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Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by lproven »

Nullabillity wrote: post #74
h4jrheue388 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows auto update could always be disabled. A person must be extremely tech incompetent if they couldn't do the simplest of windows tasks.

Tell me you haven't used Windows 10 without telling me you haven't used Windows 10.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

For me, XP is what drove me to Linux full-time. (Later, a bit of Mac OS X on the desktop, when I could afford the hardware.) But I've always kept a toe in the Windows pie, the tool that, after MS-DOS, built my career.

Win11 makes me almost nostalgic for Win10. But Win10 is a sad crippled thing, it's just that you're allowed to prune it back hard. (Removing all Modern apps, for instance.) Do that to 11, it dies.

But using Win10 for a couple of hours a year is enough.

Recently a friend bemoaned being forced to move to Win10 because 7 wasn't getting updates and drivers, and apps were no longer working. So I tried a couple of fresh installs. It's so much better it's not funny; it's sad.

So I reached back and put XP64 on an old spare Core 2 Duo. It flies along. It's so snappy and responsive and so lightweight. It will run, not usefully but functionally, in 64MB of RAM. Pruned down hard it takes about 50MB. It doesn't fill a CD.

I am now idly considering trying Windows 2000 on my lowest-end functional laptop.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by lproven »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #17
RyanShook wrote: post #3

Was the internet better back then or am I just old?

The old internet is harder to find, which means its harder to ruin by normies. You just have to know where to look. ;)

Indeed.

I am enjoying actively participating in mailing lists and USEnet these days. The S:N ratio is pretty good now.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by Nullabillity »

lproven wrote: post #151
Nullabillity wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell me you haven't used Windows 10 without telling me you haven't used Windows 10.

You say that like it's a bad thing. For me, XP is what drove me to Linux full-time. (Later, a bit of Mac OS X on the desktop, when I could afford the hardware.) But I've always kept a toe in the Windows pie, the tool that, after MS-DOS, built my career. Win11 makes me almost nostalgic for Win10. But Win10 is a sad crippled thing, it's just that you're allowed to prune it back hard. (Removing all Modern apps, for inst…

Not inherently, no. I haven't daily-driven Windows in years, either.

But that wasn't really what the post was about. It was about the smugness of trying to gotcha the parent with a caveat that hasn't been valid for a decade.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

#154

Post by lproven »

Nullabillity wrote: post #153
lproven wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say that like it's a bad thing. For me, XP is what drove me to Linux full-time. (Later, a bit of Mac OS X on the desktop, when I could afford the hardware.) But I've always kept a toe in the Windows pie, the tool that, after MS-DOS, built my career. Win11 makes me almost nostalgic for Win10. But Win10 is a sad crippled thing, it's just that you're allowed to prune it back hard. (Removing all Modern apps, for inst…

Not inherently, no. I haven't daily-driven Windows in years, either. But that wasn't really what the post was about. It was about the smugness of trying to gotcha the parent with a caveat that hasn't been valid for a decade.

Ah, OK, ISWYM now. I think.

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by agret »

fiatpandas wrote: post #135
sen wrote: post #90

I miss skinning so much. I was hugely into the scene of making/releasing skins for any/every program that included the ability (and a bunch that didn’t, thanks to unsigned applications). To this day I’m the type to customise everything I own and I despise staring at generic looking programs all day. It’s even worse when it’s stuff like Discord that has a very opinionated style that won’t even respect the small amount…

The skin I made for Methodus Toolz is amazingly still on this page: https://www.methodus2000.com/methodus3/skins.htm

Wow believe it or not I was thinking about that program about 2 weeks ago but thought I'd never be able to remember the name of it. You've made my week.

I used to use the Bdog871018 skin. Which one is yours?

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by agret »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #88
_7acn wrote: post #63

I’m mostly using Windows, so even today, it remains my main audio player. I use Winamp for FLACs and DI.fm streams

If you're in Windows you should check out Tray Player https://www.trayplayer.com/

No mention in the page if it's compatible with Winamp skins?

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by chankstein38 »

giantrobot wrote: post #130
chankstein38 wrote: post #120

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Agreed! mIRC scripting is the reason I am a developer today and the reason it's been my career!

mIRC scripting as a career?! No thanks! /s

haha I'm with you there! I just mean it mIRC scripting was the seed to my eventual career in software!

Re: Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Post by donatj »

supportengineer wrote: post #118
donatj wrote: post #110

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I truly miss working in software in the early 2000's. We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Almost all of us had custom themes and icons and what not. I ran a Mac at home, and had that customized as well, I forget the name of the app that would install custom themes/docks, but CandyBar would install custom icon sets. Now days most people don't even bother to change their wallpaper. Live a littl…

I feel like the cost of housing along with layoff culture has caused an underlying sense of desperation, software isn’t fun when you’re just trying to avoid being homeless/deported

Fwiw, you'll be happier and more secure at a stable Midwest company than a trendy coastal company. In my twenty years of doing this, I know personally two developers who were laid off, one of whom was hired back after COVID calmed down.

Anyway I think your proposal is flatly absurd. People stopped changing their wallpaper because of housing prices? Shoosh

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