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The guis and dialogs are for the old Windows themes as well, all have to be updated. Got the IDE up yet?

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Like the Simpsons, the voices of the leads, particularly Fred, massage the senses with the subtlety and finesse of a cheese grater. Enhanced back in the day by bad reception and the crackly static of the speakers on the old cheap black and white TVs. 😛
Wonder if it was a stipulation of Lucas himself that the unedited stuff should never be released?
The Swimming Pool is a mood piece of elegance and style punctuated by rather surprising events and outcomes, and an almost Mona Lisa like enigma at the end. Think you might like it. 🙂
Despite it’s humongous Oscar Awards, the lead character of Driving Miss Daisy wielded an irritating dialogue, depiction and demeanour with force enough to make one reach for the off-button. Stuck with it through and through, found there were a lot of other good things about the movie, not enough for a re-viewing in the foreseeable future unfotunately.
Ooh, and in memory of David Lynch 10Play are streaming Twin Peaks, it’s a cracker! 🙂

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I suffer from a weird variation of the Kruger-Dunning Effect in that I think I am better than whatever individual I ever once aspired to be. Aspiration brings on the mythos of evolution, the true test is confidence, really, one has to be confident whatever in whatever they think of themselves, because confidence is a clear and foggy prism through which the mind visualizes and experiences its world. For those gifted in the world of experience, a trick of confidence is guaranteed to disappoint neither the beauty nor the beholder of the spectacle. 😛
One spinoff is the Dunning-Kruger Times, with such gems as Bernie Sanders Received a 44 Million Grant …

Bernie Sanders Received A $44 Million Grant From Usaid To “explore The Benefits Of Democratic Socialism In The Us”

Another spinoff is the Dunning Kruger Operatic Effect, also requiring further analysis:

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Using it – well – for an up and coming Odd Blog, more on that later. 🙂
Like the idea of the Tuneup_plus name for this project despite it being more about information gathering, login is also required to obtain a copy of Gather_additional_dump_files.

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Good to know, oops – completely forgot about the 1.4 cable, so will pop in there next week. 🙂
All of a sudden, the svchost is running “NETWORK SERVICE” at full bore after hibernate resume. Only supposed to happen on cold boot, Delivery Optimization is off, and Network Discovery is turned off for public networks if that is a thing. Windows Resume Application in BCD is as per usual, There are also events 7011 & 7046, and an issue with kb5052093, now pending restart here – hopefully will fix. 🙂
Edit: Rebooting is no change, in case of something choking DNScache, trying the following:

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /flushdns

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That looks really nice, and there are versions for Linux\Mac as well! Very active forums, not so much on chooka chooka trains though. 🙁
Installed Ghidra, what an amazing project, as decompilers must have a bazillion things more than compilers for getting anything close to operational compiled code. A downside is their help system is rather antiquated, and there is no urgency to update it. 😛

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Back in the day, The Flintstones was a favourite just before dinner time. In terms of finely crafted animation, could we ever call it a Stone Age version of The Simpsons?
Completed The Consultant, kind of hit and miss really, a curio, as you never would guess how it ends until well over half way.
FTA are having The Oscar Goes To selection once again. TV Tropes never mentioned the original and best in their Are We There Yet collection, this very one from Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,

Despite the massive plot and cast in LA Confidential didn’t quite tick all the boxes here. Things always take a brighter turn every time Danny De Vito enters the dialogue, the movie has a spicy quote base:

Stomach of the week. Unemployed actor had frankfurter, french fries, alcohol, and sperm. Hell of a last supper, don’t you think?

Another one of interest is Dog Day Afternoon, tonight it was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest which is recommended. Spoiler: Funny how Randle doesn’t realize that many of the other inmates are admitted voluntarily until completion of a good stint in his internment, in reality one would pick it up pretty soon. Or is that part of his feigning – probably wants more exploration of the book. 🙂

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It’s the culture of corps too, many of the denizens in existence within their hallowed walls have no choice but declare there is no such thing as life outside, before, or after the corp, therefore the corp is seen as the provider and maintainer of all the means of existence and sustenance for the present and incumbent. So why (on earth) do those poor sods have to elicit any concern about this other thing called “world” at all?
Nice! 🙂 What once ground these gears was why pay $32.99 for $20, and why they never came up with a version 2 of the sweet roll plush? Their not so gender specific Daedric Prince is on special. 🙂

And so another No Brainer Day passed, would anyone be the wiser for it?

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Might be worth a shot, thanks. 🙂
And looking at The (Nearly) Whole Microsoft Catalog, it all kicked off with a cracker in ’81:

Seattle Computer Products

Developer of 86Q-DOS operating system software, which became MS-DOS.

Purchased software for $50,000, but later was sued and paid the company a nearly $1 million settlement.

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Watcom is a good IDE candidate, tried the vintage 10a, they forgot to compile WRE to 32bit, and the installation dialog warns you might have an issue with fitting their application on the disk because there is only -xxxxxxxxxx bytes remaining on the disk. 10.5 is much better, the more recent Open Watcom is worth a try as well. 🙂

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Would it be nice … to grow up to be an ugly old creep like me!

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Thanks for the H/U. 🙂
Once in a blue moon you might find a local Office Solutions company eagerly and beaverly bending over backwards in offering a disk/file copying service, thus once done & dusted, and armed with the shiny new copies in hand, creating ISOs is not one breathe less – nor greater than – a cool summer breeze. Not to gainsay the possibility of monetary gain by instead purchasing the game through the outlets of today cannot – and will not – be underestimated! 😛
Fallout aside, we’ll always have Paris Morrowind. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the cobwebs, mould, and gathering dust found on the free Morrowind distro acquired -er- just yesterday are currently undergoing a thorough Formula 409 makeover! 🙂

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The skiff looks nice for half-baked, the skiff’s scullion will be ensuring the fish will be fully baked. 🙂
🙂 Ah, the Wayback face of Microsoft (long loading):

After setting up a Windows 3.11 VM, came across Basil’s WordPress website Blog. Posting a comment first got a nonce bounce, following posts never got through, so saving the comments here:

Thanks for posting this very well presented walkthrough.
Tony’s VMWare site now here, (file link working):
http://web.archive.org/web/20200123030303/https://vmware0.tripod.com/
In my case, set up this in VirtualBox version 7.16 (recent):
https://archive.org/details/CE55E93BC43C767067BD371EFB97259FE20BC97FB09055AF7BCFD3BA374B1824
Could never get the network going, the ipconfig on the VM was never anything like that on the host. Then this came up in Google, fantastic, will try sometime.
The March of Progress: VirtualBox now requires VT-x/AMD-V enabled in the BIOS/UEFI, despite it being disabled by default in the GUI.

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Or sucking the poor critters up into huge freezer trawlers? Certainly a possibility if we are far enough down into the atmosphere where liquids occur, and in a nicely positioned de-pressurized giant super-dome so that things aren’t completely squinched by the overpowering gravity. A construct something akin in magnitude though complete opposite in composition and behaviour to the Red Spot of Jupiter. 😛
Edit:, Hmmmm, might be possible for enough in air to be pumped into the atmosphere of the dome to increase its buoyancy – not sure.
Good news that WebCrawler is still alive, providing a snappy response to queries. Made a personal copy of the front page of Aliweb, the Web’s oldest search engine, because of the sheer age of the category items. The site is © 2009, however the search index was modified much earlier, not long after 9/11 probably, thus most of the links are either re-directs or down the gurgler. And – er – believe it or not, Cagles is still going strong. 🙂
The mystery of the original gaming zone before MS took over continues, posted here on it – could it be some of Sierra’s content might have been borrowed by certain parties?

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It’s amazing how much of a high degree ads and promos have been given a free reign with their dastardly wrecking balls. 🙂
That’s a UK list, the variation in locale is just amazing, the Australasia variants like the one here don’t, confirmed also in Wikipedia. It’s also down to what they define as “support” – the Tab A may very well possess the means of supporting the feature, the support being activated when and if the chip is actually installed, otherwise the support is present, albeit in an inactive state. 😛
Could try the rabbit hole of getting an external NFC to work (or without?) with the phone, with Lava or through the mobile hotspot, plenty of choice at ShopNFC it seems, cheaper alternatives with RFID at Ali Express. 🙂

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Thanks for looking, will keep an eye out for things here in case something turns up. 🙂

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After all, WordPress is bound to have its limits, too, and so haass our sanity! 😛
About 10 years ago opened up an account with the Latvian based Complaints Board for some reason, never filed a complaint, so consequently no idea what the reason was.

How will my issue be resolved?

The process is structured as follows:

• We send your complaint/review directly to the company
• If the company is customer-oriented, they will respond to you in some way (either through our website or via their own communication channels)
• If their proposed solutions satisfy you, you can mark the complaint as resolved to improve the company’s rating.

A very good idea. Wonder if they keep a secret list of baddies that might interest the larger sellers, Amazon, Ali Baba, eBay etc.

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Think that should work, thanks. 🙂 Even after considerable use, these fingers are still thumb drums on the A8, which may not be helped by the 1080p res.
So amid unspeakable and unmitigated horror and chagrin came the revelation the A8, (like the old 10.1) doesn’t sport an NFC chip. The shock realization came by not in the attempt to install and use Tap and Pay, but LinkedIn verification of all things. They actually require US/Canada/Mexico NFC passport/Gov ID as well, and after a quick check in the desk drawers found absolutely no trace of such documents whatsoever. And doesn’t look as if one could drop the device down to the local shop and get an NFC “upgrade” either. Shucks, someday it’ll have to be a cheap phone just for the NFC stuff then. 🙁

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Thanks, certainly worth a look. 🙂
Meanwhile, in between times, inserted a cheap but convenient link up top for quick searching, hope it suits. 🙂

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Seen that twice already, it’s in my top 10 of all time! Often pondered if there was ever going to be a cinematic melding of Blues Brothers and Men in Black, well, ahem, it all eventually came to pass as Men in Blues:

Deep Blue Sea declared itself a crock five minutes in with the crappy ocean caustics lapping around the Aquatica facility, turning out (contrary to some opinions) to be a bloody disgusting free for all mess with bloopers abounding throughout thick and fast. Yet, the sound effects and the shrieking and freaking kind of held you to the watery and jaw-zy action willy nilly. 😛
Death Proof is a highly unbalanced movie, the first half or or so there’s a terrific evolution of character and dialogue leading up to the lap dance, and then all of a sudden things go blech. Then (spoiler alert) there’s a new set of girls to adjust to, but their ship’s masting turns out to be a winner. 🙂
Edit: Funny how the smiley pokes its way out of the spoiler. 😛

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A family member has passed on some links with a political bent including one for this guy whose antics have landed him in court opposite rather powerful and colourful opponents on several occasions. Also in the invidious predicament of riling up Joe Hildebrand, someone who comes off as generally being tolerant and of good nature. Still, Jordie is one that likes a bit of street theatre and fun, so we’re on common ground there, wonder where he will be 15-20 years on when his youthful looks and charms have all fled?
Of interest as well is this author and economist, Yanis Varoufakis, and his last work, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 2023, also read by him. Here’s a snippet from that books:

From factory owners in America’s Midwest to poets struggling to sell their latest anthology, from London Uber drivers to Indonesian street hawkers, all are now dependent on some cloud fief for access to customers. It is progress, of sorts. Gone is the time when, to collect their rent, feudal lords employed thugs to break their vassals’ knees or spill their blood. The cloudalists don’t need to deploy bailiffs to confiscate or to evict. Instead, every vassal capitalist knows that with the removal of a link from their cloud vassal’s site they could lose access to the bulk of their customers. And with the removal of a link or two from Google’s search engine or from a couple of ecommerce and social media sites, they could disappear from the online world altogether. A sanitized tech-terror is the bedrock of technofeudalism. Looked at in totality, it becomes apparent that the world economy is lubricated less and less with profit and increasingly with cloud rent. And so the delightful antinomy of our era comes into focus: capitalist activity is growing within the same process of energetic capital accumulation that degrades capitalist profit and gradually replaces capitalist markets with cloud fiefs. In short, capitalism is withering as a result of burgeoning capitalist activity. It is through capitalist activity that technofeudalism was born and is now sweeping to power.

Does all this matter to the way we live and experience our lives? It certainly does. Recognizing that our world has become technofeudal helps us dissolve puzzles great and small: from the elusive green energy revolution and Elon Musk’s decision to buy Twitter to the New Cold War between the USA and China and how the war in Ukraine is threatening the dollar’s reign; from the death of the liberal individual and the impossibility of social democracy to the false promise of crypto and the burning question of how we may recover our autonomy, perhaps our freedom too. Today, to own our minds individually, we must own cloud capital collectively. It’s the only way we can turn our cloud-based artifacts from automated means of behavior modification, that poison our social reality, to automated means of human collaboration and emancipation.

And, being an obedient and faithful technoderf (typo intented), went and proposed an idea to make the names of all deleted Wikipedia articles accessible, downside is they don’t like it much for the sheer bulk of the undertaking, upside is that it would take a little pressure off Wayback resources.
Edit: Oops, they do have a deletion log!

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