of RAM...

[goontron]

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I extended the lifespan of XP on my office machine by tossing Server 2003 R2 on it......supported till July 2015....made good use of some free VLK's.

good idea, whats the difference besides XP has a 10 user limit.

[Topcat]

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I extended the lifespan of XP on my office machine by tossing Server 2003 R2 on it......supported till July 2015....made good use of some free VLK's.

[goontron]

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looks like there will still be virus definition updates until 2015
http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/vie...p?f=61&t=30370

[c_hegge]

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^
Firefox. The latest versions always work perfectly every time for me.

[momaka]

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no flash crap to muck things up.i suspect flash/java is the cause of most old browser problems.

Pretty much.

That's unacceptable for me. A browser must be able to display everything on the web every time I ask for it, otherwise, I won't even consider it.

Good luck finding that browser. They all have issues with one thing or another. I keep a selection of everything now, just in case .

[c_hegge]

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YouTube semi-works with IE6. Plays video fine, but searching, posting, viewing related videos, and displaying comments do not work at all - but I don't care about these most of the time anyways. Once I find the video I want to watch in FF or Opera, I then pop a IE6 window and play it there. Reason being is that IE6 is very efficient with the memory. Useful when using my slightly more ancient computers.

Yahoo! mail works great, but only sometimes. Sometimes it won't load at all ("Page cannot be displayed" errors) and sometimes I get other useless warning messages that tend to annoy me. When it works, though, it's great - I get a HTML version of Yahoo that runs lightning fast.

That's unacceptable for me. A browser must be able to display everything on the web every time I ask for it, otherwise, I won't even consider it.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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There is a huge quantity of hypocrisy behind that group which called as big motion picture companies and big record companies.
They are tremendously greedy for money, they get the second place after the bankers.

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I fixed that for you.

[japlytic]

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One other thing I recently discovered is the issue of arcade machines running XP which have a network connection.

[kc8adu]

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no flash crap to muck things up.i suspect flash/java is the cause of most old browser problems.

Badcaps.net has always worked gread with IE6. I can open many many windows and still be using.. oh... about 200 MB of RAM (unless someone has uploaded gigantic inline images over 5 MP).
... which is one of the many reasons I like this forum so much: it doesn't matter what hardware and software you have... almost anything that can connect to the internet will work with BCN.

YouTube semi-works with IE6. Plays video fine, but searching, posting, viewing related videos, and displaying comments do not work at all - but I don't care about these most of the time anyways. Once I find the video I want to watch in FF or Opera, I then pop a IE6 window and play it there. Reason being is that IE6 is very efficient with the memory. Useful when using my slightly more ancient computers.

Yahoo! mail works great, but only sometimes. Sometimes it won't load at all ("Page cannot be displayed" errors) and sometimes I get other useless warning messages that tend to annoy me. When it works, though, it's great - I get a HTML version of Yahoo that rusn lightning fast.



HDD doesn't trash unless I land myself in a thread with 10+ inline images that are over 2xxx by 2xxx resolution. Viewing BCN and listening to music through YouTube, I'm usually right near the max at about 300-350 MB of RAM used.

And no, I can't max it out. Don't know what HP did in their infinite wisdom, but if I do max out the RAM to (a whopping) 512 MB, then I must loose ACPI capability .

[momaka]

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Nothing works with IE6 anymore for me. Google is all it takes to make it crash.

Badcaps.net has always worked gread with IE6. I can open many many windows and still be using.. oh... about 200 MB of RAM (unless someone has uploaded gigantic inline images over 5 MP).
... which is one of the many reasons I like this forum so much: it doesn't matter what hardware and software you have... almost anything that can connect to the internet will work with BCN.

YouTube semi-works with IE6. Plays video fine, but searching, posting, viewing related videos, and displaying comments do not work at all - but I don't care about these most of the time anyways. Once I find the video I want to watch in FF or Opera, I then pop a IE6 window and play it there. Reason being is that IE6 is very efficient with the memory. Useful when using my slightly more ancient computers.

Yahoo! mail works great, but only sometimes. Sometimes it won't load at all ("Page cannot be displayed" errors) and sometimes I get other useless warning messages that tend to annoy me. When it works, though, it's great - I get a HTML version of Yahoo that rusn lightning fast.

Unless there is sadomasochism involved I'd max it up of RAM before the hard drive melts from the trashing.

HDD doesn't trash unless I land myself in a thread with 10+ inline images that are over 2xxx by 2xxx resolution. Viewing BCN and listening to music through YouTube, I'm usually right near the max at about 300-350 MB of RAM used.

And no, I can't max it out. Don't know what HP did in their infinite wisdom, but if I do max out the RAM to (a whopping) 512 MB, then I must loose ACPI capability .

[TELVM]

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Well I am posting this from a 850 MHz Pentium 3 PC with 384 MB of RAM ...

Unless there is sadomasochism involved I'd max it up of RAM before the hard drive melts from the trashing.

This similar PIII dinosaur runs with disabled pagefile and yet can still browse with reasonable decency:

^ The ancient 440BX mobo is maxed out @ 3/4GB of RAM.

[lti]

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My only computer running XP died a while back. It won't boot from anything except a USB floppy drive. The hard drive has had hundreds of bad sectors for years, the only optical drive it can detect won't read any discs, and it freezes when booting from a USB flash drive.

My old computer still has IE4 and Netscape 4.06. It has no way to connect to the internet, so it doesn't matter. I might get the PCI riser board with the optional 10Mbps Ethernet controller installed.

[dood]

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I would imagine that server is not very efficient... unlike the new toy that I got yesterday...

HP C3000 blade chassis, BL465 Gen 8 blades.

Per blade:

128gb DDR3
2x AMD Opteron 6376 (16 core, 2.4ghz each)
2x 300gb 10k SAS drives (RAID1, for Server 2012 OS running Hyper-V role)

Essentially our entire datacenter will be running on this once it's done. 50+ servers in 3 blades.

The SAN is supposed to be here today


Sorry for the thread hijack... I should go start my own.

[ratdude747]

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She's no longer in operation, shes been retired since 2007 when I pulled her out of one of the datacenters. I still have her here, and no plans to get rid of. Last time I had her fired up, she'd BSoD on occasion, never bothered troubleshooting. She's got 4x 146gb SCSI320 10k RPM HDD's in that SCA backplane. Shes a netfinity 7000.

Couldn't you boot a live linux disc, recover data, and reinstall 2000?

Certainly nicer than my joke of a headless sever (intel VC820 in an old dell desktop case)... drool...

[Heihachi_73]

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Nothing works with IE6 anymore for me. Google is all it takes to make it crash.

getfirefox ctrl+shift+enter (in address bar) works. I had to use that last week on one PC when Firefox decided that from now on it would do nothing but crash on load.

[c_hegge]

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Nothing works with IE6 anymore for me. Google is all it takes to make it crash.

[Per Hansson]

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Well I am posting this from a 850 MHz Pentium 3 PC with 384 MB of RAM, Windows XP SP2, and IE6 with custom hosts file. I've been doing that all this winter break (so almost every post I made in the last 2-3 weeks has been from this computer).

[c_hegge]

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You should see our university's PCs - they are completely useless. Can't even change the resolution, even though each user has his/her own profile. I really don't see why they blocked this option out...

The school I went to did the same. What's worse, they had 17" 1280x1024 monitors, but the resolution was set to 1024x768. The other really bad thing they had was the screen saver. It was basically a heap of photos of the school grounds in a slide show, but there was an information box in the bottom right hand corner of every picture, which was burned in to all of the CRT monitors.

[momaka]

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This message typed from an XP64 machine...

Well I am posting this from a 850 MHz Pentium 3 PC with 384 MB of RAM, Windows XP SP2, and IE6 with custom hosts file. I've been doing that all this winter break (so almost every post I made in the last 2-3 weeks has been from this computer).

Badcaps works great with IE6 and FF 3.6. Barely uses any RAM at all (save for one thread I landed on 2 days ago that had way-oversized inline images... they did scale, but before that happened, FF tried to use about 700 MB of RAM - so you can imagine the HDD trashing there).

it's a quad p3 xeon @500 2GB RAM....the old cartridge xeons....they're the size of a VHS cassette!

Must see that one!
Quad Pentium 3's sounds awesome. I have a dual Pentium 3 Coppermine rig (the HP NetServer E800). Uses an Asus CUR-DLS motherboard. I'm using it for the occasional torrent or large files backup storage.

I don't know why but I think old server/workstation hardware is pretty cool (hence why I built two main rigs out of it!)

One of the places where I interned for has a closet full of older Dell Precision 210/220 workstations. These things are rock-solid built. Their Dell BIOS is kind of quirky, though (well, just like any other Dell BIOS, I suppose). I gave one to a friend after asking my boss. Should have taken more. They are snappy with XP if you put a fast HDD in them.