Affirmative.

 

Trying with Chrome

 

Both images look fine to me.

 

That was with Chrome. Can't seem to do anything with Edge.

 

I would accept that as a universally true statement.

Well, that's not 100% true. Edge is useful as a tool for downloading Chrome.

There's no readily apparent, logical explanation for why Microsoft has never been able to produce a good browser, given that they have actually done rather well in both operating systems and integrated office productivity suites. Different development group, I assume. But ever since Explorer came out to compete with Mosaic and Navigator, they have always just kind of sucked at browsers.

 

I would like to use Firefox, and actually go back to XP, but this newer computer with W10 opens Edge to show *.pdf files and to print and not yet knowing what I will screw up, I have been hesitant. The new site software is horrible no matter how I open it.

 

Try Netscape Navigator. That's what I use.

 

You say this jokingly.

I actually have a virtual machine running Windows 98, Netscape Navigator, and some distressingly old build of Java which took quite a while to track down, which I keep on my desktop and laptop machines, because this is the only way I can communicate with a couple of fairly old machines at work which are critical to our operation.

 

I shuddered.

 

Turns out that when the applet says "... requires Java X.Y.Z or later," the "or later" part does NOT extend indefinitely into the future. If that were written by a time-traveler, it would include the last X.Y.Z build that works, after which Sun / Oracle took away whatever specific feature the applet relies upon in order to function properly.

I assume that we broadcasters are not unique in having 20+ year old machines still in service (with many years still ahead of them, in terms of hardware reliability) that require utterly archaic PCs in order to configure and monitor.

I **** you not: it was just earlier this year that I finally managed to de-commission our last genuine MS-DOS machine.

I mean, I have no hatred for DOS. It did the job well, in its time, and I was proficient with it. The problem was more that the machine it connected to required an interface which was in the form of an ISA card. Have you tried to buy a motherboard with an ISA slot recently?

 

Here is a direct download to the latest release of the best browser ever: It will never allow you to accidentally install toolbars.

ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Windows/v3.0/mos30.exe

Good luck and make sure to add some extra animated gifs to your angelfire site for me. If you can't figure out what I mean, just webcrawler it.

 

My brother used to be in the business of sourcing archaic computer parts to sell to the federal government/military. Some of the things they were trying to keep running were in line with what you are dealing with.

 

Not to show off my age (or lack of) but we have some XP machines still in production...I can hardly remember using XP in my lifetime

 

I'm on an XP machine right now. It was this or a thin client that was running some Windows server. I could bring that stupid thing to it's knees just opening a web browser.

I guess 60k a day and 30% of that being straight profit isn't enough to upgrade the computers around here. It's a security risk at this point .

 

When I worked for Cisco and a security hole was discovered, there would be a fire drill to patch every single released image for every single affected product they'd ever made. This applied whether or not the product was still considered to be "supported", which caused a bit of a problem a couple of times. It turns out the code for some of those older products required old versions of build tools, which only ran on old versions of SunOS, which only ran on hardware that we no longer had any of. VMs weren't really a thing at that point, so there was a bit of a scramble to go out and find some old Sun hardware...

--Ian

 

We had a similar problem about a year ago.

It was a really subtle and obscure bug in the code which runs a BTS Jupiter router control system (router as in video, not as in Ethernet) which is about 25 years old. (It uses coax 10base2 ethernet, to give you an idea.)

Over the years, BTS was purchased by Philips, and then re-sold to Grass Valley, which was subsequently purchased by Belden.

Now, Belden is really amazing about customer support. If you find a legitimate bug in any product, they will fix it, no matter how old. The problem in this case was that, somewhere along one of the many moves, the engineers lost the whole development environment. As in, they physically misplaced the machine which had the compiler and IDE on it. Everyone was sure that the machine still existed in some warehouse somewhere, but nobody could find it.

 

Daily reminder that fuzzy pictures are awful and nobody wants them.

 

 

When I open build threads it looks like Japanese **** censors got a hold of MT.net

 

I feel incredibly old.