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- Sun Jan 24, 2021 5:11 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3782
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/hank-aaron-legendary-baseball-player-dies-at-age-86.html 86 year old baseball star received a covid shot. Two weeks later he died anyway ---so much for vaccines and their usefulness. Mr. Aaron made the occasion of his receiving the magic jab a photo opportunity, to en...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 10:47 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3782
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
appears to be true Was the man 75 years old ? Did he receive a vaccine shot ? Did he die ? Was the vaccine any use to him ? He could have just stayed home, given himself a shot of rum, and lived happily ever after for the next two hours ---without any help from vaccinators & medical science. Would ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:27 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3782
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
They gave a vaccine shot to a 75 year old man, two hours later he died anyway. So much for medical science and their vaccines. They could have just given him a tall glass of soldy water. https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israel-nears-100000-coronavirus-vaccinations-per-day-goal-653461 The man obv...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:46 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3782
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
That's not true. You have no idea how many people were actually exposed to the virus. I took the numbers from here: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ Is the population not 7,800 million ? https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Are the Wuhan numbers posted by worldometer not accura...
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3782
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
Microsoft and Windows are the best things that could ever happen to a computer In 2020 7,000 million people, 99% of the population of the planet, managed on their own to resist the Wuhan flu ---without any help from government employees, from medical science, from corporations of high morality and ...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 11:58 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3782
Re: So, who's ready to take the covid-19 vaccine ?
A spoonful of honey in a barrel of tar. For two decades they have been handing out tax-payer funded flu vaccines. People line up in parking lots to reach into somebody else's pocket for a flu shot. These flu shots have been proven to be completely useless at best; in some instances actually harmful...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 11:12 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: No Windows Update for Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/2000
- Replies: 42
- Views: 13067
Re: No Windows Update for Windows 95/98/98SE/ME/2000
With T60 and T61, Lenovo finally provided an IBM XP installation package that can be opened using 7zip or winRar.
CM2ZCUS.IMZ password is iejfhvu. (Dell, HP, Fujitsu did it from day one)
CM2ZCUS.IMZ password is iejfhvu. (Dell, HP, Fujitsu did it from day one)
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 8:59 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
- Replies: 417
- Views: 27915
Re: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
What is happening in the United States is democracy in its shining glory. This is the true nature and essence of mobrule. Democracy was invented and implemented by nefarious characters (today some would call them deep state) to make sure that the people will never have a good government. Yes, you ma...
- Mon Nov 09, 2020 9:16 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
- Replies: 417
- Views: 27915
Re: OK, now we descend into the STOLEN election
descend into Were we somewhere high up that now we need to descend ? In 1864 the popular war-time president, honest Abraham Lincoln needed vote fraud to gain re-election. To this day honest-Abe is the patron saint of the Republican party. In 1960 John Kennedy needed vote fraud to acquire the Presid...
- Mon Nov 02, 2020 9:50 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: ReactOS
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6394
Re: ReactOS
beer, system compatible Hobgoblin and Ryzen with w3k. Only for hobbyists. An office cannot do it because the manager is not open to such experiments. Home users don't do it because they always want the latest, greatest with the highest serial number. Older people who purchased their first computers...
- Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:36 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: ReactOS
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6394
Re: ReactOS
interested in how Win Raid guys Then, you should ask them. I found the forum while looking for AHCI driver. It is obvious that, unlike the ReactOS crew, they are not afraid to look at the recently released code and learn something from it. Yes, in some people's moral standard, with age, criminals b...
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:29 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: ReactOS
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6394
Re: ReactOS
legal issues btw I expect they would agree that, by paying 280,000,000 to Caldera, Microsoft acknowledged criminal activity; that the U.S. justice department should have taken further steps to prevent Microsoft, and in a different way; that the European governments should do more to demolish Micros...
- Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:34 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: ReactOS
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6394
Re: ReactOS
personal touch 789 I have three Haswell machines; NT 5.2 (an XP-compatible OS) on them. It is reasonable to expect that they will function for another ten years. If I buy an m93p or a PowerEdge 815, I am really set. No house-hold or office needs more than Haswell, or 4x12 cores of Opteron in the fr...
- Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:30 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: ReactOS
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6394
Re: ReactOS
The ReactOS developers cannot Yes, they couldn't, even if they tripped over some source code. In the mean time, over at Win-Raid they are working on modifiying XP to install on 64-core ThreadRipper. From the looks of it, I will be able to use NT 5.2 (an OS very compatible with XP) for the rest of m...
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:01 am
- Forum: Thinkpad - General HARDWARE/SOFTWARE questions
- Topic: Looking to Upgrade from a T500 - Need something with the 2 buttons below touch pad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3872
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:53 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: ReactOS
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6394
Re: ReactOS
But have they learned from the source how Windows functions and how to write something that is compatible with XP ?
- Thu Oct 22, 2020 8:09 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: ReactOS
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6394
Re: ReactOS
I remember watching this project around 2005 and thinking that a working OS was only a few years away.... The Windows 2000 source code was released in 2004. The ReactOS crew learned from it what in sixteen years ? Has anyone learned anything from the Windows source code ? I wish someone would at le...
- Wed Oct 21, 2020 9:09 am
- Forum: Thinkpad - General HARDWARE/SOFTWARE questions
- Topic: Looking to Upgrade from a T500 - Need something with the 2 buttons below touch pad
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3872
Re: Looking to Upgrade from a T500 - Need something with the 2 buttons below touch pad
Try giving it an SSD I did that. Booted from a CD, installed win 2003, but at the first reboot T500 gives me the "disk read error occured" excuse. On the exact same SSD there is a Linux partition which T500 is willing to see and boot. It seems T500 has a problem with Windows on an SSD. If I put thi...
- Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:36 pm
- Forum: Windows 7
- Topic: Where to get Window 7?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4488
Re: Where to get Window 7?
Would this make my plain installation a Lenovo OEM installation ?
(I don't want to install a Microsoft-provided Windows 7 .iso on a ThinkPad just to test it)
Code: Select all
cscript slmgr.vbs -ilc lenovo.xrm-ms
- Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:06 pm
- Forum: Windows 7
- Topic: Where to get Window 7?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4488
Re: Where to get Window 7?
That's what some of the generic installation CDs / loaders are doing. The legality of this is questionable. I just about learned something here. So the makers of better installation ISOs are not enigma code-breakers; or slic inserters. They merely acquired installation DVDs of every OEM brand, copi...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:25 am
- Forum: Windows 7
- Topic: Where to get Window 7?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4488
Re: Where to get Window 7?
If I understood the Wiki article correctly: Every major brand is SLP-enabled Manufacturers of SLP-enabled motherboards pay a fee to Microsoft (who is the robber baron pirate here ?) This, I think, would entitle me to a Microsoft product. And how could anyone fault me for using a stolen or a properly...
- Mon Oct 05, 2020 9:38 am
- Forum: Windows 7
- Topic: Where to get Window 7?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4488
Re: get Windows 7
Such ISOs typically contain a loader I wish I could post the links here and you would tell me where the loader is. I can't find win loader or grub loader in these two. ____________________ Has Microsoft produced Windows 7 installation DVDs that were expected not to get into our hands ? I would like...
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 10:03 am
- Forum: Windows 7
- Topic: Where to get Window 7?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4488
get Windows 7
(as is often the case, the original poster faded away) Ye gentlemen are making this very simple predicament a difficult, complicated one. There are plenty of un-modified .isos available for download that will activate using the sticker on the bottom of your laptop. And there are perfetly good, not c...
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:00 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Stuff
- Topic: ReactOS
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6394
- Mon Sep 21, 2020 12:56 pm
- Forum: Windows OS (Versions prior to Windows 7)
- Topic: w2k t500
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17477
Re: w2k t500
The SD card itself is detected under XP x86, but not under XP x64..? Neither here, nor there.... I found out, sdbus.sys is not in XP_64. It is in XP_32. Similarly, sdbus.sys is not in win 2003. In win2003_32 the one from XP_32 can be installed, and it works. In the case of win2003_64, we need to us...
- Sat Aug 01, 2020 8:56 am
- Forum: ThinkPad T400/T410/T420 and T500/T510/T520 Series
- Topic: T410 Original Recovery DISCS
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4571
Re: T410 Original Recovery DISCS
In case someone just wants to download above-requested disc images:
https://archive.org/details/ThinkPadT410Recovery
https://archive.org/details/ThinkPadT410Recovery
- Tue Jul 21, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: Windows OS (Versions prior to Windows 7)
- Topic: IBM ThinkPad T43 Restore Disks?? Help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4655
- Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:43 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad R, A, G and Z Series
- Topic: z60m NT 3.51
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2139
Re: z60m NT 3.51
The VBEMP driver helped
https://bearwindows.zcm.com.au/vbe9x.htm
not full screen, but true color 1280x1024.
(now the sound)
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:48 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad R, A, G and Z Series
- Topic: z60m NT 3.51
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2139
z60m NT 3.51
I just installed NT 3.51 on a z60m. It functions.
Now I need a driver for ATI Radeon x300 card.
Now I need a driver for ATI Radeon x300 card.
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 1:10 pm
- Forum: ThinkPad T40/T41/T42/T43 Series
- Topic: Recovery disks for my T42 (2373)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8203
Re: Recovery disks for my T42 (2373)
I found a set on archive.org, however It seems from your comment https://archive.org/details/Disc2of7January2005PN24R7734XPPSP2ENFRUPN24R7684 that you merely copied the .isos onto a disc, as opposed to burning them onto a disk T43 recovery discs may also work for ye: https://archive.org/details/39K...