In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device
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Well, you fuckers, I hope you're happy. I no longer have any PCs running Windows XP.
As you know, Bob, I was running XP on an old laptop that was my media server / web server. Recently, the CPU fan had been struggling. I cleaned the fan and everything, but I guess the CPU was just ready to go. The decade+ old heatsink goop probably didn't help either.
Since the CPU was running deal 75F, I decided to reboot it to see what would happen. It rebooted OK. Then sometime at the start of April, the laptop just-- I dunno-- fried it's own BIOS? It rebooted and is permanently stuck on "plz flash a bios plz" mode. Ded.
Ripped out the hard drive and spent a while rebuilding the web server + mysql server on a new(er) desktop that's acting as my backup machine. That was fun, since the MySQL data, config and other data was spread across 4 different locations because of all the mysql upgrades over the years.
Installed a new media server, transferred everything over. Now it's all back up and running. On Windows 7.
So please, everyone, commemorate the end of this era. Post your fond, loving memories of Windows XP.
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Pinball
I think that's it
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@Lorne-Kates Nooooooo! Gett the key! Get the key! Install it on a VM.
It works even better on a VM!
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@Lorne-Kates Memorium? What's its atomic number?
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@Lorne-Kates I'm sorry for your loss.
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@coldandtired said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
@Lorne-Kates Memorium? What's its atomic number?
πiP
fucking formatting, fuck it, LAUGH AT MY JOKE!
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Well, I was initially very against Windows XP. Because Windows 98 SE was the best OS and this stupid-looking XP couldn't possibly be better. And then I tried it and found out it was pretty good.
Although my best memory is probably, as mentioned elsewhere on the forum, when I managed to have enough hardware in my computer that it used up over 1GB in memory addresses. I think that's the point where I should have started looking at this 64-bit thing, although that computer also broke down as I was considering to upgrade it to the maxed-out hardware which would have necessitated a 64-bit version of Windows.
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@Lorne-Kates said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
Post your fond, loving memories of Windows XP.
Installing it on a couple of dozen Dell OptiPlex GX260s and 280s that were already about six or seven years old at the time. I still have an unopened, original genuine yes really Dell installer package lying around somewhere.
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@Lorne-Kates said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
Post your fond, loving memories of Windows XP.
Windows Movie Maker was around then, right? That was some good shit.
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My Windows 2003 server box is still running perfectly.
Also XP64 bit was bloody amazing. Used it until about 2010.
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@Lorne-Kates said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
@coldandtired said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
@Lorne-Kates Memorium? What's its atomic number?
πiP
fucking formatting, fuck it, LAUGH AT MY JOKE!
I got it.
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@Lorne-Kates said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
Post your fond, loving memories of Windows XP.
It was much better than Win98.
Umm… you wanted more than that?
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It was the first version of Windows I used that was really stable, and the last one that ran all our old games properly. When I first started using it I was concerned that I couldn't boot into plain DOS any more (which until then I'd used when I wanted to play DOS games, since it tended to work noticeably better than running them in a Windows DOS box), but it turned out to handle them well, much better than previous versions had done.
We still have one XP machine going for the kids, but they don't use it much (it's not connected to the internet).
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@dkf said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
It was much better than Win98.
I migrated from ME. In that regard, it was the best thing, EVER!
Filed under: Something must be wrong with my machine, it didn't BSoD the entire day...
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@Onyx said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
I migrated from ME. In that regard, it was the best thing, EVER!
I went backwards from ME to 98, despite paying for ME. Then went to 2000 before switching to XP.
I think I might still have the retail box for XP Pro at some somewhere.
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@loopback0 2000 had a higher framerate in most DirectX 9.0 games, due to it being a lighter weight OS. Lot of games wouldn't work without patching them to fuck though.
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@coldandtired said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
@Lorne-Kates Memorium? What's its atomic number?
We should have a memorandam of understanding not to make fun of people's spelling mistakes
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@bb36e Someone actually made an app, Star Pinball or something, that recreates that beloved board in terrible flashlike graphics and slightly different physics.
Of course, the Pinball FX app is better and also exists.
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@Magus The reason they didn't port that game was because the maths was totally fucked in 64bit arch and they just couldn't be arsed to fix it.
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The 64-bit version of Pinball had a pretty nasty bug where the ball would simply pass through other objects like a ghost.
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@Onyx ME was the last Windows I used until Windows 7. It was that bad.
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@NedFodder I think that was more or less what referring to.
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@r10pez10
@ben_lubar Feature request: Make hyperlinks in @r10pez10 posts clickable.
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@izzion said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
@r10pez10
@ben_lubar Feature request: Make hyperlinks in @r10pez10 posts clickable.Hmm. Technically doable with OCR.
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@Tsaukpaetra OCR never works
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@RaceProUK said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
@Tsaukpaetra OCR never works
I do a fair job. But that there up yonder weren't me.
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@r10pez10 said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
The problem was trying to port the pinball game from 32 bit Windows XP to 64 bits, as described by Raymond Chen, here:
One of the things I did in Windows XP was port several millions of lines of code from 32-bit to 64-bit so that we could ship Windows XP 64-bit Edition. But one of the programs that ran into trouble was Pinball. The 64-bit version of Pinball had a pretty nasty bug where the ball would simply pass through other objects like a ghost.
Two of us tried to debug the program to figure out what was going on, but this was code written several years earlier by an outside company, and nobody at Microsoft ever understood how the code worked and most of the code was completely uncommented. Heck, we couldn't even find the collision detector!
We had several million lines of code still to port, so we just made the executive decision right there to drop Pinball from the product.
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nobody at Microsoft ever understood how the code worked and most of the code was completely uncommented.
So, just like the Windows source code?