I won winmine on win98 in a browser.
My 14 years old me would have never believed me.
That's why I made a screenshot.
Windows98 Running in the Browser
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Re: Windows98 Running in the Browser
#112Does anybody have a reasonable explanation why windows 10 requires a SSD and so much ram? I wish a kernel engineer could give a good answer to that question. One side of the answer could be that the software that is bigger, but honestly that doesn't explain everything. I wish somebody could confirm Wirth's law is real and that there are valid example of it.
Most likely explanation: Bad engineers getting into high positions via connections, elbows or peter principle.
Re: Windows98 Running in the Browser
#113Does anybody have a reasonable explanation why windows 10 requires a SSD and so much ram? I wish a kernel engineer could give a good answer to that question. One side of the answer could be that the software that is bigger, but honestly that doesn't explain everything. I wish somebody could confirm Wirth's law is real and that there are valid example of it.
Does it require an SSD?
I've seen it working on a couple of older, non-SSD machines. But "working" is perhaps a strong term.
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#114Does anybody have a reasonable explanation why windows 10 requires a SSD and so much ram? I wish a kernel engineer could give a good answer to that question. One side of the answer could be that the software that is bigger, but honestly that doesn't explain everything. I wish somebody could confirm Wirth's law is real and that there are valid example of it.
Is it bad that it requires much ram? I mean, as long as it's utilized well I don't really mind?
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#115Here is something that I stumbled upon that I think was a big loss: HTML Help [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help ] It's unfortunate that Microsoft didn't work toward making it an open source standard for documentation. We'd have avoided every other documentation having it's own format, style, etc... Plus you get the whole documentation in a single file, not worrying about broken stuff, missi…
I remember when you could bypass the login prompt and open a web browsing session by going to HTML Help. If I recall correctly you could run executables from the resulting browser's address bar too.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hilariously, Microsoft production servers are also set to the MSN default homepage, even though most forests are firewalled off from the entire internet. So the homepage doesn't even load.
Not loading is surely preferable.
Didn't some ad server serving msn homepage managed to be exploited to serve malware to old IE versions.
So the hapless admin who needs to download a file off the web (with no other browsers installed, and no firewall) would open IE and boom, exploit!
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#117sheep.exe <3
Might be of interest then - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/esheep-64bit/9mx2v0tqt6rm?...
eSheep 64!
(I haven't tried it)
Re: Windows98 Running in the Browser
#118Does anybody have a reasonable explanation why windows 10 requires a SSD and so much ram? I wish a kernel engineer could give a good answer to that question. One side of the answer could be that the software that is bigger, but honestly that doesn't explain everything. I wish somebody could confirm Wirth's law is real and that there are valid example of it.
The same trend can be seen with linux distributions. A lot is surely down to composited window management. There's also things that we didn't run as services back in Windows 98 days - network capabilities, bluetooth, low power states, file hashing for quick search, assistants and other ways of rapidly finding and launching programs, auto updates, telemetry, automatic mounting of connected devices.
EDIT: and in the case of Windows 10, adverts/trialware and their associated animations.
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#119To me, still the best UI/UX OS experience. That menu organization is just perfect. Everything is crystal clear about what is selected or not. No idea why the OS moved from this layout.
yes. in my opinion though, windows 2000 was the pinnacle. it had the user experience of windows 98 but was also a lot more stable.
I used a stripped down version of windows 2000, the installer was 50M and extracted on disk it used 200M. It was just perfect, I loved everything about it. When Ms abandoned support for windows 2000 is exactly when I went to use Linux full time.
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#120Here is something that I stumbled upon that I think was a big loss: HTML Help [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help ] It's unfortunate that Microsoft didn't work toward making it an open source standard for documentation. We'd have avoided every other documentation having it's own format, style, etc... Plus you get the whole documentation in a single file, not worrying about broken stuff, missi…
I remember when you could bypass the login prompt and open a web browsing session by going to HTML Help. If I recall correctly you could run executables from the resulting browser's address bar too.
hah yes, and because the help viewer is a process that inherited the permission of the parent, if you ran the help viewer from an admin app (like novel netware!), you get full admin privileges to execute anything!