It's X11. No, it's Xorg. Wait, it's X11 since there are a few non-Xorg systems. Wait, if you run it raw it doesn't manage windows so perhaps that's why it is an "X Window system".
Note that while it may sound ridiculously wasteful, it is an option to have unsupported browsers decode it with client-side javascript. There even are audio javascript decoders (or video decoders for that matter but hopefully those are toys for browser devs to play with)
Haven't used a UEFI system? The other day, there was a forum thread by a guy who had assembled a new PC and thought that it didn't work. The thing went so quick as to not show anything on the display then monitor would get put on stand by. You pretty much have to mash keys before turning the thing on to get in the setup screen.
Some emoji (which everyone in my country calls smileys) may be too much emotional, and if they're Unicode instead of proprietary they will show up differently in the two ends of a conversation if the software is not the same. Not that I use IM anymore though : MSN was proprietary and insecure, but you could at least use it with different clients. It's been replaced by the giant asocial media company and by Skype. Cell phone service for non "data" has crashed in price compared to a decade ago too.
On an ubuntu system I'm using, su and sudo su don't keep the user PATH or aliases, and the environment seems to be trimmed down. So I wonder how much things are different afterall. And anyway, I don't feel like to care, so on a personal desktop I'll do sudo su. Then who cares? The point is to do whatever you want.
I was told that PCs from 1999 were "antique", so go figure! I could have replied that they were i686 + PAE, but I sadly know better than to do that when unwarranted.
I would advise to read some book that works like a children's book and pretends you've never seen or heard of a computer. That it consists in a central processing unit, memory, some kind of input and output : like a keyboard and a teleprinter. It describes memory addressing and the memory address space, mentions machine code and then almost immediately jumps to pseudo-assembler examples that teach about simple program flow. By the way, the program might be loaded from a paper tape. Next, perhaps text is encoded this way, and perhaps data is encoded that way on the paper tape.
But don't get bogged down in hardware specifics, and certainly don't bogged down by an OS, 3D graphics API, java, php etc. in such an introduction. A high level concept that may be introduced would be that of a file instead. I know such books exist as I read an illustrated one from about 1980.
The hairball that is networking surely has to be introduced somewhere but perhaps an example of computers talking through a phone line is easier first, sending sort of telegrams. Don't drop the ball on this, there are ways to learn the basics and it will already be something to know what is a file and what is an interpreter.
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Nice then that a 'deprecated' browser receives security support until year 2023 (IE 11 on Windows 8.x) or even later, depending on what it gets in Windows 10.
If there's a deprecated Android phone that gets updates for the next 8 years, let me know!
iOS computers all run the same browser and all have a h264 hardware decoder. All flash users run the flash plugin, which is (almost) the same regardless of browser, OS or hardware (though here the h264 decoder may be software or hardware).
So in both cases, you have a single platform effect that makes it easy to run. With HMTL 5 on random computers, you do get a lot of variation between software, browser versions. For one thing you will have to support IE 9 till Vista end-of-line in 2017 in the least, which happens to coincide with end-of-line for Flash 11.2 on linux.
Let's have a tablet on the floor instead : no problem holding it in the air, no gorilla arm, in fact you don't need arms to use it! Keyboarding will be good exercise, toes can be used for fine drawing and even butt dialing can get literal.
I've wanted a pdf reader even on desktop that renders the whole document, even if that would waste say a GB of RAM or two. No more white page that fills up or "spinner" that shows for a second. If using a recent graphics card (such as a cheap 2GB one) and the pages are rendered to textures, you would fill the otherwise empty graphics RAM.
To clarify it does support IPX/SPX, just not in DOS games ; it does not support networking in the DOS VM, perhaps for good reason. Late nineties Windows games typically offered a choice between IPX and TCP (UDP) so no need to care.
Sorry if I implied that XP doesn't support IPX for actual serious/useful purposes, that would be wrong.
a) Why would you open a voicemail in a web browser? That's a stupendous security risk. And it would be an audio player, surely, not a browser?
b) What is your carrier doing to deliver voicemail by anything other than their voicemail service?
Delivering voicemail is voicemail service, right? So why do they provide voicemail service with something other than their voicemail service? They should only provide voicemail service, not voicemail service.
Hoping you don't take that personally. In my case, dumpbhone user, I can go to the carrier's website (from a PC) and listen to voice messages there. For the giggle I even tested dialing my own number (from the phone), landing on the "answering machine" and I could record shit there that showed up as a wav file on the website.
As for a) well browsers have historically been able to open.txt files (they are out there on the web), pictures : which I do regularly for clean viewing and zooming, but naive website did/do link to them, some image sharing services even do as one of the options ; full on media player is what they happen to do now. I did a quick test of an.mp4 file : firefox is a competent player for it, without using a quirky plug-in (it would have used a plug-in years ago. With an.avi file it prompts me to activate a plug-in, which I decline to do.). The extremely minimal controls are tasteful for once. It happens to play mp3 from the built-in player too ; Google Chrome is known to not play them, for licensing or political reason.
Security risk is nil, as this just opens and plays a media file. Doesn't even use the network. (yes in theory a crafted file may exploit an exploit in the decoder) Opening crap in the browser is an interesting approach. If I find myself on an OSX or Windows etc. system that is either really blank, or is loaded with crapware (including from adobe, microsoft, apple etc.) or I don't even want to think about unfamiliar software (Metro version of windows media player?) then I can open some of the local files in Mozilla Firefox, if available.
IBM sold 286 PS/2 for many thousands dollars, had they refrained of selling those and waited a bit they could have sold 386SX PS/2 instead on the midrange..
I liked how Win 9x (by then 98SE) ran IPX and TCP/IP simultaneously, plus the emulated Netbios thing. I was dearly pissed when Windows XP was unable to run IPX networking in DOS games. And even its version of MS Hearts was incompatible with that of 98 and 3.11, though that's petty.
Had it worked I would have had four-player doom 2 at home!
There may be some crazy option like washing the CD with a banana peel, then try to rip it with a 4x or 8x CD-ROM drive and a multipass ripping program.
We had DOS/Windows 3.x PCs before getting the Windows 95 PC, and so we kept to the old use and booted under DOS by pressing the F8 key. See, a for us a PC was a gaming machine during the whole of the 90s, just like home computers in the 80s. We didn't have a modem or a printer. In 1998 Windows finally replaced DOS for games so we booted to the Windows desktop. We used to have only one Windows 3.1 game besides Solitaire, Minesweeper and Paintbrush, and that was Myst. Perhaps a very few shareware/freeware/demos on Windows 3.1. In early Windows 95 era, some games were DOS-only then some had both a DOS and Windows executable. One really great game that needed Windows 95 was Jedi Knight. Huge 3D maps, CD Audio music and FMV scenes. Good old times, before Internet, MP3 and OS that needs 1GB RAM and more than 10GB hard disk space to run.
In the short term it's a bad change, but it is pretty uneventful as the old/current stuff continues to work. In the longer term we'll have to see, as they intend to extend the new API to regain lost features. One major goal is to make extensions work safely with browser multi-threading/multi-processing, so you would end up with a really good browser for mobile low power quad core CPU theoretically.
I've been using an ad blocker for only a year. So, for me the ad blocker replaced the flashblocker - and with ublock the ad blocker now actually saves you CPU and memory. Next step would be to block javascript on some sites but what pain to micromanage that. Six years back or so, you only had to block flash and then the web was perfectly usable with an old CPU and 512MB RAM (but don't block flash and you quickly accumulated ten objects, grinding all to a halt)
In 2004, you didn't need to block flash, you needed a pop-up blocker instead (hopefully built-in) In 2000, you just ran IE 5 or Netscape with no big need to care about shit..
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It's X11. No, it's Xorg. Wait, it's X11 since there are a few non-Xorg systems. Wait, if you run it raw it doesn't manage windows so perhaps that's why it is an "X Window system".
Not having to type a minus sign is good enough reason for me.
Note that while it may sound ridiculously wasteful, it is an option to have unsupported browsers decode it with client-side javascript. There even are audio javascript decoders (or video decoders for that matter but hopefully those are toys for browser devs to play with)
Haven't used a UEFI system?
The other day, there was a forum thread by a guy who had assembled a new PC and thought that it didn't work. The thing went so quick as to not show anything on the display then monitor would get put on stand by. You pretty much have to mash keys before turning the thing on to get in the setup screen.
Some emoji (which everyone in my country calls smileys) may be too much emotional, and if they're Unicode instead of proprietary they will show up differently in the two ends of a conversation if the software is not the same.
Not that I use IM anymore though : MSN was proprietary and insecure, but you could at least use it with different clients. It's been replaced by the giant asocial media company and by Skype. Cell phone service for non "data" has crashed in price compared to a decade ago too.
On an ubuntu system I'm using, su and sudo su don't keep the user PATH or aliases, and the environment seems to be trimmed down. So I wonder how much things are different afterall. And anyway, I don't feel like to care, so on a personal desktop I'll do sudo su. Then who cares? The point is to do whatever you want.
And likely they'll have incredibly wrong reactions to some of those exterior "offenses", i.e. allergy.
I was told that PCs from 1999 were "antique", so go figure! I could have replied that they were i686 + PAE, but I sadly know better than to do that when unwarranted.
I think it is here and it's 6 and a half minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I would advise to read some book that works like a children's book and pretends you've never seen or heard of a computer.
That it consists in a central processing unit, memory, some kind of input and output : like a keyboard and a teleprinter. It describes memory addressing and the memory address space, mentions machine code and then almost immediately jumps to pseudo-assembler examples that teach about simple program flow. By the way, the program might be loaded from a paper tape.
Next, perhaps text is encoded this way, and perhaps data is encoded that way on the paper tape.
But don't get bogged down in hardware specifics, and certainly don't bogged down by an OS, 3D graphics API, java, php etc. in such an introduction. A high level concept that may be introduced would be that of a file instead.
I know such books exist as I read an illustrated one from about 1980.
The hairball that is networking surely has to be introduced somewhere but perhaps an example of computers talking through a phone line is easier first, sending sort of telegrams.
Don't drop the ball on this, there are ways to learn the basics and it will already be something to know what is a file and what is an interpreter.
Nice then that a 'deprecated' browser receives security support until year 2023 (IE 11 on Windows 8.x) or even later, depending on what it gets in Windows 10.
If there's a deprecated Android phone that gets updates for the next 8 years, let me know!
Then ask him to kiss you and he will give you a blow job!
iOS computers all run the same browser and all have a h264 hardware decoder.
All flash users run the flash plugin, which is (almost) the same regardless of browser, OS or hardware (though here the h264 decoder may be software or hardware).
So in both cases, you have a single platform effect that makes it easy to run.
With HMTL 5 on random computers, you do get a lot of variation between software, browser versions. For one thing you will have to support IE 9 till Vista end-of-line in 2017 in the least, which happens to coincide with end-of-line for Flash 11.2 on linux.
Let's have a tablet on the floor instead : no problem holding it in the air, no gorilla arm, in fact you don't need arms to use it! Keyboarding will be good exercise, toes can be used for fine drawing and even butt dialing can get literal.
I've wanted a pdf reader even on desktop that renders the whole document, even if that would waste say a GB of RAM or two. No more white page that fills up or "spinner" that shows for a second.
If using a recent graphics card (such as a cheap 2GB one) and the pages are rendered to textures, you would fill the otherwise empty graphics RAM.
To clarify it does support IPX/SPX, just not in DOS games ; it does not support networking in the DOS VM, perhaps for good reason.
Late nineties Windows games typically offered a choice between IPX and TCP (UDP) so no need to care.
Sorry if I implied that XP doesn't support IPX for actual serious/useful purposes, that would be wrong.
I would have a try with warm vinegar to see how far it goes.
a) Why would you open a voicemail in a web browser? That's a stupendous security risk. And it would be an audio player, surely, not a browser?
b) What is your carrier doing to deliver voicemail by anything other than their voicemail service?
Delivering voicemail is voicemail service, right? So why do they provide voicemail service with something other than their voicemail service? They should only provide voicemail service, not voicemail service.
Hoping you don't take that personally.
In my case, dumpbhone user, I can go to the carrier's website (from a PC) and listen to voice messages there. For the giggle I even tested dialing my own number (from the phone), landing on the "answering machine" and I could record shit there that showed up as a wav file on the website.
As for a) well browsers have historically been able to open .txt files (they are out there on the web), pictures : which I do regularly for clean viewing and zooming, but naive website did/do link to them, some image sharing services even do as one of the options ; full on media player is what they happen to do now. .mp4 file : firefox is a competent player for it, without using a quirky plug-in (it would have used a plug-in years ago. With an .avi file it prompts me to activate a plug-in, which I decline to do.). The extremely minimal controls are tasteful for once.
I did a quick test of an
It happens to play mp3 from the built-in player too ; Google Chrome is known to not play them, for licensing or political reason.
Security risk is nil, as this just opens and plays a media file. Doesn't even use the network. (yes in theory a crafted file may exploit an exploit in the decoder)
Opening crap in the browser is an interesting approach. If I find myself on an OSX or Windows etc. system that is either really blank, or is loaded with crapware (including from adobe, microsoft, apple etc.) or I don't even want to think about unfamiliar software (Metro version of windows media player?) then I can open some of the local files in Mozilla Firefox, if available.
IBM sold 286 PS/2 for many thousands dollars, had they refrained of selling those and waited a bit they could have sold 386SX PS/2 instead on the midrange..
I liked how Win 9x (by then 98SE) ran IPX and TCP/IP simultaneously, plus the emulated Netbios thing. I was dearly pissed when Windows XP was unable to run IPX networking in DOS games. And even its version of MS Hearts was incompatible with that of 98 and 3.11, though that's petty.
Had it worked I would have had four-player doom 2 at home!
There may be some crazy option like washing the CD with a banana peel, then try to rip it with a 4x or 8x CD-ROM drive and a multipass ripping program.
We had DOS/Windows 3.x PCs before getting the Windows 95 PC, and so we kept to the old use and booted under DOS by pressing the F8 key. See, a for us a PC was a gaming machine during the whole of the 90s, just like home computers in the 80s. We didn't have a modem or a printer. In 1998 Windows finally replaced DOS for games so we booted to the Windows desktop. We used to have only one Windows 3.1 game besides Solitaire, Minesweeper and Paintbrush, and that was Myst.
Perhaps a very few shareware/freeware/demos on Windows 3.1. In early Windows 95 era, some games were DOS-only then some had both a DOS and Windows executable.
One really great game that needed Windows 95 was Jedi Knight. Huge 3D maps, CD Audio music and FMV scenes. Good old times, before Internet, MP3 and OS that needs 1GB RAM and more than 10GB hard disk space to run.
In the short term it's a bad change, but it is pretty uneventful as the old/current stuff continues to work.
In the longer term we'll have to see, as they intend to extend the new API to regain lost features.
One major goal is to make extensions work safely with browser multi-threading/multi-processing, so you would end up with a really good browser for mobile low power quad core CPU theoretically.
What about using pixel doubling, quadrupling, octupling?
I don't feel like caring about useless 8K resolution.
I've been using an ad blocker for only a year. So, for me the ad blocker replaced the flashblocker - and with ublock the ad blocker now actually saves you CPU and memory. Next step would be to block javascript on some sites but what pain to micromanage that.
Six years back or so, you only had to block flash and then the web was perfectly usable with an old CPU and 512MB RAM (but don't block flash and you quickly accumulated ten objects, grinding all to a halt)
In 2004, you didn't need to block flash, you needed a pop-up blocker instead (hopefully built-in)
In 2000, you just ran IE 5 or Netscape with no big need to care about shit..
Stuff changes.