Posts by Ne body

Windows 7 lives! How to keep your favorite fossil running

Re: Or save yourself the headaches and install FreeBSD

Reading this on a 2012 Mac mini running FreeBSD and using SeaMonkey :)

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise

SeaMonkey is NOT derived from Firefox - it is the original Netscape Communicator, then Mozill;a Suite and finally SeaMonkey.

Mozilla opens testing for Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox

Still using Netscape Communicator, er Mozilla Suite, no, SeaMonkey

:-)

AMD: Our latest, pricier mega-cache Epyc processors leapfrog Intel’s

Re: Already exists

Full install of FreeBSD 12.3 also runs in 512MB in my Vultr cloud instance.

Windows XP@20: From the killer of ME to banging out patches for yet another vulnerability

Windows 2000 was the highwater mark in MS mis-operating systems, it's been downhill ever since. After Windows 2000 I switched to FreeBSD (and macOS to run the very occasional Windows 2000, 7, and 10 VM).

As Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow

Re: Upgrade...

to SeaMonkey (what was Netscape Communicator) with uBlock Origin and friends. Some paywalled sites even let it in for free presumably because they don't test for it :)

helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS

defaults write com.apple.terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string true

Australia defies trend for network sales slide, shovels cash at Cisco

NBN good for something ;)

The explosion of NBN RSPs seems to be a possible source of Cisco fuel!

Groundhog Day! ACCC again calls for truth in broadband advertising

Local speed? Overseas speed? Routing speed?

While it's obvious that some/many RSPs are under-provisioning backhaul, I'm not sure how an RSP will provide the ACCC speed guidance. There are just too many possible speeds to pick from. Even in-country, the speed of data transfer from any particular site depends on who the RSP or the RSP's backhaul supplier peers with. And as for overseas speeds...

Old Firefox add-ons get 'dead man walking' call

Loved the comment about stick in the muds :)

I started using Mosaic (circa 1994), then moved on to Netscape Navigator before arriving at Netscape Communicator which I still use today for web, email and RSS feeds - my email archive goes back to 1996. Netscape Communicator morphed into Mozilla Suite before morphing into today's SeaMonkey.

Over that time I've moved OS from Windows NT -> Windows 2000 -> FreeBSD.

I hate to imagine what I'll do if/when SeaMonkey bites the dust.

Beleaguered 123-reg customers spot price hike

Re: Namecheap

Another +1 for namecheap, been using them for years.

Thunderbird is GO: Mozilla prepares to jettison mail client

Re: @AMBxx - Still around?

> No other email client standalone or (especially) web based offer these abilities which in

> my opinion are an invaluable security tool.

SeaMonkey nee Mozilla Suite nee Netscape Communicator. I've been using it since the Netscape Communicator days.

Australia's Dick finally drops off

Watford Eelectronics, DSE et al

When I was a teenager in NZ I bought my first soldering iron (an Antex 25W job) from Watford Electronics in the UK. It still working today, but the bits now cost more than buying a new iron locally after adding the outrageous postage charge from Antex.

Anyway, in my 20s I moved to Australia and in the 1980s bought a VIC-20 computer. Again, I found Watford Electronics was useful in being the only place I could find to buy a bunch of 2116 Static RAM chips to build a 3K RAM expander for my VIC-20.

X couple of years ago I went looking for Watford Electronics again (when I was after some bits for the Antex iron) and discovered that, yes, they had "diversified" into computers at some point and were now no more.

On the upside, eBay, AliExpress, BuyInCoins et al, and occasionally Microchip, Element 14 and JayCar, now fulfill the needs I have.