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Re: Off Topic

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:53 pm
by Reese Riverson
What would be cool is if we could have the start button the way we want, too. Or offer several flavors.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:03 pm
by Master
Yeah, and I'll be more than happy to see Aero back as well.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 12:17 am
by Haruka
@Hoodcom and Master The "Inside the Computer" was also one of my favourite themes, but my top one was "Space" in which I remember to use it a lot. I also liked a lot "Dangerous Creatures", "Science", "Jungle" and "Underwater".

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 6:06 am
by Fifo
Haruka, I use the “Inside the Computer” theme in my 95 VM.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:06 am
by Reese Riverson
Do you have Windows 95 Plus installed on the virtual machine, then?

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:09 am
by Fifo
Yeah I do. I use VMware Fusion for that. :)

I’ve installed some of the smilies used here in my forum. Go have a look here.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:04 am
by Earth Gwee
I think people need to know that this video is really deceiving. I found out they actually train the elephants to paint the same painting over and over, several times a day. The animals are punished if they get a brush stroke wrong. http://www.earsasia.org/why_we_help/Pag ... nting.html

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 10:43 am
by Haruka
Earth Gwee wrote:
I think people need to know that this video is really deceiving. I found out they actually train the elephants to paint the same painting over and over, several times a day. The animals are punished if they get a brush stroke wrong. http://www.earsasia.org/why_we_help/Pag ... nting.html
Damn, this is terrible :(! Obviously, these guys do anything just for the money of the tourists (and people that don't know what happens in the backstage). Greedy bastards :x. Thank you both for sharing this, I'm going to send to more people.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 11:25 am
by OCG
Worst possible abuse, what a horrible thing!
Elephant painting should be banned.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 12:49 pm
by Reese Riverson
That's shocking, I thought it was a natural talent, or at least training with out some form of abuse. (Like how you can give a dog or cat treats through training process.) This really saddens and disappoints me to see such things happen to those elephants. :cry:

Thank You for pointing this out, Gwee, it's a fact that isn't even mentioned much, apparently.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:17 am
by Master
The end of XP is nigh: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows ... pport.aspx
Amazing how long it's lasted, but this is it, it seems.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:27 am
by OCG
It won't end worldwide. In UK, it is ending in 2015.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 10:28 am
by Master
Only for public-sector systems, and only because they actually paid out money for extended support, I think the same goes for the Dutch: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2 ... lic-sector

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:07 pm
by Haruka
Yeah, I read over here about the extended support for the Dutch and British governments: http://exameinformatica.sapo.pt/noticia ... er-XP-vivo

Well, it was a long life for the XP. The first four years of my current machine were with the Windows XP, until I've upgraded to Windows 7.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 12:46 pm
by Reese Riverson
Pretty amazing how long it did get support for, and it had been a pretty good OS, but it was easily surpassed by Vista (latest service pack) and especially by Windows 7. (Especially thanks to Windows XP mode if you really needed that.)

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:21 pm
by Master
Though it does make me wonder, I know that there's some laptops and some desktops in some departments which run XP, bad idea to have them connected to the network, seeing as they could be pretty deadly weak spots.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:48 pm
by OCG
Hoodcom wrote:Pretty amazing how long it did get support for, and it had been a pretty good OS, but it was easily surpassed by Vista (latest service pack) and especially by Windows 7. (Especially thanks to Windows XP mode if you really needed that.)
I disagree about Vista. XP always was and always will be better than it. Vista should lose support already. Win 7 is awesome though and is better than both.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:58 pm
by Reese Riverson
Then tell me why and how Windows XP is better than Vista? For any machine I had, Vista ran better.

Re: Off Topic

Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 2:13 pm
by OCG
Maybe my PC was bad for Vista then, but XP was much faster for me.

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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 2:15 pm
by Reese Riverson
That doesn't mean Vista was garbage, though. It'd be like trying to run Windows XP on a machine meant for Windows 95 or 98. That doesn't mean XP is garbage either.