Subj : Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive To : All From : james@nospam.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: james@nospam.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:33:01 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <9gka0d55a85fgg6d62v76qacjftdvtei72@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: TKghX/mglWkVW1qxlGBsyg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134532 On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 03:23:43 -0500, Paul wrote: > >Yes, you could get firmware, but if the modem pool doesn't >do V92, it hardly matters. I think a V92 would drop back >to V90 then V.34 and so on, all the way down to 300 baud >if you waited long enough. It's backward compatible all the >way back to the beginning of computing. If you phoned up one >of the old private BBSes, it could well end up running >at 300 or 1200. > > Paul My first modem was a 1200. I used to use local BBSs. Yet, I could connect to the BBS faster than I can now connect to many websites at 56K. Some sites cant even load anymore, especially the Media News sites. Since they started using HTTPS on almost all sites, my speed has gone down about 50%. Google is even worse. I used to wait maybe 10 seconds when I clicked on www.google.com. Now I wait close to a full minute, using Firefox. I also used to use a browser called "Offbyone". That program would load a webpage in it's most basic form. No scripts, no css, no crap. Just text and pictures. But that no longer works either. It does not load any HTTPS sites. Add to that, almost everytime I load any webpage now, I get repeated warnings saying "can not connect securely". Sometimes they are so bad that I have to sit a weight on my ENTER key, to avoid having to hit the enter key 20 - 50 or 100 times, while a page is loading. It just keeps getting worse and worse trying to use the web. Most of the time I get so frustrated, I just shut off the computer. About the only things that still work are Usenet and Email, and even my email is slower to load than it once was. Personally, I think most of that security is senseless. Yea, if I am using a site such as ebay or amazon, where I have to use a credit card, I want security. But why is security needed to view a Wikipedia page, or use Google? The entire internet is going down the shitter, if you ask me, and I have friends who say the same. I see a day coming soon, when the only people who can even use the www are those who have brand new compiuters running Windows 10, and costly high speed service. And by then, the internet will be entirely run thru facebook. I personally do not see myself using the internet much longer. I cant get high speed service where I live, dont intend to buy a new computer or use Win10, and refuse to ever allow facebook to steal my identity. On top of that, usenet is almost dead. So, I'm moatly just paying my ISP so I can use email. I can send a text from my cellphone and it does about the same thing...... --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .