cool windowsupdaterestored.com

Fun blast from the past.

frg_away: and yet it refuses to work on my Win98SE/Me shoebox :D

(maybe it's because of the locale missing files, or maybe due to IE6)

I should really create an account at MSFN one of these days

For the very few things I still need 98se (old eprom burner) I have a fully patched backup. But still cool.

and as stated fully patched is 10 to 20 years back :)

i am banned on msfn

for obvious reasons

too much constructive feedback :D

reminder to myself: get more spare PATA laptop HDDs and install Me on the T40

at least that one has an appropriate vintage GPU (Radeon 7500) and not the vomit on my PCChips mobo from the dumpster (ugh SiS 630 EW)

tomman I picked the T42 with 9600 The 7500 drivers are a bit old but with ME it doesn't matter much probably.

SIS or VIA urgkkk...

ATi 9x support maxed out at 9000 series

certainly none of the PCIe GPUs ever had 9x drivers (even those early R300-based, i.e. anything from the early X series)

T42 is still covered

yes, SiS was dog vomit in 2001, and it's still dog vomit in 2023

basically those made glorified typewriters, and that's it

sadly my SECOND PC (and the one where I actually met fate with Mozilla Suite) was... ugh, a M755 with a Celery 700

including the infamous 630 chipset of doom

memory performance is awful, GPU performance is "hope you like Solitaire, and maybe Doom"

I'm still looking where they did hide their supposed hardware MPEG-2 decoding features, because while every datasheet you're going to find on the 630 says "hardware MPEG-2 decoding", no driver publicly available ever supported it

(and watching DVDs on those things led to slideshows unless you were using high end Coppermine PIIIs)

tomman if you ever need it: thinkpads.com/support/Thinkpad-Driv…vo.com/lenovo/content/ddfm/T42.html

frg_away: the only feature I would lose on mine is the WLAN: the original Intel 2200 card was shot, so I used the no-1802 tool to unlock the mPCI slot and shove in some Atheros 802.11n love

...and while Atheros DID made 9x drivers for those, they never released them

(or at least that's what I can interpret from their INF files)

tzomman I put a 2915 in. best card for these.

none of my routers support g anymore

this house is n-only zone

vulnerability resides in WebKit, which is used by Apple, Mozilla and Google in iOS

"WebKit"... Mozilla, i don't understand that part?

"cool" (windowsupdaterestored.com) looks very suspect to me.

Mozilla blogs about copypasting crap out of Webkit and Chrome.

I guess you can layoff half the Gecko developers and raise the CEO pay again.

Half the remaining employees can stay on to make Firefox unbearable and full of spyware.

oh, & support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/quarantined-domains

therube as far as I know all browsers need to use webkit on iOS and iPadOS. Apple was sued and needs to discontinue this but not there yet.

as my tagline on mozillazine says, "Fire 750, bring back 250"

oh. (i know nothing of Mac or "phones")

speaking of "fired", this was a bit interesting, businessinsider.com/tech-industry-f…managers-bosses-layoffs-jobs-2023-7

therube too late I suspect. Not much left of Gecko.

don't worry, when it all collapses seek me out.. we will code xpfe

i should have a decent start

does this make me a doomsday coder?

LOL

I like it.

tomman: what about 2000 or XP drivers? are GPU drivers for these different so that they don't work on 98/Me?

njsg: the video driver architecture is too different

you can't use WDDM video drivers on 9x

tomman: I don't think you want to use intel 2200 wireless, unless I'm thinking of a different card.

but you may use WDDM drivers (provided they don't require any feature from newer Windows NT versions) for devices other than video cards

the 2200 on my T40 was dying: it would connect to an AP, but drop the connection after some minutes

turns out those cards tended to die like that, from what I've researched

from my experience, they didn't work so well normally either, I think at least disabling power management was a must

at least if this is "Intel Pro Wireless", what I'm thinking of is ipw2200

Intel's attempt at competing with Broadcom

that one indeed

looks like Intel wouldn't have reliable WLAN cards until... what, 3945ABG?

I like the 6300 most. But with older Thinkpads with or without whitelist bios they tend to hang the system hard with 10 or higher. 3945 and up.