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<p>There's lots of goofy freeware for ham radio folks, not to
mention ancient games, that play on XP. That's why. I'd otherwise
flatten it and put Xubuntu/etc on it. Yes, it'll blow up now and
then, but lots of software died with XP SP1/2. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/18/19 5:05 PM, Perlow, Jason
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote">Fellow Guilders,<br>
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This is a tome about resurrecting an EEE Asus system that
hadn't been <br>
turned on since 2012.<br>
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The short background is that this system was owned by a fellow
who died <br>
in 2012. His widow contacted me to donate his stuff to our ham
radio <br>
club. In the mix was an EEE, which had been updated in 2012
but <br>
otherwise it had been unused, and I mean zero data. It has a
900mhz CPU <br>
and an amazing 2GB of DRAM. It's roughly tablet-sized, and has
Windows <br>
XP on it, and not Windows XP SP2-- the point where Microsoft
implemented <br>
the concept of "user space". XP SP2 broke a lot of software
and drivers. <br>
It also terminated the ability for quite a bit of legacy
amateur <br>
software (and so much more) to work. This was a rare beast.<br>
<br>
I found a charger for it (Universal, $11), and plugged it in.
It took a <br>
while to think about it, then XP finally arrived with an Admin
logon, no <br>
password. I had envisioned turning this into a Xubuntu
machine, but <br>
there is a LOT of ancient ham radio software that runs on XP
and does <br>
not run on XP SP1+ at all, no matter how you hold your mouth,
or dance <br>
on one foot whilst whistling Stephen Foster tunes.<br>
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The question is, do I connect it to the big bad Internet,
update it, or <br>
sell it at a hamfest as a place to use old and relic software?
It's <br>
behind NAT and a stateful firewall.<br>
<br>
On one hand, I'd like to see it nominally secure (if updating
is even <br>
still available from Microsoft), and on the other hand, you
can play <br>
Duke Nukem I all day long, or learn Morse Code on a freeware
1996 DOS 16 <br>
bit program, etc, etc. Should I connect it or is its value
undisturbed <br>
better?<br>
<br>
Votes?<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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