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Tyler Smith

1 month ago

Tyler Smith
1 month ago

Can anyone recommend good resources (books, websites, other) for someone who needs to manage #Windows machines for family? I'm fairly competent generally, but have only used #Linux for the past 20 years.

My parents recently got a new desktop, and my wife needs a new laptop shortly. I will be providing #IT for both, and don't expect my experience with #WindowsXP will get me very far at this point

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aaron

2 months ago

aaron
2 months ago

The NC10 was dead. BIOS beeps, no POST, nothing.
I tried Debian. I tried 7. I gave up.

Then I didn’t.
I stuck the motherboard in the oven.

And somehow, it booted.

What followed was two full days of ISO failures, update errors, driver hell, and one buried ISO that saved everything.

XP is back. On the original hardware.
New post is up:
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea…
#DeadOSWalking #windowsxp #retrocomputing

Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 Day 5: What Happens Now — fireborn

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#retrocomputing #windowsxp #deadoswalking

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aaron

2 months ago

aaron
2 months ago

Day 4 is up. And XP might be dead.
I thought I had the system stable. It booted. It ran. I was ready to start bridging Discord to IRC.
Then it paused. No crash. Just silence.
Then it rebooted.
Then it beeped. Loud. Continuous.
Then five beeps and a pause. Over and over.
That’s not a software failure. That’s a BIOS screaming about hardware.
I tried XP one last time.
It made it to the Windows screen.
Then black.
Then the Samsung logo.
Then Windows.
Then black again.
Looping. No recovery.
I broke the USB rule and booted into Debian. It worked—barely.
Espeakup is stuttering.
The install is dragging itself forward like a dying animal.
This is not normal.
I'm writing this from my Surface Pro while the netbook stumbles through what might be its last job.
If there’s a Day 5, it’ll be a miracle.
If there isn’t... you already know the title.
Read the post:
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea…
#WindowsXP #BlindComputing #RetroComputing #OldHardware #DeadOSWalking

Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 Day 4 – The Challenge Might Be Over — fireborn

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#retrocomputing #windowsxp #blindcomputing #deadoswalking #oldhardware

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aaron

2 months ago

aaron
2 months ago

Day 3 of running Windows XP in 2025 is up.
I opened Enafore to check my Mastodon replies. It worked—for a few seconds. Then the notifications started. And they didn’t stop. Ping. Ping. Ping. I couldn’t reply. I could barely move the cursor. I watched the system buckle in real time.
So I tore XP apart.
I disabled over thirty services, deleted Windows File Protection, nuked the prefetch cache, rewrote shutdown behavior, and killed every background process that wasn’t strictly mine. If it touched the network, tried to log something, or ran without permission, it’s dead.
And you know what? Enafore runs fine now. JAWS doesn’t read new posts live, but I don’t care. I can read. I can reply. XP obeys.
Discord, though? Wouldn’t even load in the browser. Just a blank page. So tomorrow, I’m pulling in what channels I can through IRC. It’s not over.
Read the full post:
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea…
#WindowsXP #Retrocomputing #BlindComputing #Accessibility #IRC #Mastodon #DeadOSWalking

Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 Day 3 – I Don’t Patch. I Burn. — fireborn

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#Accessibility #Mastodon #irc #retrocomputing #windowsxp #blindcomputing #deadoswalking

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aaron

2 months ago

aaron
2 months ago

Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 – — fireborn

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#Accessibility #Mastodon #irc #retrocomputing #windowsxp #blindcomputing #deadoswalking

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aaron

2 months ago

aaron
2 months ago

Does anyone have an #accessible #irc #client for #WindowsXP? Discord, as you can imagine, is proving rather difficult to use, so I'd like to use IRC instead for the communities I'm a part of that have both. Thanks in advance!

#accessible #irc #client #windowsxp

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aaron

2 months ago

aaron
2 months ago

People keep telling me I don’t know how good I have it. That modern systems are easy, and that accessibility has come so far I should be grateful. So I decided to test that claim the hard way.
I’m running Windows XP for a month. Not in a VM. Not themed. Real XP. Real hardware. A 2009 Samsung NC10, with 2GB of RAM, an SSD, and the original drivers I had to dig up from the depths of the internet.
No speech at install. I used OCR to get through it.
Display drivers broke four times.
Serpent is the only browser I could get working.
I installed Office 2003.
Got JAWS 15 running after a registry hack.
NVDA still works fine.
I even played some old audio games I never got to try growing up.
I haven’t found a decent ad blocker or antivirus yet. I’m not expecting this to go smoothly. I don’t even really believe I’ll make it the full 30 days. But I’m doing it anyway.
Day 1 is up. Written and published from Windows XP.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/dea…
#WindowsXP #Accessibility #BlindComputing #RetroTech
#NVDA #JAWS #audiogames
#30DaysOfXP

Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn

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#Accessibility #nvda #jaws #audiogames #windowsxp #retrotech #blindcomputing #30daysofxp

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Seasons of Jason 🎒

1 year ago

Seasons of Jason 🎒
1 year ago

I still adore this screenshot.

Also, some interesting @thunderbird trivia: In 2004, internet access wasn't nearly as widespread as it is now, so Mozilla offered to send installation CD-ROMs to users for $5.95.

#WindowsXP #Firefox #Thunderbird #History