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kompakt
7y ago
Oh boy, Windows Blinds were the thing for Windows XP. Longhorn theme for Windows XP? Remember Windows Blackcomb theme? I also remember customizing msgina.dll :)
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kompakt
7y ago
Good to see at least two people remember the old Cairo shell :) I remember trying it out on Windows XP long time ago. I'd say it was even before 2010, as the alpha supported Windows XP and Vista.
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kompakt
7y ago
Cairo shell has been around for quite a while though. I remember trying out alpha version on Windows XP many years ago. I'm not sure if the current version is a fork or someone sold the brand but it has been around for a longer time. I
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kompakt
7y ago
Yes, and this should be listed as HL1's main advance, its brilliant AI, which at that time of the release was unlike anything else. https://youtu.be/cOSCBMHGE18 https://youtu.be/GjDY3m1SMpw
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kompakt
7y ago
Another heavy bookmarks user / hoarder here. I have around 30k bookmarks, so much bookmarks that Firefox freezes for a few seconds when I click on bookmarks menu bar item, because it tries to load them all within that drop down menu. I
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kompakt
7y ago
That's a really good idea. To achieve similar result, I am currently using multiple Firefox profiles which have different proxies configured. I also have separate profiles for social media. It wouldn't be bad if they made profiles
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kompakt
7y ago
Came here to say that. Though I vaguely remember them trying some paid options even before Sophos. I recall using Sandboxie on Windows XP and Vista, back then it was incredibly useful to have such a tool.
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kompakt
7y ago
Oh boy, that brings back memories! With nLite you could slipstream Windows XP to run under 100MB. That was fun!
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kompakt
7y ago
Longhorn concept was awesome. I remember how crazy and advanced this Longhorn promo was https://youtu.be/b9ifQvQCO7Y >Sadly, we all know how Vista turned out at the end. Maybe with the first versions, but after a few ser
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kompakt
7y ago
Yes, and it works quite well. I've flashed the latest OpenWRT on my Unifi AP for a test, I'm really impressed with the performance. It also adds more features with OpenWRT packages. Do note that some ubnt devices have custom firmw
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kompakt
7y ago
Ya I've seen those, that's completely crazy.
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kompakt
7y ago
That talk was at CCCamp 2019. I'd say most attendees looked like that.
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kompakt
7y ago
It's clearly not a satanic pentagram but apparently some sort of authors inside joke. Sure, it's based on it, but as you can see there's more elements added https://imgur.com/PxKw5Yw Throughout history five p