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Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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I was recently amazed to find out that Windows 95 is still used in an industrial automation setting. The company uses the NetBEUI[0] protocol and Windows 95 is apparently the only version to support it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS_Frames_protocol

Your link says otherwise. XP can do it too. Might just be a software thing

Unfortunately the links that would describe how to do it are no longer available.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Not quite the same but once I had to install Windows 7 and NVIDIA graphics drivers without a functioning monitor.

If blind runs became more popular then maybe I could hone that skill.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.

creator here; That was my desktop background at the time, recorded the video with obs at 720p because I wanted to get anything watchable on youtube (480p suxx if I wanted to include a timer, also it would look way worse).

BTW, she's not my `waifu`, I just like her as a character.

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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Anecdote: back in the early 2000s, I regularly installed Windows XP on the machines of school friends and family members and got pretty fast at it. After a few months, I realized that I had memorized the original Windows XP "default" CD key (the one starting with FCKGW...) by accident. I haven't done an installation of XP in 15 years, yet you could wake me up in the middle of the night and I could tell you this damn…

This was me, but with the OG Starcraft: Brood War CD Key. I think I still remember the key, but I'm not sure and I don't have the CD to verify.

You can use classic starcraft / brood war keys as vouchers on battle.net if you want to verify and make sure you'll always have a digital copy available :)

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-2B7Q8-8TG6W. I am not sure if its correct. edit: yes it is. Checked the link in other thread.

The last two quintuples are switched, otherwise it is correct. The "RKT-8TG6W" is my favorite part, because it makes for a nice rhyme (at least in German, where "W" is a single syllable"): RKT 8T G6W :)

American checking in on the pronunciation:

"Arr kay tay, acht tay, gay zex vey"?

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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OT: can someone explain this anime/waifu thing to me, in particular why does someone record a video like this one with careful window placement so that we can see the anime? I feel like I'm missing something.

I just want to know what window manager that it.

XFCE4 w/ Mofit (misspelled in the package) theme. I'll move back to a tiling WM one day..

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Hah, I had no idea that others have this problem too. There must be something to this sequence that makes it very easy to memorize.

Spaced repetition makes any sequence easy to remember. Which is essentially what being the local “could you install xp”-guy was for this specific key.

Not only that, strings are easier to memorize when broken into discrete chunks, which is why it isn't too hard to accidentally memorize a credit card number, and one of the reasons phone numbers are formatted as they are (the other being classifying based on location).

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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This was me, but with the OG Starcraft: Brood War CD Key. I think I still remember the key, but I'm not sure and I don't have the CD to verify.

You can use classic starcraft / brood war keys as vouchers on battle.net if you want to verify and make sure you'll always have a digital copy available :)

The game has been free to play for years now, so you might need an old disc image to get at the checksum algorithm :).

Re: Speedrunning Windows 95

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This was me, but with the OG Starcraft: Brood War CD Key. I think I still remember the key, but I'm not sure and I don't have the CD to verify.

I still know my Starcraft CD key to this day as well. Bonus: The same key also works for Half-Life. They used the same algorithm.

I loved quake iii and similar properties that only checked the last digit, 3 or c
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