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Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by aasasd »

MarioMan wrote: post #355
criley2 wrote: post #260

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Virtualizating Windows isn't very hard, even back to something like Windows 95. On the other hand, only OSX 10.7+ are really easy to run in a VM, and .5 and .6 only work for servers, and anything before 10.5 isn't really going to be compatible with virtualization. That's 2007, so OSX lets you virtualize back about 13 years, and Windows you can go back almost 30 years. People even have Win 3.1 running in VMware. This…

>OSX virtualization has a hard requirement for running on Mac hardware. If you aren't a stickler for Apple's terms of service (if you're doing this for business purposes, I suggest you should be), you can use a tool called macOS unlocker to patch VMWare Workstation to run macOS VMs. Runs great, though all VMWare products can only render display output for macOS in software mode.

Run a shady binary that seems to not have a certain author/website, as administrator, so it modifies VMWare binaries? A rather... curious approach, but for some reason common in Windows among e.g. gamers.

I've ran MacOS in VirtualBox iirc, without shady patches―though it probably was in Linux.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by why-oh-why »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #93
1_player wrote: post #50

I'm surprised to see still exists and works in modern browsers. And saddened to see it updates at ~20fps, at least on Safari. Time for a smooth, GPU accelerated 60+fps marquee implementation?

Wait, how do the rest of you test if a field accepts or rejects html?

What field accepts or rejects html? What are you talking about?

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by mad182 »

typescriptfan1 wrote: post #188
geocrasher wrote: post #90

These simple sites show us something profound: If you want something to last, don't base it on something that won't last. There are a some technologies that will never allow somebody to build a site and leave it unchanged for 20 or 25 years. Cold Fusion comes to mind. Almost nobody hosts it anymore for one. Can you imagine running the same WordPress version for 25 years? The version of PHP it runs on will be EOL long…

My olde PHP sites are still running just fine.

I have couple of sites I built in 2005 with plain procedural php and they are still running absolutely fine today on php 7.4 with no major rewrites.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by scarface74 »

int_19h wrote: post #424
scarface74 wrote: post #416

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/install/ru... The .NET Framework 1.1 is not supported on the Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, or the Windows 10 operating systems. In some cases, the .NET Framework 1.1 is specifically identified as required for an app to run. In those cases, you should contact your independent software vendor (ISV) to have the app upgraded to run o…

You can't install .NET 1.x itself on Win10. But you can install .NET 3.5, and it can run .NET 1.x apps.

From the article “In some cases, the .NET Framework 1.1 is specifically identified as required for an app to run”

By “specifically identified” it means that some applications actually hard coded a check of 1.1.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by tinus_hn »

ath92 wrote: post #166
geocrasher wrote: post #90

These simple sites show us something profound: If you want something to last, don't base it on something that won't last. There are a some technologies that will never allow somebody to build a site and leave it unchanged for 20 or 25 years. Cold Fusion comes to mind. Almost nobody hosts it anymore for one. Can you imagine running the same WordPress version for 25 years? The version of PHP it runs on will be EOL long…

While this website still works fine, the actual HTML that Frontpage generated isn't exactly easy to maintain if Frontpage stops working for whatever reason. The author of this website is basically stuck using whatever version of Frontpage supports the markup of his website. And I bet there have been plenty of people who used who are no longer able to maintain their website because their editor no longer runs on their…

Actually the browser makers are shouldering the burden of supporting the dredge output by FrontPage. Remember that the intention was to make it work in Internet Explorer and crash in Netscape.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by tinus_hn »

userbinator wrote: post #401
criley2 wrote: post #260

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Virtualizating Windows isn't very hard, even back to something like Windows 95. On the other hand, only OSX 10.7+ are really easy to run in a VM, and .5 and .6 only work for servers, and anything before 10.5 isn't really going to be compatible with virtualization. That's 2007, so OSX lets you virtualize back about 13 years, and Windows you can go back almost 30 years. People even have Win 3.1 running in VMware. This…

10.4 x86, the origins of Hackintosh, will be the first version that's actually practical to virtualise.

Pearpc can run MacOS X 10.1.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by tinus_hn »

dmz73 wrote: post #337
usrusr wrote: post #304

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And so the mystery of why a 32bit version of Windows 10 still exists is solved. What's mildly annoying is that much of the early 32bit Windows software came packaged in 16 bit installers. Office 97 would be such a breeze on modern hardware.

Office 97 can be installed on 64 bit windows 10 with original installer. I have done it just last month and it runs without any problems... and it is fast.

There are special workarounds, many of the old installers run a small piece of 16 bit code which doesn’t work in 64 bit Windows but because it’s so common Windows just runs a replacement version.

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by usrusr »

tinus_hn wrote: post #438
dmz73 wrote: post #337

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Office 97 can be installed on 64 bit windows 10 with original installer. I have done it just last month and it runs without any problems... and it is fast.

There are special workarounds, many of the old installers run a small piece of 16 bit code which doesn’t work in 64 bit Windows but because it’s so common Windows just runs a replacement version.

Failed the last time I tried, which must have been on 7. Will be a strong example for Microsoft dedicating resources to compatibility if they added it for 10 or with a patch update. (both their resources and the users', there's a crazy amount of checking for necessary compatibility hacks going on whenever an executable is started)

Re: 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

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Post by ta999999171 »

ta999999171 wrote: post #421
StavrosK wrote: post #323

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No, it's a joke! Because it says "liar" afterwards. And the previous post was also a joke, ie that I was lying about being a liar, which is a paradox. I am a below average driver, alas. I am Greek, though, and some would say that's more exciting!

Oii, what the fuck, hahahaha.... From what I've heard, you might as well smash your side mirrors off at the dealer when you buy a car, aha...so, yeah, checks out.

(In Greece, to be clear)
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